Gwinnett County GaArchives Biographies.....Jackson, G. W. October 29 1859 - living in 1911
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Author: J. C. Flanigan
Rev. G. W. Jackson.

	The well known Primitive Baptist minister, Rev. G. W. Jackson, was 
born in the town of Roswell, October 29, 1859. His father, James R. Jackson, 
and mother, Elizebeth Paden, daughter of Samuel Paden, were born, reared, 
lived and died in Gwinnett county, with the exception of a few years' 
residence in Cobb county.

	His mother died when he was two years old. His father moved to 
Berkshire district when the boy was six years old. He grew up amidst the 
poverty and hardship following the civil war, and was accustomed to hard labor 
from childhood. There were no public schools at that time, and therefore 
opportunities for improvement along educational lines were denied him. During 
his sixth and seventh year, he attended school. After that, there were meager 
school facilities and little time to attend them. But the young man had a 
thirst for knowledge, and used all his spare moments in acquiring all the 
information his limited means would allow.

	He was married January 20, 1880.

	He joined Friendship church in August, 1880; and during that year, he 
began to feel it his duty to enter the ministry. He was encouraged by Elder 
John A. Jordan, and ordained December 14, 1895. He was called to Elam church 
in Clayton county, the church sending a delegation to Friendship asking that 
he be ordained. A presbytery was called consisting of Elders J. T. Jordan, J. 
A. Jordan, J. T. Chandler and A. J. Webb, and since that time he has been 
serving Elam, Sordis, Sorrel Springs, Friendship, and Ivey.

	At present he is pastor of Friendship and Sardis, having served each 
of them for practically fifteen years. He has baptized twenty-five people, 
married fifty couples and assisted in the ordination of three ministers, ten 
deacons, and in the constitution of one church.



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From:

GWINNETT CHURCHES
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY CHURCH
IN GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA,
WITH SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF ITS
MINISTERS
BY
J. C. FLANIGAN
1911

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