When Eliza Catherine Jackson was born on 3 January 1831, in Washington, Tennessee, United States, her father, Alfred Eugene Jackson, was 23 and her mother, Seraphina Cordelia Taylor, was 22. She married James Edwin Murphy on 26 July 1849, in Washington, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Jonesborough, Washington, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years. She died on 27 August 1914, in Washington, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Jonesborough City Cemetery, Jonesborough, Washington, Tennessee, 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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