Person:Chloe Jackson (1)

From the obit of her brother Floyd: Miss Chloe was living in Atlanta, GA in 1917.

From OBR: As of 1950, she was not married. She was a graduate nurse and her life work as been in interest of tuburcular patients.

Obituary contributed by Jerry Jackson, Park City, Utah: Miss Chloe Jackson 1st County Woman to Become RN, Dies Miss Chloe N.(sic) Jackson, about 83, former Whitley county teacher and the first woman from Whitley county to become a graduate registered nurse, died unexpectedly, at her home in Muncie Sunday. Funeral services will be held at 1- a.m. Wednesday at the Meeks Mortuary, Muncie, with Dr. Ray Johnson officiating. Committal services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Stough Cemetery near here. Miss Jackson, who lived with her sister, Mrs. Bertha Workman, at 613 Abbott Street, Muncie, died about 9:40 a.m. as she and Mrs. Workman were preparing to attend Easter morning services. Miss Jackson was the executive secretary of the Delaware County Tuberculosis Association. She had been in poor health for 18 months and planned to retire next July 1 on rounding but 30 years of service with the Delaware County TB Association. She was a native of Whitley county and spent several years in the teaching profession here. She was a teacher at the old Troy Center school, the Hook school and the Hammer school east of Columbia City. Quitting teaching, she entered the Nurses Training School at Mercy hospital in Chicago, attained her R.N. as the first Whitley county woman to receive her diploma as a registered nurse. . . . . . Surviving are four brothers, D. W. Jackson of Indianapolis, Homer Jackson of Dunnedin, Fla., Jesse Jackson, who resides east of Tunker in Washington township, and Heber Jackson, Columbia City; three sisters, Mrs. Bertha Workman with who she lived, Mrs. Daisy Longnecker of Denver, Colo., and Mrs. Edith Flecknestein of Buffalo, N.Y., also a number of nieces and nephews.

1. ↑ Obituary
   Chloe Jackson 1957.
2. ↑ Indiana, Whitley, Stough Cemetery genealogy.whitleynet.org/cem72.htm.
3. ↑ Find A Grave
   Memorial# 38890670.
4. ↑ Kaler, Samuel P., and Richard H. Maring. History of Whitley County, Indiana. (B. F. Bowen & Co., 1907).
5. ↑ Obituary.

   Of John Potts Jackson. See his 1920 obituary in his notes.

6.   Robbins, Oscar Burton. History of the Jackson family of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., Ohio and Indiana: descendants of Robert and Agnes Washburn Jackson. (Loveland, Colo.: Robbins, 1951)
   303, 317.