Brief Life History of Henry
Henry Jackson was born on 10 October 1871, in Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa, United States. He married Nellie Evarts on 30 December 1895, in Brown, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Granada Township, Nemaha, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Washington Township, Buchanan, Missouri, United States in 1930. He died on 13 June 1958, in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States.
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- Henry Jackson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Henry Jackson, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
- Henry Jackson, "Find A Grave Index"
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1877 · Nicodemus is Founded
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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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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