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Between 1870 and 1880 the large east wing was added. This wing corresponds with the modern kitchen near the rear entry, and the dining room adjacent to that. This addition was one and a half storey with a shallow foundation. It also had a chimney because the floor space was originally heated with a wood stove (later the chimney was demolished). Decorative trim is simpler in this addition and is a different style than the main house.15
Joseph Williamson Nash, father of Leone Nash Jackson, on his wedding day.1896
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In 1896, Joseph Williamson Nash, son of Samuel Nash II and Anna Catherine Munn, married Catherine Elizabeth MacDonald. Joseph's mother and sister Ada lived in the house until his mother's death in 1909. At this time the house was essentially divided with Anna and Ada living in the west half, while Joseph and Catherine lived in the east portion. The room at the extreme west end of the home is often called "Grandmother Nash's Parlour", because Anna Catherine Nash spent most of her time there.17
Catherine Macdonald on her wedding day1896
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Catherine Elizabeth MacDonald on her wedding day to Joseph Williamson Nash in 1896. The wedding dress worn by Catherine is now part of the Nash Jackson House artifact collection.19
Leone Nash Jackson as a child1910
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Jennie Leone Nash, only child of Joseph and Catherine Nash, was born in 1900. In later years, Leone (as she was called) wrote an account of some of the history of her family.She wrote the following about her parents:
"At the time of their marriage, Father weighed 137 pounds and Mother (weighed) 87 (pounds). Mother was too good a cook and Father too good a provider for these weights to hold. Father thought it was better to pay the butcher than the doctor and a house in which there was full and plenty with a table groaning with food was the aim of hostesses when I was a child. We did not have a deep freeze but we had a cellar; and in that cellar would be everything in the vegetable line and a fruit cupboard, full of jam, preserved fruit and pickles."
At the time of Leone's childhood, and throughout the early to mid 20th century, the Nash farm, on which the house stood, was very prosperous.
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Leone Nash Jackson on her wedding day, standing on the front stairs in her family home.November, 1927
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Joseph Nash died in 1925 due to complications from diabetes. Two years after her father's death, Leone married Angus Jackson. Leone and Angus had three children, Catherine, Roger and Owen.Angus and Leone developed the farm and it prospered throughout the 20th century.
Angus Jackson died in 1985. Leone lived in the house until her death in 1996.
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The Nash Jackson House, ready to be moved from its original location to Battlefield Park.November, 1999
Stoney Creek
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Following the death of Leone Nash Jackson in 1996, her heirs made the decision to donate their ancestral home to the City of Stoney Creek. Its familial and Battle of Stoney Creek connection to Battlefield House, made it a natural choice to have it moved to Battlefield Park.On November 9, 1999, the house was moved three blocks east to Battlefield Park and positioned on a deeply excavated basement.
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Jon Jouppien's analysis of the Nash Jackson House.August, 2003
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Neo-classic/TransportationIn the case of this particular house- which I should start by saying- it's a very unique example and a very rare example of a post-war of 1812 Neoclassic revival style house- often confused by many people as being Georgian but a little later than the traditional Georgian style house- still in the Georgian era in the sense that it was built during the reign of King George (The King of England at that time). But a building that is very representative of the styles that were brought to Old-Ontario or Upper Canada as it was known, at that time by many of the United Empire Loyalists (Americans who were loyal to the British cause in the American Revolution from 1776-1783) and had been stripped of their personal belongings and homes in the United States (there were 13 colonies) and came to Canada as refugees and brought with them the ideas and ideals that they had for lifestyle previously in the 13 colonies. So after the American Revolution and up into the period before 1812 when these people were still alive, they were transplanting their concept of a home on the Upper Canadian landscape and of course, were located here, along the St. Lawrence/Great Lakes basin which would have been the major inland artery (transportation network into Upper Canada). Remember at that time, supplies would have been cut off. Anything coming from the U.S. probably was very restricted, certainly during the war and after. So most material cultures, which included foodstuff, until people got beyond the stage of subsistence and started to eke out an existence on the landscape, would have had to come from Europe and primarily the British Aisles to the Gulf of the St. Lawrence (Montreal) and then would have been shipped down here to the Head-of-the-lake, and then from here to the Niagara River and to the upper lakes to points west and hence also anything that would've come back along the same route from the west included natural resources like: lumber or furs or ginseng or many of the other things that there was a principle market for in Europe.
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The Nash Jackson house having extensive restoration work done to the exterior.2000
Battlefield Park, Stoney Creek, Ontario
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