Descendants of Joseph Jackson
Generation 1
1.

Joseph Jackson-1[1] was born on 27 Dec 1761 in Rowan, North Carolina, USA[1]. He died on 22 Oct 1815 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1]. He married Sarah Jessup on 21 Apr 1787 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[1], daughter of Joseph Jessup and Priscilla Jackson. She was born on 20 Aug 1764 in Carteret, North Carolina, USA[2]. She died on 20 Jan 1818 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[2].

Notes for Joseph Jackson:

Joseph was a very prosperous farmer and at his death he owned several hundred acres of land in Surry, Stokes and other counties in North Carolina . He also owned land in Grayson Co., VA. Deed recorded in Surry Co.,North Carolina show that he bought his first land from Edward Lovell, 400 acres on both sides of Tom's Creek for 600 pounds, the deed was witnessed by John Jackson and Bowater Sumners. In January of 1794 he sold 55 acres of this land to his brother, Jehu Jackson. Other deeds show 150 acres bought in 1796 from John Burris on the branch of Tom's Creek, Yadkin River, adjoining Bryans Branch. This was witnessed by John Jackson and William Tanzey. He bought 53 acres from Joseph Haiti on the waters of Tom's Creek in 1799. He received two North Carolina grants, one in 1791 fro 150 acres and one in 1802 for 100 acres, both on the banks of Tom's Creek.

 

Following is his Last Will and Testament, dated 1815, Surry Co.,North Carolina

 

Whereas I, Joseph Jackson, of the County of Surry and the State of North Carolina, being of sound mind and memory do therefore leave this as my last will and testament.

 

First, that I be decently buried and all my just debts paid.

 

Secondly, I will and bequeath to my beloved wife during her widowhood the plantation on which she now lives with all the household furniture; also the plantation on the big creek of Dan river; also I leave to her eight cows and two horses and at the end of her widowhood, I will the land on the big creek to be equally divided between my two sons, Zadock and Joel, and the land whereon I live to belong to my son Caleb and Zadock and Joel to make it equal in value to theirs at the time when he is of age. I also leave to my son, Eli the land I bought of Jonathan Harold in Grayson Co., VA, also the tract of land lying on Davies Creek in Stokes, North Carolina .

 

I also leave to my son, Amer Jackson, the tract of land I bought of Purnal Blizzard in Grayson Co., VA and also the tract of land lying on the west fork of Tom's Creek where I formerly lived.

 

It is also my will that the rest of my sons provide for and decently clothe and victual my son, John and each one to be an equal part as they come of age.

 

It is also my will that my three daughters, Abigail, Rachel and Betsy have each a hundred dollars worth of property or equal to their sisters who are married.

 

I also appoint and empower my trusty brother, William Jackson and my trusty son, Eli Jackson, my true and lawful Executors. Signed 22 Sep 1815.

Notes for Sarah Jessup:

Sarah Jessup was born 20 Aug 1764 in Carteret Co.,North Carolina and died 20 Jan 1818 in Surry Co., North Carolina

 

She had come with her family to the Westfield community in Surry Co. and married Joseph Jackson in the Westfield Friends MM>

Children of Joseph Jackson and Sarah Jessup are:

i.

Mary Jackson, B: 1788 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1], D: 21 Mar 1840[3], M: Abner Jessup, 16 Aug 1809 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[3].

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2. ii.

Priscilla Jackson, B: 1790 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1], D: 27 Nov 1833 in Highland, Ohio, USA[1], M: Absolem Sumner, 09 Aug 1811 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1].

3. iii.

Eli Jackson, B: 1792 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[4], D: 23 Dec 1834 in Marion, Indiana, USA[5], M: Cornelia Cook, 17 Feb 1824[4].

4. iv.

Alsa Abigail Jackson, B: 1794 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[4], D: 04 Aug 1872 in Holt, Missouri, USA[4], M: Jacob Carson, 09 Aug 1811 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[6].

5. v.

Rachel Jackson, B: 21 Jan 1796 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[1], D: 18 Mar 1875 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[1], M: Joseph Jessup, 02 Nov 1816 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1].

6. vi.

Amer Jackson, B: 1797 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[4], D: 1870 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[4], M: Sarah Sally Hill, Abt. 1837 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[7].

7. vii.

Zadock L. Jackson, B: 28 Nov 1804 in North Carolina, USA[1], D: 25 Jun 1890 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[8], M: Isabella Hughey, 11 Oct 1828 in Highland, Ohio, USA[5].

viii.

Caleb Jackson, B: 1805 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1], D: Unknown, M: Mary Polly Simmons, 17 Apr 1846 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1].

8. ix.

Joel Jackson, B: 1806 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1], D: 09 Aug 1849, M: Rebecca Jessup, 23 Jan 1838 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1].

x.

Elizabeth Betsy Jackson, B: 1807 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1], D: Unknown.

xi.

John Jackson, B: 1809 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1], D: Unknown, M: Martha (or Ruth) Oglesby, Unknown.

Notes for John Jackson:

Source Lucille Jackson:

Joseph had requested in his will that his older sons decently clothe and provide for John until he became of age, and then he was to share equally with the other boys in property.

Each of Samuel and Catherine's eight sons had a son named John, so there were many John Jackson's living in the area at that time. I (Lucille Vernon) am unable to distinguish just which John was the son of Joseph and Sarah. It is assumed that he would be the John Jackson who in 1827, sold one hundred acres of land to his brother Amor Jackson, with his brother Joel Jackson as a Witness. He may also be the John who purchased 446 acres of land in Westfield in 1832.

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Source Lucille Jackson:

Marriage records of Surry Co 1779-1826, show a marriage between one John Jackson and Martha Oglesby on Apr. 26, 1830. This would be about the right date for John, son of Joseph, son of Samuel and Catherine, to have been married. In the Guilford College, I found the notes that Mr. Luther Byrd had made when he was researching some of the families of Westfield. He thought that John, son of Joseph, son of Samuel and Catherine, was the one that had gone to Morgan Co, IN and someone had lined through it and written "No" there. This is the John that married Nancy Spargur. Now if one John did go to Morgan Co, IN, it was probably John, son of Joseph as that is where his brother Zadock and his uncle Jehu Jackson and family lived. The John that married Nancy Spargur was the son of William and Mary Jessup Jackson.

 

 

Generation 2
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2.

Priscilla Jackson-2(Joseph-1)[1] was born in 1790 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1]. She died on 27 Nov 1833 in Highland, Ohio, USA[1]. She married Absolem Sumner on 09 Aug 1811 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1], son of Thomas Sumner and Hannah Hiatt. He was born on 15 Mar 1786 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[4]. He died on 17 Jan 1865 in Highland, Ohio, USA[4].

Notes for Absolem Sumner:

Absalom was granted a Certificate of Removal from Westfield MM on 8 Sep 1809, the same time his parents and family were granted Certificates to Fairfield Friends' Meeting in Leesburg, Fairfield, Twp., Highland Co., OH. He began to purchase land in Penn Twp., Highland Co.,OH. He received a deed on 16 Mar 1815 from his parents. He added more land on 13 Aug 1816 from Josiah and Elizabeth Moore. Another tract was purchased from Henry Beeson on 11 Apr 1818 and on 2 Aug 1828, he purchased land from his brother Bowater and Lettice Sumner. It was indicated he owned two thousand acres of land in Highland Co., OH.

 

Absalom made out his will on Christmas Day of 1864 in which he lists his wife and son, Robert. He added a codicil on the same day naming his daughters Hannah and Lucy Reed. Some of his land was still in the possession of his descendants in 1962 and the beautiful old nine room mansion still stood on a private road leading from the Anderson Road in the area of Rainsboro, Highland Co., OH.

Children of Priscilla Jackson and Absolem Sumner are:

9. i.

Eli J. Sumner, B: 28 May 1812 in Highland, Ohio, USA[4], D: 25 Mar 1894[7], M: Jane E. Carter, 21 Jan 1836 in Morgan, Ohio, USA[7].

10. ii.

Joseph Sumner, B: 15 Jun 1817[4], D: Apr 1891[7], M: Susan Karnes, 21 Sep 1837[4].

11. iii.

Lucy Sumner, B: 10 Apr 1819 in Highland, Ohio, USA[9], D: 05 Jun 1909 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[9], M: T. Pickett, Aft. 1851[10].

12. iv.

Sylvania Sumner, B: 1822[4], D: Unknown, M: William Conway, 04 Jan 1844 in Highland, Ohio, USA[4].

13. v.

Robert Sumner, B: 04 Jul 1827[4], D: 06 Oct 1890 in Highland, Ohio, USA[7], M: Barbara Ann Tomlinson, 19 Nov 1848[4].

14. vi.

Tobiatha Hannah Sumner, B: 14 Jul 1827[4], D: Unknown, M: Dempsey B. Sinclair, 13 Aug 1863[7].

3.

Eli Jackson-2(Joseph-1)[4] was born in 1792 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[4]. He died on 23 Dec 1834 in Marion, Indiana, USA[5]. He married Cornelia Cook on 17 Feb 1824[4]. She was born on Unknown. She died on Unknown.

Notes for Eli Jackson:

Eli Jackson was given two tracts of land in his father's will, one tract was bought from Jonathan Harrold in Grayson Co., VA and the other tract lay on the Davies Creek in Stokes, North Carolina

 

His father referred to him as "my trusty son" and made him lawful executor of his will.

Children of Eli Jackson and Cornelia Cook are:

i.

Elizabeth Jackson, B: 25 Nov 1824[5], D: 19 Aug 1904[5], M: Samuel Swope, 24 Dec 1848[5].

ii.

Joseph Jackson, B: 04 May 1826[5], D: 1898[5].

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iii.

William Jessup Jackson, B: 28 Dec 1828[5], D: 05 Sep 1916 in Keokuk, Iowa, USA[5], M: Mary Ann Shaver, 13 Apr 1857 in Iowa, USA[5].

iv.

Sarah Jackson, B: 10 Nov 1830[5], D: Unknown, M: John B. House, 06 Dec 1850[5].

v.

Polly Ann Jackson, B: 27 May 1833[5], D: 24 May 1910[5], M: John Landers, 16 Feb 1854[5].

vi.

Eli Jackson Jr., B: 11 Jan 1835[5], D: 28 Mar 1912[5], M: Rebecca Harrah, 02 Jan 1856[5].

4.

Alsa Abigail Jackson-2(Joseph-1)[4] was born in 1794 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[4]. She died on 04 Aug 1872 in Holt, Missouri, USA[4]. She married Jacob Carson on 09 Aug 1811 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[6], son of John Carson and Abigail Sumner. He was born about 1788 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6]. He died on 01 Oct 1867 in Holt, Missouri, USA[11].

Notes for Jacob Carson:

Jacob Carson was born abt 1785 in Westfield, Surry Co.,North Carolina and died 1 Oct 1867

Children of Alsa Abigail Jackson and Jacob Carson are:

15. i.

Eli William Carson, B: 15 Jul 1812 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6], D: 20 Nov 1904 in Lebanon, Smith, Kansas, USA[6], M: Agnes Ellen Hastings, 16 Dec 1840 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[7].

16. ii.

Sally Carson, B: 24 Jul 1815 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6], D: 24 Sep 1877 in Richland, Wisconsin, USA[12], M: Thomas Hardy, 23 Mar 1837 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[12].

17. iii.

James Verlin Carson, B: 01 Jan 1817 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6], D: 08 Aug 1895 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6], M: Christina Owens, Unknown.

18. iv.

John Hardin Carson, B: Abt. 1820 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6], D: Unknown in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, USA[13], M: Nancy Hastings, 27 Dec 1841 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[7].

v.

Mary Polly Carson, B: Abt. 1825 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6], D: 1915 in Highland, Ohio, USA[13], M: Peter Milner, 28 Sep 1852 in Highland, Ohio, USA[13].

19. vi.

Jesse Bluma Carson, B: 24 Sep 1826 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6], D: 18 Oct 1919 in Centralia, Nemaha, Kansas, USA[6], M: Sarah Jane Grove, 31 Jul 1851 in Highland, Ohio, USA[14].

vii.

Alfred Carson, B: 1827 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6], D: Unknown.

20. viii.

Albert Jackson Carson, B: 13 Jan 1829 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6], D: 14 Sep 1916 in Davis, Iowa, USA[6], M: Eliza McClure, 02 Aug 1852 in Highland, Ohio, USA[7].

21. ix.

William Martin Carson, B: Abt. 1833 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6], D: 12 Mar 1920[13], M: Clirinda Connett, Bef. 1853[13].

22. x.

Henry Shackelford Carson, B: 1834 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6], D: Mar 1904 in Maitland, Holt, Missouri, USA[13], M: Elizabeth Ann Markland, 28 Jan 1857 in Kokomo, Howard, Indiana, USA[13].

xi.

Hannah Carson, B: 1835 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6], D: Unknown.

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23. xii.

Abner Jessup Carson, B: 10 Apr 1836 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[15], D: 08 Feb 1920 in Pawnee, Nebraska, USA[13], M: Margaret Deffenbaugh, 1859 in Kokomo, Howard, Indiana, USA[13].

24. xiii.

Francis Marion Carson, B: 13 Aug 1837 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6], D: 21 Apr 1922 in Smith, Kansas, USA[6], M: Elizabeth Harriet Sheets, 28 Oct 1860 in Kokomo, Howard, Indiana, USA[13].

5.

Rachel Jackson-2(Joseph-1)[4] was born on 21 Jan 1796 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[1]. She died on 18 Mar 1875 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[1]. She married Joseph Jessup on 02 Nov 1816 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1], son of William Jessup and Mary Pratt. He was born on 23 Aug 1793 in North Carolina, USA[3]. He died on 28 Jun 1864 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[16].

Notes for Joseph Jessup:

Joseph and Rachel Jackson Jessup were both reared in Westfield, Surry Co.,North Carolina and after their marriage moved to Hendricks, Indiana

Children of Rachel Jackson and Joseph Jessup are:

25. i.

Mary Polly Jessup, B: 03 Nov 1817 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[3], D: Bef. 1869, M: Noah Reagan, 06 Dec 1834 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[17].

26. ii.

Jackson L. Jessup, B: 21 Oct 1821 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[3], D: 1900 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA, M: Malinda Kellam, Unknown.

27. iii.

Leatha Jessup, B: 13 Aug 1825 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[3], D: Unknown, M: Elijah Pfaff, 25 Feb 1847 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[17].

28. iv.

Mahala Jane Jessup, B: 17 Feb 1830 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[3], D: 23 Jan 1912 in Finney, Kansas, USA[18], M: Timothy Jessup, 1854.

29. v.

Joel Jessup, B: 06 Apr 1832 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[3], D: 04 Oct 1908 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA, M: Louisa Moon, 12 Aug 1852 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19].

6.

Amer Jackson-2(Joseph-1)[4] was born in 1797 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[4]. He died in 1870 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[4]. He married Sarah Sally Hill about 1837 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[7], daughter of Robert Hill Jr. and Elizabeth Vest. She was born in 1809 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[4]. She died in 1880 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[4].

Notes for Amer Jackson:

Amer Jackson grew up in Westfield, Surry Co.,North Carolina and when his father died in 1815, he was left a tract of land lying on the west side of the west fork of Tom's Creek, also a tract of land in Grayson Co., VA. After his marriage, he settled down on the tract of land on tom's Creek which was the old home place where he was raised. He continued to live on this land until his death in 1870.

 

Amer was a member of the Whit party, and upon its abandonment, identified himself with the Republicans. He was a member of the Society of Friends at Westfield and his wife Sarah was a member of the Baptist Church.

 

Amer was a very successful farmer. The 1860 census of Stokes Co.,North Carolina show him owning 1200 acres of land in the northern district of Westfield, North Carolina . The 1870 census shows Sarah owning 1500 acres with her neighbors being Ace Nunn and John Love.

 

In his will, Amer left land to increase the cemetery which joins the old part of the Friends Cemetery in Westfield, North Carolina . There are no stones left in the old part of the graveyard where so many of the Jackson and Jessup families are buried.

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Notes for Amer Jackson:

Amer Jackson grew up in Westfield, Surry Co.,North Carolina and when his father died in 1815, he was left a tract of land lying on the west side of the west fork of Tom's Creek, also a tract of land in Grayson Co., VA. After his marriage, he settled down on the tract of land on tom's Creek which was the old home place where he was raised. He continued to live on this land until his death in 1870.

 

Amer was a member of the Whit party, and upon its abandonment, identified himself with the Republicans. He was a member of the Society of Friends at Westfield and his wife Sarah was a member of the Baptist Church.

 

Amer was a very successful farmer. The 1860 census of Stokes Co.,North Carolina show him owning 1200 acres of land in the northern district of Westfield, North Carolina . The 1870 census shows Sarah owning 1500 acres with her neighbors being Ace Nunn and John Love.

 

In his will, Amer left land to increase the cemetery which joins the old part of the Friends Cemetery in Westfield, North Carolina . There are no stones left in the old part of the graveyard where so many of the Jackson and Jessup families are buried.

Children of Amer Jackson and Sarah Sally Hill are:

30. i.

William L. Buck Jackson, B: Abt. 1838 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], D: Abt. 1900 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], M: Sarah Shelton, 25 Jun 1867 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20].

31. ii.

Joseph M. Jackson, B: 30 Mar 1840 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 09 May 1932, M: Susan Von Cannon, 12 Sep 1865[20].

32. iii.

Martha Ellen Jackson, B: 14 Apr 1844 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[21], D: 07 Oct 1927 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[21], M: William Elijah Pell, 22 Feb 1865 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[22].

33. iv.

Robert Franklin Jackson, B: 07 Nov 1846 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[4], D: 03 Mar 1932 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[23], M: Laura V. Tilley, 23 Feb 1866 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[23].

v.

Emily Jackson, B: Unknown in Stokes, North Carolina, USA, D: Unknown; Died when young[7].

7.

Zadock L. Jackson-2(Joseph-1)[1] was born on 28 Nov 1804 in North Carolina, USA[1]. He died on 25 Jun 1890 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[8]. He married Isabella Hughey on 11 Oct 1828 in Highland, Ohio, USA[5], daughter of Charles Hughey and Nancy Ann Records. She was born on 18 Jul 1808 in Highland, Ohio, USA[5]. She died on 19 Aug 1883 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[5].

Notes for Zadock L. Jackson:

Source Lucille Jackson:

He grew up in the Westfield community.

Zadock was disowned from the Friend's Church for marrying a non-Quaker. He was received on June 6, 1829 at the Fairfield MM in Indiana and he was disowned for disunity in November. In 1815 he received a tract of land from his father Joseph's will on the big Creek of Dan River to be divided between him and his brother Joel.

Zadock received a certificate to transfer to Fairfield on the same day that his cousin, Jehu Jackson, received a transfer to Fairfield. He was listed on the 1850 Census of Decatur Twp., Marion Co., IN. He was listed as age 47, a farmer, born North Carolina, his real estate value was $400. His dwelling was listed as number 159. Dwelling 161 was the family of Bazil Jessup, who's wife was Louisa Jackson, the daughter of Jehu, and would be his first cousin. Caleb Jackson was living at dwelling number 154.

Zadock and Isabell had five children listed at home on the 1850 Census:

1. Joel Jackson, age 18

2. Evaline Jackson , age 14

3. Jane Jackson age 12

4. Mahala Jackson age 8

5. Amelia Jackson age 4

It is believed that this family may have moved to Missouri.

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----- Original Message -----

From: Rick & Kim Baker

To: jomartin1@worldnet.att.net

Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:16 AM

Subject: Zadock Jackson, a descendant of Samuel Jackson

 

Hi, Jo

 

I found your family tree maker site by googling “Zadock Jackson”, one of my husband’s ancestors. I see you have him in your FTM. I think his death date of 1850 must be incorrect, as he is found in the following censuses:

 

Found in 1860 in Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana, p. 696:

 

Zadock Jackson, 56, male, farmer, born North Carolina

 

Isabel Jackson, 51, female, born O

 

Jane Jackson, 21, female, servant, born Ind

 

Emily Jackson, 15, female, servant, born Ind, attended school within the last year.

 

On the same page, two dwellings away, are Zebadee Baker and family. Zebadee's son Littleton and Zadock's daughter Mary were married in 1846.

 

Found in 1870 in Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana, page 356:

 

Jackson, Zadoc age 66, male, white, Farmer, $12000, $1370, born North Carolina

 

Jackson, Isabel age 62, female, white, Housekeeper, born Ohio

 

Found in 1880 in Decatur, Marion county, Indiana, T9-0294 page 516A

 

Jackson, Zadock L., age 76, born North Carolina , Farmer, father and mother both born in North Carolina

 

Jackson, Isabelle, age 70, born OH, Housekeeper, father and mother born born in KY

 

Also, Zadock and Isabella had another child, my husbandÂ’s ancestor. According to the family Bible, Mary Ann Jackson was born February 10, 1828 in Indiana. She married Littleton Harrison Baker, her neighbor in Marion County, on September 3, 1846 in Marion County. This marriage record was found in the Indiana State Library, file number 6142791. Mary Ann and Littleton had fourteen children. Mary Ann died March 14, 1894 in Fostoria, Pottawatomie Co., KS. Littleton died September 16, 1894 in Fostoria. They are both buried in the Olsburg, Kansas cemetery.

 

Thank you for posting your information, and I hope this little addition is of help.

Kim Baker

 

Topeka, KS

 

 

 

 

 

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Notes for Zadock L. Jackson:

Source Lucille Jackson:

He grew up in the Westfield community.

Zadock was disowned from the Friend's Church for marrying a non-Quaker. He was received on June 6, 1829 at the Fairfield MM in Indiana and he was disowned for disunity in November. In 1815 he received a tract of land from his father Joseph's will on the big Creek of Dan River to be divided between him and his brother Joel.

Zadock received a certificate to transfer to Fairfield on the same day that his cousin, Jehu Jackson, received a transfer to Fairfield. He was listed on the 1850 Census of Decatur Twp., Marion Co., IN. He was listed as age 47, a farmer, born North Carolina, his real estate value was $400. His dwelling was listed as number 159. Dwelling 161 was the family of Bazil Jessup, who's wife was Louisa Jackson, the daughter of Jehu, and would be his first cousin. Caleb Jackson was living at dwelling number 154.

Zadock and Isabell had five children listed at home on the 1850 Census:

1. Joel Jackson, age 18

2. Evaline Jackson , age 14

3. Jane Jackson age 12

4. Mahala Jackson age 8

5. Amelia Jackson age 4

It is believed that this family may have moved to Missouri.

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----- Original Message -----

From: Rick & Kim Baker

To: jomartin1@worldnet.att.net

Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:16 AM

Subject: Zadock Jackson, a descendant of Samuel Jackson

 

Hi, Jo

 

I found your family tree maker site by googling “Zadock Jackson”, one of my husband’s ancestors. I see you have him in your FTM. I think his death date of 1850 must be incorrect, as he is found in the following censuses:

 

Found in 1860 in Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana, p. 696:

 

Zadock Jackson, 56, male, farmer, born North Carolina

 

Isabel Jackson, 51, female, born O

 

Jane Jackson, 21, female, servant, born Ind

 

Emily Jackson, 15, female, servant, born Ind, attended school within the last year.

 

On the same page, two dwellings away, are Zebadee Baker and family. Zebadee's son Littleton and Zadock's daughter Mary were married in 1846.

 

Found in 1870 in Indianapolis, Marion county, Indiana, page 356:

 

Jackson, Zadoc age 66, male, white, Farmer, $12000, $1370, born North Carolina

 

Jackson, Isabel age 62, female, white, Housekeeper, born Ohio

 

Found in 1880 in Decatur, Marion county, Indiana, T9-0294 page 516A

 

Jackson, Zadock L., age 76, born North Carolina , Farmer, father and mother both born in North Carolina

 

Jackson, Isabelle, age 70, born OH, Housekeeper, father and mother born born in KY

 

Also, Zadock and Isabella had another child, my husbandÂ’s ancestor. According to the family Bible, Mary Ann Jackson was born February 10, 1828 in Indiana. She married Littleton Harrison Baker, her neighbor in Marion County, on September 3, 1846 in Marion County. This marriage record was found in the Indiana State Library, file number 6142791. Mary Ann and Littleton had fourteen children. Mary Ann died March 14, 1894 in Fostoria, Pottawatomie Co., KS. Littleton died September 16, 1894 in Fostoria. They are both buried in the Olsburg, Kansas cemetery.

 

Thank you for posting your information, and I hope this little addition is of help.

Kim Baker

 

Topeka, KS

 

 

 

 

 

Children of Zadock L. Jackson and Isabella Hughey are:

34. i.

Joel Jackson, B: Apr 1832 in Marion, Indiana, USA[7], D: 28 Apr 1919[8], M: Sarah W. Copenhaver, 10 Nov 1853 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[8].

35. ii.

Caroline Jackson, B: Abt. 1835 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[24], D: Unknown, M: Samuel Harrah, 26 Dec 1854 in Marion, Indiana, USA[24, 25].

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iii.

Evaline Jackson, B: 1836 in Ohio, USA[7], D: Unknown.

36. iv.

Jane Jackson, B: 1838 in Marion, Indiana, USA[7], D: Unknown, M: John Raines, 21 Nov 1860 in Marion, Indiana, USA[5].

37. v.

Mahala Jackson, B: 1842 in Marion, Indiana, USA[7], D: Unknown, M: Richard Burge, 16 Jan 1859 in Marion, Indiana, USA[8].

vi.

Amelia Jackson, B: 1846 in Marion, Indiana, USA[7], D: Unknown.

vii.

Henry C. Jackson, B: 1850 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[8], D: Unknown.

viii.

Mary Ann Jackson, B: Aft. 1850 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[26], D: 13 Mar 1894 in Fostoria, Pottawatomie, Kansas, USA[26], M: Littlejohn Harrison Baker, Unknown.

Notes for Mary Ann Jackson:

Obit for Mary Ann Jackson, d/o Zadock and Isabella, d. 1894

Posted by: Kim Baker Date: September 26, 2005

Obituary from the Olsburg, Kansas News-Letter, March 15, 1894, p. 1:

DIED.

BAKER - March 13, at her home in Fostoria, of measles, Mrs. L[ittleton]. H[arrison]. Baker. Funeral services were held at ten o'clock today at Fostoria and the remains were brought to Olsburg for burial.

Mother Baker was a noble woman, one of those "mothers in Israel" whose delight was to serve the Lord. The extent of her influence cannot be measured. The world is better for her having lived in it. She has gone to her reward but her gentle influence will long remain with her relatives, friends and neighbors as an inspiration to higher plaines of spiritual life.

 

8.

Joel Jackson-2(Joseph-1)[1] was born in 1806 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1]. He died on 09 Aug 1849. He married Rebecca Jessup on 23 Jan 1838 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1], daughter of Elijah Jessup and Nancy Smith. She was born in 1817 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[1]. She died on Unknown.

Notes for Joel Jackson:

Joel Jackson was given land in his father's will on the big creek of Dan River, to be divided between him and his brother, Zadock.

 

Joel was dismissed from the Westfield Friends Church on 9 Aug 1828. This was the same time that his brother, Zadock, and his cousin Jehu Jackson were dismissed. They moved to Fairfield MM in IN. There in the possibility that Joel may have gone with them to IN, stayed for a while and then returned to North Carolina .

Notes for Rebecca Jessup:

Rebecca Jessup was born 1817. She left a will that was probated Aug 11, 1899

Children of Joel Jackson and Rebecca Jessup are:

i.

Zadock W. Jackson, B: 06 Jan 1839[7], D: Unknown, M: Lucinda Buzby, 06 Sep 1868[5].

38. ii.

Andrew Haywood Jackson, B: 02 Jun 1842 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA, D: 02 Aug 1897[5], M: Mary Elizabeth Carson, 09 May 1878.

iii.

Caleb A. Jackson, B: Aug 1844[27], D: Unknown, M: Nancy Jane Polly Simmons, 02 Oct 1872 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[27].

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Notes for Caleb A. Jackson:

Caleb Jackson entered the Civil War with CSA, Co. E., 53rdNorth Carolina Regiment on 16 Oct 1863. He was taken prisoner on 29 Dec 1863 and placed in the old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC. He developed pneumonia there. On 19 Mar 1864, after taking the Oath of Allegiance, he was released.

iv.

Gideon Jackson, B: 1847[7], D: Unknown, M: Mary L. Brown, 27 Sep 1871[5].

v.

Sarah J. Jackson, B: 06 Oct 1849[7], D: Unknown, M: Samuel Flippin, 18 Nov 1869[5].

Generation 3
9.

Eli J. Sumner-3(Priscilla-2, Joseph-1)[4] was born on 28 May 1812 in Highland, Ohio, USA[4]. He died on 25 Mar 1894[7]. He married (1) Jane E. Carter on 21 Jan 1836 in Morgan, Ohio, USA[7]. She was born on 05 Oct 1818[7]. She died on Unknown. He married (2) Anna E. Boxley on 13 Jun 1833[4]. She was born in 1812[7]. She died on 05 May 1834[7].

Notes for Eli J. Sumner:

Eli Sumner received a respectable common school and academic education and subsequently became a teacher in the Union Seminary in Highland Co., OH.

 

After his marriage to Jane Carter, he settled on a tract of land about 6 miles west of Mooresville, which was presented to him by his father. He purchased a large flour mill near the village in the fall of 1849 and operated it until the spring of 1853 when he moved to Sharpsville, Tipton Co. and engaged in the manufacturing and shipping of lumber for a few months. He then returned to his farm near Mooresville where he carried on a lumber trade in the Wabash Valley until 1865. In the spring of 1858, he moved to Indianapolis and in the fall of 1869 returned to Mooresville. He was a member of the Methodist church at the time of his death. At one time he and his family had been members of the White Lick MM. He was a Republican and an active worker in the Temperance cause.

Children of Eli J. Sumner and Jane E. Carter are:

i.

Thomas C. Sumner, B: 16 Feb 1837[7], D: Unknown.

ii.

William E. Sumner, B: 01 Feb 1839[7], D: Unknown.

iii.

Caswell B. Sumner, B: 23 Nov 1841[7], D: 03 Jan 1867[7].

iv.

James O. Sumner, B: 04 Mar 1844[7], D: 04 Jan 1849[7].

v.

Anna E. Sumner, B: 17 Oct 1847[7], D: 28 Sep 1853[7].

vi.

Hannah C. Sumner, B: 20 Nov 1850[7], D: 23 Jun 1867[7].

vii.

Nancy Evangeline Sumner, B: 10 May 1856[7], D: 14 Feb 1863[7].

10.

Joseph Sumner-3(Priscilla-2, Joseph-1)[4] was born on 15 Jun 1817[4]. He died in Apr 1891[7]. He married Susan Karnes on 21 Sep 1837[4]. She was born in 1813[7]. She died on 19 Feb 1897[7].

Notes for Joseph Sumner:

Joseph and Susan moved from Paint Township, Highland Co., to Elwood, Madison Co., IN in 1834. His father had given him land north of Atlanta in Hamilton Co., IN. At that time it was a divided village, called Shieldsville and Buena Vista, later divided by a railroad track. The land was in Tipton Co., taken from Hamilton Co., in 1844.

 

The Sumner cemetery was three acres and is located west of State Road through Atlanta, on the Hamilton Co., Tipton Co. line. This leads to a dead-end road. turn north a half mile to a lane which is about a mile to the cemetery. In 1967 this land was owned by Lucy Sumner Pickett(Puckett) granddaughter of Joseph and Susan.

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Notes for Joseph Sumner:

Joseph and Susan moved from Paint Township, Highland Co., to Elwood, Madison Co., IN in 1834. His father had given him land north of Atlanta in Hamilton Co., IN. At that time it was a divided village, called Shieldsville and Buena Vista, later divided by a railroad track. The land was in Tipton Co., taken from Hamilton Co., in 1844.

 

The Sumner cemetery was three acres and is located west of State Road through Atlanta, on the Hamilton Co., Tipton Co. line. This leads to a dead-end road. turn north a half mile to a lane which is about a mile to the cemetery. In 1967 this land was owned by Lucy Sumner Pickett(Puckett) granddaughter of Joseph and Susan.

Children of Joseph Sumner and Susan Karnes are:

i.

Absalom Sumner, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

ii.

Mary Sumner, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

iii.

Infant Sumner, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

iv.

Infant twin Sumner, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

v.

Infant twin Sumner, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

vi.

Elizabeth Sumner, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

11.

Lucy Sumner-3(Priscilla-2, Joseph-1)[4] was born on 10 Apr 1819 in Highland, Ohio, USA[9]. She died on 05 Jun 1909 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[9]. She married (1) T. Pickett after 1851[10]. He was born on Unknown. He died on Unknown. She married (2) Josiah Reed on 16 Jan 1840 in Highland, Ohio, USA[4]. He was born on 19 Oct 1808[9]. He died on 07 Nov 1859 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[9]. She married (3) Samuel King on 13 Sep 1868 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[28]. He was born on Unknown.

Notes for Lucy Sumner:

When Lucy and Josiah Reed were first married, her father Absalom took them to Morgan, Indiana and gave them a farm.

Notes for Josiah Reed:

Josiah Reed and wife Lucy had ten children - names are unknown

Children of Lucy Sumner and Josiah Reed are:

39. i.

Priscilla Ann Reed, B: 06 Jan 1839 in Highland, Ohio, USA[9], D: 16 May 1864 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[9], M: William Thornton Ragan, 12 Dec 1861 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[9].

ii.

John M. Reed, B: 1842 in Ohio, USA[9], D: Unknown.

iii.

Hannah H. Reed, B: 1844 in Ohio, USA[9], D: Unknown.

iv.

William Allen Reed, B: 16 Dec 1846 in Highland, Ohio, USA[9], D: 20 May 1868 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[9].

v.

Nancy I. Reed, B: 1847 in Highland, Ohio, USA[9], D: Unknown.

vi.

Sarah Minerva Reed, B: Nov 1849 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[9], D: Unknown.

vii.

Franklin P. Reed Reed, B: 26 Jan 1853 in Highland, Ohio, USA[9], D: 24 Mar 1873 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[9].

viii.

Mary E. Reed, B: 28 Jun 1856 in Highland, Ohio, USA[9], D: 08 Dec 1877 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[9].

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ix.

Infant Reed, B: 1858 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[9], D: 04 Oct 1858 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[9].

12.

Sylvania Sumner-3(Priscilla-2, Joseph-1)[4] was born in 1822[4]. She died on Unknown. She married William Conway on 04 Jan 1844 in Highland, Ohio, USA[4]. He was born on Unknown. He died on Unknown.

Notes for Sylvania Sumner:

The story is told that Sylvania Sumner's father Absalom took her and two of her sisters to IN in a prairie schooner wagon equipped with a three legged stool for them to use to get in and out of the wagon. After presenting them with separate tracts of pioneer land, it is said that he told them to "scratch or die."

Children of Sylvania Sumner and William Conway are:

i.

E.M. Conway, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

ii.

Absalom Conway, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

iii.

Hannah Conway, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

iv.

Robert Conway, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

v.

Eli Conway, B: Mar 1845[5], D: Unknown.

13.

Robert Sumner-3(Priscilla-2, Joseph-1)[4] was born on 04 Jul 1827[4]. He died on 06 Oct 1890 in Highland, Ohio, USA[7]. He married (1) Barbara Ann Tomlinson on 19 Nov 1848[4]. She was born in 1831[7]. She died on Unknown. He married (2) Tobiatha Fettro on 03 Feb 1865[7]. She was born on Unknown. She died on Unknown.

Notes for Robert Sumner:

When Robert Sumner and Tobiatha Fettro married they were members of what became the Hopewell MM, composed of the Walnut Creek, Hardking Creek and the Fall Creek Friends Meeting. They were received into the Fairfield Friends Meeting, Leesburg, Highland Co., OH on 19 Apr 1869 by their own request. Since they married outside the discipline of the Friends Meeting they were not members at this time.

 

They were very prosperous farmers on land left Robert by his parents. In 1979 some of this land was still owned by Sumner family members.

Children of Robert Sumner and Tobiatha Fettro are:

i.

William Sumner, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

ii.

Tobiatha Sumner, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

iii.

Sarah Ellen Sumner, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

iv.

Infant Sumner, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

14.

Tobiatha Hannah Sumner-3(Priscilla-2, Joseph-1)[4] was born on 14 Jul 1827[4]. She died on Unknown. She married (1) Dempsey B. Sinclair on 13 Aug 1863[7]. He was born on Unknown. He died on 03 Jan 1871[7]. She married (2) Washington Dollahite on 23 Sep 1852[4]. He was born about 1825[7]. He died on 04 Oct 1861 in Highland, Ohio, USA[7].

Notes for Tobiatha Hannah Sumner:

Tobiatha Hannah Sumner had cancer when she was a young girl and had an operation. A walnut drop-leaf dining room table, brought from NC by her parents, was used for the operating table. The successful operation was credited to their practicing family physician and the prayers of the Society of Friends of the Fall Creek Friends.

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Notes for Tobiatha Hannah Sumner:

Tobiatha Hannah Sumner had cancer when she was a young girl and had an operation. A walnut drop-leaf dining room table, brought from NC by her parents, was used for the operating table. The successful operation was credited to their practicing family physician and the prayers of the Society of Friends of the Fall Creek Friends.

Children of Tobiatha Hannah Sumner and Dempsey B. Sinclair are:

i.

Miranda G. Sinclair, B: 1864[7], D: Unknown.

ii.

Priscilla Olive Sinclair, B: 1869[7], D: Unknown.

Child of Tobiatha Hannah Sumner and Washington Dollahite is:

i.

Infant Dollahite, B: Unknown.

15.

Eli William Carson-3(Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[6] was born on 15 Jul 1812 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6]. He died on 20 Nov 1904 in Lebanon, Smith, Kansas, USA[6]. He married Agnes Ellen Hastings on 16 Dec 1840 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[7]. She was born on 13 Jul 1817 in North Carolina, USA[13]. She died on Unknown.

Notes for Eli William Carson:

According to information from Earl Carson, Rt. 2, Alma, AR, Eli William Carson was a school teacher. One time he was a member of the Friends Church, but after going to a dance, he was dismissed from their membership. While teaching school in Missouri, the wind came in between the cracks of the logs causing a draft about his ears which later caused him to become hard of hearing. When his family came west from Ohio and had to cross a river, they almost left Malissa as she was afraid to get on the ferry to make the crossing. She was 16 years old at the time. Her nickname known by many of the Carson kin was "Lib." She came to Lewbanan to work for the Gibbons famly on a farm which was adjoining that of William Schroeder, whom she met and later married.

Notes for Agnes Ellen Hastings:

Agnes Carson smoked a cob pipe. Her granddaughter, Bonnie Schroeder, wrote once about her grandmother Carson gathering greens along the creek. These included wild lettuce, dandelions, plantian, nettles and dock. She cooked them all together, seasoning with bacon or meat frying with a little vinegar.

Children of Eli William Carson and Agnes Ellen Hastings are:

i.

