Person:Sarah Jackson (213)

Obituary found at http://www.geocities.com/milamco/ JINKS, Sarah Louise Jackson "Ludie" of Salty Community. Age 69. Died 8/19/1946 in Dallas while visiting her daughters. She had been in ill health for the past year and under a physicians treatment for an asthmatic condition. Complications with her trouble and a failing heart caused her death. Services held (Wed.) at Salty church from Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home where the body had reposed since being been brought from Dallas. Burial in Salty church cemetery. Rev. R.E. Duke, Methodist pastor, assisted by C. Edward Fraim, pastor of the Christian Church.

She was BORN 12/8/1879, daughter of Sara Thomas & Andrew J. Jackson, who came to Texas in the early 1870's and located in Milam Co. at Salty in 1876. She was one of a family of 13 children. With the exception of 1 year, she lived her entire life in Salty Comm. Married Daniel H. Jinks on 1/20/1897 and continued to reside in the community where they raised 2 sons and 4 daughters. For many years Mrs. Jinks was Rockdale Reporter correspondent for the Salty Comm. Her tributes also to departed friends have been cherished by many and she kept a scrapbook of all write-ups and pictures of Milam Co. boys in the services during the war. She had been compiling a history of the Jackson families for the past 2 years and was nearing completion of the work at the time of her death. M/M. Jinks were to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary within a few months and she was looking forward to the celebration with a great deal of pleasure, remembering like anniversaries of her parents on their 50th and 70th anniversaries.

SURVIVORS: Husband, D.H. Jinks; children, Mrs. Addie Caffey, Mack and Clasper Jinks of Port Arthur, Mrs. Clarice Kyle of Rockdale, Mrs. Nell Wilson, Mrs. Nona Longyear of Dallas; 12 grandchildren; 1 great-grandchild; sisters & brothers, Mrs. Ruby Lusk of Temple, Mrs. Mattie Pinkerton of Milano, Mrs. Alice Pugh of Cameron; (no brothers listed).

1. ↑ Death Certificate.
2.   Obituary
   1938 Andrew J. Jackson in his Notes.
3.   United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T9)
   District 103, Milam Co., Texas.
4.   Obituary
   Sarah Jane Thomas Jackson 1938.
5.   Obituary
   Sarah Louise Jackson 1946 obit in her Notes.
6.   Rootsweb chart of Diane Eiland: The Eiland and Caffey Families wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi op GET db eilan.
7.   United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T625)
   Precinct 8, Milam Co., Texas.