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Jackson Families Papers, 1866-2007

By Dixie Norwood

Collection Overview

Title: Jackson Families Papers, 1866-2007

Creator: Jackson Family Papers, 1866-2007

Extent: 6.0 Boxes

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection includes family documents and records of the James Jackson family, as well as records and documents on their extended families, the Moores and the McKiernans. Also included are photographs and information on the family home, the Forks of Cypress. There are also several books written by local historian William Lindsey McDonald as well as a family Bible from 1866.

Biographical Note

James Jackson was born on October 25, 1782 to James and Mary Jackson in County Monaghan, Ireland. He grew up in Ireland until he moved to the U.S. in 1799; first to Pennsylvania before later moving to Tennessee. In Tennessee he met his wife Sarah Moore McCulloch who he would marry in 1810. They had ten children together.

James later moved to the area that would be come the Florence/Lauderdale area. Here he became part of the seven trustees of the Cypress Land Company. The Cypress Land Company was created under the pretense that Florence would become a major commercial town due to its connection to the Tennessee River. This was backed by President Andrew Jackson. The company would result in great success for both the people invloved and the city of Florence. It would also go on to aid in the creation of TVA and thus the Wilson Dam.

Administrative Information

Related Materials: Jackson Collection


Box and Folder Listing

Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Tribute to Alexander Jackson in "Court of Appeals of Texas" {Scanned sheets} (No Date)Add to your cart.
Folder 2: "Life and Labours of the Rev. William Johnston, D.D" {Scanned sheets} (No Date)Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Creeve and Jackson Family History and Genealogy (No Date)Add to your cart.
Folder 4: "The Mysterious Disappearance of Parson Dick" (No Date)Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Copies of Letters and Genealogies (No Date)Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Black and White Family Crests (No Date)Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Birth Years of Jackson Relatives born in the 18th Century (No Date)Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Copies of Legal Documents Related to the Jacksons (No Date)Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Letters, Records, and Eulogy of James JacksonAdd to your cart.
Folder 10: Jackson Family Genealogy Papers (No Date)Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Jackson Family Historical Report {Copy from 1960}Add to your cart.
Folder 12: James Jackson Letter and Photograph (1896)Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Letters and Newspaper Clippings (1938;1982)Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Wardlaw Family Papers (1941)Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Newspaper Clippings of James Jackson, Admiral Richard H. Jackson, and Forks of Cypress (1942-1995)Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Photographs (1950-1996)Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Newspaper Clippings, Letters, and Historical Writings  (1963-1995)Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Letters (1965-1971)Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Admiral Alexander Jackson, Jr. (1965;1971;1974)Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Letters to James Jackson and Papers about Forks of Cypress (1966;1989)Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Family Records (1968)Add to your cart.
Folder 22: Letters, Papers, and Tennessee Valley Historical/Tennessee Valley Art Bulletins (1971;1973;1987)Add to your cart.
Folder 23: Horse Racing from the Forks of Cypress (1978;1993)Add to your cart.
Folder 24: James Jackson (1980)Add to your cart.
Folder 25: Family Letters (1982;1995)Add to your cart.
Folder 26: Records from the Forks of Cypress (1987;1995)Add to your cart.
Folder 27: Clogher Record (1989)Add to your cart.
Folder 28: Trip to Ireland {Photo Album and Letter} (1990)Add to your cart.
Folder 29: Moore Family Records (1994)Add to your cart.
Folder 30: Restoration of the Forks of Cypress (1998;1999)Add to your cart.
Folder 31: Invitations, Photo, and Lists (1999)Add to your cart.
Folder 32: McKiernan Genealogy (2005)Add to your cart.
Folder 33: Letter from Anne Pope to Mary Florence Kirkman, 1879 (2007)Add to your cart.
Folder 34: Family Documents (1879;1882-1884)Add to your cart.
