Jackson Families Papers, 1866-2007

By Dixie Norwood

Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Biographical Note

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Folder 1: Tribute to Alexander Jackson in "Court of Appeals of Texas" {Scanned sheets} (No Date)

Folder 2: "Life and Labours of the Rev. William Johnston, D.D" {Scanned sheets} (No Date)

Folder 3: Creeve and Jackson Family History and Genealogy (No Date)

Folder 4: "The Mysterious Disappearance of Parson Dick" (No Date)

Folder 5: Copies of Letters and Genealogies (No Date)

Folder 6: Black and White Family Crests (No Date)

Folder 7: Birth Years of Jackson Relatives born in the 18th Century (No Date)

Folder 8: Copies of Legal Documents Related to the Jacksons (No Date)

Folder 9: Letters, Records, and Eulogy of James Jackson

Folder 10: Jackson Family Genealogy Papers (No Date)

Folder 11: Jackson Family Historical Report {Copy from 1960}

Folder 12: James Jackson Letter and Photograph (1896)

Folder 13: Letters and Newspaper Clippings (1938;1982)

Folder 14: Wardlaw Family Papers (1941)

Folder 15: Newspaper Clippings of James Jackson, Admiral Richard H. Jackson, and Forks of Cypress (1942-1995)

Folder 16: Photographs (1950-1996)

Folder 17: Newspaper Clippings, Letters, and Historical Writings  (1963-1995)

Folder 18: Letters (1965-1971)

Folder 19: Admiral Alexander Jackson, Jr. (1965;1971;1974)

Folder 20: Letters to James Jackson and Papers about Forks of Cypress (1966;1989)

Folder 21: Family Records (1968)

Folder 22: Letters, Papers, and Tennessee Valley Historical/Tennessee Valley Art Bulletins (1971;1973;1987)

Folder 23: Horse Racing from the Forks of Cypress (1978;1993)

Folder 24: James Jackson (1980)

Folder 25: Family Letters (1982;1995)

Folder 26: Records from the Forks of Cypress (1987;1995)

Folder 27: Clogher Record (1989)

Folder 28: Trip to Ireland {Photo Album and Letter} (1990)

Folder 29: Moore Family Records (1994)

Folder 30: Restoration of the Forks of Cypress (1998;1999)

Folder 31: Invitations, Photo, and Lists (1999)

Folder 32: McKiernan Genealogy (2005)

Folder 33: Letter from Anne Pope to Mary Florence Kirkman, 1879 (2007)

Folder 34: Family Documents (1879;1882-1884)

Folder 35: Letter from James Jackson, Newspaper articles, and Typed Obituary of Mrs. James Jackson (1950)

Folder 36: A History of the First Presbyterian Church-Tuscumbia, Alabama {1824-1974} (1974)

Folder 37: James Jackson Estate Inventory (March 9, 1993)

Folder 38: Forks of Cypress Horses (No Date)

Folder 39: Family Records {Including Newspaper Clippings, letters, and a photograph} (1993-1994)

Folder 40: Forks of Cypress Anniversary Gathering Letter and Additional Information (April 20,1999)

Folder 41: Forks of Cypress (1964)

Folder 42: Alabama School Journal Cover {Forks of Cypress} (November 1953)

Item 43: Framed Document "This Date in Alabama History" (No Date)

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)

Folder 45: Records of the Moore Family (No Date) {Scanned Copy}

Folder 46: "Yester Nashville Names" {By Octavia Z. Bond} The Nashville American (August 29,1909)

Folder 47: Records of Lillington Family (No Date) {Scanned copy}

Folder 48: Natchez Trace Traveler-James Jackson of the Forks of Cypress: Will and Inventory (February 1993)

Folder 49: "The Forks of Cypress: Home of James Jackson" {By: Elizabeth Kirkman O'Neal} Historic Homes of Alabama and Their Traditions (1935)

Folder 50: McKiernan Family Crest; Information on the Moore Family {South Carolina} and Additional Information (1991)

Folder 51: Handwritten summaries on Sual, Solomon, David, Samuel, and the Philistines (No Date) {Copies}

Folder 52: Historic Presentation {By: William Lindsey McDonald} Photographs and Other Information on Jackson Family (1995)

Box 2

Folder 1: Correspondences from Waring Sherwood and Information of Forks of Cypress Saddlebag and Log Cabins (1966-1972;1974;1978;1981;1983-1984;1993)

Item 2: A Biographical Sketch of Chartie {Charlotte} Jackson and her Family {2 copies-one has a handwritten letter inside} (1974)

Item 3: The Story of Shiloh {3rd Edition} (1961)

Item 4: Historic Muscle Shoals -The Journal of Muscle Shoals History Bicentennial Edition (1976)

Item 5: Bulletin of the North Alabama Historical Association {Volume V} (1960)

Item 6: The Story of Sarah {Sally} Moore {3 copies} (1970)

Item 7: Beginnings...of the University of North Alabama {The Story of Florence Wesleyan University} (1991) {Signed copy}

Item 8: Jackson Family Bible (1866)

Folder 9: {Manuscript} "The Mysterious Disappearance of Parson Dick (A Civil War Story)" (No Date)

