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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 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
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