When Emma Larcena Jackson was born on 14 September 1903, in Preston, Hickory, Missouri, United States, her father, Charles Emery Jackson, was 25 and her mother, Josie Magnolia Sanford, was 24. She married Fred Walker Speer on 12 February 1922, in Rupert, Minidoka, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Heyburn Election Precinct, Minidoka, Idaho, United States in 1940 and Heyburn, Minidoka, Idaho, United States in 1950. She died on 16 April 1996, in Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Rupert Cemetery, Minidoka, Idaho, United States.
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English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from Jack . In North America, this surname has absorbed other patronymics beginning with J- in various European languages, in particular those derived from equivalents or short forms and other derivatives of the personal name Jacob , e.g. Norwegian Jacobsen or Jakobsen and, in some cases, Slovenian Jakše (from a derivative of the personal name Jakob ). This surname is also very common among African Americans (see also 2 below).
African American: from the personal name Jackson (or Andrew Jackson), adopted in honor of Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the US; or adoption of the surname in 1 above, in many cases probably for the same reason.
History: This extremely common British name was brought over by numerous different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One forebear was the father and namesake of the seventh US president, Andrew Jackson, who migrated to SC from Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland in 1765. The Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson came from VA, where his great-grandfather John, likewise of Scotch–Irish stock, had settled after emigrating to America in 1748.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesEmma Larcena Jackson (A brief history as told by Emma to her granddaughter, Debbie Wassom) Emma was born on a beautiful autumn day, the 14th of September, 1903. She was born in Preston, Hickory Count …
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