Jackson N. Chadwick was born around 1817 in Kentucky to John Chadwick. He moved to Alabama around 1841, and he married Mary Louise Croom in Greene, Alabama, on July 6, 1853. They had at least six children: Lydia, born around 1854; Bettie, born around 1856; Sallie, born around 1858; John, born around 1860; Mamie, born around 1862; and Wiley, born around 1865. The family moved to Texas around 1856, eventually settling in Chappell Hill, Texas. By 1860, Chadwick owned $5,000 of real estate and $165,000 of personal property, including at least 39 enslaved laborers.

 

Chadwick belonged to the Democratic Party. He later claimed that he “did not vote for Secession” and never was an active partisan.” When the Civil War erupted, however, he provided supplies for the Confederate army and spent six months in Texas’s “State troops.” He applied for a pardon after the war, and President Andrew Johnson promptly granted one. His wife Mary died around 1867, and he married Louisa Lusk on December 29, 1868. In 1870, he reported $25,000 of real estate and $7,000 of personal property. He remained in Chappell Hill for the rest of his life, dying there on August 24, 1894.

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