When William Clay Jackson was born on 5 October 1858, in Indiana, United States, his father, Isaac Jackson, was 43 and his mother, Eleanor Odell, was 41. He married Nettie Burgess Blake on 9 March 1886, in Basil, Kingman, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Richland Township, Kingman, Kansas, United States in 1900 and East Walnut Township, Canadian, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years. He died on 27 February 1927, at the age of 68, and was buried in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1872: Kingman, Kansas, United States
The town of Nicodemus was founded by African-American migrants from Kansas in 1877.
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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