Biography of Earl Jackson, Sr, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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For more than a quarter of a century, Earl Jackson, Sr., has been buying cotton
from St. Francis County Farmers. It was actually 30 years ago that he bought hsi
first cotton. He now also retails and wholesales planting seed fromhis office on
Cotton row in Forrest City. He is the son of the late George L. and Mollie
(Evans) Jackson, and the grandson of the late Mr. & Mrs. Hiram Evans, who were
the earliest settlers in the southern part of St. Francis County. The Evans
Grove School, south of Forrest City, was donated to the Forrest City Public
School District by Mr. Evans. Mr. Jackson was born on the Evans Estate and moved
to Forrest City when he was a baby, and has lived at 100 East Cook for more than
50 years. The Jackson residence, at the time of its purchase, was then the only
white home north on Rosser Street. His wife is the former Ethel M. Garrett and
her parents were pioneers at Waverly in Middle Tennessee. They have a daughter
and a son, and a grand-daughter. All of the Jackson family are Methodists.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas