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Robert Sidney Jackson |
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| 14. Robert Sidney JACKSON2(Joseph1)
was
the sixth child of Joseph
Jackson and Sarah Cannon Belton and the eleventh of Joseph's twelve
children from his two marriages. He was born 20 Sep 1843[1] in Alabama.[1,2,3]
Robert's place of residence was Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama when he enlisted 9 Sep 1861 in Confederate States Army at Five Mile Church, Green County, Alabama and served in 1, 20th Regiment Alabama Infantry as a 2nd Lieutenant under Albert M. Avery, First Lieutenant and Captain of the Company. Robert was captured near Nashville, Tennessee 16 Dec 1864, received at Louisville, Kentucky, 19 Dec 1864, and forwarded to Johnson's Island, Ohio 20 Dec 1864. He took the oath of Allegiance 16 Jun 1865 upon release.[4]. His discription[4]: 6' tall, light hair and light complexion, and gray eyes. Robert traveled to Texas from Alabama in 1867 in a covered wagon with his widowed mother, Sarah "Sallie" Cannon Belton JACKSON, brother John Harrison JACKSON, sisters Martha Jackson SUGGS, and Susan Jackson HARRY with her small son, Sidney HARRY. Along the way, in Louisiana, Susan HARRY died while giving birth to an infant daughter, Florence HARRY (BLACKBURN). The party arrived in Mount Pleasant, Texas to join Robert's and John's half-brothers, Dr. James William JACKSON and Theophilus Andrew "UncleOff" JACKSON.[5] Robert married 10 Mar 1875[7] in Grayson Co, Texas[7] to Eugenia Pauline HENDERSON (Lurenzo144,John81,Joseph47,James33,William26) who was born 20 Nov 1855[8,9,10,11] in Clarksville, Red River Co, Texas[8,9,10,11]. Robert and Pauline were both educated in as far as they could read and write but it is not known if they were educated at home or in school[12]. The couple remained in Grayson County until after 1880[4] where his occupation was that of a miller and ginner and was most likely an employee of The L. D. Henderson Steam Circular Saw Mill in Clarksville which was owned by his father-in-law. Robert and Pauline had ten children, six sons and four daughters[12,13]. Robert Sidney Jackson died 26 Jul 1913 at age 70 in Polk County, Texas[14] and Pauline died 6 May 1943in the town of Diboll, Angelina County, Texas at the age of 88 in the home of her daughter Annie Jackson Devereaux[15]. They are both buried in the Union Springs Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery[16,], Polk County, Texas. |
