My Genealogy Hound

GEORGE E. JACKSON was born in Yorkshire, England, March 22, 1855. His father came to America in 1860, settling at Corinth, Miss., where he died in 1862. The subject of our sketch went to Memphis, Tenn., during the war, remaining until 1870, when he started for the North, landing in Aurora, Kane county, Ill., where he learned the blacksmith trade. He came to Smithfield, Jasper county, in 1877, and married Elmira Gouger, July 4, 1878, who was born in Maryland, Sept. 11, 1860, but chiefly raised in Mo. The names of the children are Ida, George, and Christopher. Mr. Jackson has been a member of the Odd Fellows. He came to the young and growing town of Waco in June, 1881, where he is doing a large business, blacksmithing. He owns a farm of eighty acres, about fifty being under cultivation, with good crops and a young orchard on the place. Although still but a young man, by industry and frugality he has become the proprietor of property in Smithfield and Waco, and is destined ere long to be a man of competency and valuable property because of good habits and attending to the business which he has chosen.