When Louisa Ann Jackson was born on 23 March 1853, in Putnam, Missouri, United States, her father, Robert Rice Jackson, was 18 and her mother, Martha Jane Ryan, was 18. She married Joseph Alexander Hardman on 24 September 1871, in Putnam, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Ravanna, Mercer, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Clay Township, Sullivan, Missouri, United States in 1920. She died on 8 February 1921, in Humboldt, Humboldt, Iowa, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Ravanna Cemetery, Ravanna Township, Mercer, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1855: Mercer, Missouri, United States of America
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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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