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By Dixie Norwood
Collection Overview
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
Repository:
UNA Archives and Special Collections
Related Materials:
Jackson Collection
Box and Folder Listing
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- 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}
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