Cynthia Jack, eldest child and only daughter of Capt.  James Jack, married A.S.  Cosby, and settled in Mississippi.  After his death the widow and family settled in Louisiana, about 1814.  Their descendants were:  1.  Margaret. 2.  Cynthia. 3.  James; and 4.  Dr. Charles Cosby.  Patrick Jack, eldest son of Captain James Jack, was Colonel of the 8th Regiment U.S.  Infantry, in the war of 1812, stationed at Savannah.  He sustained an elevated position in society, frequently represented Elbert county in the State Senate, and died in 1820.  His children were:  1.  Patrick. 2.  William II.; and 3.  James W. Jack.  Patrick Jack, the eldest son, married Miss Spencer, and, in turn, had two daughters, Harriet and Margaret, and six sons:  1.  James. 2.  William II. 3.  Patrick C. 4.  Spencer II. 5.  Abner; and G. Churchill Jack.  Abner died several years ago in Mississippi—­a planter by occupation, and a man of wealth.

James Jack, eldest son of Col.  Patrick Jack, married, in 1822, Ann Scott Gray, who died in 1838.  In 1847, he married Mary Jane Witherspoon, having by the first wife ten, and by the second, eleven children, of whom at present (1876) twelve are living.  In 1823, he moved to Jefferson county, Ala., and one year afterward to Hale county, in the same State, where he ended his days.  During the fall of the last year (1875) the author received from him two interesting letters respecting the history of his ever-memorable grandfather, Capt.  James Jack, after his removal from North Carolina to Georgia.  But alas! the uncertainty of human life!  Before the year closed this venerable, intelligent, and truly Christian man was numbered with the dead!  He was a successful farmer, the prudent counsellor of his neighborhood, good to the poor, dispensing his charities with a liberal hand, and was universally beloved by all who knew him.  On the 27th of November he had a severe stroke of paralysis, from which he never recovered.  On the 27th of December, 1875, like a sheaf, ripe in its season, he was cut down, and gathered to his fathers, quietly passing away in the seventy-sixth year of his age, with the fond hope of a blissful immortality beyond the grave.

Churchill Jack, youngest son of Col.  Patrick Jack, is a farmer in Arkansas, and the only one of this family now (1876) living.  William H., Patrick C. and Spencer H. Jack, all young and adventurous spirits, emigrated from Alabama to Texas in 1831, and cast their lots with the little American colony which was then just beginning to establish itself.  They were all three lawyers by profession, and took an active interest and part in the difficulties with Mexico, which were sure to result in open hostilities and the independence of Texas.  Spencer H. Jack died young and without issue.