Cummins Jackson

Cummins's brother, Clarksburg attorney Jonathan Jackson (1790–1826), had died of typhoid fever.

Although some biographies of Stonewall Jackson portray Cummins as a "father figure", this does not characterize the relationship adequately.

The youth also developed riding skills while racing his uncle's blooded horses at the four-mile (6 km) racetrack Jackson built nearby.

Young Thomas lived there until in 1842 when he was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.

In 1844, as Thomas was halfway through West Point, Cummins Jackson discovered a small vein of silver near his property.

But he fell ill, either with pneumonia or typhoid fever, and suffered for almost a month before his death in Shasta County, California.