Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Jackson, William A. 1835 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   WILLIAM A. JACKSON, who is one of the well-to-do farmers of Stafford
Township, Greene County, Ind., was born in Washington County. Ky., January 23,
1835. In the fall of 1839, he located with his father's family in Sullivan
County. John T. and Mary (Pirtle) Jackson, his parents, were among the early
settlers in that county where they reared a family of seven children. His school
days were few, and spent in the log schoolhouses of that time. On January 3,
1858, he married Eliza McClung, and to them seven children have been born —Nancy
E., John W., Susanna P., Logan A., Hattie J., Minnie I. and Eliza M., all
living. In March, 1858, he settled in Greene County, where he lived in Stockton
Township until 1867, when he located in Stafford, and has lived on the present
farm ever since. He enlisted in Company I, Ninety-seventh Regiment Indiana
Volunteer Infantry in July, 1862, and served in the late war until its close,
when he received an honorable discharge June 9, 1865. The following are the
principal battles in which he was engaged, as shown by his discharge: Vicksburg,
Jackson, Mission Ridge, Dalton, Resaca, Dallas, New Hope Church, Big Shanty,
Kenesaw Mountain, Chattahoochie River, Decatur, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Lovejoy.
Little River, Griswoldville, Savannah, Columbia, Bentonville and Raleigh. Mr.
Jackson began doing for himself without anything, and has been fortunate in
gaining this world's goods, as his fine farm in Stafford Township abundantly
testifies. On September 6, 1879, his wife died, and again the 7th of October,
1883, he married Miss Mary O. Loudon, of Greene County, who is a member of the
Presbyterian Church. Mr. Jackson belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He
is a Republican, and says he proposes to stand by the old party, whose
principles he earnestly advocates in his community, where he is eminently esteemed.

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Stafford Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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