When Opal Reola Jackson was born on 11 April 1909, in Los Tanos, Guadalupe, New Mexico, United States, her father, Franklin Felix Jackson, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Ophelia Greholver, was 26. She married Theo Vick on 24 August 1924. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Election Precinct 21 Northwest Helper, Carbon, Utah, United States in 1940 and Heiner, Carbon, Utah, United States in 1950. She died on 13 December 1985, at the age of 76, and was buried in West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1919: Carbon, Utah, 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.
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