Columbus Lafayette Carson, B: 17 Oct 1842 in North Carolina, USA[13], D: Jul 1863 in Adams, Pennsylvania, USA; Battle of Gettysburg[29].

Notes for Columbus Lafayette Carson:

Columbus Carson served in the Civil War. His mother stayed up all night to make his Union uniform so he could wear it the next day when he enlisted. It was reported that he was killed in the battle of Gettysburg.

ii.

Victoria Jane Carson, B: 17 Oct 1842 in North Carolina, USA[13], D: Unknown, M: Benjamin Livengood, Unknown.

iii.

Eli Hillary Carson, B: 04 Aug 1844 in North Carolina, USA[13], D: Unknown.

Notes for Eli Hillary Carson:

Hillary served in the Civil War and came home with "shell shock." There were times when he would try to climb the walls.

iv.

Joseph Peters Carson, B: 30 Sep 1846 in North Carolina, USA[13], D: Unknown, M: Marie Colhour, Unknown in Smith, Kansas, USA[15].

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Notes for Joseph Peters Carson:

Joseph Carson lived in Missouri, had 8 or 9 children.

40. v.

Malissa Elsbury Carson, B: 14 Sep 1849[13], D: 23 Dec 1928[15], M: William Schroeder, 18 Aug 1880 in Harlan, Smith, Kansas, USA[15].

vi.

Peter Kossuth Carson, B: 28 Aug 1852[13], D: 28 Oct 1944[15], M: Louisa Shields, 09 Jan 1876 in Rockport, Atchinson, Missouri USA[15].

41. vii.

Mary Alice Carson, B: 25 Jul 1853[13], D: 31 May 1944 in Saline, Kansas, USA[15], M: Frank Wheeler Sr., 25 Sep 1875 in Missouri, USA[15].

viii.

Charles Henry Carson, B: 08 Jun 1858[13], D: Unknown.

ix.

Estella Ozara Carson, B: 31 Aug 1862[13], D: 09 Jan 1945 in Phillips, Kansas, USA[15], M: Adam Muir Scott, 21 Mar 1883[15].

16.

Sally Carson-3(Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[6] was born on 24 Jul 1815 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6]. She died on 24 Sep 1877 in Richland, Wisconsin, USA[12]. She married Thomas Hardy on 23 Mar 1837 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[12]. He was born in 1812 in Danville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA[12]. He died between 06-07 Aug 1866 in Richland, Wisconsin, USA[12].

Notes for Thomas Hardy:

Thomas and Sarah Carson Hardy were said to have been plantation and slave owners while living in the south before the Civil War. They came to WI in 1855. They were members of the Dunkard Church.

Children of Sally Carson and Thomas Hardy are:

i.

John S. Hardy, B: Feb 1837 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[13], D: Unknown.

ii.

Jacob A. Hardy, B: Abt. 1838 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[13], D: Unknown.

42. iii.

William Mulberry Hardy, B: 04 Dec 1840 in North Carolina, USA[12], D: Unknown, M: Rachel Wood, Unknown.

iv.

Alcy C. Hardy, B: Abt. 1844 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[13], D: Unknown.

v.

Eli T. Hardy, B: Abt. 1844 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[13], D: Unknown.

vi.

Hardin M. Hardy, B: Abt. 1845 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[13], D: Unknown.

vii.

Jesse Hardy, B: Abt. 1847 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[13], D: Unknown.

viii.

Doctor J. Hardy, B: Abt. 1849 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[13], D: Unknown.

17.

James Verlin Carson-3(Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[6] was born on 01 Jan 1817 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6]. He died on 08 Aug 1895 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6]. He married Christina Owens on Unknown. She was born on Unknown. She died on 12 Mar 1894 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[15].

Children of James Verlin Carson and Christina Owens are:

i.

William Carson, B: 1841 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[13], D: Unknown.

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ii.

Sebron Carson, B: 1842[13], D: Unknown.

43. iii.

Joseph Carson, B: 1845 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[13], D: 14 Nov 1920[15], M: Ellen Jackson, Unknown.

44. iv.

Mary Elizabeth Carson, B: 24 Mar 1851 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[13], D: 06 Jan 1940, M: Andrew Haywood Jackson, 09 May 1878.

45. v.

Christine Minerva Carson, B: 28 May 1854 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[13], D: 05 Jul 1934[15], M: Matthew Oliver Hill, Unknown.

18.

John Hardin Carson-3(Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[6] was born about 1820 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6]. He died on Unknown in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, USA[13]. He married Nancy Hastings on 27 Dec 1841 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[7]. She was born on 09 May 1822[13]. She died on Unknown.

Children of John Hardin Carson and Nancy Hastings are:

i.

John Carson, B: Abt. 1844 in Highland, Ohio, USA[13], D: Unknown.

ii.

Eliza H. Carson, B: Abt. 1849 in North Carolina, USA[13], D: Unknown.

iii.

Hannah Carson, B: Abt. 1853 in Highland, Ohio, USA[13], D: Unknown.

iv.

Joseph Carson, B: Abt. 1859 in Highland, Ohio, USA[13], D: Unknown.

19.

Jesse Bluma Carson-3(Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[6] was born on 24 Sep 1826 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6]. He died on 18 Oct 1919 in Centralia, Nemaha, Kansas, USA[6]. He married Sarah Jane Grove on 31 Jul 1851 in Highland, Ohio, USA[14]. She was born on 30 Oct 1832 in Hillsboro, Highland, Ohio, USA[14]. She died on Unknown.

Children of Jesse Bluma Carson and Sarah Jane Grove are:

i.

George M. Carson, B: 04 Feb 1853 in Howard, Indiana, USA[14], D: Unknown.

ii.

Rachel A. Carson, B: 02 Aug 1856 in Howard, Indiana, USA[14], D: Unknown.

iii.

Everett Carson, B: 19 Oct 1859 in Howard, Indiana, USA[14], D: Unknown.

iv.

Ella Carson, B: 19 Mar 1861 in Howard, Indiana, USA[14], D: Unknown, M: John Caputon Holsapple, Unknown.

v.

Cebron Carson, B: 22 Jan 1863 in Holt, Missouri, USA[14], D: Unknown.

vi.

Susie Carson, B: 25 Dec 1865 in Holt, Missouri, USA[14], D: Unknown.

vii.

Frank Carson, B: 22 Mar 1868 in Holt, Missouri, USA[14], D: Unknown.

46. viii.

Kit Carson, B: 22 Jul 1870 in Holt, Missouri, USA[14], D: 29 Apr 1912 in Netawaka, Jackson, Kansas, USA[13], M: Annie Marie Higgins, 07 Mar 1890[13].

ix.

Myrtle Carson, B: 19 Jul 1874 in Holt, Missouri, USA[14], D: Unknown.

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20.

Albert Jackson Carson-3(Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[6] was born on 13 Jan 1829 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6]. He died on 14 Sep 1916 in Davis, Iowa, USA[6]. He married Eliza McClure on 02 Aug 1852 in Highland, Ohio, USA[7]. She was born on 22 May 1832 in Highland, Ohio, USA[13]. She died on Unknown.

Children of Albert Jackson Carson and Eliza McClure are:

i.

Delilah Carson, B: 25 Apr 1852 in Missouri, USA[13], D: 31 Oct 1941[15], M: Harrison Hawkins, Unknown.

ii.

Elmira A. Carson, B: 17 Apr 1855[13], D: 1930[15].

iii.

Hannah McClure Carson, B: 21 Jan 1859 in Bloomfield, Davis, Iowa, USA[13], D: Unknown, M: Columbus G. Smith, 19 Jan 1879[15].

iv.

Mary Carson, B: Abt. 1862[13], D: Unknown.

v.

Marion G. Carson, B: 24 Jul 1864 in Bloomfield, Davis, Iowa, USA[13], D: 24 Oct 1935[15], M: Ida Jennings, Unknown.

vi.

James Albert Carson, B: 09 Oct 1866[13], D: 01 Sep 1953[15], M: Minnie Alice Orman, Unknown.

21.

William Martin Carson-3(Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[6] was born about 1833 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6]. He died on 12 Mar 1920[13]. He married (1) Clirinda Connett before 1853[13]. She was born on Unknown in Warsaw, Kosciusko, Indiana, USA[13]. She died on Unknown. He married (2) Rebecca E. Grove on 21 Aug 1853 in Highland, Ohio, USA[13]. She was born on Unknown. He married (3) Martha Grim in Dec 1855[13]. She was born on Unknown. She died on Unknown.

Child of William Martin Carson and Rebecca E. Grove is:

i.

Laura Carson, B: Abt. 1854[13], D: Unknown.

Children of William Martin Carson and Martha Grim are:

i.

Infant Carson, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

ii.

Joshua Carson, B: Abt. 1857 in Highland, Ohio, USA[13], D: Unknown.

22.

Henry Shackelford Carson-3(Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[6] was born in 1834 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6]. He died in Mar 1904 in Maitland, Holt, Missouri, USA[13]. He married Elizabeth Ann Markland on 28 Jan 1857 in Kokomo, Howard, Indiana, USA[13]. She was born on 24 Oct 1834 in Hamilton, Ohio, USA[15]. She died on 18 Nov 1901 in Maitland, Holt, Missouri, USA[15].

Children of Henry Shackelford Carson and Elizabeth Ann Markland are:

i.

Lottie Carson, B: Unknown.

ii.

Etta Carson, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

iii.

Henry L. Carson, B: Unknown.

iv.

Scott Carson, B: 07 Nov 1857 in Kokomo, Howard, Indiana, USA[13], D: 17 Aug 1934[15], M: Mahala Catherine Howard, Unknown.

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23.

Abner Jessup Carson-3(Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[6] was born on 10 Apr 1836 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[15]. He died on 08 Feb 1920 in Pawnee, Nebraska, USA[13]. He married Margaret Deffenbaugh in 1859 in Kokomo, Howard, Indiana, USA[13]. She was born on 09 Apr 1841 in Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA[13]. She died on Unknown.

Children of Abner Jessup Carson and Margaret Deffenbaugh are:

i.

William Hampton Carson, B: 27 Aug 1860 in Kokomo, Howard, Indiana, USA[13], D: 16 Sep 1933 in Atchison, Missouri, USA[15].

ii.

Ida Carson, B: Abt. 1862[13], D: Unknown.

iii.

Mattie Carson, B: Abt. 1865[13], D: Unknown.

iv.

Seaborn Carson, B: 05 Jan 1868[13], D: Unknown.

24.

Francis Marion Carson-3(Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[6] was born on 13 Aug 1837 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[6]. He died on 21 Apr 1922 in Smith, Kansas, USA[6]. He married (1) Elizabeth Harriet Sheets on 28 Oct 1860 in Kokomo, Howard, Indiana, USA[13]. She was born on 26 Mar 1839 in Probably Augusta, Virginia USA[13]. She died on Unknown. He married (2) Della Long Hackett after 1889[13]. She was born on 27 Feb 1862 in Knoxville, Marion, Iowa, USA[13]. She died on Unknown.

Notes for Francis Marion Carson:

Francis Marion Carson enjoyed gathering his children around him and telling them the story of how President Andrew Jackson once visited his parents, and that he drove his horses into their yard accompanied by his dogs and slaves.

Children of Francis Marion Carson and Elizabeth Harriet Sheets are:

i.

Lewis Edgar Carson, B: 28 Sep 1861 in Kokomo, Howard, Indiana, USA[13], D: Unknown.

ii.

Minerva Alice Carson, B: 06 Jun 1863[13], D: Unknown.

iii.

Thomas Fletcher Carson, B: 08 Oct 1864 in Missouri, USA[13], D: Unknown.

iv.

Jacob Milton Carson, B: 16 Apr 1866 in Holt, Missouri, USA[13], D: Unknown.

v.

Emma May Carson, B: 19 Feb 1868 in Holt, Missouri, USA[13], D: Unknown.

vi.

Elias Manford Carson, B: 13 May 1870 in Maitland, Holt, Missouri, USA[13], D: 09 Oct 1941[15].

vii.

Daniel Howard Carson, B: 14 Jun 1872 in Holt, Missouri, USA[13], D: Unknown.

viii.

Anna Belle Carson, B: 17 Jun 1874 in Missouri, USA[13], D: Unknown.

ix.

Frank Morton Carson, B: 17 Nov 1876 in Smith Center, Smith, Kansas, USA[13], D: Unknown.

x.

Hattie Elva Carson, B: 17 Oct 1878 in Athol, Smith, Kansas, USA[13], D: Unknown.

xi.

Charles Clifford Carson, B: 07 Mar 1880 in Athol, Smith, Kansas, USA[13], D: Unknown.

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Children of Francis Marion Carson and Della Long Hackett are:

i.

Benjamin Harris Carson, B: 22 Dec 1892 in Smith Center, Smith, Kansas, USA[13], D: Unknown, M: Anna Lutz, 23 Jul 1931[30].

ii.

George Albert Carson, B: 02 Sep 1894 in Smith Center, Smith, Kansas, USA[13], D: 05 Oct 1918; during WWI in France[31].

iii.

Robert LeRoy Carson, B: 01 Jun 1899 in Smith Center, Smith, Kansas, USA[13], D: 08 Apr 1970[32], M: Myrtle Conn, 10 Apr 1926.

iv.

Mary Bessie Carson, B: 18 Jul 1903 in Smith Center, Smith, Kansas, USA[13], D: 27 Apr 1904[30].

v.

Frances May Carson, B: 08 Jan 1905[15], D: Unknown, M: William Petty, Unknown.

25.

Mary Polly Jessup-3(Rachel-2, Joseph-1)[3] was born on 03 Nov 1817 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[3]. She died before 1869. She married Noah Reagan on 06 Dec 1834 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[17]. He was born in 1814 in Ohio, USA[33]. He died after 1880 in Marion, Indiana, USA[33].

Notes for Mary Polly Jessup:

Mary Polly Jessup was disowned from Fairfield MM on 15 Jun 1845 for marrying Noah Reagan out of unity.

Notes for Noah Reagan:

1840 Census, Marion Co. IN, Decatur Tp.: Noah & family listed.

***

1850 Census, Marion Co. IN, Decatur Tp.: REAGAN, Noah (36, OH); Mary (33, North Carolina ). Children: W. (14m, IN), Sarah (11?, IN), R.A. <Rachel> (7f, IN), George W. (5, IN), Reason (2, IN).

***

1860 Census, Wayne Tp., Marion Co. IN (# 445): REAGAN, Noah (53, IN), Eliza (21, IN), Rachel A. (servant - 16, IN), George W. (15, IN), Reson (9, IN), Joseph (7, IN), Mary (5, IN), Noah (3, IN).

***

1880 Census, Marion Co. IN, Wayne Tp: REAGAN, Noah (66, OH-VA-NC), wife Mary (42, IN-VA-OH), Joseph (29, IN), Noah Jr. (23, IN); adj. to John (26) et. al.

Children of Mary Polly Jessup and Noah Reagan are:

i.

Sarah Ann Reagan, B: Abt. 1843 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[33], D: Unknown, M: Cy Ward, Unknown.

47. ii.

George W. Reagan, B: Dec 1845 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[33], D: Aft. 1910 in Marion, Indiana, USA[33], M: Esther Hoffman, May 1868 in Marion, Indiana, USA[33].

iii.

Joseph Reagan, B: Abt. 1851 in Marion, Indiana, USA[33], D: Unknown.

iv.

Noah Reagan Jr., B: Abt. 1857 in Marion, Indiana, USA[33], D: Unknown.

v.

Mary Reagan, B: Unknown, D: Unknown, M: Anthony Conroe, Unknown.

vi.

Rachel Reagan, B: Unknown, D: Unknown, M: James Peyton Ellis, Unknown.

vii.

Robert Reagan, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

viii.

Samuel Reagan, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

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26.

Jackson L. Jessup-3(Rachel-2, Joseph-1)[3] was born on 21 Oct 1821 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[3]. He died in 1900 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA. He married Malinda Kellam on Unknown, daughter of Jesse Kellam. She was born about 1827 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[7]. She died in 1905 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[7].

Notes for Jackson L. Jessup:

Jackson Jessup was a native of Stokes, North Carolina . His parents moved to Hendricks Co., In when he was three years old. His father became one of the early settlers of Hendricks Co., IN. They located near the Marion and Morgan County lines. In this area Jackson was reared to maturity and his active career was one of close identification with agricultural pursuits - ie a farmer. He began farming at an early age, and in 1881, he moved to a farm of 200 acres, mostly cultivated and improved.

 

Jackson was the Twp. Trustee In IN for seven years, and was Supervisor of Fox Twp.. He was a minister of the Society of Friends and was a birthright Quaker. In politics he was a Republican.

Children of Jackson L. Jessup and Malinda Kellam are:

i.

Orlando Jessup, B: Unknown, D: Unknown; When young[7].

ii.

Sarah Jessup, B: Unknown, D: In infancy.

48. iii.

Amanda Jane Jessup, B: 26 Oct 1846[3], D: Unknown, M: John Clauner, Unknown.

iv.

W. Kellum Jessup, B: 1850[3], D: Unknown.

49. v.

Oswald Jessup, B: 1852 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[3], D: Unknown in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, USA[34], M: Alma Belle Olleman, 18 Jun 1873 in Morgan, Indiana, USA.

50. vi.

Roscoe C. Jessup, B: 12 Apr 1862 in Marion, Indiana, USA[3], D: Unknown, M: Ella Haines, 1894[7].

51. vii.

Cora Clifta Jessup, B: 27 Mar 1866 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[35], D: 11 Oct 1934 in Lewistown, Fergus, Montana, USA[35], M: John Quinlan Hitch, Bef. Sep 1885[35].

27.

Leatha Jessup-3(Rachel-2, Joseph-1)[3] was born on 13 Aug 1825 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[3]. She died on Unknown. She married Elijah Pfaff on 25 Feb 1847 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[17], son of Johan Daniel Pfaff and Lurainey Jackson. He was born on 12 Nov 1822 in North Carolina, USA[36]. He died on 25 Nov 1909 in Mooresville, Morgan, Indiana, USA[5].

Notes for Leatha Jessup:

Leatha Jessup was disowned from Fairfield MM on 15 Jul 1847 for marrying out of unity.

Notes for Elijah Pfaff:

The Pfaff family was one of the first families to settle in the Yadkin Valley. Peter Pfaff, a German, came with the Moravians from Bethlehem, PA in 1748. They helped start the little Moravian village of Bethabara. This village is now called "Old Town." Some of the Moravians moved to another location and formed the village of Salem, which in 1912 joined with the little town of Winston to form the twin cities of Winston-Salem, North Carolina . There is a little community near the Yadkin River called "Pfafftown," named for this Peter Pfaff.

Children of Leatha Jessup and Elijah Pfaff are:

52. i.

John Wesley Pfaff, B: 25 Jan 1848[37], D: 13 Jan 1914[37], M: Martha Jane Basher, Unknown.

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ii.

Joel Pfaff, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

iii.

Peyton Pfaff, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

28.

Mahala Jane Jessup-3(Rachel-2, Joseph-1)[3] was born on 17 Feb 1830 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[3]. She died on 23 Jan 1912 in Finney, Kansas, USA[18]. She married Timothy Jessup in 1854, son of Timothy H. Jessup and Susanna Jackson. He was born on 16 Apr 1827 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[3]. He died on Unknown.

Notes for Mahala Jane Jessup:

176 Feb 1830 in Hendricks Co., IN

Children of Mahala Jane Jessup and Timothy Jessup are:

i.

Carrie Jessup, B: 1850[3], D: Unknown, M: Benjamin Chitty, Unknown.

ii.

Ella Sarah Jessup, B: 03 Mar 1853 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[3], D: 23 Jun 1881 in Marion, Indiana, USA[38], M: William Penn Spray, 12 Oct 1875 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[38].

iii.

Amos R. Jessup, B: 18 Mar 1855 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[3], D: Unknown.

iv.

Columbus Jessup, B: 1858 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[3], D: Unknown.

29.

Joel Jessup-3(Rachel-2, Joseph-1)[3] was born on 06 Apr 1832 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[3]. He died on 04 Oct 1908 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA. He married (1) Louisa Moon on 12 Aug 1852 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19], daughter of Joseph Moon. She was born on 19 Jan 1834 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[19]. She died on 20 Aug 1885 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[7]. He married (2) Maria Allen on 22 Jun 1887 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[7], daughter of Preston Allen and Susanna Jessup. She was born in Mar 1846 in Fairfield, De Kalb, Indiana, USA[19]. She died on 05 May 1922 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA (Marion)[19].

Notes for Joel Jessup:

Joel Jessup had a very meager education, since the schools of his day were open only two or three months in the winter time, and then offered very limited advantages. He was in the school but a very short time, yet he laid the foundation for a desire for knowledge and, being a great reader all his life, he was well informed on most subjects of the day for a man of his age. He lived on the farm all his life and as a farmer, was sufficiently progressive in keeping abreast of the times. He had to labor as a boy without any of the modern inventions, and as the modern agricultural implements came into use, he added them one by one to his equipment list. At the end of his life, he was as well equipped for agriculture as any farmer in the county. He added to the homestead until it contained over three hundred acres of fine land. He carried on an extensive dairy business, shipping his milk to Indianapolis. He had fifty head of fine graded milk cows and owned and operated a flour and custom mill at Friendwood on his farm.

 

Joel was a birthright Quaker and throughout his life was a firm believer in the doctrines as set forth by that church. Being naturally of a quiet and reserved disposition, one had to know him intimately to appreciate his real depth of Christian spirit. His was a deeply religious nature and a careful student of the Bible, and his great faith in Christ was built on it's teachings.

 

His politics were in keeping with his faith and he was a Prohibitionist of the most radical kind all his life.

Children of Joel Jessup and Louisa Moon are:

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53. i.

Harrison B. Jessup, B: 20 Aug 1853 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[3], D: 30 Dec 1905 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[7], M: Millie or Nellie O'Day, Abt. 1890 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19].

54. ii.

Jesse F. Jessup, B: 10 Sep 1854 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[3], D: Unknown, M: Jessie Allen, 23 Oct 1878 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19].

55. iii.

Theodore Walter Jessup, B: 19 Jan 1855[3], D: 26 Nov 1878 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[7], M: A. Belle Snodgrass, 03 May 1876 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19].

56. iv.

William S. Jessup, B: 11 Apr 1858 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[3], D: 19 Sep 1939 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19], M: Emma Card, Unknown.

Notes for Maria Allen:

Maria Allen was educated in the local schools and at Spiceland Academy. She taught school for many years and it was not until she was thirty-eight years of age that she entered the woman's medical College of Chicago, IL (now a part of the Northwestern University) from which she graduated. She was a woman of great strength of character and with a tender and sympathetic feeling which was necessary for a successful physician.

30.

William L. Buck Jackson-3(Amer-2, Joseph-1)[20] was born about 1838 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20]. He died about 1900 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20]. He married Sarah Shelton on 25 Jun 1867 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], daughter of Williamson Shelton and Sarah Sally Cammel Francis. She was born about 1847 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[39]. She died on 25 Mar 1929 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20].

Notes for William L. Buck Jackson:

Buck Jackson was the owner of 468 acres of land. Surry County Deed Book 45, p. 126 notes that on 1 Mar 1904, his estate was divided among his six children as follows: Caleb Jackson received 98.5 acres with the understanding he would take care of his mother until her death. Susan Cook received 56 acres and was to pay her brother, Bud $8.00, her sister Mary, $35.00, her brother James, $33.00 and her sister Ida, $34.00 for the difference in value of her acreage. William Lee "Bud" Jackson received 60.5 acres, Mary Cook received 64.5 acres, James Jackson received 84.5 acres and Ida Jackson received 104 acres.

Children of William L. Buck Jackson and Sarah Shelton are:

57. i.

William Lee Jackson, B: 14 Aug 1874 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 25 Dec 1941 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA[20], M: Mary Delia Owens, 15 Nov 1897 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[40].

58. ii.

William Caleb Jackson, B: 05 Aug 1875 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 22 Jul 1959 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], M: Alice Elizabeth East, 13 Dec 1903 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20].

59. iii.

James M. Jackson, B: 1877 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 08 Feb 1918 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], M: Mary Etta East, 26 Dec 1900 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20].

60. iv.

Mary Jane Jackson, B: 1880 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[40], D: 07 Feb 1965 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA[40], M: Yancey S. Cook, 28 Feb 1904[20].

61. v.

Susan Jackson, B: 12 May 1886 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[20], D: Unknown, M: Edward Sidney Cook, 21 Feb 1903 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20].

62. vi.

Ida Jackson, B: 12 May 1886 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 22 Oct 1970 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[41], M: David Mahlon Cook, 01 Apr 1907[20].

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31.

Joseph M. Jackson-3(Amer-2, Joseph-1)[20] was born on 30 Mar 1840 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20]. He died on 09 May 1932. He married (1) Susan Von Cannon on 12 Sep 1865[20], daughter of Jacob Von Cannon and Nancy Hammon. She was born on 30 Oct 1842 in Randolph, North Carolina, USA[7]. She died on Unknown. He married (2) Anna Henderson after 1866[42]. She was born on Unknown.

Notes for Joseph M. Jackson:

Joseph M. Jackson spent his youth on his father's farm in Westfield,North Carolina and left home as a young man. Relatives still living in the area say that when Joseph left home, he had only a clean shirt and no money. He moved to Colorado and accumulated a large fortune there.

 

In his will, Joseph stated he wanted all of his estate left to his wife as long as she lived and at her death all of his property, stocks, bonds, etc. were to be sold and the money to be divided up equally between his brothers, William Buck Jackson and Robert Franklin Jackson and his sister, Martha Jackson Pell, and their children. He had only one child by his first wife, Susan Von Cannon. He did not have children by his second wife, Anna Henderson. From the way that Joseph made out his will, it seemed that he had become very displeased with his son Andrew, and did not want him to inherit his fortune. He said that he had given Andrew a good share of his property and that he had deeded it away contrary to his father's expressed wishes. He left his wife all income, rents, interest of all real or personal property that he had in trust, except for ten dollars per month that was to given to his son, Andrew Jackson, during his natural lifetime. He appointed his nephew, Andrew Jackson, of Mount Airy, NC and Joseph A. Pell, his nephew of Pilot Mountain, NC to act as the executor of his will, which was written 16 Jan 1923 in Denver, CO. His wishes were carried out after the death of his wife, Anna, and many relatives living inNorth Carolina received a share of his estate.

 

The following biography was taken from an article written in "A Portrait and Biological Album of Washington Co., KS," date not given. Sent to Lucille Jackson Vernon by Keith Parrish of Washington, DC.

 

" Joseph M. Jackson, a retired farmer and a resident of Clifton, owns and occupies one of the most pleasant homes within the town limits, to which he moved in the spring of 1889. Prior to this, he had been located on a good farm on section 35 of Clifton Twp., of which he still retains ownership. He preempt this land in the spring of 1870 and thereafter lived upon it until his removal to Clifton, sojourning there for a period of nineteen years. He is numbered among the leading pioneers of Washington Co., KS and has been no unimportant factor in assisting it to its present condition. He literally built up a home from the wilderness, bringing his land to a good state of cultivation and erecting substantial buildings. Beside this farm, he owns another farm of eighty acres in the same township and still another eighty acres in Sheridan Twp., both of which are well improved.

 

Joseph M. Jackson passed his younger years quietly engaged in agricultural pursuits and remaining a member of the parental household until reaching his maturity. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, not desiring to affiliate with the enemies of the Union, he left home and enlisted in Co. D in a regiment of 8th TN Cavalry, being mustered in as a Sgt. He participated in some of the important battles which followed and was in several skirmishes. His regiment was sent after the rebel raider, Morgan. In the latter part of 1863, he became ill, and was confined to the hospital for nine months. Upon his recovery, he rejoined his regiment and was at the battle of Greenville in Oct 11864. While on the retreat, his horse, a very fine and swift animal, was shot three times, but carried his master beyond the point of danger before falling disabled. Joseph had become separated from his comrades, but joined them the next day. He had himself been wounded at the time his horse was shot and now was compelled to lie in the hospital again. He was three times confined in the hospital and finally on the 24th of May, received his honorable discharge from the service, after serving for two years and nine months, being nine months in the Cumberland Mtns., detained in mountain fights.

 

Upon retiring from the Army, Joseph returned to North Carolina and settled in Watauga Co., where he lived for four and one half years. In the meantime he married Susan Von Cannon on 12 Sep 1865. This lady was born in Randolph Co.,North Carolina 30 Oct 1842 and is the daughter of Jacob and Nancy Hammon Von Cannon.

 

Joseph possesses rare business qualities, being more than ordinarily wide-awake, enterprising and industrious. He arrived with his family in Washington Co.,KS on 12 Sep 1870. The country around bore a wide contrast to its present condition, Indians and wild animals still being plentiful. Securing his land, he labored in true pioneer style while the country settled up around him by degrees and he watched with interest and satisfaction the growth and development of this now prosperous commonwealth. Both he and his wife were reared in the doctrines of the Quaker faith, but they are now members of the Methodist Church. Politically, Joseph is a sound Republican. As a former soldier, he belongs to the G.A.R. being a member of Sedgwick Post No.24. "

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Notes for Joseph M. Jackson:

Joseph M. Jackson spent his youth on his father's farm in Westfield,North Carolina and left home as a young man. Relatives still living in the area say that when Joseph left home, he had only a clean shirt and no money. He moved to Colorado and accumulated a large fortune there.

 

In his will, Joseph stated he wanted all of his estate left to his wife as long as she lived and at her death all of his property, stocks, bonds, etc. were to be sold and the money to be divided up equally between his brothers, William Buck Jackson and Robert Franklin Jackson and his sister, Martha Jackson Pell, and their children. He had only one child by his first wife, Susan Von Cannon. He did not have children by his second wife, Anna Henderson. From the way that Joseph made out his will, it seemed that he had become very displeased with his son Andrew, and did not want him to inherit his fortune. He said that he had given Andrew a good share of his property and that he had deeded it away contrary to his father's expressed wishes. He left his wife all income, rents, interest of all real or personal property that he had in trust, except for ten dollars per month that was to given to his son, Andrew Jackson, during his natural lifetime. He appointed his nephew, Andrew Jackson, of Mount Airy, NC and Joseph A. Pell, his nephew of Pilot Mountain, NC to act as the executor of his will, which was written 16 Jan 1923 in Denver, CO. His wishes were carried out after the death of his wife, Anna, and many relatives living inNorth Carolina received a share of his estate.

 

The following biography was taken from an article written in "A Portrait and Biological Album of Washington Co., KS," date not given. Sent to Lucille Jackson Vernon by Keith Parrish of Washington, DC.

 

" Joseph M. Jackson, a retired farmer and a resident of Clifton, owns and occupies one of the most pleasant homes within the town limits, to which he moved in the spring of 1889. Prior to this, he had been located on a good farm on section 35 of Clifton Twp., of which he still retains ownership. He preempt this land in the spring of 1870 and thereafter lived upon it until his removal to Clifton, sojourning there for a period of nineteen years. He is numbered among the leading pioneers of Washington Co., KS and has been no unimportant factor in assisting it to its present condition. He literally built up a home from the wilderness, bringing his land to a good state of cultivation and erecting substantial buildings. Beside this farm, he owns another farm of eighty acres in the same township and still another eighty acres in Sheridan Twp., both of which are well improved.

 

Joseph M. Jackson passed his younger years quietly engaged in agricultural pursuits and remaining a member of the parental household until reaching his maturity. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, not desiring to affiliate with the enemies of the Union, he left home and enlisted in Co. D in a regiment of 8th TN Cavalry, being mustered in as a Sgt. He participated in some of the important battles which followed and was in several skirmishes. His regiment was sent after the rebel raider, Morgan. In the latter part of 1863, he became ill, and was confined to the hospital for nine months. Upon his recovery, he rejoined his regiment and was at the battle of Greenville in Oct 11864. While on the retreat, his horse, a very fine and swift animal, was shot three times, but carried his master beyond the point of danger before falling disabled. Joseph had become separated from his comrades, but joined them the next day. He had himself been wounded at the time his horse was shot and now was compelled to lie in the hospital again. He was three times confined in the hospital and finally on the 24th of May, received his honorable discharge from the service, after serving for two years and nine months, being nine months in the Cumberland Mtns., detained in mountain fights.

 

Upon retiring from the Army, Joseph returned to North Carolina and settled in Watauga Co., where he lived for four and one half years. In the meantime he married Susan Von Cannon on 12 Sep 1865. This lady was born in Randolph Co.,North Carolina 30 Oct 1842 and is the daughter of Jacob and Nancy Hammon Von Cannon.

 

Joseph possesses rare business qualities, being more than ordinarily wide-awake, enterprising and industrious. He arrived with his family in Washington Co.,KS on 12 Sep 1870. The country around bore a wide contrast to its present condition, Indians and wild animals still being plentiful. Securing his land, he labored in true pioneer style while the country settled up around him by degrees and he watched with interest and satisfaction the growth and development of this now prosperous commonwealth. Both he and his wife were reared in the doctrines of the Quaker faith, but they are now members of the Methodist Church. Politically, Joseph is a sound Republican. As a former soldier, he belongs to the G.A.R. being a member of Sedgwick Post No.24. "

Child of Joseph M. Jackson and Susan Von Cannon is:

i.

Andrew Jackson, B: 01 Jul 1866[7], D: Unknown.

32.

Martha Ellen Jackson-3(Amer-2, Joseph-1)[20] was born on 14 Apr 1844 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[21]. She died on 07 Oct 1927 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[21]. She married William Elijah Pell on 22 Feb 1865 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[22], son of William Pell and Mary Jessup. He was born on 11 May 1837 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[43]. He died on 19 Aug 1918 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[43].

Notes for Martha Ellen Jackson:

Martha Jackson was born 14 Apr 1844, Surry Co., NC and died 7 Oct 1927. She was a tall, slender, good-looking brunette with deep set gray blue eyes and fair skin. She had an independent spirit and determination about her that one could admire. She was intelligent, thrifty, a hard worker, good manager and a real helpmate to her husband. Her granddaughter, Anna Pell Broadwell wrote this description of Martha.

Notes for William Elijah Pell:

William Elijah Pell's parents built their home and barns of logs after buying many acres of land about 1830. These acres were about 1/2 mile south of the Westfield Friends Church in Westfield, North Carolina . Elijah was a tall, large man with fair skin, blue eyes and brown hair that in later years turned white. He kept a long neatly trimmed beard. He rode his horse out over his farms every day. He was a kind person, a helper in the community, an avid reader and an advocate of better education. His granddaughter wrote the above description of him.[]

Children of Martha Ellen Jackson and William Elijah Pell are:

63. i.

Sarah Elizabeth Pell, B: 27 Dec 1866 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[22], D: 03 Mar 1935[44], M: Charles H. Matthews, 24 Mar 1889 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA.

ii.

William S. Pell, B: 05 Jun 1868 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[22], D: 30 Apr 1948 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[45], M: Veline C. Cook, Unknown.

Notes for William S. Pell:

 

 

William Pell spent his life on the old home place, where he was a lover of nature, and played a very important part in the lives of his many nieces and nephews. He was never married.

64. iii.

Lafayette Amor Pell, B: 01 Nov 1873 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[46], D: 13 Oct 1952 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA, M: Cornelia Frances Matthews, 06 May 1906 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[46].

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65. iv.

Samira Ellen Pell, B: 25 May 1877 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[22], D: 28 Jul 1897 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[7], M: Wyatt Hunter, 05 Mar 1896 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[47].

v.

Mary Virginia Pell, B: 16 Sep 1879[7], D: Abt. 1879; Died in infancy[7].

66. vi.

Joseph Andrew Pell, B: 1883 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[44], D: Sep 1943 in Lumberton, Robeson, North Carolina, USA[44], M: Mallie Mary Hiatt, 31 Dec 1910 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[22].

vii.

Laura Ellen Pell, B: 15 Apr 1886 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[22], D: 26 Dec 1961 in Forsyth, North Carolina, USA[22], M: Frank S. Lynch, 1915 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[7].

Notes for Laura Ellen Pell:

Laura Pell Lynch moved back to the farm to help take care of her mother after her father died. She remained there after the death of her husband, until she died 26 Dec 1961. She maintained the old home place as it was in the later 1800's and it was always a treat to visit her. Some activities at the home place before and just after the turn of the century were, gardening and food preparation, canning, drying food in the dry kiln, and storing food in the cellar, feeding and gathering eggs from chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese, tending and shearing sheep, milking and grazing cows, feeding and butchering hogs, working and caring for horses, making lye soap from the lye on the ashhopper, laundering and refilling feather ticks, and straw ticks for mattresses, usually an annual job, making clothes, mending shoes, knitting stockings, piecing and making quilts, chopping wood for cooking and fireplaces, drawing all water from a well, washing clothes on corrugated washboards, while heating the water outside in big black pots hung over an open fire, farming tobacco, grain crops, and hay for the animals. Guest were entertained in the front parlor where one might hear music from the organ or the accordion. The peddlers came calling with their wares to sell and they entertained the family, especially the children, with their many stories of adventure. Laura Pell Lynch was a devout member of the Westfield Friend's Church. She was in a nursing home in Winston-Salem,North Carolina at time of her death.

 

The Old Westfield Friends Meeting, established in 1786, was their church which was only a mile away on the Westfield/Pilot Mountainroad. The Quakers started the first school in the community at the same location. Herbert Hoover, later to be President of the US, was a pre-schooler then and lived with his aunt, only missing attending school there by a few months. Then his family moved back to Iowa. After his presidential term was over he was contacted for a church donation. He sent a check for $50.00 to help paint the church and in 1963 he sent some books for the library.

33.

Robert Franklin Jackson-3(Amer-2, Joseph-1)[20] was born on 07 Nov 1846 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[4]. He died on 03 Mar 1932 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[23]. He married Laura V. Tilley on 23 Feb 1866 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[23], daughter of Joel Aaron Tilley and Martha Ann Simmons. She was born on 03 Mar 1854 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[48]. She died on 12 Nov 1927 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[4].

Notes for Laura V. Tilley:

Laura Tilley was born 3 Mar 1854 and died 12 Nov 1927

Children of Robert Franklin Jackson and Laura V. Tilley are:

i.

Martha Ellen Jackson, B: 20 Sep 1873 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[7], D: 08 Nov 1873 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[7].

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67. ii.

Laura Ida Jackson, B: 16 Apr 1876 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[7], D: 1942 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA, M: Joel Sheppard Cook, 29 Mar 1896 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA.

68. iii.

Joseph Andrew Jackson Sr., B: 24 Aug 1878 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[23], D: 25 Apr 1955 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA[4], M: Sarah Annie L. Davis, 12 May 1906 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[49].

69. iv.

William Edward Jackson, B: 12 Nov 1881 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[7], D: 28 Jul 1968 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[4], M: Mary Jane Hawks, 07 May 1905 in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina, USA[50].

70. v.

Ada Virginia Jackson, B: 21 Jan 1883 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[7], D: 03 Oct 1986 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA[51], M: Phyrus Henderson Jessup Jr., 25 Feb 1900 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[2].

71. vi.

