Virginia Sanders  Mylius

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Jackson Family

Thomas Davis Jackson,  “T.D.” was my mother’s grandfather.  He was the son of Granville T. Jackson and Martha Jane Davis of Ninety-Six, South Carolina.    I am still researching many of these families.    Granville was born in Tennessee, and here are the bits and pieces about his family that we know so far:

First Generation (I know):  

JOSEPH JACKSON born about 1750 - died 25 May 1818 in Fauquier County, Virginia.   He married Anne “Nancy” Sanford CARROLL, daughter of Demse (Dempsey) James Carroll and Frances Sanford.   Joseph and Nancy had the following children:

VINCENT JACKSON (abt 1776-1850 - cannot confirm these dates) married Mary GLASCOCK on 5 Feb 1798 in Fauquier County, VA, but they moved to Greene County, TN.     They had many children, but I have not researched them, yet, so will discuss only their son, THOMAS.

THOMAS JACKSON (abt 1805-?) married Elizabeth BALCH on 5 Dec 1829 in Greeneville, Greene County, TN.   She was the daughter of Elijah Whitfield Balch and Mary “Mollie” Green.   

Greene Co, TN:    John L Henderson in 1850 being then from Walker County Georgia sold Wm. Alex Henderson of Greene County, TN, land amounting to 85 acres on Lick Creek joining Thomas Jackson. Witnesses Jesse Glasscock and James C. Glasscock. General Index to Real Estate Conveyances Greene County TN Book 24 p. 321.

William A Henderson in 1860 in Greene County TN sold 230 acres to Daniel B Carter lands on both sides of Lick Creek joining Love's line; Joseph Black's line; Thomas Jackson's line; and Lester line. General Index to Real Estate Conveyances Greene County TN Book 31 p. 445.

Thomas and Elizabeth’s family (as I know them) were:

THOMAS JACKSON (b.1803/1805-TN)
sp: ELIZABETH BALCH * (b.18 Dec 1807 m.5 Dec 1829)

1)  Mary Elizabeth JACKSON (b.21 Nov 1830-Greene County,TN d.29 Jan 1904-Greenwood,SC)
 | sp: Benjamin Franklin YOE (b.Abt 1825)
 |  |- Alice YOE (b.Abt 1856 d.21 Oct 1899-Chicago,IL)
 |  | sp: J. H. BRYSON
 |  |   A)  Thomas A. YOE (b.3 Mar 1855 d.1 Jun 1932-North Augusta,Aiken County,South Carolina)
 |  |           sp: Mary Adeline  (b.1862-Tn d.12 Apr 1915-Augusta-Richmond County,GA)
| | B)  Cora "Belle" YOE (never married) (b.13 Dec 1859-Russellville,TN d.6 Apr 1951-Greenwood,Abbeville County,South Carolina)
 |  |  C)   Perry Garner YOE (b.20 Jan 1862-TN d.27 Mar 1903)
 |  |       sp: Eugenia DETONANCOUR (m.3 Feb 1890)
 |  |   D)  Benjamin Franklin "Frank" YOE Lawyer-Birmingham, AL (b.Abt 1863)
 |  |         sp: Margaret (Marguerite Amelia) MASSE
 |  |   E)  Fannie Klugh YOE (b.7 Nov 1870 d.11 May 1924)
 |  |         sp: William Daniel HARD (b.29 May 1850 d.27 Jan 1905)
 |  |   F)  William S. YOE -of Chicago (b.Abt 1873 d.26 Dec 1936-Chicago,IL)
 |  |         sp: Rosa SEYMOUR
 |  |   G)   Florence YOE
 |  |   H)   Emma YOE (died a child) (d.31 Oct 1861)
 |      I)    Lilie YOE (died a baby) (d.19 Sep 1867)

2)  James JACKSON (b.1832)
3)   Sarah JACKSON (b.1833)

