The 2022 Jackson Brigade Reunion will be held in the Forsyth area of Taney County, Missouri about 15 miles east of Branson, Missouri. The dates are Thursday August 4, Friday August 5, and Saturday August 6, 2022. For more details about the Reunion and the Reunion Registration Form visit http://www.jacksonbrigade.com/2020-reunion/ The deadline to return the […]
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Jonathan Darrel Coker Nancy Jackson has been working on completing the John Jackson, Jr. line and leaving no stone unturned. A few days ago, she overturned one stone and found a fascinating relative previously hidden–Jonathan Darrel Coker. Nancy identified a potential candidate–Jonathan Coker–and wondered because of the same surname if Jonathan was related […]
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Vickie Ann (West) Scrivener, 63, of Lakeland, Florida, died peacefully at the Mike Conley Hospice House on December 21, 2017. Born on January 6, 1954 to Rex Channing West and Melba Anne (Jackson) West in Weston, WV. She attended and graduated from Rockville High in Rockville, MD. Vickie later received LPN training at Frederick […]
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Melba Anne (Jackson) West, 88, passed away peacefully at her residence at Lorien Nursing Facility in Mt. Airy, Maryland, on January 3, 2022. Born on April 17, 1933, in Weston, West Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Aubrey Walter Jackson and Grace Waggoner Jackson. She was preceded in death by her husband, […]
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Yadkinville – Mr. Frederick Frank Pepper of Yadkinville, North Carolina went home to be with the Lord on February 10, 2020. Fred was born on January 23, 1937 to the late Frank N. and Mattie Belle Fairchild Pepper in Sackette Harbor, New York where he spent his childhood while his father was serving in the […]
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Henry Jackson (1774-1852), the youngest child of John Jackson and Elizabeth Cummins, had at least 23 children by his two wives — Mary Hyre and Elizabeth Shreves. This post is about one of Henry and Mary’s sons Hyer Jackson from material submitted by Nancy Jackson. Hyer3 Jackson (Henry2, John1) was […]
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The new fencing around the Henry Jackson Cemetery as the sun rises one morning. Photo taken November 2021. The Jackson Brigade Corporation is proud to announce the completion of the new fencing around the historic Henry Jackson Cemetery. The cemetery is in Hall, Upshur County, WV, about six miles northeast of Buckhannon, WV. […]
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Who is Jackson Rathbone? Ask any pre-teen girl and she will tell you that he is one of the “hotties” in The Twilight Saga films. Jackson plays the vampire Jasper Hale. His full name is Monroe Jackson Rathbone V and he is the fifth generation to be named after his great-great-great-great-grandfather Judge James Monroe Jackson. […]
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Left is Nancy Jackson’s brother Robert Lee Jackson, her mother Annie/Anna Grace (Stalnaker) Jackson, her brother William Andrew Jackson in front of house she grew up in starting at age four. Her mother descends from Col. Edward Jackson and her father Jacob Jay Jackson was a great grandson of John Jackson Jr. World War II […]
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Many Friends Mourn Death of Jake Jay Jackson (Nancy Jackson’s father) Veteran Printer, beloved by Craft, Succumbs After Gallant Fight. [He died on Dec. 19,1936] By Gene Collett Hundreds of friends in Clarksburg and elsewhere were bowed with grief today as word came of the death of Jacob J. Jackson, 47, printer, at 1:10 o’clock […]
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