Person:John Jackson (396)

Jackson Ledger says John Goodloe Jackson married his cousin, Martha Jane Bassel and that Martha was the Mother of the author of the Ledger.

Lloyd Jackson Notes give an ALT birth date: 7 Mar 1851 but this does not agree with the 1900 census.

John Goodloe, age 63, and his second wife, Annie Neely, age 53, are found in the 1920 Lewis County Census. A cousin, Hannah Susan Atkins, age 47, single, granddaughter of Stephen Pomeroy Jackson and Hannah Bailey, is living with them.

The following paragraph was found in the biography of Setphen Goodloe, John's son: "John G. Jackson, who is president of a bank at Jane Lew, West Virginia, has been a merchant and banker for many years and prominent in political affairs in Lewis County. At one time he was the democratic nominee for the State Senate and for other important offices. On account of his temperance principles and pioneer advocacy of prohibition at a time when such opinions were new and startling, he was forced into leadership of the prohibition party in his section, and at one time was the prohibition candidate for governor. He married Miss Martha J. Bassel, who was born in Harrison County, January 19, 1856, and died March 15, 1908, leaving two sons: James Henry and Stephen G. She was a daughter of Henry Bassel, a brother of the late John Bassel, a prominent lawyer in West Virginia."

The complete biography of John's son Stephen G. Jackson is found on this site in the Biography Index.

1900 Census Dist 64, Hackers Creek, Lewis Co., West Virginia Jackson, John head W M Mar 1857 43 married 20yrs WV WV VA Jackson, Martha J. wife W F Jan 1856 44 married 20yrs 2ch/2lvg WV WV VA Jackson, James H. son W M Nov 1881 18 single WV WV WV That year looks like 1887 but 1887 is not correct. Jackson, Stephen G. son W M Mar 1884 16 single WV WV WV Atkins, Susan J. cousin W F Jan 1872 28 single WV VA WV Lee, Boyer G. servant B M Jan 1882 18 single WV WV WV

1. ↑ United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T623)
   Hackers Creek, Lewis Co., West Virginia.
2. ↑ Callahan, James Morton, and American Historical Society (New York). History of West Virginia, old and new: in one volume : and West Virginia biography in two additional volumes. (Chicago [Illinois]: American Historical Society, c1923)
   3:455.
3. ↑ McWhorter Jackson Sketches.
4. ↑ Email from William Carson "Bill" White of Jane Lew, WV. (janelewbill at gmail add the dot com).
5.   Jackson, P. A. Jackson Ledger. (1887)
   35, 78, 79.