Folder 35: Letter from James Jackson, Newspaper articles, and Typed Obituary of Mrs. James Jackson (1950)Add to your cart.
Folder 36: A History of the First Presbyterian Church-Tuscumbia, Alabama {1824-1974} (1974)Add to your cart.
Folder 37: James Jackson Estate Inventory (March 9, 1993)Add to your cart.
Folder 38: Forks of Cypress Horses (No Date)Add to your cart.
Folder 39: Family Records {Including Newspaper Clippings, letters, and a photograph} (1993-1994)Add to your cart.
Folder 40: Forks of Cypress Anniversary Gathering Letter and Additional Information (April 20,1999)Add to your cart.
Folder 41: Forks of Cypress (1964)Add to your cart.
Folder 42: Alabama School Journal Cover {Forks of Cypress} (November 1953)Add to your cart.
Item 43: Framed Document "This Date in Alabama History" (No Date)Add to your cart.
Item 44: Notebook containing Jackson Family documents, letters, and family history materials (1940;1947;1951;1966;1968;1971;1979;1980;1987-1989;1993;1995;1998-1999)Add to your cart.
Folder 45: Records of the Moore Family (No Date) {Scanned Copy}Add to your cart.
Folder 46: "Yester Nashville Names" {By Octavia Z. Bond} The Nashville American (August 29,1909)Add to your cart.
Folder 47: Records of Lillington Family (No Date) {Scanned copy}Add to your cart.
Folder 48: Natchez Trace Traveler-James Jackson of the Forks of Cypress: Will and Inventory (February 1993)Add to your cart.
Folder 49: "The Forks of Cypress: Home of James Jackson" {By: Elizabeth Kirkman O'Neal} Historic Homes of Alabama and Their Traditions (1935)Add to your cart.
Folder 50: McKiernan Family Crest; Information on the Moore Family {South Carolina} and Additional Information (1991)Add to your cart.
Folder 51: Handwritten summaries on Sual, Solomon, David, Samuel, and the Philistines (No Date) {Copies}Add to your cart.
Folder 52: Historic Presentation {By: William Lindsey McDonald} Photographs and Other Information on Jackson Family (1995)Add to your cart.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Correspondences from Waring Sherwood and Information of Forks of Cypress Saddlebag and Log Cabins (1966-1972;1974;1978;1981;1983-1984;1993)Add to your cart.
Item 2: A Biographical Sketch of Chartie {Charlotte} Jackson and her Family {2 copies-one has a handwritten letter inside} (1974)Add to your cart.
Item 3: The Story of Shiloh {3rd Edition} (1961)Add to your cart.
Item 4: Historic Muscle Shoals -The Journal of Muscle Shoals History Bicentennial Edition (1976)Add to your cart.
Item 5: Bulletin of the North Alabama Historical Association {Volume V} (1960)Add to your cart.
Item 6: The Story of Sarah {Sally} Moore {3 copies} (1970)Add to your cart.
Item 7: Beginnings...of the University of North Alabama {The Story of Florence Wesleyan University} (1991) {Signed copy}Add to your cart.
Item 8: Jackson Family Bible (1866)Add to your cart.
Folder 9: {Manuscript} "The Mysterious Disappearance of Parson Dick (A Civil War Story)" (No Date)Add to your cart.
Folder 10: "The Ernest Workers' Class of the Evergreen Presbyterian Church" (July 13, 1975)Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Unidentified Family Photograph (No Date)Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Moore Family Crest & Additional Information (February 8, 1958)Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Jackson Family Crest and Hugh Jackson Genealogy (2007)Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Miscellaneous Items from Jackson Family Bible {Letters, Newspaper articles, and Obituaries}Add to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Richard Jackson Archival Diploma {Reproduction} (No Date) {Oversized}Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Jackson Family History (No Date) {Oversized}Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Personal Writings and Copying (No Date) {Oversized}Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Forks of Cypress Sketch (1950) {Oversized}Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Jackson Family Records #2 (1965-1967) {Oversized}Add to your cart.
Box 4Add to your cart.
Item 1: Album (Black Notebook) containing original photographs from photo album Eleanora Kirkman Jackson Phillips 1858-1938Add to your cart.
Item 2: Original photo album of Eleanora Phillipd {All original photographs have been removes to black notebook, this contains no photos} (No Date)Add to your cart.
Item 3: Scrapbook {B.M. Jackson} (1882)Add to your cart.
Item 4: School Book, Elizaebeth McCulloch Jackson (1904)Add to your cart.
Item 5: The Photographic Album {McCulloch Jackson} (1887)Add to your cart.
