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JACKSON, WM. B. grocer and restaurant, w R.R. Roodhouse, Ill. Mr. Jackson was born in the State of Tennessee, July 18, 1842. His father was a very prosperous planter in the South until the war came on, when he met with many misfortunes incident to a time of war. Enlisting in Co. G, 10th Tenn. Cavalry, he was killed in battle near Knoxville. Wm. B. enlisted in the 26th Tenn. Inft. for twelve months, or during the war, and served in the capacity of third lieutenant, engaged in many important battles, as Murphrysboro, Chickamauga, etc., etc.; honorably discharged when the war closed, he returned to East Tennessee, thence to Middle Tennessee, and then to Illinois, locating near Roodhouse, in 1873, where he became employed on a farm. In 1875, he came to Roodhouse, entering into the above business, and meeting with good success, Mr. Jackson is a genial, kind-hearted man, who merits and receives a fair share of public patronage, In 1876, he was married to Miss Emma Sawyer, a daughter of Nathan Sawyer, a native of New York.