HOUSE, 28th and 29th General Assemblies, 1849-53; representing Madison County; Whig. Born in Chesterfield County, Virginia, on February 22, 1805; names of parents unknown; orphaned at an early age. Studied medicine; graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1823. In 1827 he removed to Paris, Henry County, Tennessee; practiced medicine there until 1840 when he removed to Jackson, Madison County. After retirement from the medical profession in 1847 he devoted himself to farming. One of the moving spirits in the first West Tennessee Fair; made speeches to promote railroads. Trustee of West Tennessee College, Married (1st) to Mary W. Hurt, daughter of the Rev. Robert Hurt; children--Howell E., William Hicks, and Mary Jackson; married (2nd) on January 28, 1843, to Susan A. Freeman, daughter of Major James F. Freeman; children--James F., Milton, Martha, and Olivia F. Jackson (Mrs. W.C. Penn). Married (3rd) in Dyersburg, Dyer County, on October 22, 1850, to Mrs. Eunice B. Fenner; children--Samuel Miller and Robert Turner Jackson. Mayor of Jackson, 1854-56. Charter member of Tennessee Medical Society; Farm Bureau, being a delegate to the U.S. Agricultural Society in Washington, D.C. Died in Jackson on January 20, 1879; buried in Riverside Cemetery, Jackson. Son-in-law of Robert Bailey Hurt, sometime member Tennessee General Assembly; father of Howell E. Jackson, sometime member Tennessee General Assembly, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and of William Hicks Jackson, who married Selena Harding and became the owner of the famed Belle Meade plantation and stud farm, Nashville.
HOUSE, 28th and 29th General Assemblies, 1849-53; representing Madison County; Whig. Born in Chesterfield County, Virginia, on February 22, 1805; names of parents unknown; orphaned at an early age. Studied medicine; graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1823. In 1827 he removed to Paris, Henry County, Tennessee; practiced medicine there until 1840 when he removed to Jackson, Madison County. After retirement from the medical profession in 1847 he devoted himself to farming. One of the moving spirits in the first West Tennessee Fair; made speeches to promote railroads. Trustee of West Tennessee College, Married (1st) to Mary W. Hurt, daughter of the Rev. Robert Hurt; children--Howell E., William Hicks, and Mary Jackson; married (2nd) on January 28, 1843, to Susan A. Freeman, daughter of Major James F. Freeman; children--James F., Milton, Martha, and Olivia F. Jackson (Mrs. W.C. Penn). Married (3rd) in Dyersburg, Dyer County, on October 22, 1850, to Mrs. Eunice B. Fenner; children--Samuel Miller and Robert Turner Jackson. Mayor of Jackson, 1854-56. Charter member of Tennessee Medical Society; Farm Bureau, being a delegate to the U.S. Agricultural Society in Washington, D.C. Died in Jackson on January 20, 1879; buried in Riverside Cemetery, Jackson. Son-in-law of Robert Bailey Hurt, sometime member Tennessee General Assembly; father of Howell E. Jackson, sometime member Tennessee General Assembly, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and of William Hicks Jackson, who married Selena Harding and became the owner of the famed Belle Meade plantation and stud farm, Nashville.
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