Item 6: Account Book: Property of W.M. Jackson {Account of workby "Uncle" WM handy} (1860-1861)Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Handwritten song-"Don't Stay After Ten" (October 26, 1888)Add to your cart.
Item 8: Collier Copy A Jackson Photos {CD}/Collier Copy B Jackson Photos {CD} (No Date)Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Financial Records of John Jackson, Jr. in Dublin, Ireland {as Executor for family business} (1820-1822)Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Statement {Re: Division of income from Rent} of James Jackson {Tuscumbia, Alabama} (December 17, 1917)Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Handwritten paper on General Thomas Jonathan Jackson (No Date)Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Letter from Bergmann & Caraher {New York} to Miss Ellen Hunt Jackson {Re: Empire stock shares} (February 18, 1917)Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Letter from Union Mutual Life Insurance Company to William Moore {Manager-Los Angeles Agency} (June 3, 1925)Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Ribbon and medallion for descendant of Colonial Governor(s) {Named are Gov. John Yeamans, Gov. James Moore, Gov. Alexander Lillington} (No Date)Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Constitution and By-Laws, Franklin Lodge No. 24 I.O.O.F. {Adopted by the Grnad Lodge of the State of Alabama} (1869)Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Letter from James Jackson to Miss Elizabeth N. Jackson {sister}-{Re:proposed canal} (March 14, 1906)Add to your cart.
Item 17: Eleventh Annual catalogue, State Normal School {Includes lists of graduates 1877-1883 and classes of 1884-1886} (1883-1884)Add to your cart.
Item 18: Thirty-eighth Annual Catalog, Huntsville Female College (June 6, 1889)Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Application for Membership to the South Carolina Society of the Colonial Dames of America {Mary McKiernan Jackson, nee Mrs. Edmond C. Winston} (No Date)Add to your cart.
Item 20: Warranty Deed from J.H. Harris to Elizabeth Jackson {Colbert County} (1911)Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Graduation Oration of Edmund C. Winston, Jr. {Delivered at Lloyd's Opera House, Tuscumbia, Alabama} (May 18, 1894)Add to your cart.
Folder 22: "The Forks of Cypress: Home of James Jackson" {by: Elizabeth Kirkman O'Neal} (1935)Add to your cart.
Folder 23: Andrew Jackson and Land Speculation in Lauderdale and Colbert (Franklin) Counties {by: Deborah Clanton}Add to your cart.
Item 24: Pocket books of poems, literature, travel, humor, wit & philosophy, and travel (11 in total)Add to your cart.
Item 25: B.M. Scrapbook (1894)Add to your cart.
Item 26: Keepsake Album, Susie Jackson (1861)Add to your cart.
Item 27: Mother Goose Melodies {Page}/1926 Buick PricesAdd to your cart.
Box 5Add to your cart.
Item 1: Photo frame with photograph {Sephia/Black and white} of Jackson family (No Date)Add to your cart.
Item 2: Jackson Account Book {Nashville} (1802-1804)Add to your cart.
Item 3: Jackson Family Record {#2} (1965)Add to your cart.
Item 4: Elizabeth McCulloch Jackson Album I (No Date)Add to your cart.
Item 5: Elizabeth McCulloch Jackson Album II (No Date)Add to your cart.
Item 6: Photo album {index to portraits include WM Jackson and Janis Jackson} (No Date)Add to your cart.
Item 7: Daguerreotypes/Ambrotypes Tin Types {Unknown} {7 noted: 1 medium/large; 4 medium; 2 small} (No Date)Add to your cart.
Item 8: Miss Jane Jackson's certificate of membership in the United Daughters of the Confederacy (No Date)-also has a "Seventh Annual Reunion, United Confederate Veterans' ribbon with it (1897) {Oversized}Add to your cart.
Box 6Add to your cart.
Item 1: Jennie Jackson's State Normal College Diploma {Florence, Alabama} (1893) {Oversized}Add to your cart.
Item 2: Elizabeth Jackson's School of Decorative and Applied Art Diploma {University of the State of New York} (June 1905) {Oversized}Add to your cart.
Item 3: Elizabeth McColloch Jackson's Cooper Union Institute {Women's School of Art} Diploma {New York} (1895 and May 32, 1896) {Oversized}Add to your cart.
Item 4: Miss Jane Jackson's certification of membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution (November 17, 1914) {Oversized}Add to your cart.
Item 5: William J. Winston's Kentucky University Commercial College Diploma {Lexington, Kentucky} (February 1890) {Oversized}Add to your cart.
Item 6: Scanned photocopy of news articles from April 24, 1818 {Oversized}Add to your cart.
Item 7: Photograph of Greece {Oversized} (No Date)Add to your cart.