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Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 1: parentage, and Early years. (search)
farmers of German extraction, named Brake. Jonathan Jackson, the father of the subject of this work, adopt under the guidance of his distinguished cousin, Judge Jackson of Clarksburg. His patronage induced him to go literated the record of the exact date, so that General Jackson himself was unable to fix it with certainty. Oves as a worthy matron in Randolph County. Jonathan Jackson, the General's father, is said to have been, w widow and babes. The Masonic Order, of which Jonathan Jackson was an officer, gave to the widow a little cotmember of the Wesleyan or Methodist communion. General Jackson always spoke of her with tender affection, and s mother's name, Julia Neale. In the year 1830, Mrs. Jackson, whose youth and beauty still fitted her to pleauntry. He was a sort of decayed gentleman, much Mrs. Jackson's senior,--a widower, without property, but of r, social turn. The marriage was distasteful to Mrs. Jackson's relatives. They threatened, as a sort of pena