Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 526-527 [McCracken]

     GEORGE W. JACKSON, a successful business man and mattress
manufacturer of Paducah, Kentucky, was born in St. Louis, Missouri,
in 1843, a son of Samuel and Martha (Grainger) Jackson.  His father
was born in England in 1780, and his mother was also born in
England, in 1813, and both are now deceased.  Samuel Jackson was a
stonemason by occupation.  After a brief residence in Cincinnati,
Ohio, he removed to St. Louis, Missouri, where he became a pioneer
in the brewery business, later served as a policeman, and still
later removed to a farm near St. Louis, and was engaged in farming
at the time of his death.  He was seventy years of age at the time
of his death.
     George W. Jackson is a brother of John S. Jackson, of Paducah,
and was reared and educated in St. Louis, removing to Paducah,
Kentucky, in 1872, at which time he embarked in the mattress
upholstering business and has continued in that line ever since,
with marked success.  In politics Mr. Jackson is a stanch Democrat,
but he has never sought political preferment.  Fraternally he is
very prominent in the Knights of Honor, and has many friends in that
organization, as well as throughout the entire city.
     In 1868 Mr. Jackson was united in marriage with Anna Cox, then
of St. Louis, Missouri, but a native of Virginia.  The children born
to Mr. and Mrs. Jackson are as follows: Samuel R. is a successful
druggist of Hot Springs, Arkansas; Thomas J. is bookkeeper of the
street railway company of Hot Springs, Arkansas.  Mr. and Mrs.
Jackson are justly numbered among the leading people of Paducah, and
enjoy the confidence and esteem of the community. 

Jackson Grainger Cox
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MO England OH VA

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