{"id":608,"date":"2014-03-15T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgantn\/?p=608"},"modified":"2017-06-20T22:30:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T03:30:16","slug":"jackson-horace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/jackson-horace\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson, Horace"},"content":{"rendered":"

HORACE JACKSON<\/span>
\nb. April 7, 1918 in Morgan County, TN
\nd. March 14, 1944, burial in Italy<\/p>\n

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Horace Jackson a native of Morgan County was killed in Italy during World War Two.\u00a0 He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal.<\/p>\n

I could find no mention of him in the Morgan County Cemetery Book, so I started digging.
\nSomewhere I saw a reference to him being killed in Italy.<\/p>\n

He is the son of LEROY GROTY JACKSON, 1873 – 1940 who is the son of Chesley Boatright Jackson, 1848 – 1915, a former sheriff of Morgan County who is a son of William R. Jackson, 1821 – 1886 who raised 14 children in Morgan County.\u00a0 They are all buried in Morgan County.<\/p>\n

He is the Grand nephew of DAVID CROCKETT JACKSON, Civil War Veteran that is buried in the Estes Cemetery.<\/p>\n

Horace was a Corporal in the United States Army, serial number 34-493-963, a member of the 350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division.\u00a0 He died March 18, 1944 and is buried at:\u00a0 Plot C, Row 11, Grave 34, Sicily-Rome American Cemetery in Nettuno, Italy.<\/p>\n

Horace was born in Morgan County on April 7, 1918.\u00a0 He was just short of his 26th birthday when he died.\u00a0 Apparently he never had time to get married so I doubt if there is anyone left to mourn him.<\/p>\n

Horace is my 2d cousin, once removed.<\/p>\n

His great grandfather WILLIAM R. JACKSON spent his life as a Baptist Preacher in Morgan County.\u00a0 Not a remarkable life until you learn among other things that he represented Morgan County at the Greenville Convention in 1861.\u00a0 His brother-in-Law JOSEPH ALEXANDER COOPER who was to become a Major General represented Campbell County.\u00a0 A total of 30 East Tennessee Counties participated in this convention in an attempt to prevent secession from the Union.\u00a0 The document that these Pro-union delegates drew up, signed and delivered to the Govenor was called\u00a0 a\u00a0 “Declaration of Grievances Adopted at the Greenville Convention.”<\/p>\n

Courtesy of Darrell H . Jackson, Lakewood, Washington
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HORACE JACKSON b. April 7, 1918 in Morgan County, TN d. March 14, 1944, burial in Italy Horace Jackson a native of Morgan County was killed in Italy during World War Two.\u00a0 He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal. I could find no mention of him in the Morgan County Cemetery Book, so I started… Continue reading Jackson, Horace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[288],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans","tag-cooper","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3914,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/3914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}