Iva Estella Jackson, B: 19 Jun 1886 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[7], D: 01 Jan 1919[7].

72. vii.

Robert Reid Jackson, B: 29 Apr 1888 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[52], D: May 1979 in North Carolina, USA[53], M: Annie Henrietta Britton, 10 Jan 1920 in Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, USA[20].

73. viii.

John L. Jackson, B: 12 Nov 1890 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[7], D: 02 Nov 1941 in Pilot Mountain, Surry, North Carolina, USA, M: Martha Mattie Hunter, Abt. 1921[54].

74. ix.

Randall Hobart Jackson, B: 15 Nov 1895 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[55], D: Jul 1975 in Elkin, Surry, North Carolina, USA[53], M: Lena Frances Matthews, 12 Jan 1921 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[55].

34.

Joel Jackson-3(Zadock L.-2, Joseph-1)[7] was born in Apr 1832 in Marion, Indiana, USA[7]. He died on 28 Apr 1919[8]. He married Sarah W. Copenhaver on 10 Nov 1853 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[8]. She was born in 1837 in Ohio, USA[8]. She died on Unknown.

Children of Joel Jackson and Sarah W. Copenhaver are:

i.

Andrew A. Jackson, B: 1856 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[8], D: Bef. 1900[8].

ii.

Catherine Jane Jackson, B: Feb 1858 in Marion, Indiana, USA[8], D: Unknown.

iii.

Ellis B. Jackson, B: Mar 1865 in Marion, Indiana, USA[8], D: Unknown.

35.

Caroline Jackson-3(Zadock L.-2, Joseph-1)[24] was born about 1835 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[24]. She died on Unknown. She married Samuel Harrah on 26 Dec 1854 in Marion, Indiana, USA[24, 25]. He was born on 05 Mar 1831 in Montgomery, Kentucky, USA[25]. He died on 05 Mar 1905 in Brooklyn, Morgan, Indiana, USA[25].

Children of Caroline Jackson and Samuel Harrah are:

i.

Thomas C. Harrah, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

75. ii.

Walter Scott Harrah, B: 1862[25], D: 27 Dec 1940 in Anderson, Madison, Indiana, USA[25].

iii.

Rebecca J. Harrah, B: 25 Dec 1870[25], D: 25 Oct 1876 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[25].

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36.

Jane Jackson-3(Zadock L.-2, Joseph-1)[7] was born in 1838 in Marion, Indiana, USA[7]. She died on Unknown. She married John Raines on 21 Nov 1860 in Marion, Indiana, USA[5], son of Ishmael Raines and Ann Jackson. He was born about 1833 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA. He died on Unknown.

Children of Jane Jackson and John Raines are:

i.

Mattie Raines, B: 1862 in Marion, Indiana, USA[8], D: Bef. 1900[8], M: Manuel Dill, 23 Jan 1893 in Marion, Indiana, USA[8].

ii.

Nora Raines, B: Abt. 1864 in Marion, Indiana, USA[8], D: Unknown.

37.

Mahala Jackson-3(Zadock L.-2, Joseph-1)[7] was born in 1842 in Marion, Indiana, USA[7]. She died on Unknown. She married Richard Burge on 16 Jan 1859 in Marion, Indiana, USA[8]. He was born in 1835 in Ohio, USA[8]. He died before 1870[8].

Children of Mahala Jackson and Richard Burge are:

76. i.

John W. Burge, B: 1859 in Marion, Indiana, USA[8], D: 01 Feb 1906 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[8], M: Mary E. Stokesberry, 24 Dec 1884 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[8].

ii.

Mary Burge, B: 1862 in Marion, Indiana, USA[8], D: Bef. 1880[8].

38.

Andrew Haywood Jackson-3(Joel-2, Joseph-1)[27] was born on 02 Jun 1842 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA. He died on 02 Aug 1897[5]. He married Mary Elizabeth Carson on 09 May 1878, daughter of James Verlin Carson and Christina Owens. She was born on 24 Mar 1851 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[13]. She died on 06 Jan 1940.

Notes for Andrew Haywood Jackson:

Andrew Jackson was conscripted on 27 Mar 1862 to serve with CSA in Civil War - Co. E., 53rdNorth Carolina Regiment. He was found unfit for service due to deafness. He was discharged 25 Nov 1862.

Children of Andrew Haywood Jackson and Mary Elizabeth Carson are:

i.

Charles Verlin Jackson, B: 12 Oct 1881[7], D: Unknown.

77. ii.

Eldridge Jackson, B: 15 Feb 1887 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[53], D: Oct 1970 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[53], M: Maggie Ella Hunter, Abt. 1914 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[54].

iii.

Annie Jackson, B: 17 Oct 1891[7], D: 16 Nov 1911[7].

Generation 4
39.

Priscilla Ann Reed-4(Lucy-3, Priscilla-2, Joseph-1)[9] was born on 06 Jan 1839 in Highland, Ohio, USA[9]. She died on 16 May 1864 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[9]. She married William Thornton Ragan on 12 Dec 1861 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[9]. He was born on 22 Nov 1840 in Mercer, Kentucky, USA[9]. He died on 09 Dec 1883 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[9].

Child of Priscilla Ann Reed and William Thornton Ragan is:

i.

William Josiah Ragan, B: 04 Sep 1862 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[9], D: 16 Nov 1929 in Marion, Indiana, USA[9], M: Mary Caroline Price, 20 Jan 1884 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[9].

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40.

Malissa Elsbury Carson-4(Eli William-3, Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[7] was born on 14 Sep 1849[13]. She died on 23 Dec 1928[15]. She married William Schroeder on 18 Aug 1880 in Harlan, Smith, Kansas, USA[15]. He was born on Unknown in Germany[15].

Notes for Malissa Elsbury Carson:

After the marriage of Malissa and William Schroeder, Eli and Agnes Carson came to live with them until their deaths.

Child of Malissa Elsbury Carson and William Schroeder is:

i.

Bonnie Lenora Schroeder, B: 25 Aug 1890[29], D: 12 Jul 1973[29], M: Oscar Bloomer, Unknown.

41.

Mary Alice Carson-4(Eli William-3, Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[7] was born on 25 Jul 1853[13]. She died on 31 May 1944 in Saline, Kansas, USA[15]. She married Frank Wheeler Sr. on 25 Sep 1875 in Missouri, USA[15]. He was born in 1854[56]. He died on 01 Mar 1920[56].

Children of Mary Alice Carson and Frank Wheeler Sr. are:

i.

Ben Edward Wheeler, B: 1876[56], D: 09 Aug 1962 in Canon City, Fremont, Colorado, USA[56], M: Della Emma Asher, Unknown[56].

ii.

Jake Field Wheeler, B: 1876[56], D: 07 Apr 1957[56].

iii.

Fred Wheeler, B: 1878[56], D: 1951[56].

iv.

J. Perry Wheeler, B: 1879[56], D: 20 Aug 1951[56].

v.

Frank Wheeler Jr., B: 1881[56], D: 28 Mar 1928[56].

vi.

Scott O. Wheeler, B: 1884[56], D: 28 Feb 1916 in Sylvia, Reno, Kansas, USA[56].

vii.

Clair Wheeler, B: 1887[56], D: Unknown.

viii.

Lillian B. Wheeler, B: 1891[56], D: 1982[56].

ix.

Mont Wheeler, B: 1894[56], D: 19 Dec 1918 in Kansas, USA[56].

42.

William Mulberry Hardy-4(Sally-3, Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[12] was born on 04 Dec 1840 in North Carolina, USA[12]. He died on Unknown. He married Rachel Wood on Unknown. She was born on Unknown. She died on Unknown.

Child of William Mulberry Hardy and Rachel Wood is:

i.

Isaac Alfred Hardy, B: Unknown, D: Unknown, M: Florence Alta Fazel, Unknown.

43.

Joseph Carson-4(James Verlin-3, Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[13, 57] was born in 1845 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[13]. He died on 14 Nov 1920[15]. He married Ellen Jackson on Unknown, daughter of William Jackson and Elizabeth Herrin Celia Gordon. She was born in 1848[57]. She died on Unknown.

Child of Joseph Carson and Ellen Jackson is:

i.

Mary Carson, B: 1869 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[58], D: Unknown.

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44.

Mary Elizabeth Carson-4(James Verlin-3, Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[13] was born on 24 Mar 1851 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[13]. She died on 06 Jan 1940. She married Andrew Haywood Jackson on 09 May 1878, son of Joel Jackson and Rebecca Jessup. He was born on 02 Jun 1842 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA. He died on 02 Aug 1897[5].

Notes for Andrew Haywood Jackson:

Andrew Jackson was conscripted on 27 Mar 1862 to serve with CSA in Civil War - Co. E., 53rdNorth Carolina Regiment. He was found unfit for service due to deafness. He was discharged 25 Nov 1862.

Children of Mary Elizabeth Carson and Andrew Haywood Jackson are:

i.

Charles Verlin Jackson, B: 12 Oct 1881[7], D: Unknown.

77. ii.

Eldridge Jackson, B: 15 Feb 1887 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[53], D: Oct 1970 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[53], M: Maggie Ella Hunter, Abt. 1914 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[54].

iii.

Annie Jackson, B: 17 Oct 1891[7], D: 16 Nov 1911[7].

45.

Christine Minerva Carson-4(James Verlin-3, Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[13, 59, 60] was born on 28 May 1854 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[13]. She died on 05 Jul 1934[15]. She married Matthew Oliver Hill on Unknown, son of Joel Hill and Emily Davis. He was born on 29 Apr 1853 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[61]. He died on Unknown.

Children of Christine Minerva Carson and Matthew Oliver Hill are:

i.

Edward Verlin Hill, B: 13 Jan 1879 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[62], D: 29 Jan 1963[62], M: Celia Humphries, Unknown.

ii.

Flora E. Hill, B: 10 Apr 1881 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[62], D: Unknown, M: Joseph E. Jessup, 02 Feb 1908 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[63].

iii.

Charles David Hill, B: 1884[62], D: 1944[62], M: Meddie Virginia Cook, 16 Jul 1916 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[64].

iv.

Moir M. Hill, B: 25 Dec 1886 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[62], D: 15 Jan 1942[62].

Notes for Moir M. Hill:

Moir Hill did not marry

v.

Joseph E. Hill, B: 03 Oct 1889 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[62], D: 20 Nov 1923[62].

Notes for Joseph E. Hill:

Joseph Hill did not marry

vi.

William Walker Hill, B: 1893[62], D: 15 Mar 1982 in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, USA[62].

vii.

Gaston Lee Hill, B: 15 Jan 1895 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[62], D: 02 Feb 1990 in Elkin, Surry, North Carolina, USA[53], M: Berchel Cook, 16 Jan 1915 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[62].

Notes for Gaston Lee Hill:

From Surry County Heritage Book, Vol II, Article 287, written by C. W. Hill, we get the following:

 

"Gaston Hill attended Westfield School and received some post-secondary education at Mars Hill College. He returned to Westfield, NC where he engaged in farming and often assisted in operating the steam engine sawmill. During the 1914-1915 session of the Surry Co. School System, Gaston was asked to teach at the Albion School which was located in the Westfield area. It is thought that perhaps he met his future wife at this time. According to Ed Jessup, a nephew of Gaston Hill, he had planned to get married on Jan 15, 1915, his twentieth birthday, but the local school board would not allow him that day off, since it fell on a Friday, so the happy occasion took place over the weekend on Jan 16, 1915. "

 

Gaston Hill was very fond of baseball. He, along with his brother Joseph, were members of the legendary pre-World War I Westfield team which was in existence from 1914 through 1917. It was reported that this team was one of the finest baseball teams in the annals of amateur baseball in northwestern NC. Other team members included Dan Inman, Joseph Hill, Richard Pell, Sid Cook, Eli Cook, Van Dearmin, Oliver Frans and Lee Frans.

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Notes for Gaston Lee Hill:

From Surry County Heritage Book, Vol II, Article 287, written by C. W. Hill, we get the following:

 

"Gaston Hill attended Westfield School and received some post-secondary education at Mars Hill College. He returned to Westfield, NC where he engaged in farming and often assisted in operating the steam engine sawmill. During the 1914-1915 session of the Surry Co. School System, Gaston was asked to teach at the Albion School which was located in the Westfield area. It is thought that perhaps he met his future wife at this time. According to Ed Jessup, a nephew of Gaston Hill, he had planned to get married on Jan 15, 1915, his twentieth birthday, but the local school board would not allow him that day off, since it fell on a Friday, so the happy occasion took place over the weekend on Jan 16, 1915. "

 

Gaston Hill was very fond of baseball. He, along with his brother Joseph, were members of the legendary pre-World War I Westfield team which was in existence from 1914 through 1917. It was reported that this team was one of the finest baseball teams in the annals of amateur baseball in northwestern NC. Other team members included Dan Inman, Joseph Hill, Richard Pell, Sid Cook, Eli Cook, Van Dearmin, Oliver Frans and Lee Frans.

46.

Kit Carson-4(Jesse Bluma-3, Alsa Abigail-2, Joseph-1)[14] was born on 22 Jul 1870 in Holt, Missouri, USA[14]. He died on 29 Apr 1912 in Netawaka, Jackson, Kansas, USA[13]. He married Annie Marie Higgins on 07 Mar 1890[13]. She was born on 03 Dec 1870 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA[13]. She died on 05 Jul 1931 in Atchison, Kansas, USA[31].

Children of Kit Carson and Annie Marie Higgins are:

i.

John Carl Carson, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

ii.

Tressia Carson, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

iii.

Jessie B. Carson, B: 12 Oct 1891 in Kansas City, Clay, Missouri, USA[31], D: Unknown.

iv.

Earl Carson, B: 02 Jul 1900 in Jackson, Kansas, USA[31], D: Nov 1984 in Fort Smith, Sebastian, Arkansas, USA[31].

v.

Francis Marion Carson, B: 26 Nov 1908 in Jackson, Kansas, USA[31], D: Apr 1972 in Alma, Crawford, Arkansas, USA[31].

vi.

Willard Carson, B: Abt. 1909 in Jackson, Kansas, USA[31], D: Unknown.

47.

George W. Reagan-4(Mary Polly-3, Rachel-2, Joseph-1)[7] was born in Dec 1845 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[33]. He died after 1910 in Marion, Indiana, USA[33]. He married Esther Hoffman in May 1868 in Marion, Indiana, USA[33]. She was born on 04 Dec 1849 in Marion, Indiana, USA[33]. She died after 1910 in Marion, Indiana, USA[33].

Children of George W. Reagan and Esther Hoffman are:

i.

William R. Reagan, B: 16 Aug 1869 in Marion, Indiana, USA[33], D: Unknown.

ii.

Bertha Reagan, B: May 1871 in Marion, Indiana, USA[33], D: Unknown.

iii.

John Leo Reagan, B: 11 Aug 1879 in Marion, Indiana, USA[33], D: Aft. 1942 in Marion, Indiana, USA[33], M: Myrtle Craft, 04 Sep 1906 in Marion, Indiana, USA[33].

48.

Amanda Jane Jessup-4(Jackson L.-3, Rachel-2, Joseph-1)[3] was born on 26 Oct 1846[3]. She died on Unknown. She married John Clauner on Unknown. He was born on Unknown. He died on Unknown.

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Children of Amanda Jane Jessup and John Clauner are:

i.

Winifred Clauner, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

ii.

Alberta Clauner, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

iii.

Mary Clauner, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

49.

Oswald Jessup-4(Jackson L.-3, Rachel-2, Joseph-1)[3] was born in 1852 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[3]. He died on Unknown in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, USA[34]. He married Alma Belle Olleman on 18 Jun 1873 in Morgan, Indiana, USA. She was born in 1854 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[34]. She died on Unknown.

Notes for Oswald Jessup:

Oswald Jessup worked in the creamery business in Indianapolis, IN

Children of Oswald Jessup and Alma Belle Olleman are:

i.

Ethel Lynn Jessup, B: Abt. 1874 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[34], D: Unknown.

ii.

Louie Jessup, B: Abt. 1876 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[34], D: Unknown.

iii.

Edna Jessup, B: Abt. 1880 in Parker, Texas, USA[34], D: Unknown.

iv.

Inez Jessup, B: Abt. 1889 in Illinois, USA[34], D: Unknown.

v.

Lyle Jessup, B: Abt. 1892 in Illinois, USA[34], D: Unknown.

50.

Roscoe C. Jessup-4(Jackson L.-3, Rachel-2, Joseph-1)[3] was born on 12 Apr 1862 in Marion, Indiana, USA[3]. He died on Unknown. He married (1) Ella Haines in 1894[7]. She was born on Unknown. She died in 1901. He married (2) Wilma Wilson in 1907[7]. She was born in 1863[3]. She died on Unknown.

Notes for Roscoe C. Jessup:

The following was taken from "History of Greater Indianapolis, IN"

 

Roscoe C. Jessup was reared with the sturdy discipline of the home farm and was afforded the advantages of the public schools of his native county. He continued to be associated in the work and management of the home farm until he was twenty-five years of age when he went to the state of Illinois where he gained his initial experience with the creamery business. In 1889 he came to Indianapolis where he was employed in connection with the creamery business of R. W. Furnas for a period of eight years. In 1897 he associated himself with A. W.Antrim and formed the present partnership, under the title of Jessup and Antrim. The firm purchased a small creamery plant business and with the passing of years the enterprise had grown into one of much scope and importance. In 1904 the firm erected its present modern and substantial brick building at 713-15 North Illinois St., Indianapolis, IN

 

Roscoe Jessup is numbered among the aggressive and enterprising businessmen and loyal and public-spirited citizens of the capital city and he is a native son of the county in which he now maintains his home. He is a Republican and both he and his wife are members of the Society of Friends (Quakers)

Child of Roscoe C. Jessup and Ella Haines is:

i.

Dorothy C. Jessup, B: Unknown.

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Child of Roscoe C. Jessup and Wilma Wilson is:

i.

Dorothy Jessup, B: 1895[65], D: 1916[65].

51.

Cora Clifta Jessup-4(Jackson L.-3, Rachel-2, Joseph-1)[3] was born on 27 Mar 1866 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[35]. She died on 11 Oct 1934 in Lewistown, Fergus, Montana, USA[35]. She married John Quinlan Hitch before Sep 1885[35]. He was born on 23 Jun 1856 in Clermont, Ohio, USA[35]. He died on 12 Jan 1934 in Hobson, Judith Basin, Montana, USA[35].

Child of Cora Clifta Jessup and John Quinlan Hitch is:

i.

Clarence Hitch, B: Unknown.

52.

John Wesley Pfaff-4(Leatha-3, Rachel-2, Joseph-1)[37] was born on 25 Jan 1848[37]. He died on 13 Jan 1914[37]. He married Martha Jane Basher on Unknown. She was born on 13 Dec 1854[37]. She died on 07 May 1931[37].

Children of John Wesley Pfaff and Martha Jane Basher are:

i.

Fred Pfaff, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

ii.

Dayton Pfaff, B: 1882[37], D: 13 Jan 1949 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, USA[37], M: Leota Rariden, Unknown.

53.

Harrison B. Jessup-4(Joel-3, Rachel-2, Joseph-1)[3] was born on 20 Aug 1853 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[3]. He died on 30 Dec 1905 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[7]. He married Millie or Nellie O'Day about 1890 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19]. She was born in Jan 1865 in New York, New York, USA[19]. She died after 1920[19].

Children of Harrison B. Jessup and Millie or Nellie O'Day are:

i.

Walter Gregory Jessup, B: 18 Oct 1891 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19], D: 09 Jun 1974 in Marion, Indiana, USA[19], M: Mildred Stout, Unknown.

ii.

Don Carlos Jessup, B: 19 May 1894 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19], D: 29 Apr 1981 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19], M: Floy L. Mundy, 27 Jun 1917 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19].

54.

Jesse F. Jessup-4(Joel-3, Rachel-2, Joseph-1)[3] was born on 10 Sep 1854 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[3]. He died on Unknown. He married Jessie Allen on 23 Oct 1878 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19]. She was born on Unknown. She died on Unknown.

Children of Jesse F. Jessup and Jessie Allen are:

i.

Mary Jessup, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

ii.

Harry Jessup, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

iii.

Dora Jessup, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

iv.

Edward Jessup, B: Unknown, D: Unknown.

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55.

Theodore Walter Jessup-4(Joel-3, Rachel-2, Joseph-1)[3] was born on 19 Jan 1855[3]. He died on 26 Nov 1878 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[7]. He married A. Belle Snodgrass on 03 May 1876 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19]. She was born about 1854 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[19]. She died before 1886 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19].

Children of Theodore Walter Jessup and A. Belle Snodgrass are:

i.

Nellie Jessup, B: Nov 1876 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19], D: Unknown, M: William A. Edwards, Abt. 1896.

ii.

Wallace Theodore Jessup, B: 12 Aug 1878 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19], D: 16 Feb 1944 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19], M: Nettie Hollingsworth, 04 Oct 1899 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19].

56.

William S. Jessup-4(Joel-3, Rachel-2, Joseph-1)[3] was born on 11 Apr 1858 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[3]. He died on 19 Sep 1939 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19]. He married (1) Emma Card on Unknown. She was born on Unknown. She died on Unknown. He married (2) A. Belle Snodgrass about 1879 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19]. She was born about 1854 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[19]. She died before 1886 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19].

Children of William S. Jessup and Emma Card are:

i.

Louisa Jessup, B: 04 Mar 1889 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[7], D: 04 Dec 1976 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19].

ii.

Halstead C. Jessup, B: 16 Jul 1890 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[7], D: 01 Mar 1943 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19], M: Mamie Yeager, Abt. 1926 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA[19].

iii.

Donald B. Jessup, B: 05 May 1892 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[7], D: Apr 1981 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[19], M: Beryl H. Hadley, Unknown.

iv.

Mary Ellen Jessup, B: 25 Mar 1899 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19], D: 24 May 1986 in Hendricks, Indiana, USA[19].

57.

William Lee Jackson-4(William L. Buck-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1) was born on 14 Aug 1874 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[20]. He died on 25 Dec 1941 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA[20]. He married Mary Delia Owens on 15 Nov 1897 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[40], daughter of Abel S. Owens and Eliza Cain. She was born in 1873 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[64]. She died on 13 Sep 1941 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[64].

Notes for William Lee Jackson:

William was a stone cutter and worked at the Mount Airy Granite Rock Quarry.

Children of William Lee Jackson and Mary Delia Owens are:

i.

Mae Gallia Jackson, B: Unknown, D: Unknown; Died in infancy[7].

ii.

Joel Thomas Jackson, B: 1898 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[64], D: Unknown, M: Lillian Moore, Unknown.

Notes for Joel Thomas Jackson:

Joel Jackson worked in Vermont and died there of "Black Lung Disease."

iii.

Arbella Jackson, B: 30 May 1899[7], D: Unknown, M: Edward Addison Booker, 24 Dec 1921 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[49].

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iv.

William Buck Jackson, B: 1900 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[64], D: Unknown in Vermont, USA; car accident[7].

v.

Mallie Lee Jackson, B: 17 Nov 1910, D: Unknown, M: Harry Porter Childress, 29 May 1926.

58.

William Caleb Jackson-4(William L. Buck-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[20] was born on 05 Aug 1875 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20]. He died on 22 Jul 1959 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20]. He married Alice Elizabeth East on 13 Dec 1903 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], daughter of Joseph Henry East and Rebecca Shelton. She was born on 16 Sep 1886 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20]. She died on 30 Sep 1959 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20].

Notes for William Caleb Jackson:

My Grandfather Jackson did so many fun things, he let me help when he gathered honey from the bee hives, and this had to be an act of love on his part. He allowed me to help him sort apples that he used to make cider. I could help him count out sweet potato slips, as he sold these to other farmers in the area. He would let me watch him take honey from his bee hives. He was never stung, did not wear any protective clothing when he did this. He told me the bees would not sting if they did not smell fear. He was very gentle with them. I remember thinking he was the bravest man in the world. He would always be able to find a "copper or two," which is what he called pennies, for me. After being cautioned not to say anything to my Grandmother, he would walk with me to Royal Hunter's store and we would spend a lot of time deciding just exactly how to spend those pennies on candy. Those BB-Bat all day suckers, or packages of Kits were hard decisions to make.

 

When W. Caleb Jackson was a young man, he was rabbit hunting and the gun accidentally went off and his arm was so severely damaged that it had to be removed. I was always amazed at what he could do with one hand. He rolled his own cigarettes. He would hold the small white wrapping paper in one hand, have the tobacco sack in his mouth and gently shake the tobacco into the paper (without dropping any) and then slowly roll the paper around the tobacco with one hand, lick the edge of paper and seal it. He could tie a neat bow on his shoe strings. In other words, not much my Grandpa could not do. He was my "hero." When he died in 1959, my second child was just a baby and I mourned that my children would grow up without him in their lives.

 

"In the 1910 Federal Census Caleb Jackson's widowed mother, Sarah, lived with him and Alice."

Notes for Alice Elizabeth East:

My Grandmother Alice Jackson was a very dear lady. In her sitting room was a very large four poster bed with a feather mattress. As a child, if I ran into the bed, or laid my jacket on it, she would grab a long stick she kept tucked under the pillows and sweep it back and forth across the top of the bedspread to smooth out the lumps I had made of the feathers. As long as I can remember there was a hand crocheted bedspread on this bed. She and my Grandfather had a "player piano" in their parlor. One had to be a certain age before they could go into the parlor "unattended." I can remember when I became of an age where I could play the piano and sing along with those cylinder tapes - Alexander's Ragtime Band and all the Sousa marches. Sad to say, a few years after the deaths of my grandparents, the home place burned to the ground, taking many lovely objects like the crocheted bedspread and the player piano. But I still have my memories of loving grandparents who did not deny me very much.

Children of William Caleb Jackson and Alice Elizabeth East are:

i.

Bertie Mae Jackson, B: 14 Sep 1904 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 10 Apr 1991 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], M: Charles Clive Taylor, 25 Oct 1929 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20].

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ii.

Joseph D. Jackson, B: 25 Aug 1907 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 21 Aug 1989 in Forsyth, North Carolina, USA[20], M: Della Mae Inman, 25 Jun 1929 in Carroll, Virginia, USA[20].

Notes for Joseph D. Jackson:

My father, Joseph Jackson grew up on his father's farm in Westfield, North Carolina . He attended school in the area. After his marriage, Joe went to work for the North Carolina State Highway Department. This job kept him, Della and the children moving around quite a bit. Eventually they bought a farm in the Brown Mountain area of Stokes Co.,North Carolina and he and Della lived there until her death. He sold the farm and married again, this time locating in Francisco, North Carolina . After his second wife's death, he married again and lived in Mt.Airy,North Carolina until his death in 1989, just four days before his 82nd birthday..

 

iii.

Virgie Jackson, B: 16 May 1909 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 07 Apr 1990 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], M: Paul T. Martin, 12 Apr 1925[20].

iv.

Myrtle Jackson, B: 01 Jun 1910 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], D: Abt. 1912 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20].

v.

Moir Jackson, B: 20 May 1911 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 09 Oct 1989 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], M: Iva Dell Johnson, 04 Dec 1937[20].

vi.

Woodrow Jackson, B: 24 Oct 1912 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 07 Jun 1991[20], M: Grady Pauline Nunn, 24 Nov 1934[20].

vii.

Vina Viola Jackson, B: 24 May 1914 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 03 Aug 1980 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20].

Notes for Vina Viola Jackson:

Viola Jackson did not marry

viii.

Essie Lavis Jackson, B: 03 Jul 1916 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 22 Nov 2008 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA[20], M: Albert Sparger Bud Allred, 18 Aug 1934[20].

Notes for Essie Lavis Jackson:

 

Mrs. Lavis Jackson Allred Beamer November 22, 2008

 

Mrs. Lavis Jackson Allred Beamer age 92 of 108 West Oakdale Street, Mt. Airy, North Carolina passed away Saturday, November 22, 2008 at Northern Hospital of Surry County. She was born July 3, 1916 in Surry County to the late Caleb and Alice East Jackson. She was retired from Quality Mills, was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was of the Methodist faith. Surviving is a daughter and son-in-law, Willodene and David Hatcher, Mt. Airy, a son and daughter-in-law, Jerry and Bonnie Allred Mt. Airy, 14 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Beamer was preceded in death by her first husband, A.S. Allred, her second husband, Curtis Roscoe Beamer, a daughter, Mary Baldwin, 3 step daughters, Wanda Baker, Anne Palmer, Betty Jo Cook, and a step son, Albert Allred, 7 sisters, Virgie Martin, Bertie Taylor, Nellie Gardner, June Smith, Madelene Jessup, Viola Jackson, and Myrtle Jackson and 5 brothers, Joe Jackson, Woodrow Jackson, Moir Jackson, Dallas Jackson and Quinten Jackson. Funeral services will be held 11:00 AM Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at Moody Funeral Home Chapel conducted by Rev. Richard Loman. Burial will follow in Oakdale Cemetery. The family will receive friends 6-8 PM Monday night at Moody Funeral Home. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Mountain Valley Hospice and Palliative Care, 401 Technology Lane, Suite 200, Mt. Airy, North Carolina 27030 or to the donors choice.

Online condolences may be made at www.moodyfuneralservices.com.

.........................................................................................................................................

To: Heirs and friends of Lavis Jackson Allred Beamer.

“Grandma” gave me, David B. Hatcher, the responsibility of executing her last will and testament, upon her death. In addition to leaving some money for individuals, she left her home and household goods to others. A copy of her will has been probated and is on file at the Surry County Clerk’s Office, Dobson, NC 27017. If anyone desires any personnel items such as pictures, “what not’s” etc., then please let me know and I will try to accommodate your request.

The balance of this letter will give information about GrandmaÂ’s last few years of her life and a history or her family, which will be incomplete as I know only bits and pieces. (Maybe some of the grandchildren would like to get together and compile a more complete history and remembrance of her life and history.)

Grandma was born to Caleb and Alice Jackson of Westfield, NC, on July 3, 1916. She passed away November 22, 2008, being over 92 years old. Her seven sisters: Virgie Martin, Bertie Taylor, Nellie Gardner, June Smith, Madeleine Jessup, Viola Jackson, Myrtle Jackson; and five brothers: Joe, Woodrow, Moir, Dallas and Quentin all preceded her in death.

Grandma had been in reasonably good health, and with the help of family care-givers, she was able to live alone, and could get about her home with the use of a walker. Two days before she passed away, she suffered a severe stroke, from which she was unable to recover.

Grandma grew up with her large family on a small farm in Westfield. She would tell stories of her growing up years with her siblings and the fun they had on the farm working, playing and looking of ways to take short cuts with their working chores. As I remember some of the tales when they got together, they were always filled with practical jokes and gut wrenching laughter. Their family was animated with fun and laughter.

When Grandma was in her late teens, she was courted heavily by some of the local bachelors, among whom was a handsome widower, seventeen years her senior and with four young children. His name was Albert Sparger Allred, but most people called him “Bud”. The children; Wanda, Albert, Ann and Betty ranged in age from about 11 down to 5. Well Bud asked the question and Grandma said yes! This was in the middle of the great depression, 1934. In about a year Grandma had a baby of her own, Alice Willodene. Two years later there was Mary and then about 9 years after that Jerry came along. Times were hard.

Bud was a “Miller”. He ground corn and wheat to make meal and etc. However this was not sufficient to support his family. He took a job in Radford, VA., and therefore he was away from home a lot. Lavis raised the family. Family gardens, hogs, a milk cow, and chickens for eggs and food kept the family going. In the early forties, Wanda went to Baltimore to work and soon got married. Albert joined the Navy, Ann and Betty Jo entered nursing training. Lavis started working in the mill and Bud looked after Spargers’ Orchard and then started raising tobacco on a small farm in Flat Rock. Willodene says she remembers her Dad loading the pickup with apples and with Lavis and the children and then taking off for Florida. They traded apples along the way for gas, meals and a place to sleep. It was a thrilling and enjoyable trip.

Grandma was always up-beat, laughing and enjoying a good joke. Of course some of her brothers were always around to help out and play a practical joke. Life was hard, but it was simple and good.

In the mid fifties, Wanda, Ann, Betty Jo, Willodene and Mary were all married and starting families. Lavis and Bud and Jerry were the only ones at home. Bud had built a new house, which he built himself. It is said that in the planning stages, Lavis would slip around and move the stakes, because she wanted it bigger. Wanda and family (3 boys) were in Keizer, W. Virginia, Albert joined the Army. Ann, with two boys and two girls, was in South Carolina. Betty Jo, with a boy and a girl, lived in Winston Salem. Willodene was following David around the USA where ever the Air Force took them. Mary was in Nebraska and then Maryland, with a daughter and a son. Finally, Jerry was in New Port News with a daughter.

Grandma continued to work in the mill and more and more became the major bread winner. By the early sixties, Bud was being bothered by sugar diabetes and started a slow decline in health. Leading up to the mid sixties the Nation was preparing for war; first by Kennedy and then by President Johnson. David and Willodene were on the move; Germany, Turkey, Japan, Korea, and then to Thailand from whence David was flying missions into North Vietnam.

The year of 1966 was eventful. David was shot down over North Vietnam, some 300 miles behind friendly lines. He was taken captive and held in North Vietnam for more than six years. Willodene with her two daughters soon moved back to Mount Airy, where she and Grandma became invaluable support for each other. Wanda passed away in 1966.

The seventies started with a New President, but the war continued. Willodene built a new house, David and over 500 other captives were released from North Vietnam in early 1973. Bud had passed away in 1971 (after an extended illness) as well as DavidÂ’s Dad. Grandma had moved to Mount Airy on Oakdale Street. It was a time of readjustment. Many family changes were taking place; job changes, more grandchildren, un-timely deaths, and divorces. In the midst of all these changes, Grandma was a main stay of encouragement, love, and stability. She really loved her children and grandchildren, and later on, her great grandchildren.

In mid 73 she met a new comer to Mount Airy who had lost his wife. Curtis Beamer, who was originally from the Elkin area, had spent some 50 years in Flint, Michigan as an employee of General Motors. They were married in 1973 and lived in GrandmaÂ’s house on Oakdale Street. They would buy merchandise from local hosiery mills and peddle these items in country stores throughout Northwestern North Carolina and Southwestern Virginia. They had a very happy life together, traveling and visiting family in Florida and Eastern United States and the Midwest.

Curtis died in 1987 and Grandma lived alone again. Albert died in 1981, Betty Jo in 1987, and Mary died in 1991. Grandma went back to work. She worked at the new Derby Cafeteria, then as a greeter at K-Mart. She really enjoyed her job at K-mart because she could talk to so many people. She enjoyed playing rook with Curtis and later with other friends. These were times of more laughter and parties, enjoying life and having a good time. She had a “ton” of nieces, nephews, cousins and old friends. (By the way, Bud came from a family of seventeen children!)

As a son-in-law, I must say that Grandma was a challenge. She always wanted to be in charge and have the last word. The last few months or her life gave me the opportunity to learn a little patience. Looking back, I needed her input and am now thankful that she gave me the opportunity to practice with her. Grandma, you lived life to the fullest and you made your mark in history. We love you! Rest in Peace!

David Hatcher.

 

 

 

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Notes for Essie Lavis Jackson:

 

Mrs. Lavis Jackson Allred Beamer November 22, 2008

 

Mrs. Lavis Jackson Allred Beamer age 92 of 108 West Oakdale Street, Mt. Airy, North Carolina passed away Saturday, November 22, 2008 at Northern Hospital of Surry County. She was born July 3, 1916 in Surry County to the late Caleb and Alice East Jackson. She was retired from Quality Mills, was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was of the Methodist faith. Surviving is a daughter and son-in-law, Willodene and David Hatcher, Mt. Airy, a son and daughter-in-law, Jerry and Bonnie Allred Mt. Airy, 14 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Beamer was preceded in death by her first husband, A.S. Allred, her second husband, Curtis Roscoe Beamer, a daughter, Mary Baldwin, 3 step daughters, Wanda Baker, Anne Palmer, Betty Jo Cook, and a step son, Albert Allred, 7 sisters, Virgie Martin, Bertie Taylor, Nellie Gardner, June Smith, Madelene Jessup, Viola Jackson, and Myrtle Jackson and 5 brothers, Joe Jackson, Woodrow Jackson, Moir Jackson, Dallas Jackson and Quinten Jackson. Funeral services will be held 11:00 AM Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at Moody Funeral Home Chapel conducted by Rev. Richard Loman. Burial will follow in Oakdale Cemetery. The family will receive friends 6-8 PM Monday night at Moody Funeral Home. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Mountain Valley Hospice and Palliative Care, 401 Technology Lane, Suite 200, Mt. Airy, North Carolina 27030 or to the donors choice.

Online condolences may be made at www.moodyfuneralservices.com.

.........................................................................................................................................

To: Heirs and friends of Lavis Jackson Allred Beamer.

“Grandma” gave me, David B. Hatcher, the responsibility of executing her last will and testament, upon her death. In addition to leaving some money for individuals, she left her home and household goods to others. A copy of her will has been probated and is on file at the Surry County Clerk’s Office, Dobson, NC 27017. If anyone desires any personnel items such as pictures, “what not’s” etc., then please let me know and I will try to accommodate your request.

The balance of this letter will give information about GrandmaÂ’s last few years of her life and a history or her family, which will be incomplete as I know only bits and pieces. (Maybe some of the grandchildren would like to get together and compile a more complete history and remembrance of her life and history.)

Grandma was born to Caleb and Alice Jackson of Westfield, NC, on July 3, 1916. She passed away November 22, 2008, being over 92 years old. Her seven sisters: Virgie Martin, Bertie Taylor, Nellie Gardner, June Smith, Madeleine Jessup, Viola Jackson, Myrtle Jackson; and five brothers: Joe, Woodrow, Moir, Dallas and Quentin all preceded her in death.

Grandma had been in reasonably good health, and with the help of family care-givers, she was able to live alone, and could get about her home with the use of a walker. Two days before she passed away, she suffered a severe stroke, from which she was unable to recover.

Grandma grew up with her large family on a small farm in Westfield. She would tell stories of her growing up years with her siblings and the fun they had on the farm working, playing and looking of ways to take short cuts with their working chores. As I remember some of the tales when they got together, they were always filled with practical jokes and gut wrenching laughter. Their family was animated with fun and laughter.

When Grandma was in her late teens, she was courted heavily by some of the local bachelors, among whom was a handsome widower, seventeen years her senior and with four young children. His name was Albert Sparger Allred, but most people called him “Bud”. The children; Wanda, Albert, Ann and Betty ranged in age from about 11 down to 5. Well Bud asked the question and Grandma said yes! This was in the middle of the great depression, 1934. In about a year Grandma had a baby of her own, Alice Willodene. Two years later there was Mary and then about 9 years after that Jerry came along. Times were hard.

