Jeremiah Jackson was born in Payson, Utah, August 9, 1874 to John William Jackson and Sarah Eleanor Bingham. When Jeremiah was a small boy, his parents and grandparents moved to Glenwood, Utah where his father and grandfather owned a planeing mill. They made furniture and spinning wheels. Jeremiah (Jerry) herded sheep the summer he was fourteen. He also worked at other jobs, whatever was available. In addition to helping with the farm work, he helped his father do carpenter work.
He was described as a good-looking man with blue eyes, a mustache and a full head of hair.
In 1894 he met Chloe Jane Morrell who worked on a diary farm in Fishlake, Utah. Bishop Hiatt Maxfield married them on January 18, 1899 in Fremont at her parents home.
The newlyweds lived with Jeremiah's parents, while he built a house in Lyman. It was made of hewed logs with a dirt roof.
Jerry became a carpenter, farmer and the village blacksmith. He also, repaired watches, washers, thrashing machines, wagons and acted as the town dentist. He built cabinets for many homes in the county. He also became a prospector. Earl Jackson referred to his grandfather as a "prospector who owned a farm."
The young family lived in Caineville, Utah for about two years. About the time they would get their crops planted, a flood would come down the river and wash them away. While he and Chloe lived in Caineville, he occasionally shawed horses for the infamous Butch Cassidy Gang. Jerry would come out to the blacksmith shop and see two or three horses tied up to the fence. He would shoe them and tie them back up again. The next morning he would go back to the shop, and the horses would be gone, and a twenty-dollar gold piece would be lying on the anvil.
Their next move was back to Lyman where they lived for three or four years. During that time their two oldest daughters, Luzernia and Eleanor, were born.
When Eleanor was two years old, Jeremiah moved his family back to Fremont to Chloe's parent's old farm and lived in a two-story log house. Chloe's mother had remarried and lived on the next farm over from Jeremiah's. Their last three children, J. Worthen, Chloe, and Perry were born in Fremont.
Jeremiah and Chloe were charitable. Whenever anyone would come through town and could not find a place to stay, people would send them to Jerry's house, because they knew he would put them up for the night. He never charged anyone for room and board.
Jeremiah was also friendly with the Indians, and the Piute Indians camped on his front lawn, pitching their tents for three or four days at a time.
In October 1940 Jeremiah was helping some other men reshingle the Fremont church house. They had worked all day and they completed the job. When he came home, he said he was tired, but glad the job was done. He enjoyed a good night's rest. The next morning he went into the field to get the milk cows, after which he came into the house and told Chloe that he had a pain in his chest. He then went into the bedroom to lie down. The pain grew intense and Chloe sent Perry for the doctor. Before the doctor came, Jeremiah had passed away.