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October 5, 2020   General John Jay Jackson Sr. was son of John George Jackson and Frances Emelia Triplett.   Reference: Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8427911/john-jay-jackson   “Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. ” by George Washington Cullum, published 1891.   Born in Virginia, John […]

October 5, 2020   Reference: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress – Retro Member details   JAMES MONROE JACKSON, ([son of General John Jay Jackson, Sr.,] cousin of William Thomas Bland), a Representative from West Virginia; born in Parkersburg, Wood County, Va. (now West Virginia), December 3, 1825; pursued an academic course and was graduated […]

October 5, 2020   Reference: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress – Retro Member details   EDWARD BRAKE JACKSON, (son of George Jackson and brother of John George Jackson), a Representative from Virginia; born in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Va. (now West Virginia), January 25, 1793; attended Randolph Academy at Clarksburg; studied medicine and commenced practice […]

October 5, 2020   Reference: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress – Retro Member details   JOHN GEORGE JACKSON, (son of George Jackson, brother of Edward Brake Jackson, and grandfather of William Thomas Bland), a Representative from Virginia; born in Buckhannon, Va. (now West Virginia), September 22, 1777; moved with his parents to Clarksburg in […]

October 5, 2020   Reference: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress – Retro Member details   “Colonel George JACKSON, (father of John George Jackson and Edward Brake Jackson), a Representative from Virginia; born in Cecil County, Md., January 9, 1757; moved with his parents to Moorefield, Va. (now West Virginia), and in 1769 to Jacksons […]

October 5, 2020   Reference: “History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia” by John Davison Sutton, Sutton, West Virginia, January, 1919, Pages 395-396.   “John Jackson, the pioneer of the Jackson family in West Virginia, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, about the year 1719, his father removed to London when John was quite young […]