Folder 10: "The Ernest Workers' Class of the Evergreen Presbyterian Church" (July 13, 1975)

Folder 11: Unidentified Family Photograph (No Date)

Folder 12: Moore Family Crest & Additional Information (February 8, 1958)

Folder 13: Jackson Family Crest and Hugh Jackson Genealogy (2007)

Folder 14: Miscellaneous Items from Jackson Family Bible {Letters, Newspaper articles, and Obituaries}

Box 3

Folder 1: Richard Jackson Archival Diploma {Reproduction} (No Date) {Oversized}

Folder 2: Jackson Family History (No Date) {Oversized}

Folder 3: Personal Writings and Copying (No Date) {Oversized}

Folder 4: Forks of Cypress Sketch (1950) {Oversized}

Folder 5: Jackson Family Records #2 (1965-1967) {Oversized}

Box 4

Item 1: Album (Black Notebook) containing original photographs from photo album Eleanora Kirkman Jackson Phillips 1858-1938

Item 2: Original photo album of Eleanora Phillipd {All original photographs have been removes to black notebook, this contains no photos} (No Date)

Item 3: Scrapbook {B.M. Jackson} (1882)

Item 4: School Book, Elizaebeth McCulloch Jackson (1904)

Item 5: The Photographic Album {McCulloch Jackson} (1887)

Item 6: Account Book: Property of W.M. Jackson {Account of workby "Uncle" WM handy} (1860-1861)

Folder 7: Handwritten song-"Don't Stay After Ten" (October 26, 1888)

Item 8: Collier Copy A Jackson Photos {CD}/Collier Copy B Jackson Photos {CD} (No Date)

Folder 9: Financial Records of John Jackson, Jr. in Dublin, Ireland {as Executor for family business} (1820-1822)

Folder 10: Statement {Re: Division of income from Rent} of James Jackson {Tuscumbia, Alabama} (December 17, 1917)

Folder 11: Handwritten paper on General Thomas Jonathan Jackson (No Date)

Folder 12: Letter from Bergmann & Caraher {New York} to Miss Ellen Hunt Jackson {Re: Empire stock shares} (February 18, 1917)

Folder 13: Letter from Union Mutual Life Insurance Company to William Moore {Manager-Los Angeles Agency} (June 3, 1925)

Folder 14: Ribbon and medallion for descendant of Colonial Governor(s) {Named are Gov. John Yeamans, Gov. James Moore, Gov. Alexander Lillington} (No Date)

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)

Folder 16: Letter from James Jackson to Miss Elizabeth N. Jackson {sister}-{Re:proposed canal} (March 14, 1906)

Item 17: Eleventh Annual catalogue, State Normal School {Includes lists of graduates 1877-1883 and classes of 1884-1886} (1883-1884)

Item 18: Thirty-eighth Annual Catalog, Huntsville Female College (June 6, 1889)

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)

Item 20: Warranty Deed from J.H. Harris to Elizabeth Jackson {Colbert County} (1911)

Folder 21: Graduation Oration of Edmund C. Winston, Jr. {Delivered at Lloyd's Opera House, Tuscumbia, Alabama} (May 18, 1894)

Folder 22: "The Forks of Cypress: Home of James Jackson" {by: Elizabeth Kirkman O'Neal} (1935)

Folder 23: Andrew Jackson and Land Speculation in Lauderdale and Colbert (Franklin) Counties {by: Deborah Clanton}

Item 24: Pocket books of poems, literature, travel, humor, wit & philosophy, and travel (11 in total)

Item 25: B.M. Scrapbook (1894)

Item 26: Keepsake Album, Susie Jackson (1861)

Item 27: Mother Goose Melodies {Page}/1926 Buick Prices

Box 5

Item 1: Photo frame with photograph {Sephia/Black and white} of Jackson family (No Date)

Item 2: Jackson Account Book {Nashville} (1802-1804)

Item 3: Jackson Family Record {#2} (1965)

Item 4: Elizabeth McCulloch Jackson Album I (No Date)

Item 5: Elizabeth McCulloch Jackson Album II (No Date)

Item 6: Photo album {index to portraits include WM Jackson and Janis Jackson} (No Date)

Item 7: Daguerreotypes/Ambrotypes Tin Types {Unknown} {7 noted: 1 medium/large; 4 medium; 2 small} (No Date)

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}

Box 6

Item 1: Jennie Jackson's State Normal College Diploma {Florence, Alabama} (1893) {Oversized}

Item 2: Elizabeth Jackson's School of Decorative and Applied Art Diploma {University of the State of New York} (June 1905) {Oversized}

Item 3: Elizabeth McColloch Jackson's Cooper Union Institute {Women's School of Art} Diploma {New York} (1895 and May 32, 1896) {Oversized}

Item 4: Miss Jane Jackson's certification of membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution (November 17, 1914) {Oversized}

Item 5: William J. Winston's Kentucky University Commercial College Diploma {Lexington, Kentucky} (February 1890) {Oversized}

Item 6: Scanned photocopy of news articles from April 24, 1818 {Oversized}

Item 7: Photograph of Greece {Oversized} (No Date)