4)   Granville T. JACKSON (b.Abt 1835-TN d.22 Oct 1887)
 | sp: Martha Jane DAVIS * (b.Abt 1838-SC m.9 Jul 1859 d.3 Mar 1898)
 |  |-3. Thomas Davis JACKSON (b.Mar 1863-Ninety Six,S.C. d.19 Aug 1948-Birmingham,AL)
 |  | sp: Rebecca HOPKINS (b.Oct 1865-Augusta,Ga m.21 Sep 1898 d.Sep 1927-Birmingham,AL)
 |  +-3. John W. JACKSON (b.Dec 1864-South Columbus Baptist,Columbus,GA d.Birmingham,AL)

5)   Thomas (Jr.) JACKSON (b.1837)
6)   Nancy JACKSON (b.1839)
7)   Emma Jackson/ EMILY  (b.1842)
       sp: Henry CARTER
          + Dana Lizzie CARTER
8)   Elijah (William) JACKSON (b.1844)
9)   Laura Lavinia JACKSON (b.1846)

If you are related to any of these children, please let me hear from you!   I have not researched them individually.

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GRANVILLE T. JACKSON was born about 1835 in Greene County, TN, but had moved to Abbeville District, SC by the time he married Martha Jane DAVIS on 9 Jul 1859.    He was a merchant in Ninety-Six, SC.    He died 22 Oct 1887 in Ninety-Six, SC.        Martha, born about 1838, died 3 Mar 1898, I assume in 96, as well.     She was the daughter of John Davis and Sarah Jane Pace.    

Researching ancestors with the names “Jackson” and “Davis” is not easy!   The main clue I had about this couple was the following, found in  "Abstracts of Old Ninety-Six" page 494

"DAVIS (Minors)- Box 124, Pack 3649:  On May 12, 1851 Silas Ray, Rbt Y. Jones, Leroy Purdy bound unto F. W. Selleck Ord. Abbeville Dist. sum $2,400.  Silas Ray made guardian of Frances E., and Martha Jane Davis - minors.  Frances E. & Martha Jane Davis sheweth that they are entitled to one share of the estate of Silas Pace decd. by virtue of an assignment made to them by their father John DAVIS of his interest in the est. of Silas Pace decd.  On Jan 11, 1870 a paper stated that Frances E. was the wife of Wm. L. McCord, Martha Jane the wife of G. T. Jackson."            [note:  Silas Pace was their great-grandfather, who died in

It should be noted that Granville’s sister, Mary Elizabeth Jackson, married Benjamin Franklin Yoe, and by 1860, they, too, were living in Abbeville District, SC.     Perhaps an explanation why Granville ends up in SC.   

November 19, 1882:   At the South Carolina Fair, "The Clark Flour Mills, through Capt Jno. W. Clark offered a special premium of a barrel of "Clark's Patent Flour," for the best loaf of bread baked from this brand, and Messrs. G.T. Jackson & Co. made a similar offer for the "Gold Medal" Flour.

January 1883, G.T. Jackson was present for the stockholders meeting of the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad Company, and had 10 shares of voting stock out of 3,672.  

Augusta Chronicle, January 7, 1887, discussed various business and labor concerns for the Ninety-Six area.    It was noted that  "Capt. G. T. JACKSON has sold out his grocery store to Col. J. P. Phillips, who will add it to his already large stock.   The other merchants are all fillling up.   During the forenoon of yesterday we had a snow fall of about four inches.   Sleighs and rabbit dogs are in requisition."   

THOMAS DAVIS JACKSON (Mar 1863 Ninety-Six, SC - 19 Aug 1948 Birmingham, AL)  married Rebecca “Pet” HOPKINS on 21 Sep 1898 in Augusta, GA.   Rebecca was the daughter of Thomas Newton Hopkins and Virginia DeLaigle.    Thomas & “Pet” were my great-grandparents.       Rebecca was born Oct 1865 in Augusta, GA, and died Sep 1927 in Birmingham, AL.    Thomas and Rebecca are buried on the McClure plot, block 17, at Elmwood Cemetery in Birmingham, AL.    I visit their graves often.   

Their only child, Helen Virginia Jackson (pictured above with my mother), was born 20 Jun 1899, either in Augusta , GA., where Pet’s family were, the Hopkins’ and DeLaigle’s.    - or she was born in Brunswick, GA where Thomas was working in 1900.    

