When William Marion Jackson was born on 20 October 1865, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Andrew John Jackson, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth C Reynolds, was 34. He married Alice Adalina Denton on 11 August 1887, in Lumpkin, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in District 935, Lumpkin, Georgia, United States in 1910 and District 385, Hall, Georgia, United States in 1920. In 1880, at the age of 15, his occupation is listed as works on farm. He died on 17 July 1937, in Hall, Georgia, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Fryer Family Cemetery, Barnesville, Lamar, Georgia, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
The last public hanging in Georgia was on September 28, 1893. The General Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law, Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.
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.
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