Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....Jackson, Hal C. July 20, 1911
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The Talbotton New Era, July 20, 1911
The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, July 20, 1911
Page Three

Mr. Hal Jackson

Mr. Hal Jackson died at the home of his sister Mrs. W.H. Jameson, this 
morning.  He was about 68 years of age.  His death was very unexpected.

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, August 17, 1911
Page Two

In Memoriam

My brother, H.C. Jackson, was born in Talbotton, Ga. July 25, 1842 and died 
here July 20, 1911.

Between this long interval of years he had lived in many places, but a kind 
Providence brought him back to his boyhood’s home to enter his eternal rest 
among those who knew him best and loved him most.

As I stood by his open grave, I thought if the dead knew anything how glad his 
mother was to have him laid by her side at last.  He loved her with a 
passionate devotion and if there is any reality in our holy religion there was 
a happy reunion in heaven the day he died.

I never knew a man of finer sensibilities or one more easily touched by the 
sorrows and afflictions of others.  Generous almost to a fault, he was eager 
to do what he could to lighten the burdens of a brother.

He loved nature in every phase and mood.  The habits and music of the birds 
had a peculiar charm for him.  Many have been the times when he has called me 
to look from my window at some lovely bird of song or plumage, or to go with 
him to some vantage spot nearby to view the beautiful dissolving clouds of a 
generous sunset, or the majestic rays of the rising moon.

He was very fond of children, especially little boys, whose quaint and 
original whims and ideas afforded him infinite amusement.

He had a high appreciation of what was best in art and literature and his 
residence in many cities had given him the opportunity of hearing and seeing 
the best our country afforded.

He had a profound regard for the church and its ministers, and by that I do 
not mean simply his own church, for he loved good men and women wherever he 
found them.  But in talking with me a few weeks before he died, he was 
deploring the commercial spirit of the age, which he feared was stealthily 
creeping into the church and would lay its hands upon her very altar.

He served four years in the Civil War and was fond of meeting with his old 
comrades and going over with them their army reminiscences.

In early life the keenest sorrow a young man can know came to him in the death 
of his beautiful betrothed wife.

In course of time he turned his cheerful, sunny face to the world, but from 
the innermost recesses of his soul I do not think the shadow ever lifted.

A few of his boyhood friends and compatriots are still left in the land; I 
write these lines for them and me.  I have had it on my mind since the morning 
when his generous heart was so suddenly stilled, and the busy pen dropped from 
his nervous hand.  I do not grieve for him as one without hope, for I am sure 
that if I am ever so fortunate as to touch that heavenly shore, among the 
first to greet me there will be this brother of mine.

M.H. Jameson


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