Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jackson, Jesse A., 1936 

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JESSE ANDREWS JACKSON

   Jesse Andrews Jackson died at his home in North High Street Saturday, 
March 14, after an illness of many months.  Mr. Jackson was a native of 
Murfreesboro, N.C, the son of the late Jesse Andrews Jackson and Mrs. 
Rebecca Van Shoick Jackson, both of whom were originally from New Jersey. 
Moving to Franklin in 1881, he was known and esteemed here for his 
exceptionally fine traits of character and exemplary life.  He had the 
distinction of serving his church as steward for 52 years, becoming an 
official of High Street M.E. Church at the age of 18 when the local church 
was a part of the old Southampton Circuit and he was the only steward in 
the local congregation.  He was a studious and well-informed man, living a 
quiet, unostentatious life and numbering many friends.

   Surviving his are his wife, Mrs. Flora Bryant Jackson; two sons, Jesse A. 
Jackson, Jr. of Grantsville, West Va., and Edgar B. Jackson of Norfolk; one 
daughter, Mrs. B.M. Trotter of Norfolk; eight grandchildren; four nephews 
and two nieces, the children of the late Mrs. Joseph T. Weede of this town. 
Another sister, Miss Florie Jackson, who made her home with him, died several 
years ago.

   Funeral services, attended by a large assemblage, were conducted from the 
Methodist Church Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock by his Pastor, Rev. Henry W. 
Davis, assisted by a former Pastor, Rev. Roscoe Jones of Portsmouth, and Rev. 
R.D. Stephenson of the Baptist Church.  Burial was made in the family plot in 
Poplar Spring Cemetery, the pallbearers being: J.B. Gay, B.L. Holt, J.F. 
Bryant, Jr., J.W.B. Thompson, C.V. McGehee of Hopewell and three of his 
nephews, Jesse and Willie Weede of Franklin and Charles M. Weede of Akron, 
Ohio.  Honorary bearers were his fellow stewards of High Street M.E. Church.


Jesse Andrews JACKSON, II, 
Murfreesboro, NC native, d. 14 Mar 1936, at home, Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 67/68*), Franklin, 
   15 Mar 1936, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 20, 1936 

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

Additional information: 

Two infant daughters, his brother & sister, and their parents, are buried in 
   Section 1, Plot 39A.  SCHS Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Jesse A. Jackson, 22, Single, b. N.C., 
   res. ["J.A. Jackson" struck] &c So.Ampton, sn/o J.A. Jackson, Merchant
Flora L. Bryant, 22, Single, b. & res. So.Ampton, 
   d/o Jas. D. and Mary L. Bryant 
m.lic. 16 Apr 1888 by clerk B.F. McLemore 
m. 18 Apr 1888 Franklin, Southampton Co., Va., by Geo.E. Booker 
(Southampton Co. MB6:332) 

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

His sister Florie's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 16, 1928, p. 1) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j250f3ob.txt 


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