Born: Rapides Parish, Louisiana, July 21, 1840.
Died: 1901.
J. W. JACKSON was born in Rapides parish, Louisiana, July 21st, 1840. He served in the confederate army, as a 1st Lieutenant in the 8th Louisiana Regiment, and was baptized during the war, Aug. 23rd, 1863, in Orange county, Va., by Eld. Coleman. He married June 21, 1864, in Leake county, Miss. After the war he settled in Rapides parish, La., and himself and wife united with the church at Cheneyville, where his uncle, Andrew Jackson, was preaching, in the year 1869 He moved to Texas in 1871, during which year he was bereaved of his wife. He taught school till 1879, since which time he has been actively engaged in preaching the gospel. Bro. Jackson is a fine writer, and is one of the editors of the Firm Foundation, published at Austin, where he now resides.