Not long after Helen’s birth, Thomas was put in charge of the Western Union office in Macon, GA.   They were apparently living in Brunswick, GA at the time:   

Augusta Chronicle, March 1, 1900:   MR. JACKSON IN CHARGE.  The New Manager Says the Affairs of the Western Union are O.K.    Mr. Thomas D. Jackson, who arrived from Brunswick yesterday to take charge as manager of the Western Union Telegraph company's offices in Macon, says that as yet there has been no formal transfer of the business to his charge, but this will probably be accomplished by the first of March.  Mr. Norton has been in charge in Macon since the sad death of Mr. Arthur Kemp, and the two gentlemen yesterday went over the books and records together, with a view to turning them over to the new manager.  To a Telegraph reporter Mr. Jackson said:        "Mr. Kemp's suicide was a terrible shock to all of his friends, and I was deeply grieved to hear of it.  He was an excellent fellow.  So far as I have been able to observe, everything in connection with his office was absolutely straight and faultless.   I am unable to say how I will like the work, but I shall do my best."     Mr. Jackson will not bring his wife and child to Macon for a month yet, as he says he will have his hands full without trying to arrange for renting a home.  He will not consider these problems until after he has secured a thorough understanding of his duties in his office.   Mrs. Jackson and child came up from Brunswick yesterday, but went on to Augusta to visit relatives.  Macon Telegraph."  

In 1902, Thomas Jackson,  "Pa Pa"  (pronounced Pappa), ran the first telegraph office in Birmingham. He was a fervent believer in education, and even met with Booker T. Washington to discuss the education of blacks - something unusual for a white man in that day in the South.  He was much loved by his grandchildren.  

Birmingham News, 1928:     "MANAGER THOMAS D. JACKSON RETIRES:   Thomas D. Jackson, Manager of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company at Birmingham, Ala., for the last twenty-five years, has retired from active duty, and is succeeded by B. A. Scott, former manager at Jackson, Miss.      "T.D.", as he is familiarly known over a large section of the South, had not only witnessed the development of the city of Birmingham from a comparatively small town to one of the leading manufacturing centers of the South, but also witnessed the development of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company's business and its local force grow from a few dozen people to the several hundred now occupied at that place to handle the local and relay traffic.     Mr. Jackson has been active in church and civic affairs and in sympathy with all movements for the benefit of Birmingham and its citizens.    He is personally known to practically every business man in Birmingham, and has large circles of friends in all walks of life.   He will continue to make Birmingham his home."  

After Pet’s death in Sept, 1927, he continued to live in Birmingham with his only daughter, Helen Virginia Jackson, and her husband Robert McClure, and their children, until he died.   

OBITUARY:  Birmingham News, Friday, August 20, 1948:  FUNERAL SERVICES ANNOUNCED FOR THOMAS DAVIS JACKSON.     Services for Thomas Davis Jackson, 83, 1507 Grove Place, Homewood, will be held at 11 am tomorrow at Johns Chapel.  Mr. Jackson died yesterday at the residence.  The Rev. Trevor Mordecai will officiate at the services.  Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery.    A native of Ninety Six, S. C., Mr. Jackson came to Birmingham in 1902 as manager of the Postal Telegraph office.  Previously he had managed offices in Macon and Brunswick, GA.     Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Helen J. McClure, and two grandchildren: Robert McClure, Jr. and Mrs. Sam H. Sanders, Jr. (Jeanne), and three great-grandchildren, all of Birmingham.    Pallbearers will be David Charlton, William Wilson McClure, Walter McClure, Jr., Denson A. Ward, Jr. Robert McClure, Jr., and Sam H. Sanders, Jr."

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The grave markers for Thomas and Rebecca Jackson, and his brother, John W. Jackson, Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, AL

Robert and
Helen Jackson McClure (circa 1949)

Thomas D. &
John W. Jackson,
with their ladies.  

One of the women had to be Thomas’s wife, Rebecca.  
I don’t know who the woman was with John (he never married)