Bud was a “Miller”. He ground corn and wheat to make meal and etc. However this was not sufficient to support his family. He took a job in Radford, VA., and therefore he was away from home a lot. Lavis raised the family. Family gardens, hogs, a milk cow, and chickens for eggs and food kept the family going. In the early forties, Wanda went to Baltimore to work and soon got married. Albert joined the Navy, Ann and Betty Jo entered nursing training. Lavis started working in the mill and Bud looked after Spargers’ Orchard and then started raising tobacco on a small farm in Flat Rock. Willodene says she remembers her Dad loading the pickup with apples and with Lavis and the children and then taking off for Florida. They traded apples along the way for gas, meals and a place to sleep. It was a thrilling and enjoyable trip.

Grandma was always up-beat, laughing and enjoying a good joke. Of course some of her brothers were always around to help out and play a practical joke. Life was hard, but it was simple and good.

In the mid fifties, Wanda, Ann, Betty Jo, Willodene and Mary were all married and starting families. Lavis and Bud and Jerry were the only ones at home. Bud had built a new house, which he built himself. It is said that in the planning stages, Lavis would slip around and move the stakes, because she wanted it bigger. Wanda and family (3 boys) were in Keizer, W. Virginia, Albert joined the Army. Ann, with two boys and two girls, was in South Carolina. Betty Jo, with a boy and a girl, lived in Winston Salem. Willodene was following David around the USA where ever the Air Force took them. Mary was in Nebraska and then Maryland, with a daughter and a son. Finally, Jerry was in New Port News with a daughter.

Grandma continued to work in the mill and more and more became the major bread winner. By the early sixties, Bud was being bothered by sugar diabetes and started a slow decline in health. Leading up to the mid sixties the Nation was preparing for war; first by Kennedy and then by President Johnson. David and Willodene were on the move; Germany, Turkey, Japan, Korea, and then to Thailand from whence David was flying missions into North Vietnam.

The year of 1966 was eventful. David was shot down over North Vietnam, some 300 miles behind friendly lines. He was taken captive and held in North Vietnam for more than six years. Willodene with her two daughters soon moved back to Mount Airy, where she and Grandma became invaluable support for each other. Wanda passed away in 1966.

The seventies started with a New President, but the war continued. Willodene built a new house, David and over 500 other captives were released from North Vietnam in early 1973. Bud had passed away in 1971 (after an extended illness) as well as DavidÂ’s Dad. Grandma had moved to Mount Airy on Oakdale Street. It was a time of readjustment. Many family changes were taking place; job changes, more grandchildren, un-timely deaths, and divorces. In the midst of all these changes, Grandma was a main stay of encouragement, love, and stability. She really loved her children and grandchildren, and later on, her great grandchildren.

In mid 73 she met a new comer to Mount Airy who had lost his wife. Curtis Beamer, who was originally from the Elkin area, had spent some 50 years in Flint, Michigan as an employee of General Motors. They were married in 1973 and lived in GrandmaÂ’s house on Oakdale Street. They would buy merchandise from local hosiery mills and peddle these items in country stores throughout Northwestern North Carolina and Southwestern Virginia. They had a very happy life together, traveling and visiting family in Florida and Eastern United States and the Midwest.

Curtis died in 1987 and Grandma lived alone again. Albert died in 1981, Betty Jo in 1987, and Mary died in 1991. Grandma went back to work. She worked at the new Derby Cafeteria, then as a greeter at K-Mart. She really enjoyed her job at K-mart because she could talk to so many people. She enjoyed playing rook with Curtis and later with other friends. These were times of more laughter and parties, enjoying life and having a good time. She had a “ton” of nieces, nephews, cousins and old friends. (By the way, Bud came from a family of seventeen children!)

As a son-in-law, I must say that Grandma was a challenge. She always wanted to be in charge and have the last word. The last few months or her life gave me the opportunity to learn a little patience. Looking back, I needed her input and am now thankful that she gave me the opportunity to practice with her. Grandma, you lived life to the fullest and you made your mark in history. We love you! Rest in Peace!

David Hatcher.

 

 

 

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Notes for Essie Lavis Jackson:

 

Mrs. Lavis Jackson Allred Beamer November 22, 2008

 

Mrs. Lavis Jackson Allred Beamer age 92 of 108 West Oakdale Street, Mt. Airy, North Carolina passed away Saturday, November 22, 2008 at Northern Hospital of Surry County. She was born July 3, 1916 in Surry County to the late Caleb and Alice East Jackson. She was retired from Quality Mills, was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was of the Methodist faith. Surviving is a daughter and son-in-law, Willodene and David Hatcher, Mt. Airy, a son and daughter-in-law, Jerry and Bonnie Allred Mt. Airy, 14 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Beamer was preceded in death by her first husband, A.S. Allred, her second husband, Curtis Roscoe Beamer, a daughter, Mary Baldwin, 3 step daughters, Wanda Baker, Anne Palmer, Betty Jo Cook, and a step son, Albert Allred, 7 sisters, Virgie Martin, Bertie Taylor, Nellie Gardner, June Smith, Madelene Jessup, Viola Jackson, and Myrtle Jackson and 5 brothers, Joe Jackson, Woodrow Jackson, Moir Jackson, Dallas Jackson and Quinten Jackson. Funeral services will be held 11:00 AM Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at Moody Funeral Home Chapel conducted by Rev. Richard Loman. Burial will follow in Oakdale Cemetery. The family will receive friends 6-8 PM Monday night at Moody Funeral Home. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Mountain Valley Hospice and Palliative Care, 401 Technology Lane, Suite 200, Mt. Airy, North Carolina 27030 or to the donors choice.

Online condolences may be made at www.moodyfuneralservices.com.

.........................................................................................................................................

To: Heirs and friends of Lavis Jackson Allred Beamer.

“Grandma” gave me, David B. Hatcher, the responsibility of executing her last will and testament, upon her death. In addition to leaving some money for individuals, she left her home and household goods to others. A copy of her will has been probated and is on file at the Surry County Clerk’s Office, Dobson, NC 27017. If anyone desires any personnel items such as pictures, “what not’s” etc., then please let me know and I will try to accommodate your request.

The balance of this letter will give information about GrandmaÂ’s last few years of her life and a history or her family, which will be incomplete as I know only bits and pieces. (Maybe some of the grandchildren would like to get together and compile a more complete history and remembrance of her life and history.)

Grandma was born to Caleb and Alice Jackson of Westfield, NC, on July 3, 1916. She passed away November 22, 2008, being over 92 years old. Her seven sisters: Virgie Martin, Bertie Taylor, Nellie Gardner, June Smith, Madeleine Jessup, Viola Jackson, Myrtle Jackson; and five brothers: Joe, Woodrow, Moir, Dallas and Quentin all preceded her in death.

Grandma had been in reasonably good health, and with the help of family care-givers, she was able to live alone, and could get about her home with the use of a walker. Two days before she passed away, she suffered a severe stroke, from which she was unable to recover.

Grandma grew up with her large family on a small farm in Westfield. She would tell stories of her growing up years with her siblings and the fun they had on the farm working, playing and looking of ways to take short cuts with their working chores. As I remember some of the tales when they got together, they were always filled with practical jokes and gut wrenching laughter. Their family was animated with fun and laughter.

When Grandma was in her late teens, she was courted heavily by some of the local bachelors, among whom was a handsome widower, seventeen years her senior and with four young children. His name was Albert Sparger Allred, but most people called him “Bud”. The children; Wanda, Albert, Ann and Betty ranged in age from about 11 down to 5. Well Bud asked the question and Grandma said yes! This was in the middle of the great depression, 1934. In about a year Grandma had a baby of her own, Alice Willodene. Two years later there was Mary and then about 9 years after that Jerry came along. Times were hard.

Bud was a “Miller”. He ground corn and wheat to make meal and etc. However this was not sufficient to support his family. He took a job in Radford, VA., and therefore he was away from home a lot. Lavis raised the family. Family gardens, hogs, a milk cow, and chickens for eggs and food kept the family going. In the early forties, Wanda went to Baltimore to work and soon got married. Albert joined the Navy, Ann and Betty Jo entered nursing training. Lavis started working in the mill and Bud looked after Spargers’ Orchard and then started raising tobacco on a small farm in Flat Rock. Willodene says she remembers her Dad loading the pickup with apples and with Lavis and the children and then taking off for Florida. They traded apples along the way for gas, meals and a place to sleep. It was a thrilling and enjoyable trip.

Grandma was always up-beat, laughing and enjoying a good joke. Of course some of her brothers were always around to help out and play a practical joke. Life was hard, but it was simple and good.

In the mid fifties, Wanda, Ann, Betty Jo, Willodene and Mary were all married and starting families. Lavis and Bud and Jerry were the only ones at home. Bud had built a new house, which he built himself. It is said that in the planning stages, Lavis would slip around and move the stakes, because she wanted it bigger. Wanda and family (3 boys) were in Keizer, W. Virginia, Albert joined the Army. Ann, with two boys and two girls, was in South Carolina. Betty Jo, with a boy and a girl, lived in Winston Salem. Willodene was following David around the USA where ever the Air Force took them. Mary was in Nebraska and then Maryland, with a daughter and a son. Finally, Jerry was in New Port News with a daughter.

Grandma continued to work in the mill and more and more became the major bread winner. By the early sixties, Bud was being bothered by sugar diabetes and started a slow decline in health. Leading up to the mid sixties the Nation was preparing for war; first by Kennedy and then by President Johnson. David and Willodene were on the move; Germany, Turkey, Japan, Korea, and then to Thailand from whence David was flying missions into North Vietnam.

The year of 1966 was eventful. David was shot down over North Vietnam, some 300 miles behind friendly lines. He was taken captive and held in North Vietnam for more than six years. Willodene with her two daughters soon moved back to Mount Airy, where she and Grandma became invaluable support for each other. Wanda passed away in 1966.

The seventies started with a New President, but the war continued. Willodene built a new house, David and over 500 other captives were released from North Vietnam in early 1973. Bud had passed away in 1971 (after an extended illness) as well as DavidÂ’s Dad. Grandma had moved to Mount Airy on Oakdale Street. It was a time of readjustment. Many family changes were taking place; job changes, more grandchildren, un-timely deaths, and divorces. In the midst of all these changes, Grandma was a main stay of encouragement, love, and stability. She really loved her children and grandchildren, and later on, her great grandchildren.

In mid 73 she met a new comer to Mount Airy who had lost his wife. Curtis Beamer, who was originally from the Elkin area, had spent some 50 years in Flint, Michigan as an employee of General Motors. They were married in 1973 and lived in GrandmaÂ’s house on Oakdale Street. They would buy merchandise from local hosiery mills and peddle these items in country stores throughout Northwestern North Carolina and Southwestern Virginia. They had a very happy life together, traveling and visiting family in Florida and Eastern United States and the Midwest.

Curtis died in 1987 and Grandma lived alone again. Albert died in 1981, Betty Jo in 1987, and Mary died in 1991. Grandma went back to work. She worked at the new Derby Cafeteria, then as a greeter at K-Mart. She really enjoyed her job at K-mart because she could talk to so many people. She enjoyed playing rook with Curtis and later with other friends. These were times of more laughter and parties, enjoying life and having a good time. She had a “ton” of nieces, nephews, cousins and old friends. (By the way, Bud came from a family of seventeen children!)

As a son-in-law, I must say that Grandma was a challenge. She always wanted to be in charge and have the last word. The last few months or her life gave me the opportunity to learn a little patience. Looking back, I needed her input and am now thankful that she gave me the opportunity to practice with her. Grandma, you lived life to the fullest and you made your mark in history. We love you! Rest in Peace!

David Hatcher.

 

 

 

ix.

James Quinton Jackson, B: 26 May 1918 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 27 Jul 1988 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], M: Lolene George, 22 May 1942[20].

x.

Mary Magdalene Jackson, B: 09 May 1920 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 16 Oct 1942[20], M: Wayne Calvert Jessup, 23 Dec 1939 in Carroll, Virginia, USA[63].

xi.

Dallas Caleb Jackson, B: 15 Jul 1922 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 14 Apr 1981 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20].

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xii.

Virginia Nell Jackson, B: 06 Feb 1927 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 09 Jun 2007 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[66], M: Henry Lee Gardner, 21 Dec 1946 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20].

Notes for Virginia Nell Jackson:

Virginia Nell (Nellie) Jackson Gardner June 09, 2007

 

Mrs. Virginia Nell (Nellie) Jackson Gardner beloved wife of Mr. Henry Lee Gardner, Jr. passed away on June 9, 2007 at Northern Hospital of Surry County. She was born February 6, 1927 in Westfield, NC to the late Caleb and Alice East Jackson. She was a member of Haymore Memorial Baptist Church and the Ruby Ward WMU Group. Nellie was retired from Quality Mills and was member of the VFW Auxiliary. Surviving are her husband of sixty years, Henry Lee Gardner, Jr.; a daughter and son-in-law, Carol and Dr. David Nickola of Atlanta, GA.; a daughter-in-law, Pat T. Gardner, Mt. Airy, NC; three grandchildren, Dr. Bryan C. Quick of Chamblee, GA, David L. and Leanne T. Gardner of Mt. Airy, NC; two step grandchildren, Damon Nickola of Atlanta, GA, and Janice Nickola, Boulder, CO, and one sister, Lavis Beamer, Mt. Airy, NC. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Gardner was preceded in death by a daughter, Pamela Jean Gardner; a son David Lee Gardner, five brothers, Joe, Moir, Woodrow, Quentin, and Dallas Jackson; six sisters, Bertie Taylor, Vergie Martin, Myrtle and Viola Jackson, Magdalene Jessup and June Smith. Graveside services will be held 10:00 am on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at Oakdale Cemetery. Reverend Robert McCrary and Reverend Richard Loman will officiate. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Northern Hospital of Surry County Foundation in memory of Nellie Gardner, PO Box 1101, Mt. Airy, North Carolina 27030 for the Skill Nursing Unit. The family would like to express gratitude to the staff of the skilled and long term care unit at Northern Hospital of Surry County for their compassionate and devoted care of Nellie. There will be no formal visitation at the funeral home. Moody Funeral Service is serving the Gardner family.

 

Online condolences may be made at www.moodyfuneralservices.com

 

xiii.

Sarah June Jackson, B: 28 Jun 1929 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 07 Aug 1998 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], M: Glenn Arthur Smith, 31 May 1947[20].

Notes for Sarah June Jackson:

Obit:

 

Westfield, North Carolina : Mrs. Sarah June Jackson Smith, 69, of 2702 Horseshoe Road, Westfield,North Carolina died Friday morning, August 7, 1998 at her home. Mrs. Smith was born in Surry Co., June 28,m 1929 to William Caleb and Alice East Jackson. She was a homemaker and a member of Westfield Baptist Church. Surviving are her husband, Glenn Arthur Smith of the home; one daughter and son-in-law, Sarah and Jeff Simmons of Westfield, North Carolina , one son and daughter-in-law, Phil and Martha Smith of Westfield, North Carolina ; four grandchildren, Robert Glenn Smith, Jr. and wife, Shea, Benjamin Chase Smith, Meghan Emily Simmons and Jesse William Simmons; one great0grandchild, Robert Cole Smith; two sisters, Nellie Gardner and Lavis Beamer, both of Mt Airy, North Carolina . Funeral services will be conducted Sunday, August 9, 1998 at 2 p.m.. at the Francisco Presbyterian Church by Rev. Charles Howell. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mrs. Smith is at the Cox-Needham Funeral Home and Chapel in Pilot Mountain,North Carolina and will be taken to Francisco Presbyterian Church on Sunday at 12:30 p.m.. where she will remain until the hour of the service. The family will receive friends at Francisco Presbyterian Church on Sunday afternoon from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. and at other ties at the home of Mrs. Smiths' son and daughter-in-law Phil and Martha Smith on Smith Road, Westfield, North Carolina .

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59.

James M. Jackson-4(William L. Buck-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[20] was born in 1877 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20]. He died on 08 Feb 1918 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20]. He married Mary Etta East on 26 Dec 1900 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], daughter of Joseph Henry East and Rebecca Shelton. She was born about 1877 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20]. She died on 21 Apr 1958 in Lowgap, Surry, North Carolina, USA[20].

Notes for James M. Jackson:

Notes for Mary Etta East:

IMary Etta East was born in 1882,Surry Co.,North Carolina and died 21 Apr 1958, Lowgap, Surry Co., North Carolina

 

In 1930 Mary lived next door to her sister, Leah in Westfield,North Carolina and their widowed mother lived with Mary.

Children of James M. Jackson and Mary Etta East are:

i.

Emmit Jackson, B: 1902[67], D: Unknown.

ii.

Ralph Jackson Jackson, B: 1912[67], D: 09 Dec 1927 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20].

iii.

Hallie Jackson, B: 29 May 1916 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[67], D: Unknown, M: Andy Mack Johnson, Unknown.

60.

Mary Jane Jackson-4(William L. Buck-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[20] was born in 1880 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[40]. She died on 07 Feb 1965 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA[40]. She married Yancey S. Cook on 28 Feb 1904[20], son of William Masten Cook and Susan J. Cook. He was born in 1868 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[68]. He died on 06 Feb 1948 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[68].

Children of Mary Jane Jackson and Yancey S. Cook are:

i.

Nina Cook, B: 1905 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[68], D: Bef. Oct 2009, M: Unknown Ward, Unknown.

ii.

Joe Cook, B: 1907 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[68], D: Bef. Oct 2009[69].

iii.

Annie Cook, B: 1909 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[68], D: Bef. Oct 2009.

iv.

Jean Cook, B: 1911 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[68], D: Bef. Oct 2009[69], M: Unknown Hidecker, Unknown.

v.

Hassel Cook, B: 1913 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[68], D: Unknown.

vi.

Wilford Cook, B: 1915 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[68], D: Bef. Oct 2009[69].

vii.

Rufus Hosea Cook, B: 10 Nov 1917 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[20], D: 23 Oct 2009 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA[69], M: Tressie Iowa Towe, Unknown.

Notes for Rufus Hosea Cook:

Mr. Rufus Hosea Cook, 91, of 143 Gwynwood Drive, Mount Airy, passed away Friday morning, October 23, 2009, at his home. Mr. Cook was born November 10, 1917, in Carroll County, VA, to the late Yancy Lee and Mary Jane Jackson Cook. Hosea served our country in the United States Army during World War II and retired as a lineman from Duke Power after 32 years of service. He is survived by a daughter, Veda Cook Payne of Mount Airy; two grandchildren and their spouses, Michael and Michelle Payne of Cana, VA, and Rhonda and Scott McHone of Mount Airy; five great-grandchildren, Sommer McHone, Christian McHone, Amanda Wall and her husband, David, Brittany Willard, and Samantha Payne; a sister, Virgie Loye of Reidsville; and a loving pet, Ginger. In addition to his parents, Mr. Cook was preceded in death by his wife, Tressie Iowa Towe Cook; three sisters, Nina Ward, Annie Wilson, and Jean Hidecker; and two brothers, Joe Cook and Wilford Cook. The funeral service will be held Monday, October 26, 2009, at 11:00 AM at Moody Funeral Home Chapel in Mount Airy, with the Rev. Todd E. Byrd and the Rev. David "Buster" Sechrist officiating. Burial will follow at Skyline Memory Gardens, with military honors by the VFW Memorial Honor Guard. The family will receive friends Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at the funeral home. Flowers will be accepted, or memorial contributions can be made to Mountain Valley Hospice and Palliative Care, 401 Technology Lane, Suite 200, Mount Airy, NC 27030.

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Notes for Rufus Hosea Cook:

Mr. Rufus Hosea Cook, 91, of 143 Gwynwood Drive, Mount Airy, passed away Friday morning, October 23, 2009, at his home. Mr. Cook was born November 10, 1917, in Carroll County, VA, to the late Yancy Lee and Mary Jane Jackson Cook. Hosea served our country in the United States Army during World War II and retired as a lineman from Duke Power after 32 years of service. He is survived by a daughter, Veda Cook Payne of Mount Airy; two grandchildren and their spouses, Michael and Michelle Payne of Cana, VA, and Rhonda and Scott McHone of Mount Airy; five great-grandchildren, Sommer McHone, Christian McHone, Amanda Wall and her husband, David, Brittany Willard, and Samantha Payne; a sister, Virgie Loye of Reidsville; and a loving pet, Ginger. In addition to his parents, Mr. Cook was preceded in death by his wife, Tressie Iowa Towe Cook; three sisters, Nina Ward, Annie Wilson, and Jean Hidecker; and two brothers, Joe Cook and Wilford Cook. The funeral service will be held Monday, October 26, 2009, at 11:00 AM at Moody Funeral Home Chapel in Mount Airy, with the Rev. Todd E. Byrd and the Rev. David "Buster" Sechrist officiating. Burial will follow at Skyline Memory Gardens, with military honors by the VFW Memorial Honor Guard. The family will receive friends Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at the funeral home. Flowers will be accepted, or memorial contributions can be made to Mountain Valley Hospice and Palliative Care, 401 Technology Lane, Suite 200, Mount Airy, NC 27030.

viii.

Lando Cook, B: 1917 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[68], D: Unknown.

ix.

Victor Cook, B: 1919 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[68], D: Unknown.

x.

Vergie Cook, B: 1921 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[68], D: Unknown, M: Unknown Loye, Unknown.

61.

Susan Jackson-4(William L. Buck-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[20] was born on 12 May 1886 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[20]. She died on Unknown. She married Edward Sidney Cook on 21 Feb 1903 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20], son of Abel Zacharias Cook Jr. and Nancy Ellen Cobbler. He was born in 1886 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[70]. He died on Unknown.

Children of Susan Jackson and Edward Sidney Cook are:

i.

Bernie Cook, B: 1904 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[70], D: Unknown.

ii.

Elijah Cook, B: 1905 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[70], D: Unknown.

iii.

Early Cook, B: 1907 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[70], D: Unknown.

iv.

Pearly Cook, B: 1909 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[70], D: Unknown.

v.

Ruthie Cook, B: 1911 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[70], D: Unknown.

vi.

Sadie Cook, B: 1913 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[70], D: Unknown.

vii.

Minnie Cook, B: 1915 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[70], D: Unknown.

viii.

Playdo Cook, B: 1917 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[70], D: Unknown.

ix.

Victor Cook, B: 1919 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[70], D: Unknown.

x.

Sadie Cook, B: 1921 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[70], D: Unknown.

62.

Ida Jackson-4(William L. Buck-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[20] was born on 12 May 1886 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[20]. She died on 22 Oct 1970 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[41]. She married (1) David Mahlon Cook on 01 Apr 1907[20], son of Edward Franklin Cook and Caroline Epperson. He was born on 13 Feb 1875 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[64]. He died on 03 Oct 1927 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[64]. She married (2) Timothy Arrington on Unknown. He was born on Unknown. He died on Unknown.

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Children of Ida Jackson and David Mahlon Cook are:

i.

Aldie Cook, B: Unknown, D: Bef. May 2007[69], M: Lilla Carson, Unknown.

ii.

Irene Cook, B: 13 Jul 1916 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[69], D: 31 May 2007 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[69], M: Unknown Simmons, Unknown.

Notes for Irene Cook:

Irene Cooke Simmons May 31, 2007

 

Ms. Irene Cooke Simmons, 90, of 216 Rawley Avenue, Mount Airy, passed away Thursday, May 31, 2007, at Central Continuing Care. Ms. Simmons was born July 13, 1916, in Surry County, to the late Malon Cooke and Ida Cooke Arrington. She was a homemaker and a member of Welcome Baptist Church, where served in various capacities. She is survived by three daughters and sons-in-law, Frances and Bruce Wilson of British Columbia, Canada, Willa and Reggie Norman of Jacksonville, FL, and Paula and Mike Beasley of Claudville, VA; a son and daughter-in-law, Cliff and Debbie Simmons of Campobello, SC; eight grandchildren; nineteen great grandchildren; and thirteen great great grandchildren. In addition to her parents, Ms. Simmons was preceded in death by a brother, Aldie Cooke. The funeral service will be held Sunday, June 3, 2007, at 2:00 PM at Moody Funeral Home Chapel in Mount Airy. The service will be conducted by the Rev. Ronnie L. Chamblin, and burial will follow in the Simmons Family Cemetery. The family will receive friends Sunday from noon to 2:00 PM at the funeral home. Flowers will be accepted, or memorials may be made to Mountain Valley Hospice and Palliative Care, 401 Technology Lane, Suite 200, Mount Airy,North Carolina .

 

63.

Sarah Elizabeth Pell-4(Martha Ellen-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[22] was born on 27 Dec 1866 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[22]. She died on 03 Mar 1935[44]. She married Charles H. Matthews on 24 Mar 1889 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA, son of William Oates Matthews and Frances Hill. He was born on 02 Jun 1861[44]. He died on 27 Jan 1936[44].

Children of Sarah Elizabeth Pell and Charles H. Matthews are:

i.

William Elijah Matthews, B: 25 Dec 1889 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[44], D: 06 May 1969 in Forsyth, North Carolina, USA[44], M: Anna Mae Chilton, Unknown.

ii.

Robert L. Matthews, B: 14 Apr 1895 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[68], D: 02 Mar 1989[68], M: Schoaler Carsby Sheppard, 12 Mar 1929 in Dobson, Surry, North Carolina, USA[68].

iii.

Mary Frances Matthews, B: 17 Aug 1897 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[44], D: 03 Jun 1954 in Burke, North Carolina, USA[44, 68].

iv.

Martha Elizabeth Matthews, B: 12 Jul 1899 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[44], D: 17 Oct 1980 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[44].

v.

Tandy Lee Matthews, B: 08 May 1902 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[44], D: 27 Jun 1970 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[44].

vi.

Caleb Martin Matthews, B: 09 May 1904 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[44], D: 19 Oct 1986 in Forsyth, North Carolina, USA[44].

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64.

Lafayette Amor Pell-4(Martha Ellen-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[46] was born on 01 Nov 1873 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[46]. He died on 13 Oct 1952 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA. He married Cornelia Frances Matthews on 06 May 1906 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[46], daughter of James Caleb Matthews and Anna Arabella Bullington. She was born on 14 Feb 1885 in North Carolina, USA[68]. She died on 26 Apr 1970 in North Carolina, USA[68].

Children of Lafayette Amor Pell and Cornelia Frances Matthews are:

i.

Mary Mallie Pell, B: 07 Mar 1907[7], D: Bef. 1999[7], M: Ollie George, 1926[7].

ii.

William Thomas Pell, B: 19 Feb 1909 in Surry, North Carolina, USA, D: 05 Jun 1999 in Forsyth, North Carolina, USA, M: Pansy Pat Hamrick, Unknown.

Notes for William Thomas Pell:

Obit:

 

Mr. William Thomas "Tom" Pell, 90, of 6024 Sunburst Circle, Winston-Salem, North Carolina , passed away at his residence Saturday, June 5, 1999. Mr. Pell was born February 19 1909 in Surry Co.,North Carolina to Lafayette and Cornelia Matthews Pell. He was the owner of Tom's Drive-In Restaurant and husband to the late Pansy "Pat" Pell. He is survived by his sister, Anna Pell Broadwell of Gibsonville, North Carolina , along with several nieces and nephews Services will be held Tuesday, June 8 2;00 P.M.. at Cox-Needham Funeral Home Chapel with interment to follow at the Pilot Mountain City Cemetery. Dr. Cecil R. Cave, Jr. will officiate. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Monday June 7 from 7 to 9 P.M. Service arrangements have been entrusted to Cox-Needham Funeral Services of Pilot Mountain, North Carolina .

iii.

James Ralph Pell, B: 06 Apr 1911[46], D: 1994[46], M: Mary Jewel Lawson, 1934 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[68].

iv.

Dellie Laura Pell, B: 28 May 1913[46], D: 02 Nov 1981 in Pilot Mountain, Surry, North Carolina, USA[46], M: Boyd A. Owens, 1936[46].

v.

Nellie Lillie Pell, B: 28 May 1913[7], D: 07 May 1999, M: John Thomas Greene, 21 Dec 1934[7].

vi.

Anna Elizabeth Pell, B: 22 Oct 1919, D: Unknown, M: Tyree Broadwell, 1943[7].

vii.

Claude Lafayette Pell, B: 30 Jan 1922[46], D: Abt. 1975[46], M: Annie Marie Wilson, 1946[7].

65.

Samira Ellen Pell-4(Martha Ellen-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[22] was born on 25 May 1877 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[22]. She died on 28 Jul 1897 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[7]. She married Wyatt Hunter on 05 Mar 1896 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[47], son of John Henry Hunter and Sarah Archer Simmons. He was born on 03 Mar 1866 in Pilot Mountain, Surry, North Carolina, USA[47]. He died on 21 Dec 1943 in Pilot Mountain, Surry, North Carolina, USA[47].

Notes for Wyatt Hunter:

 

Wyatt Hunter owned several farms near the Stokes County line near Westfield, North Carolina . He built his house on a farm he purchased from John L. Smith, within walking distance of the Westfield Baptist Church and Westfield School. He worked hard to see that his nine children had an opportunity to receive an education if they so desired. He was brought up in the Primitive Baptist Church, but could not make a full commitment to that faith. Around the age of 70, he became a faithful member of the Westfield Friend's Church.

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Child of Samira Ellen Pell and Wyatt Hunter is:

i.

John Henry Hobart Hunter, B: 15 Dec 1896 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[47], D: 02 Sep 1971 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[71], M: Mollie Bessie Shelton, Abt. 1918 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[64].

66.

Joseph Andrew Pell-4(Martha Ellen-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[22] was born in 1883 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[44]. He died in Sep 1943 in Lumberton, Robeson, North Carolina, USA[44]. He married Mallie Mary Hiatt on 31 Dec 1910 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[22]. She was born in 1890[44]. She died in 1974[44].

Children of Joseph Andrew Pell and Mallie Mary Hiatt are:

i.

Allen Brigg Pell, B: Unknown.

ii.

Joseph Andrew Pell Jr., B: Unknown, D: Bef. Feb 2003[72], M: Mary Tuttle Atwater, Unknown.

iii.

Phillip Hiatt Pell, B: Unknown.

iv.

Evelyn Jackson Pell, B: 06 Jan 1912 in Pilot Mountain, Surry, North Carolina, USA[72], D: 08 Feb 2003 in Wilson Medical Center, Wilson, North Carolina[72], M: Maurice Gwinn Towles Burnside, Unknown.

Notes for Evelyn Jackson Pell:

Obit:

 

WILSON - Evelyn Jackson Pell Burnside died Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003, at Wilson Medical Center. She was born Jan. 6, 1912, in Pilot Mountain, the daughter of the late Joseph Andrew Pell and Mary Elizabeth Hiatt Pell. She graduated from Pilot Mountain High School as valedictorian of her class. She attended Greensboro College and graduated from Asbury College in Wilmore, Ky., with honors. Evelyn received her MA degree in French literature summa cum laude from Duke University and she taught English, French, math and history in schools in North Carolina, West Virginia and Virginia. She coached the Pilot Mountain girls' basketball team that won the 1936 state championship. Evelyn married Maurice Gwinn Towles Burnside, who became a member of Congress from West Virginia. Her husband preceded her in death, as did her brother, Joseph Andrew Pell, Jr. She is survived by a daughter, Marilyn McCants Burnside Weaver, of Wilson and two granddaughters, Marilyn Michelle Clark of Apex and Mary Evelyn Baucom Weaver of Clayton. Two brothers also survive her, Philip Hiatt Pell of Las Vegas, Nev., and Allan Briggs Pell of Tamarac, Fla., as well as do many nieces and nephews and a sister-in-law, Mary Tuttle Atwater Pell, of Pilot Mountain. A longtime member of the Presbyterian Church, Evelyn was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Wilson and Presbyterian Woman of the Year. She was an active member of the Democratic Party, Duplicate Bridge League (receiving the rank of Grand Life Master), American Association of University Women, president of the 81st Congressional Wives Club, member of the Congressional Club, Wilson Country Club, Wilson Arts Council and was one of the founders of the Country Doctor Museum in Bailey. Visitation will be held Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2003, from 7 to 9 p.m. at 1212 Waverly Road, Wilson, NC. Graveside services will be held at Pilot Mountain City Cemetery in Pilot Mountain by the Rev. James McKinnon and the Rev. David Wyant at 11 a.m. Feb. 12. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Wilson County EMS, P.O. Box 1728, Wilson, NC 27894; Wilson County Public Library, Large Print Section, 249 Nash Street West, Wilson, NC 27893, or First Presbyterian Church of Wilson, 414 Sunset Road, Wilson, NC 27893. Thomas-Yelverton Funeral Services and Cox-Needham Funeral Services are assisting the family.

 

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67.

Laura Ida Jackson-4(Robert Franklin-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[4] was born on 16 Apr 1876 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[7]. She died in 1942 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA. She married Joel Sheppard Cook on 29 Mar 1896 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA, son of James Cook and Sarah G. Simmons. He was born on 27 Nov 1872 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[55]. He died on 12 Jan 1938 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[55].

Children of Laura Ida Jackson and Joel Sheppard Cook are:

i.

Reid Madison Cook, B: 22 Jan 1896 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[55], D: Unknown.

ii.

Martha Arvilla Cook, B: 21 Feb 1898 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[55], D: Unknown, M: William David Taylor, 31 Mar 1918 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[55].

iii.

Robert Howard Cook, B: 01 Apr 1903 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[55], D: Unknown, M: Mallie Brinkley, Unknown.

iv.

Laura Loline Cook, B: 21 Sep 1906 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[55], D: Unknown, M: Howard Glenn Matthews, 09 Mar 1924 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[55].

v.

Joseph Jackson Cook, B: 12 May 1908 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[55], D: 25 Jul 1968 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[55], M: Lillian Mae Taylor, Unknown.

vi.

Mary Estelle Cook, B: 13 Feb 1910 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[55], D: Unknown, M: Dewey Love, Unknown.

vii.

Graham Thomas Cook, B: 07 Aug 1912 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[55], D: 12 Apr 1972 in Forsyth, North Carolina, USA[55], M: Eunice Simmons, Unknown.

viii.

Annie Ruth Cook, B: 11 Jun 1915 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[55], D: 09 Apr 1931 in Pilot Mountain, Surry, North Carolina, USA[55].

68.

Joseph Andrew Jackson Sr.-4(Robert Franklin-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[4] was born on 24 Aug 1878 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[23]. He died on 25 Apr 1955 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA[4]. He married Sarah Annie L. Davis on 12 May 1906 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[49]. She was born on 18 Jul 1887 in North Carolina, USA[23]. She died in 1971 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA[23].

Notes for Sarah Annie L. Davis:

Paul Marauskas shows the 1910 census showing her as Annie L. Paul also shows her as Annie Davis.

Paul Marauskas presented the Death Certificate info which shows that Annie died on November 15, 1971.

Children of Joseph Andrew Jackson Sr. and Sarah Annie L. Davis are:

i.

Kathleen Jackson, B: Abt. 1907 in North Carolina, USA, D: Unknown.

ii.

Annie Louise Jackson, B: Unknown, D: Unknown, M: Unknown Moorefield, Unknown.

iii.

Joseph Andrew Jackson Jr., B: Abt. 1910[23], D: Unknown.

iv.

Dorothy L. Jackson, B: Abt. 1912 in North Carolina, USA[23].

v.

Mary Jackson, B: Abt. 1917 in North Carolina, USA[23].

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69.

William Edward Jackson-4(Robert Franklin-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[4] was born on 12 Nov 1881 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[7]. He died on 28 Jul 1968 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[4]. He married Mary Jane Hawks on 07 May 1905 in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina, USA[50]. She was born on 23 Jan 1881 in Lambsburg, Carroll, Virginia, USA[23]. She died in Jan 1964 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA[23].

Children of William Edward Jackson and Mary Jane Hawks are:

i.

Richard Jackson, B: Unknown.

ii.

Sallie Jackson, B: Unknown.

iii.

Jo Ann Jackson, B: Unknown.

iv.

Josephine Frances Jackson, B: 02 Jan 1908 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA[50], D: Feb 1987 in Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, USA[50], M: Willliam Browder Hadley, Abt. 1926[23].

v.

Robert Osborne Jackson Sr., B: 03 Oct 1913 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[50], D: 13 Jun 1950 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA[50], M: Margaret Vines Britton, Unknown.

70.

Ada Virginia Jackson-4(Robert Franklin-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[2, 4] was born on 21 Jan 1883 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[7]. She died on 03 Oct 1986 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA[51]. She married Phyrus Henderson Jessup Jr. on 25 Feb 1900 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[2], son of Phyrus Henderson Jessup and Delia Ann Terrell. He was born on 10 Jan 1875 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[2]. He died on 15 Jan 1948 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[2].

Children of Ada Virginia Jackson and Phyrus Henderson Jessup Jr. are:

i.

Lola Jane Jessup, B: 28 Sep 1900 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[63], D: 08 Jan 1998 in Durham, Durham, North Carolina, USA[73], M: Walter Smith Linville, 03 Aug 1921 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[73].

ii.

Robert Phyrus Jessup, B: 26 Jun 1902 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[63, 74], D: 30 Dec 1957 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[75], M: Ida Mae Nunn, 22 Dec 1922 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[63].

iii.

William Edgar Jessup, B: 15 Feb 1904 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[76], D: 03 Sep 1993 in Media, Delaware, Pennsylvania, USA[76], M: Barbara Stacey, 13 Sep 1940 in North Abington, Massachusetts USA[51].

Notes for William Edgar Jessup:

William Jessup was living in New York, NY in 1942

iv.

Frank Aubrey Jessup, B: 07 Jun 1909 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[76], D: 29 Sep 1996 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA[76], M: Gladys Cooper Addison, 1931[63].

v.

James Jessup, B: 30 Mar 1912 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[63], D: 18 Jul 2005 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[72], M: Susan Gay McCraw, 20 Jun 1943 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA.

Notes for James Jessup:

Westfield: Mr. Jim Jessup, 93, died Monday, July 18, 2005. The funeral will e at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Westfield Baptist Church. Cox-Needham Funeral Home of Pilot Mountain, North Carolina is in charge of the arrangements.

Published in Winston-Salem Journal on 7/19/2005

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71.

Iva Estella Jackson-4(Robert Franklin-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[4] was born on 19 Jun 1886 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[7]. She died on 01 Jan 1919[7]. She married George W. Cook, son of Peter Cook Jr. and Sarah Gilpin. He was born in 1881[50]. He died on 21 Jul 1959 in Guilford, North Carolina, USA[50].

Children of Iva Estella Jackson and George W. Cook are:

i.

Geneva Cook, B: 01 Nov 1913 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[63], D: 15 Oct 2002 in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina, USA[44], M: Aldie Jessup, 02 Jan 1932 in Carroll, Virginia, USA[63].

ii.

Glenn Jackson Cook, B: 31 Oct 1915 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[50], D: 26 Apr 1992 in Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, USA[50].

iii.

Fred Petree Cook, B: 19 Sep 1917 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[50], D: 22 Oct 1988 in Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, USA[50].

72.

Robert Reid Jackson-4(Robert Franklin-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[4] was born on 29 Apr 1888 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[52]. He died in May 1979 in North Carolina, USA[53]. He married Annie Henrietta Britton on 10 Jan 1920 in Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, USA[20]. She was born on 16 Feb 1895 in Portsmouth, Norfolk, Virginia, USA[20]. She died on 17 Aug 1983 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, USA[20].

