Bio: Edmond W. Jackson
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890



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EDMOND W. JACKSON

Edmond W. Jackson is a merchant and the owner of Maude plantation, which is
just below Natchitoches, on the left bank of Cane River, and comprises 206
acres of fine farming land.  This gentleman was born in Monroe County,
Ga., on May 19, 1848, to Warren and Maria (Davis) Jackson, both Georgians, the
father being drowned in Sabine Parish, La., in 1869, when about forty years of
age, having been a planter by occupation.  The mother died in De Soto Parish,
La., in 1859, the year following her arrival in Louisiana.

Edmond W. is the youngest of four living children, and was reared on a farm,
receiving a common school education.  In 1869 he began life for himself as
manager of his uncle's (Monroe Chapman) plantation, on Red Bayou, where he
remained one year, the following year clerking for an uncle (H. J. Davis) at
Pleasant Hill, La., receiving for his services $250 per annum.  After
remaining at this point until 1874, he then removed to G. W. Robinson's
plantation, on Red River, where he remained for eleven years, a portion of
the time receiving $1,200 per annum as compensation.  Following this he was
engaged in business for himself for some time in the same neighborhood,
leasing the plantation of Mrs. Tally D. Brown, but in the fall of 1889 he
purchased his present plantation, and at the same time opened a general
mercantile establishment on the bank of Cane River.  He has made his own way
in life, and the property he has secured has come to him through his own
untiring efforts.  He is a Democrat, and a member of Phoenix Lodge No. 38 of
the A. F. & A. M.

Miss Lucretia Maude Foster became his wife in 1873, her birth having occurred
in Alabama in 1855.  The following children have been born to them: Eugene
M., Edward F., William W., Joshua A., Howard. H. and Sallie B.