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Buddy,
Do you have any information on Alexander Jackson, born approximately 1786, possibly in one of the Carolinas or in Georgia? His son Abner Mitchell Jackson, Sr., was born 12 April 1812, possibly in S.C. or Georgia. His grandson, Abner Mitchell Jackson, Jr., was born 8 October 1845 in Pike County, Alabama.
I have documentation for NSDAR for my Gibson, Park, Richbourg and other relatives but would like to find my Jackson link. It would be very cool to be related to Col. Isaac Jackson, the Regulator! But here are some facts:
Alexander may have married a Martha (Warren?); then a second marriage to Mary Shaw. Alexander’s first child, a daughter, was named Martha and died when about two years old from burns from a scalding water accident. Mary Shaw is mentioned in Alexander’s will (of which I have a copy) as his wife. Alexander’s Will was contested by his oldest son, Daniel Shaw Jackson, who submitted to the Pike County Alabama Court that Alexander (who died about 1854) had intended for his estate to be a “Life Estate”. That was the ruling. My ancestor, Abner Mitchell Jackson, Sr., who was Alexander’s second and middle son, was the Administer of the Estate. In the next generation, all this very large estate was divided up between about 12 heirs. In Georgia, Alexander had property (per 1818 Jones County Tax) between Shaw and Raines on Wolf Creek and in Clinton. So, obviously, these men knew each other and probably were related thru birth or marriage. Abner Mitchell, Sr’s, son, Abner Mitchell, Jr., married Sarah Owen Park, known as “Kitty”, who was the daughter of Joseph Harrison Park and Apsilla “Absey” Kolb Park. Bob Jackson, (who was named for his two grandfathers, Abner Mitchell Jackson, Jr., and William Allen Jones, called “Bob”, who married Mahitabel Spry Gibson), barely remembered his grandmother “Kitty” Park Jackson as an elderly lady in a wheelchair in Glenwood, Alabama. ‘From the side bar’, this “Kitty’s” (Sarah Owen Park Jackson) father, Joseph Harrison Park had a sister, Jane Owen Glen Park, and her uncle, Richard S. Park (brother of Joseph Harrison Park) had a daughter Jane Owen Glen Park. Jane, sister of Joseph Harrison Park, married Solomon Siler and Jane, daughter of Richard S. Park, married Major William Burt Allred, who both eventually lived in Pike County, Alabama, on plantations about twenty miles apart, Jane Park Allred in Henderson, Pike County, Alabama, and Jane Park Siler in Orion, Pike County, Alabama.
The mystery man is my Alexander Jackson. I can document 13 different directions (Alexander had 13 children) going FORWARD from Alexander, but I have not so far documented Alexander’s origin and ancestors. It has been reported that Alexander was a Justice of the Peace in Pike County, Alabama, in June, 1824. Unfortunately, the Pike County Courthouse burned down a couple of times and General Sherman destroyed the Clinton area of Georgia.
I now live in Wasington, D.C. and plan to spend whatever time is necessary at the National Archives to ‘find’ my Alexander, but it seems foolish to “reinvent the wheel” if some other researcher has found my Alexander.
As the saying goes, there are more Jacksons than God made little green peas -- and all named the same name! (: But, another researcher and friend, Naomi Vickers, and I are recruiting males in our Jackson lines to participate in the DNA tests, and we hope to find some missing ‘links’ very soon.
Just some of the related or possibly related lines to my Alexander Jackson are Speir, Shaw, Warren, Kolb, Gibson, Jones, Richbourg, Park, Owen, Glen, Musgrove, Sankey, Mitchell, Manning, Myrick, Dozier, Mayfield, Allred, Siler, Pitts, Barnett, Bedell, McGinty, Borland, Boswell, Moore, etc, etc. etc.!!
Thank you for any information. I, as well as many, many Jackson researchers, will be very grateful if you have any information to document and trace my Alexander Jackson back to his origins.
Very Respectfully,
Sharon Jackson Mayfield
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