Notes for Robert Reid Jackson:

...

Source: Ed Jackson, personal conversation, March 19, 2002 with Dorothy Jackson Britton

 

"Mr. Reid " was well-known as the dean of Main Street merchants. At 80 he was still at work each day. During one of his interviews during the 1970s he commented on his 60 years in business. "I can remember when horse-drawn wagons used to get stuck in the mudholes on Main Street in front of the store. Stepping stones crossed Main Street way back then as a convenience for pedestrians. There were no electric lights. Almost every housewife sewed clothes for the family. In fact, aside from shoes and hats, the biggest part of the retail business in those early years was for 'fixin's,' so the women could make clothes at home -- dry goods, piece goods, and notions," he said.

"Mr. Reid" also commented, "Then we sold all staple items. Today it's fashion apparel which dominates. Three persons, including the owners, could run the store when Jackson Brothers was established. We were the first store in Mount Airy to hire a woman as a sales clerk. Today you couldn't get along without them."

In addition to his business interest, "Mr. Reid" spent quite a bit of time enjoying farming. He was a longtime member and treasurer of First Baptist Church and also a member of the Wage and Price Control Board of Surry County during World War II.

He was married to Annie Britton of Greensboro and they had one son, Edward Jackson. Reid Jackson died in May 1979.

 

Source: "Jackson Brothers Founded in 1916," article from The Mount Airy News (date after 1991).

Reid Jackson's son Ed recalled that his father spent many hours at the store, which was open six days a week. He often worked nights and then went to the store early the next morning to sweep up, because the young people didn't clean to suit him. Reid supervised the shoe department while his brother Andrew did the books.

Andrew's son Joe was in charge of men's clothing and later did the bookkeeping.

While brother Andrew was a good businessman, "Dad was a great listener," said Ed.

As he sat on his front porch, women from town would drop by to tell him their troubles. Ed remembers that Mrs. Mamie Hawks Jackson, who owned a dress shop in Mr. Airy, used to love to talk business with his father. When Reid retired at age 80, friends opined that "he'll be bored," but in reality he was relieved not to have to go to work every day. Reid Jackson owned a farm on US 52 and the Mount Airy-Dobson Road, which he sold over time as lots, except for the farm at the top of the hill, where a tenant grew tobacco and corn. Ed believed that his father could have sold the farm for much more than he eventually did, but his dad seemed satisfied.

Ed recalled that while his mother Annie never hesitated to speak her mind, his dad often withheld his feelings. This reticence was sometimes frustrating to Ed. Once during Ed's post in London with United Press, Annie and Reid visited their son and his young family. They had a grand tour of London, Paris, Brittany, and Amsterdam.

After the trip was over, Ed asked his dad how he liked the trip. Reid repled, "Well, I would like to have gone to Switzerland."

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Notes for Robert Reid Jackson:

...

Source: Ed Jackson, personal conversation, March 19, 2002 with Dorothy Jackson Britton

 

"Mr. Reid " was well-known as the dean of Main Street merchants. At 80 he was still at work each day. During one of his interviews during the 1970s he commented on his 60 years in business. "I can remember when horse-drawn wagons used to get stuck in the mudholes on Main Street in front of the store. Stepping stones crossed Main Street way back then as a convenience for pedestrians. There were no electric lights. Almost every housewife sewed clothes for the family. In fact, aside from shoes and hats, the biggest part of the retail business in those early years was for 'fixin's,' so the women could make clothes at home -- dry goods, piece goods, and notions," he said.

"Mr. Reid" also commented, "Then we sold all staple items. Today it's fashion apparel which dominates. Three persons, including the owners, could run the store when Jackson Brothers was established. We were the first store in Mount Airy to hire a woman as a sales clerk. Today you couldn't get along without them."

In addition to his business interest, "Mr. Reid" spent quite a bit of time enjoying farming. He was a longtime member and treasurer of First Baptist Church and also a member of the Wage and Price Control Board of Surry County during World War II.

He was married to Annie Britton of Greensboro and they had one son, Edward Jackson. Reid Jackson died in May 1979.

 

Source: "Jackson Brothers Founded in 1916," article from The Mount Airy News (date after 1991).

Reid Jackson's son Ed recalled that his father spent many hours at the store, which was open six days a week. He often worked nights and then went to the store early the next morning to sweep up, because the young people didn't clean to suit him. Reid supervised the shoe department while his brother Andrew did the books.

Andrew's son Joe was in charge of men's clothing and later did the bookkeeping.

While brother Andrew was a good businessman, "Dad was a great listener," said Ed.

As he sat on his front porch, women from town would drop by to tell him their troubles. Ed remembers that Mrs. Mamie Hawks Jackson, who owned a dress shop in Mr. Airy, used to love to talk business with his father. When Reid retired at age 80, friends opined that "he'll be bored," but in reality he was relieved not to have to go to work every day. Reid Jackson owned a farm on US 52 and the Mount Airy-Dobson Road, which he sold over time as lots, except for the farm at the top of the hill, where a tenant grew tobacco and corn. Ed believed that his father could have sold the farm for much more than he eventually did, but his dad seemed satisfied.

Ed recalled that while his mother Annie never hesitated to speak her mind, his dad often withheld his feelings. This reticence was sometimes frustrating to Ed. Once during Ed's post in London with United Press, Annie and Reid visited their son and his young family. They had a grand tour of London, Paris, Brittany, and Amsterdam.

After the trip was over, Ed asked his dad how he liked the trip. Reid repled, "Well, I would like to have gone to Switzerland."

Notes for Annie Henrietta Britton:

Source: Ed Jackson, personal conversation, March 19, 2002 with Dorothy Jackson Britton :"The following article tells about the wedding of Annie to Reid Jackson in 1920:

 

'In a ceremony characterized by simplicity and exquisite beauty, Miss Annie Britton was married to Reid R. Jackson of Mount Airy at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Britton, East Fisher Avenue, Greensboro on January 10, 1920. The reception room where the ceremony took place was decorated in cedars brought from the farm of Mr. Britton in Surry County. These were especially pretty in their artistic arrangement on the stairway and about the walls. Other evergreens and palms were used, an improvised altar being skillfully arranged. Cathedral candles lent a subdued light to the scene. The bride, in a handsome blue traveling suit with harmonizing accessories, and wearing a corsage of orchids and lilies of the valley entered with her father, being met at the altar by the bridegroom. After an informal reception the young couple left for Florida and Cuba for a bridal tour. The bride is a graduate of Greensboro College for Women and taught for four years in Surry County, and after that was County School Supervisor. Mr. Jackson is a prominent young business man of Mount Airy being the owner and manager of a large department store. He is an alumnus of Oak Ridge and has a wide circle of friends in the state.'

 

"Perhaps no other woman has added more to civic life and church leadership in Mount Airy than Mrs. Reid Jackson. As early as 1921 she served as first president of the Mount Airy Woman's Club, worked with the Red Cross during World War II, taught Sunday School, was an avid garden club member and is still active with the Arts and Crafts Guild.

"Annie Britton came to Mount Airy from Greensboro around 1905 to teach school. Soon after that she was elevated to the post of Rural School Supervisor, a position that she held for several years. Her resignation carried in a newspaper clipping on December 5, 1918 stated: 'Miss Annie Britton of Greensboro has resigned as Rural School Supervisor for Surry County. It is with regret that the Board of Education of the county loses her services for she was making good in the highest sense. She was helping to make the schools more efficient in many ways, and the loss of her services is a distinct loss to the schools of the county. She proved herself to be a young woman of culture, ability and tact and made herself appreciated by those with whom she came in contact.' [NOTE: In 2002 her son Ed told that in her job as supervisor she traveled in a buggy up into the mountains, sleeping overnight with various school families, in her efforts to make sure the schools met standards.]

...

"In 1921 Mrs. Jackson assumed the first presidency of the Mount Airy Woman's Club and the organization became one of the most influential factors in the town under her management. The idea for a club building was originated, grew and developed under her wise leadership. After many fund-raising events the club bought a brick home on Rockford Street and dedicated it as a war memorial to all servicemen. The home was used for club meetings and several rooms served as a library. Later the club donated this home for the Mount Airy Public Library...

"During the war years of 1939-45 Mrs. Jackson and other volunteers worked in the basement of her home preparing supplies for the Red Cross...(including) almost 4,000 articles... for the army, navy, marine corps hospitalized servicemen and war relief (in one year). For their outstanding work, Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Somerville were paid tribute by the British government. The certificate from Lord Halifax, British Embassy, Washington, DC read: 'His Magesty's government of the United Kingdom of Great Briatin and Northern Ireland most warmly thank members of the chapter of the American Red Cross in Surry County, North Carolina for their valuable help which they have given toward the relief of suffering in the United Kingdom caused by the enemy action during the war of 1939-45. People of the United Kingdom will ever hold their generosity in grateful memory.'

"The energetic Mrs. Jackson also served on the Zoning Board and was a member of the First Youth Council.

"Mrs. Jackson taught Sunday School for more than 25 years at First Baptist Church and organized the T.E.L. Class. For years she was superintendent for the Sunday School..."

 

Source: "Mrs. Reid Jackson, Civic Leader Since (cut off)," article by Eleanor Powell, The Mount Airy News, Tuesday, February 24, 1976.

According to her son Ed, Annie Britton Jackson was an omniverous reader, was interested in politics and foreign affairs, and loved to argue with younger people. She taught arts and crafts and entered her flowers in local shows and the annual fair. Her love of travel influenced her son's interest in what went on in other parts of the world. The family traveled to the "New England states," as she put it, to Ohio, Niagara Falls, Quebec, Maine, and New York. On family visits to Norfolk, they took side trips to Washington and Williamsburg. They visited Andrew Jackson's home in Tennessee and went to Georgia to visit Aunt Jennie and Betty. Ed recalled two humorous incidents from such family trips. In Massachusetts they pulled over to ask a passerby how to get to Plymouth. Not understanding their Southern accent, the man repled, "Quarter to three!" Once in Washington, DC, Ed's aunt Sarah (Tory) drove the car round and round DuPont circle, tryuing to figure out how to get to their hotel; meanwhile Grandma Britton was standing in front of the hotel, frantically waving her hands at them.

Ed recalled being spanked by his mother once at Grandma Jackson's house for declaring at the table that he didn't like a particular food item. He learned Southern manners quickly.

...

Source: "Jackson Brothers Founded in 1916," article from The Mount Airy News (date after 1991).

Reid Jackson's son Ed recalled that his father spent many hours at the store, which was open six days a week. He often worked nights and then went to the store early the next morning to sweep up, because the young people didn't clean to suit him. Reid supervised the shoe department while his brother Andrew did the books.

Andrew's son Joe was in charge of men's clothing and later did the bookkeeping.

While brother Andrew was a good businessman, "Dad was a great listener," said Ed.

As he sat on his front porch, women from town would drop by to tell him their troubles. Ed remembers that Mrs. Mamie Hawks Jackson, who owned a dress shop in Mr. Airy, used to love to talk business with his father. When Reid retired at age 80, friends opined that "he'll be bored," but in reality he was relieved not to have to go to work every day. Reid Jackson owned a farm on US 52 and the Mount Airy-Dobson Road, which he sold over time as lots, except for the farm at the top of the hill, where a tenant grew tobacco and corn. Ed believed that his father could have sold the farm for much more than he eventually did, but his dad seemed satisfied.

Ed recalled that while his mother Annie never hesitated to speak her mind, his dad often withheld his feelings. This reticence was sometimes frustrating to Ed. Once during Ed's post in London with United Press, Annie and Reid visited their son and his young family. They had a grand tour of London, Paris, Brittany, and Amsterdam.

After the trip was over, Ed asked his dad how he liked the trip. Reid repled, "Well, I would like to have gone to Switzerland."

 

 

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Notes for Annie Henrietta Britton:

Source: Ed Jackson, personal conversation, March 19, 2002 with Dorothy Jackson Britton :"The following article tells about the wedding of Annie to Reid Jackson in 1920:

 

'In a ceremony characterized by simplicity and exquisite beauty, Miss Annie Britton was married to Reid R. Jackson of Mount Airy at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Britton, East Fisher Avenue, Greensboro on January 10, 1920. The reception room where the ceremony took place was decorated in cedars brought from the farm of Mr. Britton in Surry County. These were especially pretty in their artistic arrangement on the stairway and about the walls. Other evergreens and palms were used, an improvised altar being skillfully arranged. Cathedral candles lent a subdued light to the scene. The bride, in a handsome blue traveling suit with harmonizing accessories, and wearing a corsage of orchids and lilies of the valley entered with her father, being met at the altar by the bridegroom. After an informal reception the young couple left for Florida and Cuba for a bridal tour. The bride is a graduate of Greensboro College for Women and taught for four years in Surry County, and after that was County School Supervisor. Mr. Jackson is a prominent young business man of Mount Airy being the owner and manager of a large department store. He is an alumnus of Oak Ridge and has a wide circle of friends in the state.'

 

"Perhaps no other woman has added more to civic life and church leadership in Mount Airy than Mrs. Reid Jackson. As early as 1921 she served as first president of the Mount Airy Woman's Club, worked with the Red Cross during World War II, taught Sunday School, was an avid garden club member and is still active with the Arts and Crafts Guild.

"Annie Britton came to Mount Airy from Greensboro around 1905 to teach school. Soon after that she was elevated to the post of Rural School Supervisor, a position that she held for several years. Her resignation carried in a newspaper clipping on December 5, 1918 stated: 'Miss Annie Britton of Greensboro has resigned as Rural School Supervisor for Surry County. It is with regret that the Board of Education of the county loses her services for she was making good in the highest sense. She was helping to make the schools more efficient in many ways, and the loss of her services is a distinct loss to the schools of the county. She proved herself to be a young woman of culture, ability and tact and made herself appreciated by those with whom she came in contact.' [NOTE: In 2002 her son Ed told that in her job as supervisor she traveled in a buggy up into the mountains, sleeping overnight with various school families, in her efforts to make sure the schools met standards.]

...

"In 1921 Mrs. Jackson assumed the first presidency of the Mount Airy Woman's Club and the organization became one of the most influential factors in the town under her management. The idea for a club building was originated, grew and developed under her wise leadership. After many fund-raising events the club bought a brick home on Rockford Street and dedicated it as a war memorial to all servicemen. The home was used for club meetings and several rooms served as a library. Later the club donated this home for the Mount Airy Public Library...

"During the war years of 1939-45 Mrs. Jackson and other volunteers worked in the basement of her home preparing supplies for the Red Cross...(including) almost 4,000 articles... for the army, navy, marine corps hospitalized servicemen and war relief (in one year). For their outstanding work, Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Somerville were paid tribute by the British government. The certificate from Lord Halifax, British Embassy, Washington, DC read: 'His Magesty's government of the United Kingdom of Great Briatin and Northern Ireland most warmly thank members of the chapter of the American Red Cross in Surry County, North Carolina for their valuable help which they have given toward the relief of suffering in the United Kingdom caused by the enemy action during the war of 1939-45. People of the United Kingdom will ever hold their generosity in grateful memory.'

"The energetic Mrs. Jackson also served on the Zoning Board and was a member of the First Youth Council.

"Mrs. Jackson taught Sunday School for more than 25 years at First Baptist Church and organized the T.E.L. Class. For years she was superintendent for the Sunday School..."

 

Source: "Mrs. Reid Jackson, Civic Leader Since (cut off)," article by Eleanor Powell, The Mount Airy News, Tuesday, February 24, 1976.

According to her son Ed, Annie Britton Jackson was an omniverous reader, was interested in politics and foreign affairs, and loved to argue with younger people. She taught arts and crafts and entered her flowers in local shows and the annual fair. Her love of travel influenced her son's interest in what went on in other parts of the world. The family traveled to the "New England states," as she put it, to Ohio, Niagara Falls, Quebec, Maine, and New York. On family visits to Norfolk, they took side trips to Washington and Williamsburg. They visited Andrew Jackson's home in Tennessee and went to Georgia to visit Aunt Jennie and Betty. Ed recalled two humorous incidents from such family trips. In Massachusetts they pulled over to ask a passerby how to get to Plymouth. Not understanding their Southern accent, the man repled, "Quarter to three!" Once in Washington, DC, Ed's aunt Sarah (Tory) drove the car round and round DuPont circle, tryuing to figure out how to get to their hotel; meanwhile Grandma Britton was standing in front of the hotel, frantically waving her hands at them.

Ed recalled being spanked by his mother once at Grandma Jackson's house for declaring at the table that he didn't like a particular food item. He learned Southern manners quickly.

...

Source: "Jackson Brothers Founded in 1916," article from The Mount Airy News (date after 1991).

Reid Jackson's son Ed recalled that his father spent many hours at the store, which was open six days a week. He often worked nights and then went to the store early the next morning to sweep up, because the young people didn't clean to suit him. Reid supervised the shoe department while his brother Andrew did the books.

Andrew's son Joe was in charge of men's clothing and later did the bookkeeping.

While brother Andrew was a good businessman, "Dad was a great listener," said Ed.

As he sat on his front porch, women from town would drop by to tell him their troubles. Ed remembers that Mrs. Mamie Hawks Jackson, who owned a dress shop in Mr. Airy, used to love to talk business with his father. When Reid retired at age 80, friends opined that "he'll be bored," but in reality he was relieved not to have to go to work every day. Reid Jackson owned a farm on US 52 and the Mount Airy-Dobson Road, which he sold over time as lots, except for the farm at the top of the hill, where a tenant grew tobacco and corn. Ed believed that his father could have sold the farm for much more than he eventually did, but his dad seemed satisfied.

Ed recalled that while his mother Annie never hesitated to speak her mind, his dad often withheld his feelings. This reticence was sometimes frustrating to Ed. Once during Ed's post in London with United Press, Annie and Reid visited their son and his young family. They had a grand tour of London, Paris, Brittany, and Amsterdam.

After the trip was over, Ed asked his dad how he liked the trip. Reid repled, "Well, I would like to have gone to Switzerland."

 

 

Child of Robert Reid Jackson and Annie Henrietta Britton is:

i.

Robert Edward Jackson, B: 14 Jan 1925 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[77], D: 05 Feb 2010 in New York, New York, USA, M: Christina Margaret Reid, Unknown.

Notes for Robert Edward Jackson:

GRAD: 1947 Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Albemarle Co., Virginia

Military Service: ABT. 1944 World War II, U.S. Navy

Occupation: Journalist: United Press, Time Magazine, Washington Post

Residence: New York, New York

Note:

Source Paul Murauskas:

North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000

Name: Robt Edward Jackson

Date of Birth: 14 Jan 1925

Birth County: Surry Co., NC

Parent1 Name: Robt R Jackson

Parent2 Name: Annie H Britton

Roll Number: B_C092_66001

Volume: 11

Page: 772

...

1930 United States Federal Census, Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina

388 No. Main Street

Robert R. Jackson 41, married age 31, Manager Department Store

Annie B. Jackson 35, married age 25

Robert E. Jackson 5

...

Notes provided by Dick Jackson from email to Paul Murauskas

(1) "In becoming Rome bureau chief (for TIME magazine), Ed Jackson will be returning to a familiar scene. He was Rome bureau manager for the United Press, as it was then known, during the four years which preceded his coming to TIME in 1957 as a foreign news writer. Before Rome, Jackson was on U.P.'s London staff, from 1949 to 1953.

"It was in London that the Jacksons' two sons, Roger, 12, and Blair, 9, were born. One evening last week Ed, having already confided in his wife Peggy, convened a family meeting in the living room of their Pelham Manor home and told the boys of his Rome assignment. Their first reaction was that the move would take them away from their valued friends, whom they listed. Jackson was quick to point out that several on the list had already moved away to such remote places as Cleveland, Ohio. Looking far ahead, Blair, who spoke Italian before he learned English, asked: "Will we be back in time for college?" Next morning Ed noted that the books Blair was lugging off to school included a Berlitz Italian phrase book, useful in refreshing dim recollections of the language of his earliest childhood.

"Lest this leave any impression that Jackson is mostly a foreign type, it should be noted that he was born in Mount Airy, N.C., is a graduate (cum laude) of Washington and Lee University, '47, and served his journalistic apprenticeship on three North Carolina newspapers before Navy service in World War II."

...

Source: TIME-LIFE News Service memo from Don Bermingham, Nov. 19, 1962

Ed's interest in journalism started at age 7. He had gone to a baseball game and was disapppointed that the game wasn's written up in the newspaper, so he went to his room and created a write-up himself. Ed loved the New York newspapers that his dad brought back from buying trips for his store, and he also read the Baltimore Sun. At age 12 he produced the "Daily Journal," a neighborhood newspaper that he and his staff of young friends first duplicated by carbons, later by hectograph, and finally with his own mimeograph machine. The paper was popular but his family limited distribution to 200. He published such local news as "Mr. & Mrs. So-and-so went to Okrakoke for the weekend and the bottles were flying," or "Someone drained the gas from Mr. Whitlock's Chevrolet; Mrs. Mundy across the street saw the incident but didn't report it." He and another boy once came across a collection of love letters and printed them word-for-word from memory. An article about the boys' enterprise appeared in the Winston-Salem paper, describing it as "astonishingly well edited." At age 13 Ed wrote a teenage gossip column for the Mount Airy News, called "From Piggy's Pen." After a stint in the Navy and graduation from Washington and Lee, Ed was hired by United Press to work at the New York cable desk, where he oversaw news coming in from abroad. After two years, he was transferred to London, where both his sons were born under the National Health Plan (at a cost of 55 pounds, or about $100, for the finest Harley Street doctor). On their first night in London, UP put Ed and his wife up at a suite in the Savoy hotel overlooking the Thames; their subsequent flat with a light bulb hanging down from the ceiling was rather a come-down. Times were difficult for the average Englishman then, when "one egg per person per week perhaps" was the norm. He recalls the dirty looks he received after standing in line at the fishmonger's to get "codfish for the cat." He also recalls going with others from the American press to a party at Buckingham Palace, where he met the royal family and afterwards dictated the story over the phone from a local pub. Another time when Ed's little son Roger was pulling his stuffed "Doggy" on wheels down a London sidewalk, old Queen Mary had her driver pull over so she could speak to the boy and admire his toy. Ed loved the witty repartee in the House of Commons, so different from the polodding, ponderous speeches in the US Congress. In 1953 UP gave Ed a news bureau of his own in Rome, where he covered the Vatican as well as Italy itself, including the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce was ambassador to Italy at the time and attracted a lot of attention to Italy because she "inserted herself into everything" that was going on, and indeed helped solve the Trieste dispute. During the Cold War, the Communicst Party was strong in Italy, and Ed recalls seeing a headline prior to an election: "Italy to Choose Uncle -- Joe [Stalin] or Sam?" When Pope Pius XII was quite ill in 1954, Ed wrote a story about him, which he later saw published after Pius finally died in 1959.

In 1956 UP brought Ed back to New York, but a vice president's joke didn't sit well: "We brought you back to the US and you want a raise too?" A job offer Time magazine at nearly double his UP salary soon brought Ed back to Europe, where he became Time's bureau chief in Rome.

Even in his retirement in New York, Ed reads six newspapers a day to stay on top of the news. He is proud of his award from the NC Journalism Hall of Fame in Chapel Hill, where his picture is on the wall at the UNC-CH School of Journalism in Howell Hall.

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C. In high school, he wrote sports and news for the Mount Airy News and Mt. Airy Times and was a sportswriter and news stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.

That experience, coupled with a three-year Pacific stint in the Navy, led him to become a foreign newswriter for United Press in 1947. He covered British news as a correspondent in London and edited international news that went through the London office. He moved to Italy in 1953 to run the UP bureau in Rome, where he covered Italian news and the Vatican.

Time magazine hired him in 1957. During his 29 years with Time, he was a contributing editor, news editor, Rome bureau chief, Washington news editor and the magazine's first international editor. He left Time in 1986 as deputy chief of correspondents and was later named editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a 75,000-circulation monthly news magazine consisting of stories from overseas publications. He retired in 1991.

He established the Edward Jackson International Scholarship in the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communiation in 1992. The endowment provides funds for a news-editorial student, preferably from North Carolina, to travel to a country in Europe to learn about its politics, culture and mass media by living and working there.

Jackson graduated cum laude with a bachelor's in history from Washington and Lee University.

He has served as vice president of the Overseas Press Club and vice president and secretary of The Correspondents Fund, which provides scholarship funds to needy journalists and students.

Source: UNC's School of Journalism Web Site -- Journalism Hall of Fame

...

...

Source: Ed Jackson, personal conversation, March 19, 2002 with Dorothy Jackson Britton?

"Mr. Reid " was well-known as the dean of Main Street merchants. At 80 he was still at work each day. During one of his interviews during the 1970s he commented on his 60 years in business. "I can remember when horse-drawn wagons used to get stuck in the mudholes on Main Street in front of the store. Stepping stones crossed Main Street way back then as a convenience for pedestrians. There were no electric lights. Almost every housewife sewed clothes for the family. In fact, aside from shoes and hats, the biggest part of the retail business in those early years was for 'fixin's,' so the women could make clothes at home -- dry goods, piece goods, and notions," he said.

"Mr. Reid" also commented, "Then we sold all staple items. Today it's fashion apparel which dominates. Three persons, including the owners, could run the store when Jackson Brothers was established. We were the first store in Mount Airy to hire a woman as a sales clerk. Today you couldn't get along without them."

In addition to his business interest, "Mr. Reid" spent quite a bit of time enjoying farming. He was a longtime member and treasurer of First Baptist Church and also a member of the Wage and Price Control Board of Surry County during World War II.

He was married to Annie Britton of Greensboro and they had one son, Edward Jackson. Reid Jackson died in May 1979.

...

...

Source: TIME-LIFE News Service memo from Don Bermingham, Nov. 19, 1962

Ed's interest in journalism started at age 7. He had gone to a baseball game and was disapppointed that the game wasn's written up in the newspaper, so he went to his room and created a write-up himself. Ed loved the New York newspapers that his dad brought back from buying trips for his store, and he also read the Baltimore Sun. At age 12 he produced the "Daily Journal," a neighborhood newspaper that he and his staff of young friends first duplicated by carbons, later by hectograph, and finally with his own mimeograph machine. The paper was popular but his family limited distribution to 200. He published such local news as "Mr. & Mrs. So-and-so went to Okrakoke for the weekend and the bottles were flying," or "Someone drained the gas from Mr. Whitlock's Chevrolet; Mrs. Mundy across the street saw the incident but didn't report it." He and another boy once came across a collection of love letters and printed them word-for-word from memory. An article about the boys' enterprise appeared in the Winston-Salem paper, describing it as "astonishingly well edited." At age 13 Ed wrote a teenage gossip column for the Mount Airy News, called "From Piggy's Pen."

After a stint in the Navy and graduation from Washington and Lee, Ed was hired by United Press to work at the New York cable desk, where he oversaw news coming in from abroad. After two years, he was transferred to London, where both his sons were born under the National Health Plan (at a cost of 55 pounds, or about $100, for the finest Harley Street doctor). On their first night in London, UP put Ed and his wife up at a suite in the Savoy hotel overlooking the Thames; their subsequent flat with a light bulb hanging down from the ceiling was rather a come-down. Times were difficult for the average Englishman then, when "one egg per person per week perhaps" was the norm. He recalls the dirty looks he received after standing in line at the fishmonger's to get "codfish for the cat." He also recalls going with others from the American press to a party at Buckingham Palace, where he met the royal family and afterwards dictated the story over the phone from a local pub. Another time when Ed's little son Roger was pulling his stuffed "Doggy" on wheels down a London sidewalk, old Queen Mary had her driver pull over so she could speak to the boy and admire his toy. Ed loved the witty repartee in the House of Commons, so different from the polodding, ponderous speeches in the US Congress.

In 1953 UP gave Ed a news bureau of his own in Rome, where he covered the Vatican as well as Italy itself, including the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce was ambassador to Italy at the time and attracted a lot of attention to Italy because she "inserted herself into everything" that was going on, and indeed helped solve the Trieste dispute. During the Cold War, the Communicst Party was strong in Italy, and Ed recalls seeing a headline prior to an election: "Italy to Choose Uncle -- Joe [Stalin] or Sam?" When Pope Pius XII was quite ill in 1954, Ed wrote a story about him, which he later saw published after Pius finally died in 1959.

In 1956 UP brought Ed back to New York, but a vice president's joke didn't sit well: "We brought you back to the US and you want a raise too?" A job offer Time magazine at nearly double his UP salary soon brought Ed back to Europe, where he became Time's bureau chief in Rome.

Even in his retirement in New York, Ed reads six newspapers a day to stay on top of the news. He is proud of his award from the NC Journalism Hall of Fame in Chapel Hill, where his picture is on the wall at the UNC-CH School of Journalism in Howell Hall.

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C. In high school, he wrote sports and news for the Mount Airy News and Mt. Airy Times and was a sportswriter and news stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.

That experience, coupled with a three-year Pacific stint in the Navy, led him to become a foreign newswriter for United Press in 1947. He covered British news as a correspondent in London and edited international news that went through the London office. He moved to Italy in 1953 to run the UP bureau in Rome, where he covered Italian news and the Vatican.

Time magazine hired him in 1957. During his 29 years with Time, he was a contributing editor, news editor, Rome bureau chief, Washington news editor and the magazine's first international editor. He left Time in 1986 as deputy chief of correspondents and was later named editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a 75,000-circulation monthly news magazine consisting of stories from overseas publications. He retired in 1991.

He established the Edward Jackson International Scholarship in the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communiation in 1992. The endowment provides funds for a news-editorial student, preferably from North Carolina, to travel to a country in Europe to learn about its politics, culture and mass media by living and working there.

Jackson graduated cum laude with a bachelor's in history from Washington and Lee University.

He has served as vice president of the Overseas Press Club and vice president and secretary of The Correspondents Fund, which provides scholarship funds to needy journalists and students.

Source: UNC's School of Journalism Web Site -- Journalism Hall of Fame

...

Source: "Mrs. Reid Jackson, Civic Leader Since (cut off)," article by Eleanor Powell, The Mount Airy News, Tuesday, February 24, 1976.

According to her son Ed, Annie Britton Jackson was an omniverous reader, was interested in politics and foreign affairs, and loved to argue with younger people. She taught arts and crafts and entered her flowers in local shows and the annual fair. Her love of travel influenced her son's interest in what went on in other parts of the world. The family traveled to the "New England states," as she put it, to Ohio, Niagara Falls, Quebec, Maine, and New York. On family visits to Norfolk, they took side trips to Washington and Williamsburg. They visited Andrew Jackson's home in Tennessee and went to Georgia to visit Aunt Jennie and Betty. Ed recalled two humorous incidents from such family trips. In Massachusetts they pulled over to ask a passerby how to get to Plymouth. Not understanding their Southern accent, the man repled, "Quarter to three!" Once in Washington, DC, Ed's aunt Sarah (Tory) drove the car round and round DuPont circle, tryuing to figure out how to get to their hotel; meanwhile Grandma Britton was standing in front of the hotel, frantically waving her hands at them.

Ed recalled being spanked by his mother once at Grandma Jackson's house for declaring at the table that he didn't like a particular food item. He learned Southern manners quickly.

...

Source: "Jackson Brothers Founded in 1916," article from The Mount Airy News (date after 1991).

Reid Jackson's son Ed recalled that his father spent many hours at the store, which was open six days a week. He often worked nights and then went to the store early the next morning to sweep up, because the young people didn't clean to suit him. Reid supervised the shoe department while his brother Andrew did the books.

Andrew's son Joe was in charge of men's clothing and later did the bookkeeping.

While brother Andrew was a good businessman, "Dad was a great listener," said Ed.

As he sat on his front porch, women from town would drop by to tell him their troubles. Ed remembers that Mrs. Mamie Hawks Jackson, who owned a dress shop in Mr. Airy, used to love to talk business with his father. When Reid retired at age 80, friends opined that "he'll be bored," but in reality he was relieved not to have to go to work every day. Reid Jackson owned a farm on US 52 and the Mount Airy-Dobson Road, which he sold over time as lots, except for the farm at the top of the hill, where a tenant grew tobacco and corn. Ed believed that his father could have sold the farm for much more than he eventually did, but his dad seemed satisfied.

Ed recalled that while his mother Annie never hesitated to speak her mind, his dad often withheld his feelings. This reticence was sometimes frustrating to Ed. Once during Ed's post in London with United Press, Annie and Reid visited their son and his young family. They had a grand tour of London, Paris, Brittany, and Amsterdam.

After the trip was over, Ed asked his dad how he liked the trip. Reid repled, "Well, I would like to have gone to Switzerland."

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C.

 

 

OBIT...

R. Edward Jackson, a Mount Airy native who oversaw Time magazine's coverage of the Second Vatican Council, spearheaded the development of the magazine's international editions, and was the last managing editor of the Washington Star, died in New York on Feb. 5, of cancer. He was 85. In Mr. Jackson's 44-year career in journalism he worked in the U.S. and Europe at United Press International and Time, and served as editor-in-chief of World Press Review. He was a leading member of the Overseas Press Club and the Correspondents Fund, and endowed journalism scholarships at several universities. In 1995, he was inducted into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame. Mr. Jackson was born January 14, 1925, in Mount Airy, the son of Robert Reid Jackson, co-owner of Jackson Bros. department store, and Annie Britton Jackson, who resided at 1022 North Main Street. He ran a neighborhood newspaper with a circulation of 200 when he was 12, was a stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal in his teens, and edited school papers in Mount Airy and at Washington and Lee University. He interrupted his education to serve in the Navy for three years at the end of World War II, and graduated from Washington and Lee with a degree in History in 1947. He joined UPI as a foreign news writer in 1947. He worked in UPI's London bureau from 1950 to 1953, and then headed the Rome bureau from 1953 to 1956. He became a writer at Time in New York in 1957. Over the next 29 years, he served as Time's foreign newsdesk editor (1959-62), Rome bureau chief (1963-65), deputy chief of correspondents (1966-72), editor of the international editions (1972-75), Washington news editor (1976-80), managing editor of the Time-owned Washington Star (1980-81), and again as deputy chief of correspondents (1981-86). While Rome bureau chief in the 1960s, Mr. Jackson coordinated Time's coverage of the Second Vatican Council, the death of Pope John XXIII and the election of Paul VI, and Paul VI's unprecedented visit to Israel. In the early 1970s, he headed the team that developed editions of Time geared specifically to readers in Europe, Asia, and Australia, and served as the international editions' first editor. As Washington news editor, he ran the magazine's coverage of the Rerpublican and Democratic conventions of 1976 and 1980. He was appointed managing editor of the Washington Star early in 1981, just months before Time folded the newspaper, bringing its 129-year record of continuous publication to a close. After his retirement from Time in 1986, he served for five years as editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a New York-based monthly digest of selections from newpapers outside the United States, which were hard to obtain in a pre-Internet age. Mr. Jackson donated his services to various journalistic societies, including the Overseas Press Club, where he was vice-president, a member of the board of governors, and chair of the scholarship committee; and the Correspondents Fund, where as trustee, vice-president, and secretary, he helped provide funds for needy journalists and for journalism students. In his later years, he endowed journalism scholarships at Washington and Lee University, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the University of California at Berkeley. Though he lived all his adult life outside North Carolina, Mr. Jackson was a frequent visitor to the state and to Mount Airy, where he had a large and varied family and a long-standing circle of friends. He maintained a lifelong loyalty to North Carolina college sports teams, and enjoyed annual visits to the ACC basketball tournament, as well as drives along the Blue Ridge Parkway, golf at the Mt. Airy Country Club and Cross Creek, and Southern-style cooking wherever he could find it. His first marriage, to Margaret Reid Jackson, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife of thirty-three years, Kathleen Beakley Jackson of New York City, two sons from his first marriage, Roger Jackson, of Northfield, Minnesota, and Blair Jackson, of Oakland, California, and three grandchildren.

 

 

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Descendants of Joseph Jackson
Generation 4 (con't)

Notes for Robert Edward Jackson:

GRAD: 1947 Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Albemarle Co., Virginia

Military Service: ABT. 1944 World War II, U.S. Navy

Occupation: Journalist: United Press, Time Magazine, Washington Post

Residence: New York, New York

Note:

Source Paul Murauskas:

North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000

Name: Robt Edward Jackson

Date of Birth: 14 Jan 1925

Birth County: Surry Co., NC

Parent1 Name: Robt R Jackson

Parent2 Name: Annie H Britton

Roll Number: B_C092_66001

Volume: 11

Page: 772

...

1930 United States Federal Census, Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina

388 No. Main Street

Robert R. Jackson 41, married age 31, Manager Department Store

Annie B. Jackson 35, married age 25

Robert E. Jackson 5

...

Notes provided by Dick Jackson from email to Paul Murauskas

(1) "In becoming Rome bureau chief (for TIME magazine), Ed Jackson will be returning to a familiar scene. He was Rome bureau manager for the United Press, as it was then known, during the four years which preceded his coming to TIME in 1957 as a foreign news writer. Before Rome, Jackson was on U.P.'s London staff, from 1949 to 1953.

"It was in London that the Jacksons' two sons, Roger, 12, and Blair, 9, were born. One evening last week Ed, having already confided in his wife Peggy, convened a family meeting in the living room of their Pelham Manor home and told the boys of his Rome assignment. Their first reaction was that the move would take them away from their valued friends, whom they listed. Jackson was quick to point out that several on the list had already moved away to such remote places as Cleveland, Ohio. Looking far ahead, Blair, who spoke Italian before he learned English, asked: "Will we be back in time for college?" Next morning Ed noted that the books Blair was lugging off to school included a Berlitz Italian phrase book, useful in refreshing dim recollections of the language of his earliest childhood.

"Lest this leave any impression that Jackson is mostly a foreign type, it should be noted that he was born in Mount Airy, N.C., is a graduate (cum laude) of Washington and Lee University, '47, and served his journalistic apprenticeship on three North Carolina newspapers before Navy service in World War II."

...

