When Robert Lytle Jackson was born on 3 October 1868, in Obion, Obion, Tennessee, United States, his father, Wiley Jackson, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Marjorie Jones, was 28. He married Addie Belle Smith on 2 December 1906, in McKinney, Collin, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Obion, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Justice Precinct 1, Collin, Texas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 6 February 1936, in McKinney, Collin, Texas, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in McKinney, Collin, Texas, United States.
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Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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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