Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jackson, Edgar B., 1982 

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EDGAR BOOKER JACKSON

   NORFOLK - A funeral service for Edgar B. Jackson, 88, was held at 2 p.m. 
Monday in High Street United Methodist Church, Franklin, by the Rev. David B. 
Lewis and Jeremy Q. Galloway.  Burial with military honors was in Poplar 
Spring Cemetery, Franklin, with Cox Funeral Home, Norfolk, in charge.

   Jackson died Saturday in Veterans Administration Hospital, Hampton, where 
he had been a patient since December 1981.

   A native of Franklin, he never married and made his home with a nephew in 
Norfolk for the last 26 years.

   As a child he attended the "free" school at Franklin, of which his maternal 
grandmother, Mrs. James Deberry Bryant was the principal.  He received 
bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Randolph Macon College.

   Jackson entered the Army in May 1918 and was wounded in the Meuse-Argonne 
offensive that September.  A meticulous diarist, he later called upon his 
wartime experience to write a book "Fall Out to the Right of the Road," which 
was published in 1973.  Earlier this month he was honored belatedly for his 
World War I service when he was awarded a Purple Heart in a special ceremony 
at the VA Hospital.

   After the war Jackson took a degree at Washington and Lee University and 
then served as an editorial writer on the short-lived Richmond Evening 
Dispatch from 1922 to 1923.

   Jackson, who had begun a teaching career before his Army service, taught 
geography, chemistry and mathematics at Maury High School in Norfolk for 21 
years, retiring at 1947.  His 26-years career also included service in 
Branchville, Franklin, Capron and Tappahannock.

   After retiring from Maury High, he returned to Franklin as part owner of 
the News Publishing Co., and for the next six years he served as editor, 
reporter, proofreader and factotum of the weekly Tidewater News.  In 1955, he 
returned to Norfolk and for the next two decades traveled extensively, making 
seven tours around the world, many on freighters.  In 1968, he returned to 
France to retrace the route he had followed as a corporal during World War I. 
In 1977, at 83, he took walking tours in Greenland and Iceland.

   Jackson was remembered by his students as a teacher who commented on test 
papers in verse and even used that mode to inform failing students that they 
would have to repeat a course.

   Jackson also was the author of "A Century of Methodism in Franklin, 
Virginia," and was recognized as an authority on the early history of 
Southampton County and the city of Franklin.

   He was a member of High Street United Methodist Church, Franklin.

   Survivors include a niece, Virginia Jackson Hossey of Cincinnati; five 
nephews, retired Army Col. Jesse Jackson Trotter of Virginia Beach, Edgar 
Hamlin Trotter and Robert Bryant Trotter of Norfolk, Robert Murray Jackson of 
Washington and Jesse Andrews Jackson of Ben Ben, W.Va.


Edgar Booker JACKSON, retired Norfolk teacher, former journalist, 
Army veteran of WW-I, local historian & author, 
Franklin native, d. 27 Feb 1982, Hampton, age 88, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 67/68*), Franklin, 
   1 Mar 1982, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 4, 1982, p. 11A 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Additional information: 

His mother's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Oct. 19, 1955, p. 30) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j250f1ob.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 20, 1936), with their 
   marriage record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j250j1ob.txt 

It is possible Edgar's middle name came from the preacher who married his 
   parents- George E. BOOKER. 


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