Source: TIME-LIFE News Service memo from Don Bermingham, Nov. 19, 1962

Ed's interest in journalism started at age 7. He had gone to a baseball game and was disapppointed that the game wasn's written up in the newspaper, so he went to his room and created a write-up himself. Ed loved the New York newspapers that his dad brought back from buying trips for his store, and he also read the Baltimore Sun. At age 12 he produced the "Daily Journal," a neighborhood newspaper that he and his staff of young friends first duplicated by carbons, later by hectograph, and finally with his own mimeograph machine. The paper was popular but his family limited distribution to 200. He published such local news as "Mr. & Mrs. So-and-so went to Okrakoke for the weekend and the bottles were flying," or "Someone drained the gas from Mr. Whitlock's Chevrolet; Mrs. Mundy across the street saw the incident but didn't report it." He and another boy once came across a collection of love letters and printed them word-for-word from memory. An article about the boys' enterprise appeared in the Winston-Salem paper, describing it as "astonishingly well edited." At age 13 Ed wrote a teenage gossip column for the Mount Airy News, called "From Piggy's Pen." After a stint in the Navy and graduation from Washington and Lee, Ed was hired by United Press to work at the New York cable desk, where he oversaw news coming in from abroad. After two years, he was transferred to London, where both his sons were born under the National Health Plan (at a cost of 55 pounds, or about $100, for the finest Harley Street doctor). On their first night in London, UP put Ed and his wife up at a suite in the Savoy hotel overlooking the Thames; their subsequent flat with a light bulb hanging down from the ceiling was rather a come-down. Times were difficult for the average Englishman then, when "one egg per person per week perhaps" was the norm. He recalls the dirty looks he received after standing in line at the fishmonger's to get "codfish for the cat." He also recalls going with others from the American press to a party at Buckingham Palace, where he met the royal family and afterwards dictated the story over the phone from a local pub. Another time when Ed's little son Roger was pulling his stuffed "Doggy" on wheels down a London sidewalk, old Queen Mary had her driver pull over so she could speak to the boy and admire his toy. Ed loved the witty repartee in the House of Commons, so different from the polodding, ponderous speeches in the US Congress. In 1953 UP gave Ed a news bureau of his own in Rome, where he covered the Vatican as well as Italy itself, including the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce was ambassador to Italy at the time and attracted a lot of attention to Italy because she "inserted herself into everything" that was going on, and indeed helped solve the Trieste dispute. During the Cold War, the Communicst Party was strong in Italy, and Ed recalls seeing a headline prior to an election: "Italy to Choose Uncle -- Joe [Stalin] or Sam?" When Pope Pius XII was quite ill in 1954, Ed wrote a story about him, which he later saw published after Pius finally died in 1959.

In 1956 UP brought Ed back to New York, but a vice president's joke didn't sit well: "We brought you back to the US and you want a raise too?" A job offer Time magazine at nearly double his UP salary soon brought Ed back to Europe, where he became Time's bureau chief in Rome.

Even in his retirement in New York, Ed reads six newspapers a day to stay on top of the news. He is proud of his award from the NC Journalism Hall of Fame in Chapel Hill, where his picture is on the wall at the UNC-CH School of Journalism in Howell Hall.

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C. In high school, he wrote sports and news for the Mount Airy News and Mt. Airy Times and was a sportswriter and news stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.

That experience, coupled with a three-year Pacific stint in the Navy, led him to become a foreign newswriter for United Press in 1947. He covered British news as a correspondent in London and edited international news that went through the London office. He moved to Italy in 1953 to run the UP bureau in Rome, where he covered Italian news and the Vatican.

Time magazine hired him in 1957. During his 29 years with Time, he was a contributing editor, news editor, Rome bureau chief, Washington news editor and the magazine's first international editor. He left Time in 1986 as deputy chief of correspondents and was later named editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a 75,000-circulation monthly news magazine consisting of stories from overseas publications. He retired in 1991.

He established the Edward Jackson International Scholarship in the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communiation in 1992. The endowment provides funds for a news-editorial student, preferably from North Carolina, to travel to a country in Europe to learn about its politics, culture and mass media by living and working there.

Jackson graduated cum laude with a bachelor's in history from Washington and Lee University.

He has served as vice president of the Overseas Press Club and vice president and secretary of The Correspondents Fund, which provides scholarship funds to needy journalists and students.

Source: UNC's School of Journalism Web Site -- Journalism Hall of Fame

...

...

Source: Ed Jackson, personal conversation, March 19, 2002 with Dorothy Jackson Britton?

"Mr. Reid " was well-known as the dean of Main Street merchants. At 80 he was still at work each day. During one of his interviews during the 1970s he commented on his 60 years in business. "I can remember when horse-drawn wagons used to get stuck in the mudholes on Main Street in front of the store. Stepping stones crossed Main Street way back then as a convenience for pedestrians. There were no electric lights. Almost every housewife sewed clothes for the family. In fact, aside from shoes and hats, the biggest part of the retail business in those early years was for 'fixin's,' so the women could make clothes at home -- dry goods, piece goods, and notions," he said.

"Mr. Reid" also commented, "Then we sold all staple items. Today it's fashion apparel which dominates. Three persons, including the owners, could run the store when Jackson Brothers was established. We were the first store in Mount Airy to hire a woman as a sales clerk. Today you couldn't get along without them."

In addition to his business interest, "Mr. Reid" spent quite a bit of time enjoying farming. He was a longtime member and treasurer of First Baptist Church and also a member of the Wage and Price Control Board of Surry County during World War II.

He was married to Annie Britton of Greensboro and they had one son, Edward Jackson. Reid Jackson died in May 1979.

...

...

Source: TIME-LIFE News Service memo from Don Bermingham, Nov. 19, 1962

Ed's interest in journalism started at age 7. He had gone to a baseball game and was disapppointed that the game wasn's written up in the newspaper, so he went to his room and created a write-up himself. Ed loved the New York newspapers that his dad brought back from buying trips for his store, and he also read the Baltimore Sun. At age 12 he produced the "Daily Journal," a neighborhood newspaper that he and his staff of young friends first duplicated by carbons, later by hectograph, and finally with his own mimeograph machine. The paper was popular but his family limited distribution to 200. He published such local news as "Mr. & Mrs. So-and-so went to Okrakoke for the weekend and the bottles were flying," or "Someone drained the gas from Mr. Whitlock's Chevrolet; Mrs. Mundy across the street saw the incident but didn't report it." He and another boy once came across a collection of love letters and printed them word-for-word from memory. An article about the boys' enterprise appeared in the Winston-Salem paper, describing it as "astonishingly well edited." At age 13 Ed wrote a teenage gossip column for the Mount Airy News, called "From Piggy's Pen."

After a stint in the Navy and graduation from Washington and Lee, Ed was hired by United Press to work at the New York cable desk, where he oversaw news coming in from abroad. After two years, he was transferred to London, where both his sons were born under the National Health Plan (at a cost of 55 pounds, or about $100, for the finest Harley Street doctor). On their first night in London, UP put Ed and his wife up at a suite in the Savoy hotel overlooking the Thames; their subsequent flat with a light bulb hanging down from the ceiling was rather a come-down. Times were difficult for the average Englishman then, when "one egg per person per week perhaps" was the norm. He recalls the dirty looks he received after standing in line at the fishmonger's to get "codfish for the cat." He also recalls going with others from the American press to a party at Buckingham Palace, where he met the royal family and afterwards dictated the story over the phone from a local pub. Another time when Ed's little son Roger was pulling his stuffed "Doggy" on wheels down a London sidewalk, old Queen Mary had her driver pull over so she could speak to the boy and admire his toy. Ed loved the witty repartee in the House of Commons, so different from the polodding, ponderous speeches in the US Congress.

In 1953 UP gave Ed a news bureau of his own in Rome, where he covered the Vatican as well as Italy itself, including the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce was ambassador to Italy at the time and attracted a lot of attention to Italy because she "inserted herself into everything" that was going on, and indeed helped solve the Trieste dispute. During the Cold War, the Communicst Party was strong in Italy, and Ed recalls seeing a headline prior to an election: "Italy to Choose Uncle -- Joe [Stalin] or Sam?" When Pope Pius XII was quite ill in 1954, Ed wrote a story about him, which he later saw published after Pius finally died in 1959.

In 1956 UP brought Ed back to New York, but a vice president's joke didn't sit well: "We brought you back to the US and you want a raise too?" A job offer Time magazine at nearly double his UP salary soon brought Ed back to Europe, where he became Time's bureau chief in Rome.

Even in his retirement in New York, Ed reads six newspapers a day to stay on top of the news. He is proud of his award from the NC Journalism Hall of Fame in Chapel Hill, where his picture is on the wall at the UNC-CH School of Journalism in Howell Hall.

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C. In high school, he wrote sports and news for the Mount Airy News and Mt. Airy Times and was a sportswriter and news stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.

That experience, coupled with a three-year Pacific stint in the Navy, led him to become a foreign newswriter for United Press in 1947. He covered British news as a correspondent in London and edited international news that went through the London office. He moved to Italy in 1953 to run the UP bureau in Rome, where he covered Italian news and the Vatican.

Time magazine hired him in 1957. During his 29 years with Time, he was a contributing editor, news editor, Rome bureau chief, Washington news editor and the magazine's first international editor. He left Time in 1986 as deputy chief of correspondents and was later named editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a 75,000-circulation monthly news magazine consisting of stories from overseas publications. He retired in 1991.

He established the Edward Jackson International Scholarship in the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communiation in 1992. The endowment provides funds for a news-editorial student, preferably from North Carolina, to travel to a country in Europe to learn about its politics, culture and mass media by living and working there.

Jackson graduated cum laude with a bachelor's in history from Washington and Lee University.

He has served as vice president of the Overseas Press Club and vice president and secretary of The Correspondents Fund, which provides scholarship funds to needy journalists and students.

Source: UNC's School of Journalism Web Site -- Journalism Hall of Fame

...

Source: "Mrs. Reid Jackson, Civic Leader Since (cut off)," article by Eleanor Powell, The Mount Airy News, Tuesday, February 24, 1976.

According to her son Ed, Annie Britton Jackson was an omniverous reader, was interested in politics and foreign affairs, and loved to argue with younger people. She taught arts and crafts and entered her flowers in local shows and the annual fair. Her love of travel influenced her son's interest in what went on in other parts of the world. The family traveled to the "New England states," as she put it, to Ohio, Niagara Falls, Quebec, Maine, and New York. On family visits to Norfolk, they took side trips to Washington and Williamsburg. They visited Andrew Jackson's home in Tennessee and went to Georgia to visit Aunt Jennie and Betty. Ed recalled two humorous incidents from such family trips. In Massachusetts they pulled over to ask a passerby how to get to Plymouth. Not understanding their Southern accent, the man repled, "Quarter to three!" Once in Washington, DC, Ed's aunt Sarah (Tory) drove the car round and round DuPont circle, tryuing to figure out how to get to their hotel; meanwhile Grandma Britton was standing in front of the hotel, frantically waving her hands at them.

Ed recalled being spanked by his mother once at Grandma Jackson's house for declaring at the table that he didn't like a particular food item. He learned Southern manners quickly.

...

Source: "Jackson Brothers Founded in 1916," article from The Mount Airy News (date after 1991).

Reid Jackson's son Ed recalled that his father spent many hours at the store, which was open six days a week. He often worked nights and then went to the store early the next morning to sweep up, because the young people didn't clean to suit him. Reid supervised the shoe department while his brother Andrew did the books.

Andrew's son Joe was in charge of men's clothing and later did the bookkeeping.

While brother Andrew was a good businessman, "Dad was a great listener," said Ed.

As he sat on his front porch, women from town would drop by to tell him their troubles. Ed remembers that Mrs. Mamie Hawks Jackson, who owned a dress shop in Mr. Airy, used to love to talk business with his father. When Reid retired at age 80, friends opined that "he'll be bored," but in reality he was relieved not to have to go to work every day. Reid Jackson owned a farm on US 52 and the Mount Airy-Dobson Road, which he sold over time as lots, except for the farm at the top of the hill, where a tenant grew tobacco and corn. Ed believed that his father could have sold the farm for much more than he eventually did, but his dad seemed satisfied.

Ed recalled that while his mother Annie never hesitated to speak her mind, his dad often withheld his feelings. This reticence was sometimes frustrating to Ed. Once during Ed's post in London with United Press, Annie and Reid visited their son and his young family. They had a grand tour of London, Paris, Brittany, and Amsterdam.

After the trip was over, Ed asked his dad how he liked the trip. Reid repled, "Well, I would like to have gone to Switzerland."

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C.

 

 

OBIT...

R. Edward Jackson, a Mount Airy native who oversaw Time magazine's coverage of the Second Vatican Council, spearheaded the development of the magazine's international editions, and was the last managing editor of the Washington Star, died in New York on Feb. 5, of cancer. He was 85. In Mr. Jackson's 44-year career in journalism he worked in the U.S. and Europe at United Press International and Time, and served as editor-in-chief of World Press Review. He was a leading member of the Overseas Press Club and the Correspondents Fund, and endowed journalism scholarships at several universities. In 1995, he was inducted into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame. Mr. Jackson was born January 14, 1925, in Mount Airy, the son of Robert Reid Jackson, co-owner of Jackson Bros. department store, and Annie Britton Jackson, who resided at 1022 North Main Street. He ran a neighborhood newspaper with a circulation of 200 when he was 12, was a stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal in his teens, and edited school papers in Mount Airy and at Washington and Lee University. He interrupted his education to serve in the Navy for three years at the end of World War II, and graduated from Washington and Lee with a degree in History in 1947. He joined UPI as a foreign news writer in 1947. He worked in UPI's London bureau from 1950 to 1953, and then headed the Rome bureau from 1953 to 1956. He became a writer at Time in New York in 1957. Over the next 29 years, he served as Time's foreign newsdesk editor (1959-62), Rome bureau chief (1963-65), deputy chief of correspondents (1966-72), editor of the international editions (1972-75), Washington news editor (1976-80), managing editor of the Time-owned Washington Star (1980-81), and again as deputy chief of correspondents (1981-86). While Rome bureau chief in the 1960s, Mr. Jackson coordinated Time's coverage of the Second Vatican Council, the death of Pope John XXIII and the election of Paul VI, and Paul VI's unprecedented visit to Israel. In the early 1970s, he headed the team that developed editions of Time geared specifically to readers in Europe, Asia, and Australia, and served as the international editions' first editor. As Washington news editor, he ran the magazine's coverage of the Rerpublican and Democratic conventions of 1976 and 1980. He was appointed managing editor of the Washington Star early in 1981, just months before Time folded the newspaper, bringing its 129-year record of continuous publication to a close. After his retirement from Time in 1986, he served for five years as editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a New York-based monthly digest of selections from newpapers outside the United States, which were hard to obtain in a pre-Internet age. Mr. Jackson donated his services to various journalistic societies, including the Overseas Press Club, where he was vice-president, a member of the board of governors, and chair of the scholarship committee; and the Correspondents Fund, where as trustee, vice-president, and secretary, he helped provide funds for needy journalists and for journalism students. In his later years, he endowed journalism scholarships at Washington and Lee University, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the University of California at Berkeley. Though he lived all his adult life outside North Carolina, Mr. Jackson was a frequent visitor to the state and to Mount Airy, where he had a large and varied family and a long-standing circle of friends. He maintained a lifelong loyalty to North Carolina college sports teams, and enjoyed annual visits to the ACC basketball tournament, as well as drives along the Blue Ridge Parkway, golf at the Mt. Airy Country Club and Cross Creek, and Southern-style cooking wherever he could find it. His first marriage, to Margaret Reid Jackson, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife of thirty-three years, Kathleen Beakley Jackson of New York City, two sons from his first marriage, Roger Jackson, of Northfield, Minnesota, and Blair Jackson, of Oakland, California, and three grandchildren.

 

 

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Descendants of Joseph Jackson
Generation 4 (con't)

Notes for Robert Edward Jackson:

GRAD: 1947 Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Albemarle Co., Virginia

Military Service: ABT. 1944 World War II, U.S. Navy

Occupation: Journalist: United Press, Time Magazine, Washington Post

Residence: New York, New York

Note:

Source Paul Murauskas:

North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000

Name: Robt Edward Jackson

Date of Birth: 14 Jan 1925

Birth County: Surry Co., NC

Parent1 Name: Robt R Jackson

Parent2 Name: Annie H Britton

Roll Number: B_C092_66001

Volume: 11

Page: 772

...

1930 United States Federal Census, Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina

388 No. Main Street

Robert R. Jackson 41, married age 31, Manager Department Store

Annie B. Jackson 35, married age 25

Robert E. Jackson 5

...

Notes provided by Dick Jackson from email to Paul Murauskas

(1) "In becoming Rome bureau chief (for TIME magazine), Ed Jackson will be returning to a familiar scene. He was Rome bureau manager for the United Press, as it was then known, during the four years which preceded his coming to TIME in 1957 as a foreign news writer. Before Rome, Jackson was on U.P.'s London staff, from 1949 to 1953.

"It was in London that the Jacksons' two sons, Roger, 12, and Blair, 9, were born. One evening last week Ed, having already confided in his wife Peggy, convened a family meeting in the living room of their Pelham Manor home and told the boys of his Rome assignment. Their first reaction was that the move would take them away from their valued friends, whom they listed. Jackson was quick to point out that several on the list had already moved away to such remote places as Cleveland, Ohio. Looking far ahead, Blair, who spoke Italian before he learned English, asked: "Will we be back in time for college?" Next morning Ed noted that the books Blair was lugging off to school included a Berlitz Italian phrase book, useful in refreshing dim recollections of the language of his earliest childhood.

"Lest this leave any impression that Jackson is mostly a foreign type, it should be noted that he was born in Mount Airy, N.C., is a graduate (cum laude) of Washington and Lee University, '47, and served his journalistic apprenticeship on three North Carolina newspapers before Navy service in World War II."

...

Source: TIME-LIFE News Service memo from Don Bermingham, Nov. 19, 1962

Ed's interest in journalism started at age 7. He had gone to a baseball game and was disapppointed that the game wasn's written up in the newspaper, so he went to his room and created a write-up himself. Ed loved the New York newspapers that his dad brought back from buying trips for his store, and he also read the Baltimore Sun. At age 12 he produced the "Daily Journal," a neighborhood newspaper that he and his staff of young friends first duplicated by carbons, later by hectograph, and finally with his own mimeograph machine. The paper was popular but his family limited distribution to 200. He published such local news as "Mr. & Mrs. So-and-so went to Okrakoke for the weekend and the bottles were flying," or "Someone drained the gas from Mr. Whitlock's Chevrolet; Mrs. Mundy across the street saw the incident but didn't report it." He and another boy once came across a collection of love letters and printed them word-for-word from memory. An article about the boys' enterprise appeared in the Winston-Salem paper, describing it as "astonishingly well edited." At age 13 Ed wrote a teenage gossip column for the Mount Airy News, called "From Piggy's Pen." After a stint in the Navy and graduation from Washington and Lee, Ed was hired by United Press to work at the New York cable desk, where he oversaw news coming in from abroad. After two years, he was transferred to London, where both his sons were born under the National Health Plan (at a cost of 55 pounds, or about $100, for the finest Harley Street doctor). On their first night in London, UP put Ed and his wife up at a suite in the Savoy hotel overlooking the Thames; their subsequent flat with a light bulb hanging down from the ceiling was rather a come-down. Times were difficult for the average Englishman then, when "one egg per person per week perhaps" was the norm. He recalls the dirty looks he received after standing in line at the fishmonger's to get "codfish for the cat." He also recalls going with others from the American press to a party at Buckingham Palace, where he met the royal family and afterwards dictated the story over the phone from a local pub. Another time when Ed's little son Roger was pulling his stuffed "Doggy" on wheels down a London sidewalk, old Queen Mary had her driver pull over so she could speak to the boy and admire his toy. Ed loved the witty repartee in the House of Commons, so different from the polodding, ponderous speeches in the US Congress. In 1953 UP gave Ed a news bureau of his own in Rome, where he covered the Vatican as well as Italy itself, including the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce was ambassador to Italy at the time and attracted a lot of attention to Italy because she "inserted herself into everything" that was going on, and indeed helped solve the Trieste dispute. During the Cold War, the Communicst Party was strong in Italy, and Ed recalls seeing a headline prior to an election: "Italy to Choose Uncle -- Joe [Stalin] or Sam?" When Pope Pius XII was quite ill in 1954, Ed wrote a story about him, which he later saw published after Pius finally died in 1959.

In 1956 UP brought Ed back to New York, but a vice president's joke didn't sit well: "We brought you back to the US and you want a raise too?" A job offer Time magazine at nearly double his UP salary soon brought Ed back to Europe, where he became Time's bureau chief in Rome.

Even in his retirement in New York, Ed reads six newspapers a day to stay on top of the news. He is proud of his award from the NC Journalism Hall of Fame in Chapel Hill, where his picture is on the wall at the UNC-CH School of Journalism in Howell Hall.

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C. In high school, he wrote sports and news for the Mount Airy News and Mt. Airy Times and was a sportswriter and news stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.

That experience, coupled with a three-year Pacific stint in the Navy, led him to become a foreign newswriter for United Press in 1947. He covered British news as a correspondent in London and edited international news that went through the London office. He moved to Italy in 1953 to run the UP bureau in Rome, where he covered Italian news and the Vatican.

Time magazine hired him in 1957. During his 29 years with Time, he was a contributing editor, news editor, Rome bureau chief, Washington news editor and the magazine's first international editor. He left Time in 1986 as deputy chief of correspondents and was later named editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a 75,000-circulation monthly news magazine consisting of stories from overseas publications. He retired in 1991.

He established the Edward Jackson International Scholarship in the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communiation in 1992. The endowment provides funds for a news-editorial student, preferably from North Carolina, to travel to a country in Europe to learn about its politics, culture and mass media by living and working there.

Jackson graduated cum laude with a bachelor's in history from Washington and Lee University.

He has served as vice president of the Overseas Press Club and vice president and secretary of The Correspondents Fund, which provides scholarship funds to needy journalists and students.

Source: UNC's School of Journalism Web Site -- Journalism Hall of Fame

...

...

Source: Ed Jackson, personal conversation, March 19, 2002 with Dorothy Jackson Britton?

"Mr. Reid " was well-known as the dean of Main Street merchants. At 80 he was still at work each day. During one of his interviews during the 1970s he commented on his 60 years in business. "I can remember when horse-drawn wagons used to get stuck in the mudholes on Main Street in front of the store. Stepping stones crossed Main Street way back then as a convenience for pedestrians. There were no electric lights. Almost every housewife sewed clothes for the family. In fact, aside from shoes and hats, the biggest part of the retail business in those early years was for 'fixin's,' so the women could make clothes at home -- dry goods, piece goods, and notions," he said.

"Mr. Reid" also commented, "Then we sold all staple items. Today it's fashion apparel which dominates. Three persons, including the owners, could run the store when Jackson Brothers was established. We were the first store in Mount Airy to hire a woman as a sales clerk. Today you couldn't get along without them."

In addition to his business interest, "Mr. Reid" spent quite a bit of time enjoying farming. He was a longtime member and treasurer of First Baptist Church and also a member of the Wage and Price Control Board of Surry County during World War II.

He was married to Annie Britton of Greensboro and they had one son, Edward Jackson. Reid Jackson died in May 1979.

...

...

Source: TIME-LIFE News Service memo from Don Bermingham, Nov. 19, 1962

Ed's interest in journalism started at age 7. He had gone to a baseball game and was disapppointed that the game wasn's written up in the newspaper, so he went to his room and created a write-up himself. Ed loved the New York newspapers that his dad brought back from buying trips for his store, and he also read the Baltimore Sun. At age 12 he produced the "Daily Journal," a neighborhood newspaper that he and his staff of young friends first duplicated by carbons, later by hectograph, and finally with his own mimeograph machine. The paper was popular but his family limited distribution to 200. He published such local news as "Mr. & Mrs. So-and-so went to Okrakoke for the weekend and the bottles were flying," or "Someone drained the gas from Mr. Whitlock's Chevrolet; Mrs. Mundy across the street saw the incident but didn't report it." He and another boy once came across a collection of love letters and printed them word-for-word from memory. An article about the boys' enterprise appeared in the Winston-Salem paper, describing it as "astonishingly well edited." At age 13 Ed wrote a teenage gossip column for the Mount Airy News, called "From Piggy's Pen."

After a stint in the Navy and graduation from Washington and Lee, Ed was hired by United Press to work at the New York cable desk, where he oversaw news coming in from abroad. After two years, he was transferred to London, where both his sons were born under the National Health Plan (at a cost of 55 pounds, or about $100, for the finest Harley Street doctor). On their first night in London, UP put Ed and his wife up at a suite in the Savoy hotel overlooking the Thames; their subsequent flat with a light bulb hanging down from the ceiling was rather a come-down. Times were difficult for the average Englishman then, when "one egg per person per week perhaps" was the norm. He recalls the dirty looks he received after standing in line at the fishmonger's to get "codfish for the cat." He also recalls going with others from the American press to a party at Buckingham Palace, where he met the royal family and afterwards dictated the story over the phone from a local pub. Another time when Ed's little son Roger was pulling his stuffed "Doggy" on wheels down a London sidewalk, old Queen Mary had her driver pull over so she could speak to the boy and admire his toy. Ed loved the witty repartee in the House of Commons, so different from the polodding, ponderous speeches in the US Congress.

In 1953 UP gave Ed a news bureau of his own in Rome, where he covered the Vatican as well as Italy itself, including the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce was ambassador to Italy at the time and attracted a lot of attention to Italy because she "inserted herself into everything" that was going on, and indeed helped solve the Trieste dispute. During the Cold War, the Communicst Party was strong in Italy, and Ed recalls seeing a headline prior to an election: "Italy to Choose Uncle -- Joe [Stalin] or Sam?" When Pope Pius XII was quite ill in 1954, Ed wrote a story about him, which he later saw published after Pius finally died in 1959.

In 1956 UP brought Ed back to New York, but a vice president's joke didn't sit well: "We brought you back to the US and you want a raise too?" A job offer Time magazine at nearly double his UP salary soon brought Ed back to Europe, where he became Time's bureau chief in Rome.

Even in his retirement in New York, Ed reads six newspapers a day to stay on top of the news. He is proud of his award from the NC Journalism Hall of Fame in Chapel Hill, where his picture is on the wall at the UNC-CH School of Journalism in Howell Hall.

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C. In high school, he wrote sports and news for the Mount Airy News and Mt. Airy Times and was a sportswriter and news stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.

That experience, coupled with a three-year Pacific stint in the Navy, led him to become a foreign newswriter for United Press in 1947. He covered British news as a correspondent in London and edited international news that went through the London office. He moved to Italy in 1953 to run the UP bureau in Rome, where he covered Italian news and the Vatican.

Time magazine hired him in 1957. During his 29 years with Time, he was a contributing editor, news editor, Rome bureau chief, Washington news editor and the magazine's first international editor. He left Time in 1986 as deputy chief of correspondents and was later named editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a 75,000-circulation monthly news magazine consisting of stories from overseas publications. He retired in 1991.

He established the Edward Jackson International Scholarship in the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communiation in 1992. The endowment provides funds for a news-editorial student, preferably from North Carolina, to travel to a country in Europe to learn about its politics, culture and mass media by living and working there.

Jackson graduated cum laude with a bachelor's in history from Washington and Lee University.

He has served as vice president of the Overseas Press Club and vice president and secretary of The Correspondents Fund, which provides scholarship funds to needy journalists and students.

Source: UNC's School of Journalism Web Site -- Journalism Hall of Fame

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Source: "Mrs. Reid Jackson, Civic Leader Since (cut off)," article by Eleanor Powell, The Mount Airy News, Tuesday, February 24, 1976.

According to her son Ed, Annie Britton Jackson was an omniverous reader, was interested in politics and foreign affairs, and loved to argue with younger people. She taught arts and crafts and entered her flowers in local shows and the annual fair. Her love of travel influenced her son's interest in what went on in other parts of the world. The family traveled to the "New England states," as she put it, to Ohio, Niagara Falls, Quebec, Maine, and New York. On family visits to Norfolk, they took side trips to Washington and Williamsburg. They visited Andrew Jackson's home in Tennessee and went to Georgia to visit Aunt Jennie and Betty. Ed recalled two humorous incidents from such family trips. In Massachusetts they pulled over to ask a passerby how to get to Plymouth. Not understanding their Southern accent, the man repled, "Quarter to three!" Once in Washington, DC, Ed's aunt Sarah (Tory) drove the car round and round DuPont circle, tryuing to figure out how to get to their hotel; meanwhile Grandma Britton was standing in front of the hotel, frantically waving her hands at them.

Ed recalled being spanked by his mother once at Grandma Jackson's house for declaring at the table that he didn't like a particular food item. He learned Southern manners quickly.

...

Source: "Jackson Brothers Founded in 1916," article from The Mount Airy News (date after 1991).

Reid Jackson's son Ed recalled that his father spent many hours at the store, which was open six days a week. He often worked nights and then went to the store early the next morning to sweep up, because the young people didn't clean to suit him. Reid supervised the shoe department while his brother Andrew did the books.

Andrew's son Joe was in charge of men's clothing and later did the bookkeeping.

While brother Andrew was a good businessman, "Dad was a great listener," said Ed.

As he sat on his front porch, women from town would drop by to tell him their troubles. Ed remembers that Mrs. Mamie Hawks Jackson, who owned a dress shop in Mr. Airy, used to love to talk business with his father. When Reid retired at age 80, friends opined that "he'll be bored," but in reality he was relieved not to have to go to work every day. Reid Jackson owned a farm on US 52 and the Mount Airy-Dobson Road, which he sold over time as lots, except for the farm at the top of the hill, where a tenant grew tobacco and corn. Ed believed that his father could have sold the farm for much more than he eventually did, but his dad seemed satisfied.

Ed recalled that while his mother Annie never hesitated to speak her mind, his dad often withheld his feelings. This reticence was sometimes frustrating to Ed. Once during Ed's post in London with United Press, Annie and Reid visited their son and his young family. They had a grand tour of London, Paris, Brittany, and Amsterdam.

After the trip was over, Ed asked his dad how he liked the trip. Reid repled, "Well, I would like to have gone to Switzerland."

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C.

 

 

OBIT...

R. Edward Jackson, a Mount Airy native who oversaw Time magazine's coverage of the Second Vatican Council, spearheaded the development of the magazine's international editions, and was the last managing editor of the Washington Star, died in New York on Feb. 5, of cancer. He was 85. In Mr. Jackson's 44-year career in journalism he worked in the U.S. and Europe at United Press International and Time, and served as editor-in-chief of World Press Review. He was a leading member of the Overseas Press Club and the Correspondents Fund, and endowed journalism scholarships at several universities. In 1995, he was inducted into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame. Mr. Jackson was born January 14, 1925, in Mount Airy, the son of Robert Reid Jackson, co-owner of Jackson Bros. department store, and Annie Britton Jackson, who resided at 1022 North Main Street. He ran a neighborhood newspaper with a circulation of 200 when he was 12, was a stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal in his teens, and edited school papers in Mount Airy and at Washington and Lee University. He interrupted his education to serve in the Navy for three years at the end of World War II, and graduated from Washington and Lee with a degree in History in 1947. He joined UPI as a foreign news writer in 1947. He worked in UPI's London bureau from 1950 to 1953, and then headed the Rome bureau from 1953 to 1956. He became a writer at Time in New York in 1957. Over the next 29 years, he served as Time's foreign newsdesk editor (1959-62), Rome bureau chief (1963-65), deputy chief of correspondents (1966-72), editor of the international editions (1972-75), Washington news editor (1976-80), managing editor of the Time-owned Washington Star (1980-81), and again as deputy chief of correspondents (1981-86). While Rome bureau chief in the 1960s, Mr. Jackson coordinated Time's coverage of the Second Vatican Council, the death of Pope John XXIII and the election of Paul VI, and Paul VI's unprecedented visit to Israel. In the early 1970s, he headed the team that developed editions of Time geared specifically to readers in Europe, Asia, and Australia, and served as the international editions' first editor. As Washington news editor, he ran the magazine's coverage of the Rerpublican and Democratic conventions of 1976 and 1980. He was appointed managing editor of the Washington Star early in 1981, just months before Time folded the newspaper, bringing its 129-year record of continuous publication to a close. After his retirement from Time in 1986, he served for five years as editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a New York-based monthly digest of selections from newpapers outside the United States, which were hard to obtain in a pre-Internet age. Mr. Jackson donated his services to various journalistic societies, including the Overseas Press Club, where he was vice-president, a member of the board of governors, and chair of the scholarship committee; and the Correspondents Fund, where as trustee, vice-president, and secretary, he helped provide funds for needy journalists and for journalism students. In his later years, he endowed journalism scholarships at Washington and Lee University, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the University of California at Berkeley. Though he lived all his adult life outside North Carolina, Mr. Jackson was a frequent visitor to the state and to Mount Airy, where he had a large and varied family and a long-standing circle of friends. He maintained a lifelong loyalty to North Carolina college sports teams, and enjoyed annual visits to the ACC basketball tournament, as well as drives along the Blue Ridge Parkway, golf at the Mt. Airy Country Club and Cross Creek, and Southern-style cooking wherever he could find it. His first marriage, to Margaret Reid Jackson, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife of thirty-three years, Kathleen Beakley Jackson of New York City, two sons from his first marriage, Roger Jackson, of Northfield, Minnesota, and Blair Jackson, of Oakland, California, and three grandchildren.

 

 

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Notes for Robert Edward Jackson:

GRAD: 1947 Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Albemarle Co., Virginia

Military Service: ABT. 1944 World War II, U.S. Navy

Occupation: Journalist: United Press, Time Magazine, Washington Post

Residence: New York, New York

Note:

Source Paul Murauskas:

North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000

Name: Robt Edward Jackson

Date of Birth: 14 Jan 1925

Birth County: Surry Co., NC

Parent1 Name: Robt R Jackson

Parent2 Name: Annie H Britton

Roll Number: B_C092_66001

Volume: 11

Page: 772

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1930 United States Federal Census, Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina

388 No. Main Street

Robert R. Jackson 41, married age 31, Manager Department Store

Annie B. Jackson 35, married age 25

Robert E. Jackson 5

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Notes provided by Dick Jackson from email to Paul Murauskas

(1) "In becoming Rome bureau chief (for TIME magazine), Ed Jackson will be returning to a familiar scene. He was Rome bureau manager for the United Press, as it was then known, during the four years which preceded his coming to TIME in 1957 as a foreign news writer. Before Rome, Jackson was on U.P.'s London staff, from 1949 to 1953.

"It was in London that the Jacksons' two sons, Roger, 12, and Blair, 9, were born. One evening last week Ed, having already confided in his wife Peggy, convened a family meeting in the living room of their Pelham Manor home and told the boys of his Rome assignment. Their first reaction was that the move would take them away from their valued friends, whom they listed. Jackson was quick to point out that several on the list had already moved away to such remote places as Cleveland, Ohio. Looking far ahead, Blair, who spoke Italian before he learned English, asked: "Will we be back in time for college?" Next morning Ed noted that the books Blair was lugging off to school included a Berlitz Italian phrase book, useful in refreshing dim recollections of the language of his earliest childhood.

"Lest this leave any impression that Jackson is mostly a foreign type, it should be noted that he was born in Mount Airy, N.C., is a graduate (cum laude) of Washington and Lee University, '47, and served his journalistic apprenticeship on three North Carolina newspapers before Navy service in World War II."

...

Source: TIME-LIFE News Service memo from Don Bermingham, Nov. 19, 1962

Ed's interest in journalism started at age 7. He had gone to a baseball game and was disapppointed that the game wasn's written up in the newspaper, so he went to his room and created a write-up himself. Ed loved the New York newspapers that his dad brought back from buying trips for his store, and he also read the Baltimore Sun. At age 12 he produced the "Daily Journal," a neighborhood newspaper that he and his staff of young friends first duplicated by carbons, later by hectograph, and finally with his own mimeograph machine. The paper was popular but his family limited distribution to 200. He published such local news as "Mr. & Mrs. So-and-so went to Okrakoke for the weekend and the bottles were flying," or "Someone drained the gas from Mr. Whitlock's Chevrolet; Mrs. Mundy across the street saw the incident but didn't report it." He and another boy once came across a collection of love letters and printed them word-for-word from memory. An article about the boys' enterprise appeared in the Winston-Salem paper, describing it as "astonishingly well edited." At age 13 Ed wrote a teenage gossip column for the Mount Airy News, called "From Piggy's Pen." After a stint in the Navy and graduation from Washington and Lee, Ed was hired by United Press to work at the New York cable desk, where he oversaw news coming in from abroad. After two years, he was transferred to London, where both his sons were born under the National Health Plan (at a cost of 55 pounds, or about $100, for the finest Harley Street doctor). On their first night in London, UP put Ed and his wife up at a suite in the Savoy hotel overlooking the Thames; their subsequent flat with a light bulb hanging down from the ceiling was rather a come-down. Times were difficult for the average Englishman then, when "one egg per person per week perhaps" was the norm. He recalls the dirty looks he received after standing in line at the fishmonger's to get "codfish for the cat." He also recalls going with others from the American press to a party at Buckingham Palace, where he met the royal family and afterwards dictated the story over the phone from a local pub. Another time when Ed's little son Roger was pulling his stuffed "Doggy" on wheels down a London sidewalk, old Queen Mary had her driver pull over so she could speak to the boy and admire his toy. Ed loved the witty repartee in the House of Commons, so different from the polodding, ponderous speeches in the US Congress. In 1953 UP gave Ed a news bureau of his own in Rome, where he covered the Vatican as well as Italy itself, including the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce was ambassador to Italy at the time and attracted a lot of attention to Italy because she "inserted herself into everything" that was going on, and indeed helped solve the Trieste dispute. During the Cold War, the Communicst Party was strong in Italy, and Ed recalls seeing a headline prior to an election: "Italy to Choose Uncle -- Joe [Stalin] or Sam?" When Pope Pius XII was quite ill in 1954, Ed wrote a story about him, which he later saw published after Pius finally died in 1959.

In 1956 UP brought Ed back to New York, but a vice president's joke didn't sit well: "We brought you back to the US and you want a raise too?" A job offer Time magazine at nearly double his UP salary soon brought Ed back to Europe, where he became Time's bureau chief in Rome.

Even in his retirement in New York, Ed reads six newspapers a day to stay on top of the news. He is proud of his award from the NC Journalism Hall of Fame in Chapel Hill, where his picture is on the wall at the UNC-CH School of Journalism in Howell Hall.

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C. In high school, he wrote sports and news for the Mount Airy News and Mt. Airy Times and was a sportswriter and news stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.

That experience, coupled with a three-year Pacific stint in the Navy, led him to become a foreign newswriter for United Press in 1947. He covered British news as a correspondent in London and edited international news that went through the London office. He moved to Italy in 1953 to run the UP bureau in Rome, where he covered Italian news and the Vatican.

Time magazine hired him in 1957. During his 29 years with Time, he was a contributing editor, news editor, Rome bureau chief, Washington news editor and the magazine's first international editor. He left Time in 1986 as deputy chief of correspondents and was later named editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a 75,000-circulation monthly news magazine consisting of stories from overseas publications. He retired in 1991.

He established the Edward Jackson International Scholarship in the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communiation in 1992. The endowment provides funds for a news-editorial student, preferably from North Carolina, to travel to a country in Europe to learn about its politics, culture and mass media by living and working there.

Jackson graduated cum laude with a bachelor's in history from Washington and Lee University.

He has served as vice president of the Overseas Press Club and vice president and secretary of The Correspondents Fund, which provides scholarship funds to needy journalists and students.

Source: UNC's School of Journalism Web Site -- Journalism Hall of Fame

...

...

Source: Ed Jackson, personal conversation, March 19, 2002 with Dorothy Jackson Britton?

