Mitchell County GaArchives Obituaries.....Jackson, Jesse Walter Sr. 1956
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The Camilla Enterprise 20 Jan 1956 page 5 Camilla Ga.

  Funeral services for Jesse Walter Jackson were held Monday at 11 a. m. in the 
Baconton Methodist Church.  The Rev. Fredrick Wilson, pastor of the First 
Methodist Church of Albany, officiated, assisted by the Rev. Richard Magie, 
pastor of the Baconton Methodist Church.  Interment was in Mt. Enon Cemetery.  
Mr. Jackson, a prominent civic and religious citizen of Baconton, died suddenly 
Saturday morning at his residence.  He had been in failing health.  He was born 
March 17, 1894, in Baconton and had lived there all of his life.  He was the 
son of the late Walter Tyler and Ida Bowles Jackson of Baconton.  He graduated 
from Baconton High School and attended Emory University.  He had extensive 
farming interests in Mitchell County.  He was a member of the Baconton 
Methodist Church, member of the Board of Stewards and Trustee of the church.  
At the time of his death he was clerk of the City of Baconton, a position he 
held for the last 25 years and also was secretary and treasurer of the Baconton 
Methodist Church.  Mr. Jackson had been tax receiver of Mitchell County for 12 
years.  He was also a former member of the Georgia Department of Revenue of 
Sales and Use Tax Unit retiring in 1952 due to ill health.  He was a Mason and 
a Shriner.  Survivors include his wife, the former Miss Irene Battle of 
Camilla;  a daughter, Miss Hilda Irene Jackson of Baconton; five sisters, Mrs. 
Lloyd H. Lewis of Wilmington, Del., Mrs. D. C. Forehand of Albany, Mrs. Telfair 
Long and Mrs. T. H. Slade, both of Starke, Fla., and Mrs. J. E. Dean of 
Baconton.  Active pallbearers were the following nephews; J. G. Pritchell, Jack 
Dean of Albany; Alva Crow, J. B. Butler Jr., Raymond Waters of Camilla, and 
Minor Dean of Jackson, Miss.  Honorary escort was formed by the Board of 
Stewards and trustees of the Baconton Methodist Church.

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