My Genealogy Hound

William H. Jackson, clerk of the county court, of Lauderdale County, is a son of James D. and Frances (Wright) Jackson. The father was born in Dinwiddie County, Va., in 1811, and his mother in Northhampton, Mass., in 1817. She met Mr. Jackson in Virginia, while visiting there; they were afterward married in Massachusetts, then moved to Fayette County, Tenn., where the father died in 1847, and in 1870 the mother came to Ripley, to live with her son, and died in 1884; both were members of the Methodist Church, and he was a Democrat; a farmer by occupation. Our subject was born August 20, 1838, in Fayette County, Tenn., had the best educational advantages the county schools afforded, and at the age of sixteen entered a wholesale and retail dry goods house, at Memphis, where he remained a year, then taught school for three years; then was book-keeper for a railroad contracting company. In 1860 he went to Texas and Mexico for his health, but in 1861 volunteered in Company B, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry (Confederate Army). Three of his brothers were in the same company, and all went through the war without being wounded. After his return, in 1865, he married Catherine E. Palmer, who was born in 1843. No children have been born to this marriage and both Mr. and Mrs. Jackson are members of the Methodist Church. Soon after they married they settled on the farm near Ripley, but two years later moved to town, and Mr. Jackson engaged in the grocery business for six years, the greater part of the time in partnership with Maj. Wardlaw. In 1882 he was elected to the office of county court clerk, and re-elected in 1886. For twenty-one years he has been a resident of Lauderdale County, and the citizens of his county have shown their appreciation of him, as a man, and their confidence in his ability and integrity, by electing and re-electing him to the responsible office of county court clerk. Mr. Jackson is of a genial, social disposition, and is fond of hunting and fishing.