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Rodolphus William Jackson
My ancestor, Rodolphus William Jackson, served in Company F, 45 GA Infantry
Regt. (Gray Volunteers). Also, he was listed in the 12 GA Infantry as R.
W. Jackson. He married Lucy Coulter in 1856 in Jones Co., GA. They had
four children: Levi; Jessie; William Randolph 1860-1932 (my ancestor); and
Mary A. Jackson. Mary married Jackson James in Jones Co, Ga. Jackson
James joined Co F, 45 GA and died in 1862, she later married Wiley Williams.

Based on his application for a pension, a witness stated Rodolphus William
Jackson served as the commander of Co F, 45 GA the last six months of the
Civil War. He was one of seven original soldiers from the Jones Co. still
in the unit when they surrender at Appomattox, VA. In the 1890 census, he
had moved his family to Laurel, Jones Co, Mississippi. They had been at
State Line, Mississippi. His wife moved to Purvis, Lamar Co., Mississippi
and is buried at Coaltown Cem., Purvis, Mississippi with his son and his
wife (William Randolph Jackson 1860-1932 and Fannie Davis Bostick). W. R.
Jackson was a RFD mail carrier for about 18 years prior to his death. His
son, William Bostick Jackson 1888-1967, was a rural mail carrier for 40
plus year in Purvis. He and his wife (Bertha Pauline Anderson 1892-1981)
are buried at Coaltown Cem. W. B. Jackson's family home was located on the
site of the new (1998) Lamar County Chancery Court House where they raise
four boys (Carson Donald; William Harris 1916-2002; Howard Oliver 1917-;
Wayne Eugene and four girls: Lucy Murphree; Marie Peevy; Emogene Lee;
Jeroline Andrews. I am a descendant of William Harris Jackson and have a
great deal of information on this Jackson family.

R. W. Jackson disappeared from the family in the late 1890's. He was found
listed in the Vicksburg, Mississippi Annex (an assisted living type complex
next to the hospital in Vicksburg) in 1917. The Annex burned to the ground
in 1919. R. W. Jackson was last found applying for his pension in Macon,
Bibb Co., GA in October 20, 1920. I have made several trips to Jones Co,
Ga and Macon, Bibb Co., Ga trying to located his grave but to no avail.

Submitted by James W. Jackson (Jim Jackson) 1939- ;son of William Harris
Jackson and Alice Dean Purvis of Purvis, Mississippi

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