Obituary of Jesse Calvit Jackson of West Carroll Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Kay Mahan Noska  Feb 1999



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Heart Attack Fatal to Jesse C. Jackson~Hold Rites Tuesday May 27, 1948
Jesse Calvit Jackson, 51 year old resident of Epps, was found dead in 
a Monroe Hotel early Monday morning, following, according to Dr. J.T.
French, Ouachita Parish coroner, a heart attack suffered about 8 p.m.
Sunday night. Mr. Jackson, who  recently had moved from Epps to Delhi, 
where he was engaged in carpentry contracting, was found by a friend 
with whom he was supposed to go fishing Monday, it was explained. 
After the Ward one
resident failed to answer the telephone, the 
friend made his way into the room to find the body of the heart victim.
He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the Epps Calvit-McDuff
American Legion Post. Funeral services were conducted from the J.H. 
Lusk home at Epps, Tuesday with the Rev. Buckley, Pastor of Epps 
Baptist Church officiating and
graveside services were held with 
Rev. Ellis Grubbs, Delhi Minister,
officiating. Interment was in 
Delhi Masonic Cemetery.
Mr. Jackson is survived by his wife, 
Mrs. Avis Jackson, a daughter, Mrs.
Jessie Estelle Sutton of 
Little Rock, Arkansas. One brother , Willie Monroe Jackson of Epps. 
2 sisters: Mrs. Ed (Mary Virginia) Clark of Gulfport, Mississippi and 
Mrs. James (Ada) McMahan of Alexandria, La. and father, Robert Lee 
Jackson of Epps. Pallbearers included: W.W. Terry, J.H. Lusk, 
Tom E. Lusk, Leon Kelly,
Roy Tharp, J.S. Osborn, D.M. Postell, 
and Ed Butts. Catron_Gay Funeral Home was in charge of final 
arrangements.

My Note-Jesse Calvit Jackson was born-10 January 1897 
in Epps, La. the son of Robert Lee Jackson & Sarah Calvit Jackson. 
Jesse married first Era Bascum and they had one child, a daughter 
Jessie Estelle Jackson. Jesse Calvit Jackson died- May 23, 1948. 
Kay McMahan Noska (Great-Niece) ~KAY~