William Joseph Jackson

Male14 December 1920–3 December 2005

Brief Life History of William Joseph

When William Joseph Jackson was born on 14 December 1920, in Canton Township, Stark, Ohio, United States, his father, William Burkeman Jackson, was 28 and his mother, Ruth Earl Bell, was 20. He lived in Town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York, United States in 1940 and Spring, Harris, Texas, United States in 2005. He died on 3 December 2005, in Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Burkeman Jackson
1892–1976
Ruth Earl Bell
1900–1990
Virginia Jackson
1919–
William Joseph Jackson
1920–2005
Juanita Jane Jackson
1922–1994
Margaret Ann Jackson
1923–1996
Ruth Elizabeth Jackson
1924–2005

Sources (9)

  • William Jackson in household of William Jackson, "United States Census, 1940"
  • William Joseph Jackson, "Find A Grave Index"
  • William Jackson in entry for Ruth E Jackson Bean, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"

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Siblings (5)

World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Age 3

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1929 · The Great Depression Arrives

Age 9

Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.

1944 · The G.I Bill

Age 24

The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.

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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