"Mr. Reid " was well-known as the dean of Main Street merchants. At 80 he was still at work each day. During one of his interviews during the 1970s he commented on his 60 years in business. "I can remember when horse-drawn wagons used to get stuck in the mudholes on Main Street in front of the store. Stepping stones crossed Main Street way back then as a convenience for pedestrians. There were no electric lights. Almost every housewife sewed clothes for the family. In fact, aside from shoes and hats, the biggest part of the retail business in those early years was for 'fixin's,' so the women could make clothes at home -- dry goods, piece goods, and notions," he said.

"Mr. Reid" also commented, "Then we sold all staple items. Today it's fashion apparel which dominates. Three persons, including the owners, could run the store when Jackson Brothers was established. We were the first store in Mount Airy to hire a woman as a sales clerk. Today you couldn't get along without them."

In addition to his business interest, "Mr. Reid" spent quite a bit of time enjoying farming. He was a longtime member and treasurer of First Baptist Church and also a member of the Wage and Price Control Board of Surry County during World War II.

He was married to Annie Britton of Greensboro and they had one son, Edward Jackson. Reid Jackson died in May 1979.

...

...

Source: TIME-LIFE News Service memo from Don Bermingham, Nov. 19, 1962

Ed's interest in journalism started at age 7. He had gone to a baseball game and was disapppointed that the game wasn's written up in the newspaper, so he went to his room and created a write-up himself. Ed loved the New York newspapers that his dad brought back from buying trips for his store, and he also read the Baltimore Sun. At age 12 he produced the "Daily Journal," a neighborhood newspaper that he and his staff of young friends first duplicated by carbons, later by hectograph, and finally with his own mimeograph machine. The paper was popular but his family limited distribution to 200. He published such local news as "Mr. & Mrs. So-and-so went to Okrakoke for the weekend and the bottles were flying," or "Someone drained the gas from Mr. Whitlock's Chevrolet; Mrs. Mundy across the street saw the incident but didn't report it." He and another boy once came across a collection of love letters and printed them word-for-word from memory. An article about the boys' enterprise appeared in the Winston-Salem paper, describing it as "astonishingly well edited." At age 13 Ed wrote a teenage gossip column for the Mount Airy News, called "From Piggy's Pen."

After a stint in the Navy and graduation from Washington and Lee, Ed was hired by United Press to work at the New York cable desk, where he oversaw news coming in from abroad. After two years, he was transferred to London, where both his sons were born under the National Health Plan (at a cost of 55 pounds, or about $100, for the finest Harley Street doctor). On their first night in London, UP put Ed and his wife up at a suite in the Savoy hotel overlooking the Thames; their subsequent flat with a light bulb hanging down from the ceiling was rather a come-down. Times were difficult for the average Englishman then, when "one egg per person per week perhaps" was the norm. He recalls the dirty looks he received after standing in line at the fishmonger's to get "codfish for the cat." He also recalls going with others from the American press to a party at Buckingham Palace, where he met the royal family and afterwards dictated the story over the phone from a local pub. Another time when Ed's little son Roger was pulling his stuffed "Doggy" on wheels down a London sidewalk, old Queen Mary had her driver pull over so she could speak to the boy and admire his toy. Ed loved the witty repartee in the House of Commons, so different from the polodding, ponderous speeches in the US Congress.

In 1953 UP gave Ed a news bureau of his own in Rome, where he covered the Vatican as well as Italy itself, including the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce was ambassador to Italy at the time and attracted a lot of attention to Italy because she "inserted herself into everything" that was going on, and indeed helped solve the Trieste dispute. During the Cold War, the Communicst Party was strong in Italy, and Ed recalls seeing a headline prior to an election: "Italy to Choose Uncle -- Joe [Stalin] or Sam?" When Pope Pius XII was quite ill in 1954, Ed wrote a story about him, which he later saw published after Pius finally died in 1959.

In 1956 UP brought Ed back to New York, but a vice president's joke didn't sit well: "We brought you back to the US and you want a raise too?" A job offer Time magazine at nearly double his UP salary soon brought Ed back to Europe, where he became Time's bureau chief in Rome.

Even in his retirement in New York, Ed reads six newspapers a day to stay on top of the news. He is proud of his award from the NC Journalism Hall of Fame in Chapel Hill, where his picture is on the wall at the UNC-CH School of Journalism in Howell Hall.

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C. In high school, he wrote sports and news for the Mount Airy News and Mt. Airy Times and was a sportswriter and news stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.

That experience, coupled with a three-year Pacific stint in the Navy, led him to become a foreign newswriter for United Press in 1947. He covered British news as a correspondent in London and edited international news that went through the London office. He moved to Italy in 1953 to run the UP bureau in Rome, where he covered Italian news and the Vatican.

Time magazine hired him in 1957. During his 29 years with Time, he was a contributing editor, news editor, Rome bureau chief, Washington news editor and the magazine's first international editor. He left Time in 1986 as deputy chief of correspondents and was later named editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a 75,000-circulation monthly news magazine consisting of stories from overseas publications. He retired in 1991.

He established the Edward Jackson International Scholarship in the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communiation in 1992. The endowment provides funds for a news-editorial student, preferably from North Carolina, to travel to a country in Europe to learn about its politics, culture and mass media by living and working there.

Jackson graduated cum laude with a bachelor's in history from Washington and Lee University.

He has served as vice president of the Overseas Press Club and vice president and secretary of The Correspondents Fund, which provides scholarship funds to needy journalists and students.

Source: UNC's School of Journalism Web Site -- Journalism Hall of Fame

...

Source: "Mrs. Reid Jackson, Civic Leader Since (cut off)," article by Eleanor Powell, The Mount Airy News, Tuesday, February 24, 1976.

According to her son Ed, Annie Britton Jackson was an omniverous reader, was interested in politics and foreign affairs, and loved to argue with younger people. She taught arts and crafts and entered her flowers in local shows and the annual fair. Her love of travel influenced her son's interest in what went on in other parts of the world. The family traveled to the "New England states," as she put it, to Ohio, Niagara Falls, Quebec, Maine, and New York. On family visits to Norfolk, they took side trips to Washington and Williamsburg. They visited Andrew Jackson's home in Tennessee and went to Georgia to visit Aunt Jennie and Betty. Ed recalled two humorous incidents from such family trips. In Massachusetts they pulled over to ask a passerby how to get to Plymouth. Not understanding their Southern accent, the man repled, "Quarter to three!" Once in Washington, DC, Ed's aunt Sarah (Tory) drove the car round and round DuPont circle, tryuing to figure out how to get to their hotel; meanwhile Grandma Britton was standing in front of the hotel, frantically waving her hands at them.

Ed recalled being spanked by his mother once at Grandma Jackson's house for declaring at the table that he didn't like a particular food item. He learned Southern manners quickly.

...

Source: "Jackson Brothers Founded in 1916," article from The Mount Airy News (date after 1991).

Reid Jackson's son Ed recalled that his father spent many hours at the store, which was open six days a week. He often worked nights and then went to the store early the next morning to sweep up, because the young people didn't clean to suit him. Reid supervised the shoe department while his brother Andrew did the books.

Andrew's son Joe was in charge of men's clothing and later did the bookkeeping.

While brother Andrew was a good businessman, "Dad was a great listener," said Ed.

As he sat on his front porch, women from town would drop by to tell him their troubles. Ed remembers that Mrs. Mamie Hawks Jackson, who owned a dress shop in Mr. Airy, used to love to talk business with his father. When Reid retired at age 80, friends opined that "he'll be bored," but in reality he was relieved not to have to go to work every day. Reid Jackson owned a farm on US 52 and the Mount Airy-Dobson Road, which he sold over time as lots, except for the farm at the top of the hill, where a tenant grew tobacco and corn. Ed believed that his father could have sold the farm for much more than he eventually did, but his dad seemed satisfied.

Ed recalled that while his mother Annie never hesitated to speak her mind, his dad often withheld his feelings. This reticence was sometimes frustrating to Ed. Once during Ed's post in London with United Press, Annie and Reid visited their son and his young family. They had a grand tour of London, Paris, Brittany, and Amsterdam.

After the trip was over, Ed asked his dad how he liked the trip. Reid repled, "Well, I would like to have gone to Switzerland."

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C.

 

 

OBIT...

R. Edward Jackson, a Mount Airy native who oversaw Time magazine's coverage of the Second Vatican Council, spearheaded the development of the magazine's international editions, and was the last managing editor of the Washington Star, died in New York on Feb. 5, of cancer. He was 85. In Mr. Jackson's 44-year career in journalism he worked in the U.S. and Europe at United Press International and Time, and served as editor-in-chief of World Press Review. He was a leading member of the Overseas Press Club and the Correspondents Fund, and endowed journalism scholarships at several universities. In 1995, he was inducted into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame. Mr. Jackson was born January 14, 1925, in Mount Airy, the son of Robert Reid Jackson, co-owner of Jackson Bros. department store, and Annie Britton Jackson, who resided at 1022 North Main Street. He ran a neighborhood newspaper with a circulation of 200 when he was 12, was a stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal in his teens, and edited school papers in Mount Airy and at Washington and Lee University. He interrupted his education to serve in the Navy for three years at the end of World War II, and graduated from Washington and Lee with a degree in History in 1947. He joined UPI as a foreign news writer in 1947. He worked in UPI's London bureau from 1950 to 1953, and then headed the Rome bureau from 1953 to 1956. He became a writer at Time in New York in 1957. Over the next 29 years, he served as Time's foreign newsdesk editor (1959-62), Rome bureau chief (1963-65), deputy chief of correspondents (1966-72), editor of the international editions (1972-75), Washington news editor (1976-80), managing editor of the Time-owned Washington Star (1980-81), and again as deputy chief of correspondents (1981-86). While Rome bureau chief in the 1960s, Mr. Jackson coordinated Time's coverage of the Second Vatican Council, the death of Pope John XXIII and the election of Paul VI, and Paul VI's unprecedented visit to Israel. In the early 1970s, he headed the team that developed editions of Time geared specifically to readers in Europe, Asia, and Australia, and served as the international editions' first editor. As Washington news editor, he ran the magazine's coverage of the Rerpublican and Democratic conventions of 1976 and 1980. He was appointed managing editor of the Washington Star early in 1981, just months before Time folded the newspaper, bringing its 129-year record of continuous publication to a close. After his retirement from Time in 1986, he served for five years as editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a New York-based monthly digest of selections from newpapers outside the United States, which were hard to obtain in a pre-Internet age. Mr. Jackson donated his services to various journalistic societies, including the Overseas Press Club, where he was vice-president, a member of the board of governors, and chair of the scholarship committee; and the Correspondents Fund, where as trustee, vice-president, and secretary, he helped provide funds for needy journalists and for journalism students. In his later years, he endowed journalism scholarships at Washington and Lee University, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the University of California at Berkeley. Though he lived all his adult life outside North Carolina, Mr. Jackson was a frequent visitor to the state and to Mount Airy, where he had a large and varied family and a long-standing circle of friends. He maintained a lifelong loyalty to North Carolina college sports teams, and enjoyed annual visits to the ACC basketball tournament, as well as drives along the Blue Ridge Parkway, golf at the Mt. Airy Country Club and Cross Creek, and Southern-style cooking wherever he could find it. His first marriage, to Margaret Reid Jackson, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife of thirty-three years, Kathleen Beakley Jackson of New York City, two sons from his first marriage, Roger Jackson, of Northfield, Minnesota, and Blair Jackson, of Oakland, California, and three grandchildren.

 

 

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Descendants of Joseph Jackson
Generation 4 (con't)

Notes for Robert Edward Jackson:

GRAD: 1947 Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Albemarle Co., Virginia

Military Service: ABT. 1944 World War II, U.S. Navy

Occupation: Journalist: United Press, Time Magazine, Washington Post

Residence: New York, New York

Note:

Source Paul Murauskas:

North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000

Name: Robt Edward Jackson

Date of Birth: 14 Jan 1925

Birth County: Surry Co., NC

Parent1 Name: Robt R Jackson

Parent2 Name: Annie H Britton

Roll Number: B_C092_66001

Volume: 11

Page: 772

...

1930 United States Federal Census, Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina

388 No. Main Street

Robert R. Jackson 41, married age 31, Manager Department Store

Annie B. Jackson 35, married age 25

Robert E. Jackson 5

...

Notes provided by Dick Jackson from email to Paul Murauskas

(1) "In becoming Rome bureau chief (for TIME magazine), Ed Jackson will be returning to a familiar scene. He was Rome bureau manager for the United Press, as it was then known, during the four years which preceded his coming to TIME in 1957 as a foreign news writer. Before Rome, Jackson was on U.P.'s London staff, from 1949 to 1953.

"It was in London that the Jacksons' two sons, Roger, 12, and Blair, 9, were born. One evening last week Ed, having already confided in his wife Peggy, convened a family meeting in the living room of their Pelham Manor home and told the boys of his Rome assignment. Their first reaction was that the move would take them away from their valued friends, whom they listed. Jackson was quick to point out that several on the list had already moved away to such remote places as Cleveland, Ohio. Looking far ahead, Blair, who spoke Italian before he learned English, asked: "Will we be back in time for college?" Next morning Ed noted that the books Blair was lugging off to school included a Berlitz Italian phrase book, useful in refreshing dim recollections of the language of his earliest childhood.

"Lest this leave any impression that Jackson is mostly a foreign type, it should be noted that he was born in Mount Airy, N.C., is a graduate (cum laude) of Washington and Lee University, '47, and served his journalistic apprenticeship on three North Carolina newspapers before Navy service in World War II."

...

Source: TIME-LIFE News Service memo from Don Bermingham, Nov. 19, 1962

Ed's interest in journalism started at age 7. He had gone to a baseball game and was disapppointed that the game wasn's written up in the newspaper, so he went to his room and created a write-up himself. Ed loved the New York newspapers that his dad brought back from buying trips for his store, and he also read the Baltimore Sun. At age 12 he produced the "Daily Journal," a neighborhood newspaper that he and his staff of young friends first duplicated by carbons, later by hectograph, and finally with his own mimeograph machine. The paper was popular but his family limited distribution to 200. He published such local news as "Mr. & Mrs. So-and-so went to Okrakoke for the weekend and the bottles were flying," or "Someone drained the gas from Mr. Whitlock's Chevrolet; Mrs. Mundy across the street saw the incident but didn't report it." He and another boy once came across a collection of love letters and printed them word-for-word from memory. An article about the boys' enterprise appeared in the Winston-Salem paper, describing it as "astonishingly well edited." At age 13 Ed wrote a teenage gossip column for the Mount Airy News, called "From Piggy's Pen." After a stint in the Navy and graduation from Washington and Lee, Ed was hired by United Press to work at the New York cable desk, where he oversaw news coming in from abroad. After two years, he was transferred to London, where both his sons were born under the National Health Plan (at a cost of 55 pounds, or about $100, for the finest Harley Street doctor). On their first night in London, UP put Ed and his wife up at a suite in the Savoy hotel overlooking the Thames; their subsequent flat with a light bulb hanging down from the ceiling was rather a come-down. Times were difficult for the average Englishman then, when "one egg per person per week perhaps" was the norm. He recalls the dirty looks he received after standing in line at the fishmonger's to get "codfish for the cat." He also recalls going with others from the American press to a party at Buckingham Palace, where he met the royal family and afterwards dictated the story over the phone from a local pub. Another time when Ed's little son Roger was pulling his stuffed "Doggy" on wheels down a London sidewalk, old Queen Mary had her driver pull over so she could speak to the boy and admire his toy. Ed loved the witty repartee in the House of Commons, so different from the polodding, ponderous speeches in the US Congress. In 1953 UP gave Ed a news bureau of his own in Rome, where he covered the Vatican as well as Italy itself, including the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce was ambassador to Italy at the time and attracted a lot of attention to Italy because she "inserted herself into everything" that was going on, and indeed helped solve the Trieste dispute. During the Cold War, the Communicst Party was strong in Italy, and Ed recalls seeing a headline prior to an election: "Italy to Choose Uncle -- Joe [Stalin] or Sam?" When Pope Pius XII was quite ill in 1954, Ed wrote a story about him, which he later saw published after Pius finally died in 1959.

In 1956 UP brought Ed back to New York, but a vice president's joke didn't sit well: "We brought you back to the US and you want a raise too?" A job offer Time magazine at nearly double his UP salary soon brought Ed back to Europe, where he became Time's bureau chief in Rome.

Even in his retirement in New York, Ed reads six newspapers a day to stay on top of the news. He is proud of his award from the NC Journalism Hall of Fame in Chapel Hill, where his picture is on the wall at the UNC-CH School of Journalism in Howell Hall.

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C. In high school, he wrote sports and news for the Mount Airy News and Mt. Airy Times and was a sportswriter and news stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.

That experience, coupled with a three-year Pacific stint in the Navy, led him to become a foreign newswriter for United Press in 1947. He covered British news as a correspondent in London and edited international news that went through the London office. He moved to Italy in 1953 to run the UP bureau in Rome, where he covered Italian news and the Vatican.

Time magazine hired him in 1957. During his 29 years with Time, he was a contributing editor, news editor, Rome bureau chief, Washington news editor and the magazine's first international editor. He left Time in 1986 as deputy chief of correspondents and was later named editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a 75,000-circulation monthly news magazine consisting of stories from overseas publications. He retired in 1991.

He established the Edward Jackson International Scholarship in the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communiation in 1992. The endowment provides funds for a news-editorial student, preferably from North Carolina, to travel to a country in Europe to learn about its politics, culture and mass media by living and working there.

Jackson graduated cum laude with a bachelor's in history from Washington and Lee University.

He has served as vice president of the Overseas Press Club and vice president and secretary of The Correspondents Fund, which provides scholarship funds to needy journalists and students.

Source: UNC's School of Journalism Web Site -- Journalism Hall of Fame

...

...

Source: Ed Jackson, personal conversation, March 19, 2002 with Dorothy Jackson Britton?

"Mr. Reid " was well-known as the dean of Main Street merchants. At 80 he was still at work each day. During one of his interviews during the 1970s he commented on his 60 years in business. "I can remember when horse-drawn wagons used to get stuck in the mudholes on Main Street in front of the store. Stepping stones crossed Main Street way back then as a convenience for pedestrians. There were no electric lights. Almost every housewife sewed clothes for the family. In fact, aside from shoes and hats, the biggest part of the retail business in those early years was for 'fixin's,' so the women could make clothes at home -- dry goods, piece goods, and notions," he said.

"Mr. Reid" also commented, "Then we sold all staple items. Today it's fashion apparel which dominates. Three persons, including the owners, could run the store when Jackson Brothers was established. We were the first store in Mount Airy to hire a woman as a sales clerk. Today you couldn't get along without them."

In addition to his business interest, "Mr. Reid" spent quite a bit of time enjoying farming. He was a longtime member and treasurer of First Baptist Church and also a member of the Wage and Price Control Board of Surry County during World War II.

He was married to Annie Britton of Greensboro and they had one son, Edward Jackson. Reid Jackson died in May 1979.

...

...

Source: TIME-LIFE News Service memo from Don Bermingham, Nov. 19, 1962

Ed's interest in journalism started at age 7. He had gone to a baseball game and was disapppointed that the game wasn's written up in the newspaper, so he went to his room and created a write-up himself. Ed loved the New York newspapers that his dad brought back from buying trips for his store, and he also read the Baltimore Sun. At age 12 he produced the "Daily Journal," a neighborhood newspaper that he and his staff of young friends first duplicated by carbons, later by hectograph, and finally with his own mimeograph machine. The paper was popular but his family limited distribution to 200. He published such local news as "Mr. & Mrs. So-and-so went to Okrakoke for the weekend and the bottles were flying," or "Someone drained the gas from Mr. Whitlock's Chevrolet; Mrs. Mundy across the street saw the incident but didn't report it." He and another boy once came across a collection of love letters and printed them word-for-word from memory. An article about the boys' enterprise appeared in the Winston-Salem paper, describing it as "astonishingly well edited." At age 13 Ed wrote a teenage gossip column for the Mount Airy News, called "From Piggy's Pen."

After a stint in the Navy and graduation from Washington and Lee, Ed was hired by United Press to work at the New York cable desk, where he oversaw news coming in from abroad. After two years, he was transferred to London, where both his sons were born under the National Health Plan (at a cost of 55 pounds, or about $100, for the finest Harley Street doctor). On their first night in London, UP put Ed and his wife up at a suite in the Savoy hotel overlooking the Thames; their subsequent flat with a light bulb hanging down from the ceiling was rather a come-down. Times were difficult for the average Englishman then, when "one egg per person per week perhaps" was the norm. He recalls the dirty looks he received after standing in line at the fishmonger's to get "codfish for the cat." He also recalls going with others from the American press to a party at Buckingham Palace, where he met the royal family and afterwards dictated the story over the phone from a local pub. Another time when Ed's little son Roger was pulling his stuffed "Doggy" on wheels down a London sidewalk, old Queen Mary had her driver pull over so she could speak to the boy and admire his toy. Ed loved the witty repartee in the House of Commons, so different from the polodding, ponderous speeches in the US Congress.

In 1953 UP gave Ed a news bureau of his own in Rome, where he covered the Vatican as well as Italy itself, including the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce was ambassador to Italy at the time and attracted a lot of attention to Italy because she "inserted herself into everything" that was going on, and indeed helped solve the Trieste dispute. During the Cold War, the Communicst Party was strong in Italy, and Ed recalls seeing a headline prior to an election: "Italy to Choose Uncle -- Joe [Stalin] or Sam?" When Pope Pius XII was quite ill in 1954, Ed wrote a story about him, which he later saw published after Pius finally died in 1959.

In 1956 UP brought Ed back to New York, but a vice president's joke didn't sit well: "We brought you back to the US and you want a raise too?" A job offer Time magazine at nearly double his UP salary soon brought Ed back to Europe, where he became Time's bureau chief in Rome.

Even in his retirement in New York, Ed reads six newspapers a day to stay on top of the news. He is proud of his award from the NC Journalism Hall of Fame in Chapel Hill, where his picture is on the wall at the UNC-CH School of Journalism in Howell Hall.

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C. In high school, he wrote sports and news for the Mount Airy News and Mt. Airy Times and was a sportswriter and news stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.

That experience, coupled with a three-year Pacific stint in the Navy, led him to become a foreign newswriter for United Press in 1947. He covered British news as a correspondent in London and edited international news that went through the London office. He moved to Italy in 1953 to run the UP bureau in Rome, where he covered Italian news and the Vatican.

Time magazine hired him in 1957. During his 29 years with Time, he was a contributing editor, news editor, Rome bureau chief, Washington news editor and the magazine's first international editor. He left Time in 1986 as deputy chief of correspondents and was later named editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a 75,000-circulation monthly news magazine consisting of stories from overseas publications. He retired in 1991.

He established the Edward Jackson International Scholarship in the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communiation in 1992. The endowment provides funds for a news-editorial student, preferably from North Carolina, to travel to a country in Europe to learn about its politics, culture and mass media by living and working there.

Jackson graduated cum laude with a bachelor's in history from Washington and Lee University.

He has served as vice president of the Overseas Press Club and vice president and secretary of The Correspondents Fund, which provides scholarship funds to needy journalists and students.

Source: UNC's School of Journalism Web Site -- Journalism Hall of Fame

...

Source: "Mrs. Reid Jackson, Civic Leader Since (cut off)," article by Eleanor Powell, The Mount Airy News, Tuesday, February 24, 1976.

According to her son Ed, Annie Britton Jackson was an omniverous reader, was interested in politics and foreign affairs, and loved to argue with younger people. She taught arts and crafts and entered her flowers in local shows and the annual fair. Her love of travel influenced her son's interest in what went on in other parts of the world. The family traveled to the "New England states," as she put it, to Ohio, Niagara Falls, Quebec, Maine, and New York. On family visits to Norfolk, they took side trips to Washington and Williamsburg. They visited Andrew Jackson's home in Tennessee and went to Georgia to visit Aunt Jennie and Betty. Ed recalled two humorous incidents from such family trips. In Massachusetts they pulled over to ask a passerby how to get to Plymouth. Not understanding their Southern accent, the man repled, "Quarter to three!" Once in Washington, DC, Ed's aunt Sarah (Tory) drove the car round and round DuPont circle, tryuing to figure out how to get to their hotel; meanwhile Grandma Britton was standing in front of the hotel, frantically waving her hands at them.

Ed recalled being spanked by his mother once at Grandma Jackson's house for declaring at the table that he didn't like a particular food item. He learned Southern manners quickly.

...

Source: "Jackson Brothers Founded in 1916," article from The Mount Airy News (date after 1991).

Reid Jackson's son Ed recalled that his father spent many hours at the store, which was open six days a week. He often worked nights and then went to the store early the next morning to sweep up, because the young people didn't clean to suit him. Reid supervised the shoe department while his brother Andrew did the books.

Andrew's son Joe was in charge of men's clothing and later did the bookkeeping.

While brother Andrew was a good businessman, "Dad was a great listener," said Ed.

As he sat on his front porch, women from town would drop by to tell him their troubles. Ed remembers that Mrs. Mamie Hawks Jackson, who owned a dress shop in Mr. Airy, used to love to talk business with his father. When Reid retired at age 80, friends opined that "he'll be bored," but in reality he was relieved not to have to go to work every day. Reid Jackson owned a farm on US 52 and the Mount Airy-Dobson Road, which he sold over time as lots, except for the farm at the top of the hill, where a tenant grew tobacco and corn. Ed believed that his father could have sold the farm for much more than he eventually did, but his dad seemed satisfied.

Ed recalled that while his mother Annie never hesitated to speak her mind, his dad often withheld his feelings. This reticence was sometimes frustrating to Ed. Once during Ed's post in London with United Press, Annie and Reid visited their son and his young family. They had a grand tour of London, Paris, Brittany, and Amsterdam.

After the trip was over, Ed asked his dad how he liked the trip. Reid repled, "Well, I would like to have gone to Switzerland."

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C.

 

 

OBIT...

R. Edward Jackson, a Mount Airy native who oversaw Time magazine's coverage of the Second Vatican Council, spearheaded the development of the magazine's international editions, and was the last managing editor of the Washington Star, died in New York on Feb. 5, of cancer. He was 85. In Mr. Jackson's 44-year career in journalism he worked in the U.S. and Europe at United Press International and Time, and served as editor-in-chief of World Press Review. He was a leading member of the Overseas Press Club and the Correspondents Fund, and endowed journalism scholarships at several universities. In 1995, he was inducted into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame. Mr. Jackson was born January 14, 1925, in Mount Airy, the son of Robert Reid Jackson, co-owner of Jackson Bros. department store, and Annie Britton Jackson, who resided at 1022 North Main Street. He ran a neighborhood newspaper with a circulation of 200 when he was 12, was a stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal in his teens, and edited school papers in Mount Airy and at Washington and Lee University. He interrupted his education to serve in the Navy for three years at the end of World War II, and graduated from Washington and Lee with a degree in History in 1947. He joined UPI as a foreign news writer in 1947. He worked in UPI's London bureau from 1950 to 1953, and then headed the Rome bureau from 1953 to 1956. He became a writer at Time in New York in 1957. Over the next 29 years, he served as Time's foreign newsdesk editor (1959-62), Rome bureau chief (1963-65), deputy chief of correspondents (1966-72), editor of the international editions (1972-75), Washington news editor (1976-80), managing editor of the Time-owned Washington Star (1980-81), and again as deputy chief of correspondents (1981-86). While Rome bureau chief in the 1960s, Mr. Jackson coordinated Time's coverage of the Second Vatican Council, the death of Pope John XXIII and the election of Paul VI, and Paul VI's unprecedented visit to Israel. In the early 1970s, he headed the team that developed editions of Time geared specifically to readers in Europe, Asia, and Australia, and served as the international editions' first editor. As Washington news editor, he ran the magazine's coverage of the Rerpublican and Democratic conventions of 1976 and 1980. He was appointed managing editor of the Washington Star early in 1981, just months before Time folded the newspaper, bringing its 129-year record of continuous publication to a close. After his retirement from Time in 1986, he served for five years as editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a New York-based monthly digest of selections from newpapers outside the United States, which were hard to obtain in a pre-Internet age. Mr. Jackson donated his services to various journalistic societies, including the Overseas Press Club, where he was vice-president, a member of the board of governors, and chair of the scholarship committee; and the Correspondents Fund, where as trustee, vice-president, and secretary, he helped provide funds for needy journalists and for journalism students. In his later years, he endowed journalism scholarships at Washington and Lee University, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the University of California at Berkeley. Though he lived all his adult life outside North Carolina, Mr. Jackson was a frequent visitor to the state and to Mount Airy, where he had a large and varied family and a long-standing circle of friends. He maintained a lifelong loyalty to North Carolina college sports teams, and enjoyed annual visits to the ACC basketball tournament, as well as drives along the Blue Ridge Parkway, golf at the Mt. Airy Country Club and Cross Creek, and Southern-style cooking wherever he could find it. His first marriage, to Margaret Reid Jackson, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife of thirty-three years, Kathleen Beakley Jackson of New York City, two sons from his first marriage, Roger Jackson, of Northfield, Minnesota, and Blair Jackson, of Oakland, California, and three grandchildren.

 

 

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Descendants of Joseph Jackson
Generation 4 (con't)

Notes for Robert Edward Jackson:

GRAD: 1947 Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Albemarle Co., Virginia

Military Service: ABT. 1944 World War II, U.S. Navy

Occupation: Journalist: United Press, Time Magazine, Washington Post

Residence: New York, New York

Note:

Source Paul Murauskas:

North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000

Name: Robt Edward Jackson

Date of Birth: 14 Jan 1925

Birth County: Surry Co., NC

Parent1 Name: Robt R Jackson

Parent2 Name: Annie H Britton

Roll Number: B_C092_66001

Volume: 11

Page: 772

...

1930 United States Federal Census, Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina

388 No. Main Street

Robert R. Jackson 41, married age 31, Manager Department Store

Annie B. Jackson 35, married age 25

Robert E. Jackson 5

...

Notes provided by Dick Jackson from email to Paul Murauskas

(1) "In becoming Rome bureau chief (for TIME magazine), Ed Jackson will be returning to a familiar scene. He was Rome bureau manager for the United Press, as it was then known, during the four years which preceded his coming to TIME in 1957 as a foreign news writer. Before Rome, Jackson was on U.P.'s London staff, from 1949 to 1953.

"It was in London that the Jacksons' two sons, Roger, 12, and Blair, 9, were born. One evening last week Ed, having already confided in his wife Peggy, convened a family meeting in the living room of their Pelham Manor home and told the boys of his Rome assignment. Their first reaction was that the move would take them away from their valued friends, whom they listed. Jackson was quick to point out that several on the list had already moved away to such remote places as Cleveland, Ohio. Looking far ahead, Blair, who spoke Italian before he learned English, asked: "Will we be back in time for college?" Next morning Ed noted that the books Blair was lugging off to school included a Berlitz Italian phrase book, useful in refreshing dim recollections of the language of his earliest childhood.

"Lest this leave any impression that Jackson is mostly a foreign type, it should be noted that he was born in Mount Airy, N.C., is a graduate (cum laude) of Washington and Lee University, '47, and served his journalistic apprenticeship on three North Carolina newspapers before Navy service in World War II."

...

Source: TIME-LIFE News Service memo from Don Bermingham, Nov. 19, 1962

Ed's interest in journalism started at age 7. He had gone to a baseball game and was disapppointed that the game wasn's written up in the newspaper, so he went to his room and created a write-up himself. Ed loved the New York newspapers that his dad brought back from buying trips for his store, and he also read the Baltimore Sun. At age 12 he produced the "Daily Journal," a neighborhood newspaper that he and his staff of young friends first duplicated by carbons, later by hectograph, and finally with his own mimeograph machine. The paper was popular but his family limited distribution to 200. He published such local news as "Mr. & Mrs. So-and-so went to Okrakoke for the weekend and the bottles were flying," or "Someone drained the gas from Mr. Whitlock's Chevrolet; Mrs. Mundy across the street saw the incident but didn't report it." He and another boy once came across a collection of love letters and printed them word-for-word from memory. An article about the boys' enterprise appeared in the Winston-Salem paper, describing it as "astonishingly well edited." At age 13 Ed wrote a teenage gossip column for the Mount Airy News, called "From Piggy's Pen." After a stint in the Navy and graduation from Washington and Lee, Ed was hired by United Press to work at the New York cable desk, where he oversaw news coming in from abroad. After two years, he was transferred to London, where both his sons were born under the National Health Plan (at a cost of 55 pounds, or about $100, for the finest Harley Street doctor). On their first night in London, UP put Ed and his wife up at a suite in the Savoy hotel overlooking the Thames; their subsequent flat with a light bulb hanging down from the ceiling was rather a come-down. Times were difficult for the average Englishman then, when "one egg per person per week perhaps" was the norm. He recalls the dirty looks he received after standing in line at the fishmonger's to get "codfish for the cat." He also recalls going with others from the American press to a party at Buckingham Palace, where he met the royal family and afterwards dictated the story over the phone from a local pub. Another time when Ed's little son Roger was pulling his stuffed "Doggy" on wheels down a London sidewalk, old Queen Mary had her driver pull over so she could speak to the boy and admire his toy. Ed loved the witty repartee in the House of Commons, so different from the polodding, ponderous speeches in the US Congress. In 1953 UP gave Ed a news bureau of his own in Rome, where he covered the Vatican as well as Italy itself, including the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce was ambassador to Italy at the time and attracted a lot of attention to Italy because she "inserted herself into everything" that was going on, and indeed helped solve the Trieste dispute. During the Cold War, the Communicst Party was strong in Italy, and Ed recalls seeing a headline prior to an election: "Italy to Choose Uncle -- Joe [Stalin] or Sam?" When Pope Pius XII was quite ill in 1954, Ed wrote a story about him, which he later saw published after Pius finally died in 1959.

In 1956 UP brought Ed back to New York, but a vice president's joke didn't sit well: "We brought you back to the US and you want a raise too?" A job offer Time magazine at nearly double his UP salary soon brought Ed back to Europe, where he became Time's bureau chief in Rome.

Even in his retirement in New York, Ed reads six newspapers a day to stay on top of the news. He is proud of his award from the NC Journalism Hall of Fame in Chapel Hill, where his picture is on the wall at the UNC-CH School of Journalism in Howell Hall.

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C. In high school, he wrote sports and news for the Mount Airy News and Mt. Airy Times and was a sportswriter and news stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.

That experience, coupled with a three-year Pacific stint in the Navy, led him to become a foreign newswriter for United Press in 1947. He covered British news as a correspondent in London and edited international news that went through the London office. He moved to Italy in 1953 to run the UP bureau in Rome, where he covered Italian news and the Vatican.

Time magazine hired him in 1957. During his 29 years with Time, he was a contributing editor, news editor, Rome bureau chief, Washington news editor and the magazine's first international editor. He left Time in 1986 as deputy chief of correspondents and was later named editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a 75,000-circulation monthly news magazine consisting of stories from overseas publications. He retired in 1991.

He established the Edward Jackson International Scholarship in the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communiation in 1992. The endowment provides funds for a news-editorial student, preferably from North Carolina, to travel to a country in Europe to learn about its politics, culture and mass media by living and working there.

Jackson graduated cum laude with a bachelor's in history from Washington and Lee University.

He has served as vice president of the Overseas Press Club and vice president and secretary of The Correspondents Fund, which provides scholarship funds to needy journalists and students.

Source: UNC's School of Journalism Web Site -- Journalism Hall of Fame

...

...

Source: Ed Jackson, personal conversation, March 19, 2002 with Dorothy Jackson Britton?

"Mr. Reid " was well-known as the dean of Main Street merchants. At 80 he was still at work each day. During one of his interviews during the 1970s he commented on his 60 years in business. "I can remember when horse-drawn wagons used to get stuck in the mudholes on Main Street in front of the store. Stepping stones crossed Main Street way back then as a convenience for pedestrians. There were no electric lights. Almost every housewife sewed clothes for the family. In fact, aside from shoes and hats, the biggest part of the retail business in those early years was for 'fixin's,' so the women could make clothes at home -- dry goods, piece goods, and notions," he said.

"Mr. Reid" also commented, "Then we sold all staple items. Today it's fashion apparel which dominates. Three persons, including the owners, could run the store when Jackson Brothers was established. We were the first store in Mount Airy to hire a woman as a sales clerk. Today you couldn't get along without them."

In addition to his business interest, "Mr. Reid" spent quite a bit of time enjoying farming. He was a longtime member and treasurer of First Baptist Church and also a member of the Wage and Price Control Board of Surry County during World War II.

He was married to Annie Britton of Greensboro and they had one son, Edward Jackson. Reid Jackson died in May 1979.

...

...

Source: TIME-LIFE News Service memo from Don Bermingham, Nov. 19, 1962

Ed's interest in journalism started at age 7. He had gone to a baseball game and was disapppointed that the game wasn's written up in the newspaper, so he went to his room and created a write-up himself. Ed loved the New York newspapers that his dad brought back from buying trips for his store, and he also read the Baltimore Sun. At age 12 he produced the "Daily Journal," a neighborhood newspaper that he and his staff of young friends first duplicated by carbons, later by hectograph, and finally with his own mimeograph machine. The paper was popular but his family limited distribution to 200. He published such local news as "Mr. & Mrs. So-and-so went to Okrakoke for the weekend and the bottles were flying," or "Someone drained the gas from Mr. Whitlock's Chevrolet; Mrs. Mundy across the street saw the incident but didn't report it." He and another boy once came across a collection of love letters and printed them word-for-word from memory. An article about the boys' enterprise appeared in the Winston-Salem paper, describing it as "astonishingly well edited." At age 13 Ed wrote a teenage gossip column for the Mount Airy News, called "From Piggy's Pen."

After a stint in the Navy and graduation from Washington and Lee, Ed was hired by United Press to work at the New York cable desk, where he oversaw news coming in from abroad. After two years, he was transferred to London, where both his sons were born under the National Health Plan (at a cost of 55 pounds, or about $100, for the finest Harley Street doctor). On their first night in London, UP put Ed and his wife up at a suite in the Savoy hotel overlooking the Thames; their subsequent flat with a light bulb hanging down from the ceiling was rather a come-down. Times were difficult for the average Englishman then, when "one egg per person per week perhaps" was the norm. He recalls the dirty looks he received after standing in line at the fishmonger's to get "codfish for the cat." He also recalls going with others from the American press to a party at Buckingham Palace, where he met the royal family and afterwards dictated the story over the phone from a local pub. Another time when Ed's little son Roger was pulling his stuffed "Doggy" on wheels down a London sidewalk, old Queen Mary had her driver pull over so she could speak to the boy and admire his toy. Ed loved the witty repartee in the House of Commons, so different from the polodding, ponderous speeches in the US Congress.

In 1953 UP gave Ed a news bureau of his own in Rome, where he covered the Vatican as well as Italy itself, including the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce was ambassador to Italy at the time and attracted a lot of attention to Italy because she "inserted herself into everything" that was going on, and indeed helped solve the Trieste dispute. During the Cold War, the Communicst Party was strong in Italy, and Ed recalls seeing a headline prior to an election: "Italy to Choose Uncle -- Joe [Stalin] or Sam?" When Pope Pius XII was quite ill in 1954, Ed wrote a story about him, which he later saw published after Pius finally died in 1959.

