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From: Microfilm at Magness Memorial Library, McMinnville, Warren Co., TN of March 16, 1895 issue of the Southern Standard newspaper of McMinnville, TN: “Mourning Jaco, a colored woman supposed to be about 128 years old, died at her home in this county on Friday night, March 9th, and was burried at the Bonner graveyard the following day. She was owned by the great grand-father of the present generation of the Jacos in this county, and during the revolutionary war was pawned by her master for money to hire a substitute for that war. She retained her facilities of mind and body well, and up to time of death was able to sew, knit and thread her needles without trouble. She leaves one daughter who is now 75
years of age.”
Note from Allen Jaco: If she died in 1895 and was 128 years old, this would make her born about 1767. The Warren Co., TN Jacos arrived first in this county in 1813 with the marriage of Brooks B. Jaco (born 1788 in SC) followed in 1814 by his brother Jeremiah (born 1783 in MD)and their father John (served in the Revolutionary War in a VA unit, as a resident of MD, who moved to SC in 1783 and to KY between 1800-1806). She died in 1895. The following census (1900) of Warren Co. contains some 41 Jacos, with the males ranging in age from 10 to 80. It would be a guess as to what the writer of the obit would mean by "present generation". The 80 year old was John Paschal Jaco, son of above Jeremiah, grandson of the above John - so if the writer refers to John Paschal as the "present generation", he would be speaking of John's father, who is unknown at this time. Records viewed thus far do not indicate John owned land in Maryland, South Carolina, or Kentucky, but did receive a grant of 20 acres in Warren Co., TN in 1814. Since he served in the Rev. War it is unlikely he hired a substitute (although he has no pension record and his military record contains few details) and he did not own any known land until 1814, and he died within 12 years thereafter, it is doubtful he would have owned any slaves.
John's son Jeremiah did own a small number of slaves in Warren Co. A letter written 10 Feb 1867 by a grandson (who had served in the Civil War, which ended in 1865), states "The Negroes have moved to themselves on his place..." The letter writer himself had a slave girl given to him at his marriage, by his new father-in-law. If the obit writer was implying that one of the younger Jacos was representative of the "present generation", then the reference would probably be to Jeremiah, the first known Jaco slave owner. However Jeremiah was not born until the Rev. War had ceased, so this would be a conflict - unless the owner of Mourning during the Rev. War was not a Jaco, and she had later been owned by Jeremiah. If she was born about 1767, she would have been about 16 years older than Jeremiah and he could have obtained her after his marriage in 1806 and when she was freed about 1862 she took the Jaco name as for the first time the former slaves were required to have a surname. Jeremiah's youngest son, Oliver Riley, took a slave or more from Warren Co., TN when he moved to MO in the 1850's. Following the Civil War these MO slaves took the name Jaco and began a new line of Jacos, which exists today.
It appears there were slaves in Warren Co., TN prior to the Civil War who already had the surname of Jaco as indicated by an article: (Warren County, TN newspaper "Central Gazette", Friday, Feb. 20, 1846. ONE CENT REWARD Ranaway from the subscriber some three weeks since, a bound boy, by the name of John Jaco: aged about 10 years - I will give the above reward for the delivery of said boy to me, but no thanks. Asa Morton) [Note: I have assumed that this runaway is a Negro slave].
Mourning Jaco has not been found in any Warren Co., TN census. However the 1870 census (first following the Civil War) of Warren Co. reveals on page 10, Dist. 3, 21 Jul 1870, Family 68, all black, all born TN: Alexander Jaco 30, head, Farmer; Matilda 29, house keeping; William 4; Salley 2; Susan 4/12; and Betty Pettit 21, Jane Jaco 2. The 1880 census of Warren Co., TN, page 24, Dist. 4, 16 Jun 1880, Line 18, E.D. 132, all black, Family 52, all born in TN - as well as their parents: Al Jaco 51, Laborer, wife Tildie 50, dau Sarah 13, dau Susan 11, son John 7. Districts 3 and 4 were areas in which Jeremiah Jaco and his family lived - the Campaign and Rock Island area along the Collins River.
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