When Eugene Edward Jackson was born on 5 June 1920, in Carter, Beckham, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Franklin Felix Jackson, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Ophelia Greholver, was 38. He married Lola Louise Hardman on 26 May 1945, in Craig, Moffat, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Helper, Carbon, Utah, United States in 1930. He died on 25 March 1966, at the age of 45, and was buried in West Valley City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Like the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, The National Society of the Sons of Utah Pioneers is an organization dedicated to preserving the legacy and studying the history of the Latter-day Saints Pioneers of Utah and the West. The organization is open to All good men of every age and circumstance who have an interest in the early Utah Pioneers. It is not necessary to have pioneer ancestry to join.
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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