Brief Life History of Eldridge P
When Eldridge P Jackson was born on 5 July 1852, in Fayette, Georgia, United States, his father, Ralph Jackson, was 33 and his mother, Matilda Caroline Clark, was 22. He married Ann Elizabeth Busby on 10 August 1878, in Independence, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Independence, Arkansas, United States in 1878 and Healing Springs Township, Independence, Arkansas, United States in 1880. He died on 10 February 1899, at the age of 46.
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- E P Jackson, "United States Census, 1880"
- Eldridg P Jackson, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Eldridge Jackson in household of Ralph Jackson, "United States Census, 1870"
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1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
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.
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