In 1956 UP brought Ed back to New York, but a vice president's joke didn't sit well: "We brought you back to the US and you want a raise too?" A job offer Time magazine at nearly double his UP salary soon brought Ed back to Europe, where he became Time's bureau chief in Rome.

Even in his retirement in New York, Ed reads six newspapers a day to stay on top of the news. He is proud of his award from the NC Journalism Hall of Fame in Chapel Hill, where his picture is on the wall at the UNC-CH School of Journalism in Howell Hall.

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C. In high school, he wrote sports and news for the Mount Airy News and Mt. Airy Times and was a sportswriter and news stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.

That experience, coupled with a three-year Pacific stint in the Navy, led him to become a foreign newswriter for United Press in 1947. He covered British news as a correspondent in London and edited international news that went through the London office. He moved to Italy in 1953 to run the UP bureau in Rome, where he covered Italian news and the Vatican.

Time magazine hired him in 1957. During his 29 years with Time, he was a contributing editor, news editor, Rome bureau chief, Washington news editor and the magazine's first international editor. He left Time in 1986 as deputy chief of correspondents and was later named editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a 75,000-circulation monthly news magazine consisting of stories from overseas publications. He retired in 1991.

He established the Edward Jackson International Scholarship in the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communiation in 1992. The endowment provides funds for a news-editorial student, preferably from North Carolina, to travel to a country in Europe to learn about its politics, culture and mass media by living and working there.

Jackson graduated cum laude with a bachelor's in history from Washington and Lee University.

He has served as vice president of the Overseas Press Club and vice president and secretary of The Correspondents Fund, which provides scholarship funds to needy journalists and students.

Source: UNC's School of Journalism Web Site -- Journalism Hall of Fame

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Source: "Mrs. Reid Jackson, Civic Leader Since (cut off)," article by Eleanor Powell, The Mount Airy News, Tuesday, February 24, 1976.

According to her son Ed, Annie Britton Jackson was an omniverous reader, was interested in politics and foreign affairs, and loved to argue with younger people. She taught arts and crafts and entered her flowers in local shows and the annual fair. Her love of travel influenced her son's interest in what went on in other parts of the world. The family traveled to the "New England states," as she put it, to Ohio, Niagara Falls, Quebec, Maine, and New York. On family visits to Norfolk, they took side trips to Washington and Williamsburg. They visited Andrew Jackson's home in Tennessee and went to Georgia to visit Aunt Jennie and Betty. Ed recalled two humorous incidents from such family trips. In Massachusetts they pulled over to ask a passerby how to get to Plymouth. Not understanding their Southern accent, the man repled, "Quarter to three!" Once in Washington, DC, Ed's aunt Sarah (Tory) drove the car round and round DuPont circle, tryuing to figure out how to get to their hotel; meanwhile Grandma Britton was standing in front of the hotel, frantically waving her hands at them.

Ed recalled being spanked by his mother once at Grandma Jackson's house for declaring at the table that he didn't like a particular food item. He learned Southern manners quickly.

...

Source: "Jackson Brothers Founded in 1916," article from The Mount Airy News (date after 1991).

Reid Jackson's son Ed recalled that his father spent many hours at the store, which was open six days a week. He often worked nights and then went to the store early the next morning to sweep up, because the young people didn't clean to suit him. Reid supervised the shoe department while his brother Andrew did the books.

Andrew's son Joe was in charge of men's clothing and later did the bookkeeping.

While brother Andrew was a good businessman, "Dad was a great listener," said Ed.

As he sat on his front porch, women from town would drop by to tell him their troubles. Ed remembers that Mrs. Mamie Hawks Jackson, who owned a dress shop in Mr. Airy, used to love to talk business with his father. When Reid retired at age 80, friends opined that "he'll be bored," but in reality he was relieved not to have to go to work every day. Reid Jackson owned a farm on US 52 and the Mount Airy-Dobson Road, which he sold over time as lots, except for the farm at the top of the hill, where a tenant grew tobacco and corn. Ed believed that his father could have sold the farm for much more than he eventually did, but his dad seemed satisfied.

Ed recalled that while his mother Annie never hesitated to speak her mind, his dad often withheld his feelings. This reticence was sometimes frustrating to Ed. Once during Ed's post in London with United Press, Annie and Reid visited their son and his young family. They had a grand tour of London, Paris, Brittany, and Amsterdam.

After the trip was over, Ed asked his dad how he liked the trip. Reid repled, "Well, I would like to have gone to Switzerland."

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C.

 

 

OBIT...

R. Edward Jackson, a Mount Airy native who oversaw Time magazine's coverage of the Second Vatican Council, spearheaded the development of the magazine's international editions, and was the last managing editor of the Washington Star, died in New York on Feb. 5, of cancer. He was 85. In Mr. Jackson's 44-year career in journalism he worked in the U.S. and Europe at United Press International and Time, and served as editor-in-chief of World Press Review. He was a leading member of the Overseas Press Club and the Correspondents Fund, and endowed journalism scholarships at several universities. In 1995, he was inducted into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame. Mr. Jackson was born January 14, 1925, in Mount Airy, the son of Robert Reid Jackson, co-owner of Jackson Bros. department store, and Annie Britton Jackson, who resided at 1022 North Main Street. He ran a neighborhood newspaper with a circulation of 200 when he was 12, was a stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal in his teens, and edited school papers in Mount Airy and at Washington and Lee University. He interrupted his education to serve in the Navy for three years at the end of World War II, and graduated from Washington and Lee with a degree in History in 1947. He joined UPI as a foreign news writer in 1947. He worked in UPI's London bureau from 1950 to 1953, and then headed the Rome bureau from 1953 to 1956. He became a writer at Time in New York in 1957. Over the next 29 years, he served as Time's foreign newsdesk editor (1959-62), Rome bureau chief (1963-65), deputy chief of correspondents (1966-72), editor of the international editions (1972-75), Washington news editor (1976-80), managing editor of the Time-owned Washington Star (1980-81), and again as deputy chief of correspondents (1981-86). While Rome bureau chief in the 1960s, Mr. Jackson coordinated Time's coverage of the Second Vatican Council, the death of Pope John XXIII and the election of Paul VI, and Paul VI's unprecedented visit to Israel. In the early 1970s, he headed the team that developed editions of Time geared specifically to readers in Europe, Asia, and Australia, and served as the international editions' first editor. As Washington news editor, he ran the magazine's coverage of the Rerpublican and Democratic conventions of 1976 and 1980. He was appointed managing editor of the Washington Star early in 1981, just months before Time folded the newspaper, bringing its 129-year record of continuous publication to a close. After his retirement from Time in 1986, he served for five years as editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a New York-based monthly digest of selections from newpapers outside the United States, which were hard to obtain in a pre-Internet age. Mr. Jackson donated his services to various journalistic societies, including the Overseas Press Club, where he was vice-president, a member of the board of governors, and chair of the scholarship committee; and the Correspondents Fund, where as trustee, vice-president, and secretary, he helped provide funds for needy journalists and for journalism students. In his later years, he endowed journalism scholarships at Washington and Lee University, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the University of California at Berkeley. Though he lived all his adult life outside North Carolina, Mr. Jackson was a frequent visitor to the state and to Mount Airy, where he had a large and varied family and a long-standing circle of friends. He maintained a lifelong loyalty to North Carolina college sports teams, and enjoyed annual visits to the ACC basketball tournament, as well as drives along the Blue Ridge Parkway, golf at the Mt. Airy Country Club and Cross Creek, and Southern-style cooking wherever he could find it. His first marriage, to Margaret Reid Jackson, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife of thirty-three years, Kathleen Beakley Jackson of New York City, two sons from his first marriage, Roger Jackson, of Northfield, Minnesota, and Blair Jackson, of Oakland, California, and three grandchildren.

 

 

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Notes for Robert Edward Jackson:

GRAD: 1947 Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Albemarle Co., Virginia

Military Service: ABT. 1944 World War II, U.S. Navy

Occupation: Journalist: United Press, Time Magazine, Washington Post

Residence: New York, New York

Note:

Source Paul Murauskas:

North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000

Name: Robt Edward Jackson

Date of Birth: 14 Jan 1925

Birth County: Surry Co., NC

Parent1 Name: Robt R Jackson

Parent2 Name: Annie H Britton

Roll Number: B_C092_66001

Volume: 11

Page: 772

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1930 United States Federal Census, Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina

388 No. Main Street

Robert R. Jackson 41, married age 31, Manager Department Store

Annie B. Jackson 35, married age 25

Robert E. Jackson 5

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Notes provided by Dick Jackson from email to Paul Murauskas

(1) "In becoming Rome bureau chief (for TIME magazine), Ed Jackson will be returning to a familiar scene. He was Rome bureau manager for the United Press, as it was then known, during the four years which preceded his coming to TIME in 1957 as a foreign news writer. Before Rome, Jackson was on U.P.'s London staff, from 1949 to 1953.

"It was in London that the Jacksons' two sons, Roger, 12, and Blair, 9, were born. One evening last week Ed, having already confided in his wife Peggy, convened a family meeting in the living room of their Pelham Manor home and told the boys of his Rome assignment. Their first reaction was that the move would take them away from their valued friends, whom they listed. Jackson was quick to point out that several on the list had already moved away to such remote places as Cleveland, Ohio. Looking far ahead, Blair, who spoke Italian before he learned English, asked: "Will we be back in time for college?" Next morning Ed noted that the books Blair was lugging off to school included a Berlitz Italian phrase book, useful in refreshing dim recollections of the language of his earliest childhood.

"Lest this leave any impression that Jackson is mostly a foreign type, it should be noted that he was born in Mount Airy, N.C., is a graduate (cum laude) of Washington and Lee University, '47, and served his journalistic apprenticeship on three North Carolina newspapers before Navy service in World War II."

...

Source: TIME-LIFE News Service memo from Don Bermingham, Nov. 19, 1962

Ed's interest in journalism started at age 7. He had gone to a baseball game and was disapppointed that the game wasn's written up in the newspaper, so he went to his room and created a write-up himself. Ed loved the New York newspapers that his dad brought back from buying trips for his store, and he also read the Baltimore Sun. At age 12 he produced the "Daily Journal," a neighborhood newspaper that he and his staff of young friends first duplicated by carbons, later by hectograph, and finally with his own mimeograph machine. The paper was popular but his family limited distribution to 200. He published such local news as "Mr. & Mrs. So-and-so went to Okrakoke for the weekend and the bottles were flying," or "Someone drained the gas from Mr. Whitlock's Chevrolet; Mrs. Mundy across the street saw the incident but didn't report it." He and another boy once came across a collection of love letters and printed them word-for-word from memory. An article about the boys' enterprise appeared in the Winston-Salem paper, describing it as "astonishingly well edited." At age 13 Ed wrote a teenage gossip column for the Mount Airy News, called "From Piggy's Pen." After a stint in the Navy and graduation from Washington and Lee, Ed was hired by United Press to work at the New York cable desk, where he oversaw news coming in from abroad. After two years, he was transferred to London, where both his sons were born under the National Health Plan (at a cost of 55 pounds, or about $100, for the finest Harley Street doctor). On their first night in London, UP put Ed and his wife up at a suite in the Savoy hotel overlooking the Thames; their subsequent flat with a light bulb hanging down from the ceiling was rather a come-down. Times were difficult for the average Englishman then, when "one egg per person per week perhaps" was the norm. He recalls the dirty looks he received after standing in line at the fishmonger's to get "codfish for the cat." He also recalls going with others from the American press to a party at Buckingham Palace, where he met the royal family and afterwards dictated the story over the phone from a local pub. Another time when Ed's little son Roger was pulling his stuffed "Doggy" on wheels down a London sidewalk, old Queen Mary had her driver pull over so she could speak to the boy and admire his toy. Ed loved the witty repartee in the House of Commons, so different from the polodding, ponderous speeches in the US Congress. In 1953 UP gave Ed a news bureau of his own in Rome, where he covered the Vatican as well as Italy itself, including the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce was ambassador to Italy at the time and attracted a lot of attention to Italy because she "inserted herself into everything" that was going on, and indeed helped solve the Trieste dispute. During the Cold War, the Communicst Party was strong in Italy, and Ed recalls seeing a headline prior to an election: "Italy to Choose Uncle -- Joe [Stalin] or Sam?" When Pope Pius XII was quite ill in 1954, Ed wrote a story about him, which he later saw published after Pius finally died in 1959.

In 1956 UP brought Ed back to New York, but a vice president's joke didn't sit well: "We brought you back to the US and you want a raise too?" A job offer Time magazine at nearly double his UP salary soon brought Ed back to Europe, where he became Time's bureau chief in Rome.

Even in his retirement in New York, Ed reads six newspapers a day to stay on top of the news. He is proud of his award from the NC Journalism Hall of Fame in Chapel Hill, where his picture is on the wall at the UNC-CH School of Journalism in Howell Hall.

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C. In high school, he wrote sports and news for the Mount Airy News and Mt. Airy Times and was a sportswriter and news stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.

That experience, coupled with a three-year Pacific stint in the Navy, led him to become a foreign newswriter for United Press in 1947. He covered British news as a correspondent in London and edited international news that went through the London office. He moved to Italy in 1953 to run the UP bureau in Rome, where he covered Italian news and the Vatican.

Time magazine hired him in 1957. During his 29 years with Time, he was a contributing editor, news editor, Rome bureau chief, Washington news editor and the magazine's first international editor. He left Time in 1986 as deputy chief of correspondents and was later named editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a 75,000-circulation monthly news magazine consisting of stories from overseas publications. He retired in 1991.

He established the Edward Jackson International Scholarship in the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communiation in 1992. The endowment provides funds for a news-editorial student, preferably from North Carolina, to travel to a country in Europe to learn about its politics, culture and mass media by living and working there.

Jackson graduated cum laude with a bachelor's in history from Washington and Lee University.

He has served as vice president of the Overseas Press Club and vice president and secretary of The Correspondents Fund, which provides scholarship funds to needy journalists and students.

Source: UNC's School of Journalism Web Site -- Journalism Hall of Fame

...

...

Source: Ed Jackson, personal conversation, March 19, 2002 with Dorothy Jackson Britton?

"Mr. Reid " was well-known as the dean of Main Street merchants. At 80 he was still at work each day. During one of his interviews during the 1970s he commented on his 60 years in business. "I can remember when horse-drawn wagons used to get stuck in the mudholes on Main Street in front of the store. Stepping stones crossed Main Street way back then as a convenience for pedestrians. There were no electric lights. Almost every housewife sewed clothes for the family. In fact, aside from shoes and hats, the biggest part of the retail business in those early years was for 'fixin's,' so the women could make clothes at home -- dry goods, piece goods, and notions," he said.

"Mr. Reid" also commented, "Then we sold all staple items. Today it's fashion apparel which dominates. Three persons, including the owners, could run the store when Jackson Brothers was established. We were the first store in Mount Airy to hire a woman as a sales clerk. Today you couldn't get along without them."

In addition to his business interest, "Mr. Reid" spent quite a bit of time enjoying farming. He was a longtime member and treasurer of First Baptist Church and also a member of the Wage and Price Control Board of Surry County during World War II.

He was married to Annie Britton of Greensboro and they had one son, Edward Jackson. Reid Jackson died in May 1979.

...

...

Source: TIME-LIFE News Service memo from Don Bermingham, Nov. 19, 1962

Ed's interest in journalism started at age 7. He had gone to a baseball game and was disapppointed that the game wasn's written up in the newspaper, so he went to his room and created a write-up himself. Ed loved the New York newspapers that his dad brought back from buying trips for his store, and he also read the Baltimore Sun. At age 12 he produced the "Daily Journal," a neighborhood newspaper that he and his staff of young friends first duplicated by carbons, later by hectograph, and finally with his own mimeograph machine. The paper was popular but his family limited distribution to 200. He published such local news as "Mr. & Mrs. So-and-so went to Okrakoke for the weekend and the bottles were flying," or "Someone drained the gas from Mr. Whitlock's Chevrolet; Mrs. Mundy across the street saw the incident but didn't report it." He and another boy once came across a collection of love letters and printed them word-for-word from memory. An article about the boys' enterprise appeared in the Winston-Salem paper, describing it as "astonishingly well edited." At age 13 Ed wrote a teenage gossip column for the Mount Airy News, called "From Piggy's Pen."

After a stint in the Navy and graduation from Washington and Lee, Ed was hired by United Press to work at the New York cable desk, where he oversaw news coming in from abroad. After two years, he was transferred to London, where both his sons were born under the National Health Plan (at a cost of 55 pounds, or about $100, for the finest Harley Street doctor). On their first night in London, UP put Ed and his wife up at a suite in the Savoy hotel overlooking the Thames; their subsequent flat with a light bulb hanging down from the ceiling was rather a come-down. Times were difficult for the average Englishman then, when "one egg per person per week perhaps" was the norm. He recalls the dirty looks he received after standing in line at the fishmonger's to get "codfish for the cat." He also recalls going with others from the American press to a party at Buckingham Palace, where he met the royal family and afterwards dictated the story over the phone from a local pub. Another time when Ed's little son Roger was pulling his stuffed "Doggy" on wheels down a London sidewalk, old Queen Mary had her driver pull over so she could speak to the boy and admire his toy. Ed loved the witty repartee in the House of Commons, so different from the polodding, ponderous speeches in the US Congress.

In 1953 UP gave Ed a news bureau of his own in Rome, where he covered the Vatican as well as Italy itself, including the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce was ambassador to Italy at the time and attracted a lot of attention to Italy because she "inserted herself into everything" that was going on, and indeed helped solve the Trieste dispute. During the Cold War, the Communicst Party was strong in Italy, and Ed recalls seeing a headline prior to an election: "Italy to Choose Uncle -- Joe [Stalin] or Sam?" When Pope Pius XII was quite ill in 1954, Ed wrote a story about him, which he later saw published after Pius finally died in 1959.

In 1956 UP brought Ed back to New York, but a vice president's joke didn't sit well: "We brought you back to the US and you want a raise too?" A job offer Time magazine at nearly double his UP salary soon brought Ed back to Europe, where he became Time's bureau chief in Rome.

Even in his retirement in New York, Ed reads six newspapers a day to stay on top of the news. He is proud of his award from the NC Journalism Hall of Fame in Chapel Hill, where his picture is on the wall at the UNC-CH School of Journalism in Howell Hall.

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C. In high school, he wrote sports and news for the Mount Airy News and Mt. Airy Times and was a sportswriter and news stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.

That experience, coupled with a three-year Pacific stint in the Navy, led him to become a foreign newswriter for United Press in 1947. He covered British news as a correspondent in London and edited international news that went through the London office. He moved to Italy in 1953 to run the UP bureau in Rome, where he covered Italian news and the Vatican.

Time magazine hired him in 1957. During his 29 years with Time, he was a contributing editor, news editor, Rome bureau chief, Washington news editor and the magazine's first international editor. He left Time in 1986 as deputy chief of correspondents and was later named editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a 75,000-circulation monthly news magazine consisting of stories from overseas publications. He retired in 1991.

He established the Edward Jackson International Scholarship in the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communiation in 1992. The endowment provides funds for a news-editorial student, preferably from North Carolina, to travel to a country in Europe to learn about its politics, culture and mass media by living and working there.

Jackson graduated cum laude with a bachelor's in history from Washington and Lee University.

He has served as vice president of the Overseas Press Club and vice president and secretary of The Correspondents Fund, which provides scholarship funds to needy journalists and students.

Source: UNC's School of Journalism Web Site -- Journalism Hall of Fame

...

Source: "Mrs. Reid Jackson, Civic Leader Since (cut off)," article by Eleanor Powell, The Mount Airy News, Tuesday, February 24, 1976.

According to her son Ed, Annie Britton Jackson was an omniverous reader, was interested in politics and foreign affairs, and loved to argue with younger people. She taught arts and crafts and entered her flowers in local shows and the annual fair. Her love of travel influenced her son's interest in what went on in other parts of the world. The family traveled to the "New England states," as she put it, to Ohio, Niagara Falls, Quebec, Maine, and New York. On family visits to Norfolk, they took side trips to Washington and Williamsburg. They visited Andrew Jackson's home in Tennessee and went to Georgia to visit Aunt Jennie and Betty. Ed recalled two humorous incidents from such family trips. In Massachusetts they pulled over to ask a passerby how to get to Plymouth. Not understanding their Southern accent, the man repled, "Quarter to three!" Once in Washington, DC, Ed's aunt Sarah (Tory) drove the car round and round DuPont circle, tryuing to figure out how to get to their hotel; meanwhile Grandma Britton was standing in front of the hotel, frantically waving her hands at them.

Ed recalled being spanked by his mother once at Grandma Jackson's house for declaring at the table that he didn't like a particular food item. He learned Southern manners quickly.

...

Source: "Jackson Brothers Founded in 1916," article from The Mount Airy News (date after 1991).

Reid Jackson's son Ed recalled that his father spent many hours at the store, which was open six days a week. He often worked nights and then went to the store early the next morning to sweep up, because the young people didn't clean to suit him. Reid supervised the shoe department while his brother Andrew did the books.

Andrew's son Joe was in charge of men's clothing and later did the bookkeeping.

While brother Andrew was a good businessman, "Dad was a great listener," said Ed.

As he sat on his front porch, women from town would drop by to tell him their troubles. Ed remembers that Mrs. Mamie Hawks Jackson, who owned a dress shop in Mr. Airy, used to love to talk business with his father. When Reid retired at age 80, friends opined that "he'll be bored," but in reality he was relieved not to have to go to work every day. Reid Jackson owned a farm on US 52 and the Mount Airy-Dobson Road, which he sold over time as lots, except for the farm at the top of the hill, where a tenant grew tobacco and corn. Ed believed that his father could have sold the farm for much more than he eventually did, but his dad seemed satisfied.

Ed recalled that while his mother Annie never hesitated to speak her mind, his dad often withheld his feelings. This reticence was sometimes frustrating to Ed. Once during Ed's post in London with United Press, Annie and Reid visited their son and his young family. They had a grand tour of London, Paris, Brittany, and Amsterdam.

After the trip was over, Ed asked his dad how he liked the trip. Reid repled, "Well, I would like to have gone to Switzerland."

...

R. Edward Jackson (1995)

Ed Jackson's remarkable journalism career began at age 12, when he produced a neighborhood mimeographed daily newspaper, The Daily Journal, in his native Mount Airy, N.C.

 

 

OBIT...

R. Edward Jackson, a Mount Airy native who oversaw Time magazine's coverage of the Second Vatican Council, spearheaded the development of the magazine's international editions, and was the last managing editor of the Washington Star, died in New York on Feb. 5, of cancer. He was 85. In Mr. Jackson's 44-year career in journalism he worked in the U.S. and Europe at United Press International and Time, and served as editor-in-chief of World Press Review. He was a leading member of the Overseas Press Club and the Correspondents Fund, and endowed journalism scholarships at several universities. In 1995, he was inducted into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame. Mr. Jackson was born January 14, 1925, in Mount Airy, the son of Robert Reid Jackson, co-owner of Jackson Bros. department store, and Annie Britton Jackson, who resided at 1022 North Main Street. He ran a neighborhood newspaper with a circulation of 200 when he was 12, was a stringer for the Winston-Salem Journal in his teens, and edited school papers in Mount Airy and at Washington and Lee University. He interrupted his education to serve in the Navy for three years at the end of World War II, and graduated from Washington and Lee with a degree in History in 1947. He joined UPI as a foreign news writer in 1947. He worked in UPI's London bureau from 1950 to 1953, and then headed the Rome bureau from 1953 to 1956. He became a writer at Time in New York in 1957. Over the next 29 years, he served as Time's foreign newsdesk editor (1959-62), Rome bureau chief (1963-65), deputy chief of correspondents (1966-72), editor of the international editions (1972-75), Washington news editor (1976-80), managing editor of the Time-owned Washington Star (1980-81), and again as deputy chief of correspondents (1981-86). While Rome bureau chief in the 1960s, Mr. Jackson coordinated Time's coverage of the Second Vatican Council, the death of Pope John XXIII and the election of Paul VI, and Paul VI's unprecedented visit to Israel. In the early 1970s, he headed the team that developed editions of Time geared specifically to readers in Europe, Asia, and Australia, and served as the international editions' first editor. As Washington news editor, he ran the magazine's coverage of the Rerpublican and Democratic conventions of 1976 and 1980. He was appointed managing editor of the Washington Star early in 1981, just months before Time folded the newspaper, bringing its 129-year record of continuous publication to a close. After his retirement from Time in 1986, he served for five years as editor-in-chief of World Press Review, a New York-based monthly digest of selections from newpapers outside the United States, which were hard to obtain in a pre-Internet age. Mr. Jackson donated his services to various journalistic societies, including the Overseas Press Club, where he was vice-president, a member of the board of governors, and chair of the scholarship committee; and the Correspondents Fund, where as trustee, vice-president, and secretary, he helped provide funds for needy journalists and for journalism students. In his later years, he endowed journalism scholarships at Washington and Lee University, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the University of California at Berkeley. Though he lived all his adult life outside North Carolina, Mr. Jackson was a frequent visitor to the state and to Mount Airy, where he had a large and varied family and a long-standing circle of friends. He maintained a lifelong loyalty to North Carolina college sports teams, and enjoyed annual visits to the ACC basketball tournament, as well as drives along the Blue Ridge Parkway, golf at the Mt. Airy Country Club and Cross Creek, and Southern-style cooking wherever he could find it. His first marriage, to Margaret Reid Jackson, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife of thirty-three years, Kathleen Beakley Jackson of New York City, two sons from his first marriage, Roger Jackson, of Northfield, Minnesota, and Blair Jackson, of Oakland, California, and three grandchildren.

 

 

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John L. Jackson-4(Robert Franklin-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[4] was born on 12 Nov 1890 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[7]. He died on 02 Nov 1941 in Pilot Mountain, Surry, North Carolina, USA. He married Martha Mattie Hunter about 1921[54], daughter of Aquilla Hunter and Martha Anne Smith. She was born on 20 Feb 1896 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[54]. She died on 26 Mar 1979[78].

Children of John L. Jackson and Martha Mattie Hunter are:

i.

Martha Frances Jackson, B: 13 Mar 1922 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[78], M: Emmitt Hamrick, Unknown.

ii.

Laura Virginia Jackson, B: 05 Oct 1923 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[7], D: Unknown, M: George Roy Robinson, Abt. 1943 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[54].

iii.

Mildred Carolyn Jackson, B: 13 Oct 1925 in Surry, North Carolina, USA, M: Hubert D. Redmond, Unknown.

iv.

Mattie Juanita Jackson, B: 28 Feb 1936 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[7], M: Cyrus Nelson Hicks, Unknown.

74.

Randall Hobart Jackson-4(Robert Franklin-3, Amer-2, Joseph-1)[4] was born on 15 Nov 1895 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[55]. He died in Jul 1975 in Elkin, Surry, North Carolina, USA[53]. He married Lena Frances Matthews on 12 Jan 1921 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[55], daughter of Tandy Lee Matthews and Sarah Elizabeth Taylor. She was born about 1901 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[55]. She died on 25 Jun 1988 in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, USA[55].

Children of Randall Hobart Jackson and Lena Frances Matthews are:

i.

Randall H. Jackson Jr., B: Unknown in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[41], D: killed in WWII.

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ii.

Susan Mae Jackson, B: 27 Jun 1927 in Surry, North Carolina, USA[41, 79], D: 25 Oct 2009 in Dobson, Surry, North Carolina, USA[79], M: Unknown Hardy, Unknown.

Notes for Susan Mae Jackson:

HARDY MOUNT AIRY - Ms. Sue Jackson Hardy, age 82, of Mt. Airy, passed away at Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson, Sunday, October 25, 2009. Ms. Hardy was born in Surry County on June 27, 1927 to the late Randall Hobart and Lena Matthews Jackson. She retired from the North Carolina School System and was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Mt. Airy. Ms. Hardy is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Sarah and Jimmie Scott of Claudville; grandchildren, John Ewell Scott and wife, Kayla and Lena Catherine Scott; two great grandchildren, Gavin Ray Scott and Lakinzie Scott; and a special friend, Jack Hardy. In addition to her parents, Ms. Hardy was preceded in death by a sister, Faye Jackson Christian; and a brother, Randall Matthew Jackson. Funeral Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at First Presbyterian Church by Dr. Steve Lindsley. Burial will follow in Westfield Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends Monday evening at Moody Funeral Home in Mt. Airy from 6 until 8 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to the First Presbyterian Church, 326 S. Main Street, Mt. Airy, NC 27030 or to Mountain Valley Hospice and Palliative Care, 401 Technology Lane, Suit 200, Mt. Airy, NC 27030. Online condolences may be made to moodyfuneral services.com.

 

Published in the Winston-Salem Journal on 10/26/2009

iii.

Faye Jackson, B: 10 Feb 1930 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[72], D: 30 Aug 2006 in Forsyth, North Carolina, USA[72], M: Harry Thomas Christian, Unknown.

Notes for Faye Jackson:

WESTFIELD - Mrs. Faye Jackson Christian, 76, widow of Harry Thomas Christian, of Westfield, passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006, at Forsyth Medical Center. She was born Feb. 10, 1930, in Surry County to Hobert Jackson and Lena Matthews Jackson. Mrs. Christian was a homemaker and a member of Westfield Baptist Church. She was a charter member of Westfield Volunteer Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary. Mrs. Christian was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; and a brother, Randall Jackson. Mrs. Christian is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Linda and Brent Trivette, of Westfield; a son, Randy Christian, of Westfield; a grandson, Matthew Charles Hutchens, of Westfield; and a sister, Sue Hardy, of Mount Airy. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 2, at Westfield Baptist Church, with the Rev. Joel Stevens and the Rev. Grady Trivette officiating. Interment will follow at Westfield Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today, Sept. 1, at Cox-Needham Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Westfield Baptist Church Building Fund or Cemetery Fund, c/o John Kuhl, 6763 Westfield Road, Westfield, NC . The Christian family is being served by Cox-Needham Funeral Home in Pilot Mountain.

Published in the Winston-Salem Journal on 9/1/2006.

75.

Walter Scott Harrah-4(Caroline-3, Zadock L.-2, Joseph-1)[25] was born in 1862[25]. He died on 27 Dec 1940 in Anderson, Madison, Indiana, USA[25].

i.

Rebecca P. Harrah, B: 12 Dec 1881 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[25], D: 05 Sep 1882 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[25].

76.

John W. Burge-4(Mahala-3, Zadock L.-2, Joseph-1)[8] was born in 1859 in Marion, Indiana, USA[8]. He died on 01 Feb 1906 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[8]. He married (1) Mary E. Stokesberry on 24 Dec 1884 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[8]. She was born in Jan 1865 in Marion, Indiana, USA[8]. She died in 1910[8]. He married (2) Mary E. Rozier on 01 Feb 1906 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[8]. She was born in 1885 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[8]. She died on Unknown in Morgan, Indiana, USA[8].

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Children of John W. Burge and Mary E. Stokesberry are:

i.

Otto S. Burge, B: May 1878 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[80], D: Unknown.

ii.

Ida P. Burge, B: 23 Dec 1886 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[80], D: Unknown.

iii.

Roscoe J. Burge, B: Aug 1889 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[80], D: Unknown.

iv.

Earnest R. Burge, B: 07 Aug 1895 in Morgan, Indiana, USA[80], D: Unknown.

77.

Eldridge Jackson-4(Andrew Haywood-3, Joel-2, Joseph-1)[81] was born on 15 Feb 1887 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[53]. He died in Oct 1970 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[53]. He married Maggie Ella Hunter about 1914 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[54], daughter of Aquilla Hunter and Martha Anne Smith. She was born on 22 Dec 1891 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[54]. She died on 20 Sep 1973[78].

Children of Eldridge Jackson and Maggie Ella Hunter are:

i.

Vester F. Jackson, B: 04 Jun 1915 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[54], D: Unknown, M: Era Cook, Unknown.

ii.

Ruth Jackson, B: 09 Feb 1925 in Stokes, North Carolina, USA[54], M: Robert Wayne Smith, Unknown.

Sources
1

Research by Edith Hankins, Memphis, TN.

2

Research by Luther Byrd, Genealogist of Westfield Families.

3

Research by Kathleen Jessup Frye, LDS Records, Salt Lake City, UT.

4

Research by Lucille Jackson Vernon, Winston-Salem, NC.

5

Information from Keith Parrish, Washington, DC.

6

World Family Tree Pedigree 2027, Vol. 9.

7

"Lucille Jackson Vernon Research" - by the late Lucille J. Vernon - formerly of Winston-Salem, NC.

8

Carol Jo Huffington Menges research as submitted to worldconnect/rootsweb.com jhcjmenges@isp.com.

9

From Mary Ann Dark MaDark@aol.com.

10

educated guess based on number of children she had by first husband.

11

Date based on birth date of last child.

12

Information from Scott Robinson, a descendant of Samuel and Catherine Plankinhorn Jackson, SRobin0789@aol.com.

13

"Our Families", researched and submitted to Rootsweb by Linda Sanders horsenaroundks@yahoo.com.

14

Information from Charles A. Paul, Jr., pb204cd@worldnet.att.net.

15

Descendants of Uriah Carson - shared by Dorla Stork, pochard1@aol.com.

16

Research & Personal Knowledge of Beth Cox Rowe, El Paso, Texas - - - - - - - - - - -.

17

Marriage Records of Hendricks, Indiana.

18

Scott Bailey research per email received - SCOTTWBAILEY@cs.com.

19

Robert J. Hoffman research from worldconnect/rootsweb.com rjhcarmel@aol.com.

20

Family sources & personal knowledge.

21

Grave Marker at Westfield Friends Church, Surry Co., NC.

22

Surry Heritage Vol. II, article 494, written by Anna Pell Broadwell.

23

Scott Robinson research srobin0789@charter.net (worldconnect/rootsweb.com).

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24

From Barry Nichols email received Feb 15 2007 - bnichols@yadtel.net.

25

Kathy Foster research as found on WorldConnect/Rootswebcom fosterqt@aol.com.

26

Obituary from the Olsburg, Kansas News-Letter, March 15, 1894.

27

"Surry Co., NC Soldiers in Civil War", by Hester Bartlett Jackson.

28

Information from Research of Keith Parrish, WH-WashingtonDC-ACPurch. Mgr.

29

Earl Carson research - Rt. 2, Box 102, Alma, Arkansas.

30

B1B research - bloubrown45@yahoo.com.

31

Sandra Branson Young research - oregongal19@aol.com.

32

Machelle Johnson research - mjohn4@cha.bellsouth.net.

33

Research by Robert as found on worldconnect/rootsweb.com from Hoffman-Brooks families - rjhcarmel@aol.com.

34

James Sanderlin research as found on worldconnect/rootsweb.com JimDeanSandy81@juno.com.

35

Research & Personal Knowledge of Mike Hitch, 12310 Backus Dr., Bowie, MD email 70404.143@compuserve.com.

36

Information from Mike Pfaff, a descendant of Sarah Inman - m.a.pfaff@worldnet.att.net.

37

Research of Marilyn as found at worldconnect/rootsweb.com marcam@madisontelco.com.

38

worldconnect/rootsweb.com.

39

1850 Surry Co., NC Federal Census.

40

This from research of Lorna Barrett, P.O. Box 6248, Mount Airy, NC 27030.

41

Phillip Judson Clark research as found on worldconnect/rootsweb.com pjudsonclark52@yahoo.com.

42

based on birth date of child by first marriage.

43

The Pell Tree - submitted to Rootsweb.com by Judith Davis JUDITH712@aol.com.

44

Pilot Mountain Cemetery survey - Cemetery at North Main St., Pilot Mountain, Surry Co., NC (compiled by Bob Carter).

45

Surry County, NC Heritage Book, Vol 1, Article 556, by Anna Pell Broadwell.

46

World Family Tree Pedigree 2887, Vol.4.

47

Surry Co., NC Heritage Book, Article # 360, Vol. 1, written by Roxie Hunter Payne.

48

Phillip Clark Research from worldconnect/rootsweb.com kyle32292000@yahoo.com.

49

Surry Co., NC Marriage Records.

50

Scott Robinson research srobin0789@charter.net (worldconnect/rootsweb.com).

51

Research received from William E. Jessup II wejessup@juno.com.

52

Birth Records of Surry Co., NC.

53

Social Security Death Index.

54

Ron Coleman research - r-mcoleman@juno.com.

55

Research collected from worldconnect/rootsweb.com - submitted by Phillip Clark kyle32292000@yahoo.com.

56

Joe Smith research as per letter rec. 30 Sep 2005 - jo_smythe@sbcglobal.net.

57

Information from Lena Turney, Westfield, NC (descendant of Amer Jackson).

58

1870 Surry Co., NC Federal Census.

59

"A History & Genealogy of the Gookin Family" written by Richard N. Gookin, shared with me by Pete Hamilton of VA petehamilton@hotmail.com.

60

"A History and Genealogy of the Gookin Family" written by Richard N. Gookin, shared with me by Pete Hamilton of VA petehamilton@hotmail.com.

61

Research by David Hill, 1173E 1025S, Spanish Fork, UT 84660 dchill@earthlink.net.

62

The Surry County Heritage Book, Vol. II, Article 287, written by C. W. Hill.

63

"Luther Byrd Genealogy Notes" researched and written in 1942.

64

Phillip Clark research as submitted to worldconnect/rootsweb.com kyle32292000@yahoo.com.

65

From research of William Bryant wmfbryant@hotmail.com.

66

Personal knowledge.

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67

East Familes of SE United States- compiled by John E. Young, Marvin Decker and others -http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/eazier1/east/.

68

Philip Clark research from worldconnect/rootsweb.com kyle32292000@yahoo.com.

69

Moody Funeral Home in Mount Airy. www.moodyfuneralservices.com.

70

Phillip Clark research as found on worldconnect/rootsweb.com kyle32292000@yahoo.com.

71

Susan Watts research swatts213@aol.com.

72

Winston-Salem, North Carolina Journal Obits -.

73

From "Jakie, A Memoir" wirtten by Jane Jessup Linville Joyner, and shared by William Jessup.

74

Cemetery Records of Rockingham and Stokes Counties, North Carolina, Cemeteries of Rockingham and Stokes Counties, North Carolina.

75

Cemetery Records of Rockingham and Stokes Counties, North Carolina, Cemeteries of Rockingham and Stokes Counties, North Carolina.

76

Obituary in Winston-Salem, NC Journal.

77

Title: Paul Murauskas - Internet Contact (pmurauskas@msn.com).

78

Phillip Clark research as found on worldconnect/rootsweb.com hiatt 22@surry.net.

79

Obit from Moody Funeral Home, Surry, North Carolina website - www.moodyfunealservices.com Oct 26 2009.

80

Entry titled "Cousins" submitted to worldconnect/rootsweb.com by Ken Shaffer genealogic@highstream.net.

81

Conversation with Vester Jackson.

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