LENOIR COUNTY, NC - Obit. - John Quincy Jackson, 1900. ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Martha Mewborn Marble May 1999 ========================================================================= JOHN QUINCY JACKSON, 1900 We thank the staff at LCC for their permission to copy selected documents from their files to place on the internet. It is requested that researchers give appropriate credit when using these documents. Permission to combine said documents together in printed form is not given. Heritage Place, Lenoir Community College, Kinston, North Carolina; Vertical File # Jackson 10130-5 JOHN QUINCY JACKSON The Free Press - Kinston, NC Thursday, June 13, 1900 - With photo "HON. J. Q. JACKSON DEAD He Died Suddenty at Raleigh This Morning at 5:00 o'clock Kinston was shocked this morning to learn that Mr. J. Q. Jackson had died in Raleigh early this morning. No One here knew of his being sick. We are unable to learn the cause of Mr. Jackson's death. He went to Raleigh Monday to attend the special session of the legislature, and was then in very good health. Mr. Jackson was nearly 68 years old. He leaves a wife and many warm friends to mourn his demise. The remains will be brought from Raleigh this afternoon and remain in state at his late residence. Funeral services will be held in the M. E. church tomorrow afternoon at 1:34 o'clock by Rev. D. H. Tuttle, and the remains buried in the cemetery after the funeral service. Mr. Jackson was a man of the highest character in whom all who knew him had the utmost confidence. He was at his post of duty when death struck him down. He was one of the senators from this district. THE FREE Press has lost one of its personal friends, and the county one of its best citizens." We extract a brief sketch of the life of Mr. Jackson, which was printed Sept. 2, 1899, in THE FREE PRESS. "J. Q. JACKSON John Quincy Jackson was born in Lenoir county, in the old Tower Hill house which the Tulls now own, October 12, 1832. He received his first education at Airy Grove Academy, and graduated from Trinity College in 1861. From the age of 18 years he resided in Greene county until he enlisted in the spring of 1862, as a private in the 61st regiment, North Carolina Troops. He was elected second lieutenant of company E, when it was first organized, and soon afterwards was promoted to first lieutenant, which rank he was in actual command of the company during nearly the whole of his service. He was in battle, at Williamston, NC and near Kinston, in December 1862, he was captured by the enemy, but paroled a day later and exchanged in a month. At the seige of Charleston, he was among the forces on duty, and lay under fire a long time; and then going into Virginia, shared in the closing part of the battle of Bermuda Hundred, fought at Gaines' Mill against Grant's army, and again in the battle before Petersburg, where he was wounded in the arm, July 30, 1864. This wound kept him out of service about seven weeks and after his return to the ranks, he served north of the James until captured at Fort Harri! son, in September, 1864. After this misfortune he experienced the miseries of a prisoner of war at the Old Capitol and Fort Delaware until June 1865. Then returning to North Carolina, he farmed in Greene county and studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1868. Since 1878 he has been a resident of Kinston. He formed a partnership with the late F. B. Loftin, which relation continued for several years. Mr. Loftin removing to Goldsboro, the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Jackson entered into a partnership with the late D. E. Perry, Esq, which continued until Mr. Perry;'' death, which took place April 3, 1897. In 1898, Mr. Jackson was nominated for the State Senate from the 8th senatorial district without his knowledge. He accepted with great reluctance, and was triumphantly elected along with his running mate, Hon. Jas. A. Bryan of Newbern. Mr. Jackson is a good civil lawyer, and a very good advocate. He is especially sought in all matters of trust and where big interests are involved, because of his great wisdom, strict integrity, and sobriety of judgement. He is held in high esteem by all classes of our people as a good and honest man and lawyer. Mr. Jackson is a member of the Methodist church, and is a Mason."