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Jeremy,
Thanks for posting the additional information. I found the story which you cited.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n4_v85/ai_14796187/?tag=content;col1
Nov 22, 1993 issue of Jet
Samuel Jackson
Granddad of famous Jackson musical family dies at age 100 - grandfather of Michael Jackson and siblings.
Samuel Jackson, grandfather of the famous Jackson family, died recently in a nursing home in Phoenix, Ariz. He was 100.
Mr. Jackson's cause of death was not released at JET press time. He was the father of Joe Jackson and grandfather of the musical clan that includes: Rebbie, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, LaToya, Marlon, Michael, Randy and Janet Jackson.
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Another story added that this was at the Tanner Nursing Home in Phoenix, AZ.
There isn't much on the internet about Samuel Jackson and his connections to Fountain Hill, Arkansas. Nor is the trail clear in the government census records. Was he Samuel "J" Jackson?
The closest Samuel Jackson I could find is the one I posted, but he was not not born in 1893. It's possible that the story about him being 100 was an error. I've seen that happen before. As time passes, dates get fuzzier. One has to understand also that for the first people who started drawing Social Security, there was an advantage in saying you were older than you actually were. Without concrete records, who could challenge that? I know of a situation where an applicant was told that he was a year older than he thought he was. Well... he wasn't. The record they were looking at was in error. But he accepted what they said because it meant they would go back and pay him for another year of Social Security.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s many people were born without birth certificates. They later applied for delayed birth certificates, which may or may not have been accurate.
And there were also many errors in the census records. My mother was a twin born in 1905. The 1910 census, though, has her as being two years younger than her twin!
FamilySearch.org is a good site, but I have found so many errors on there. One has to be careful in accepting it as gospel.
Now I have run into references that say Joe Jackson was born in 1928 instead of 1929!!! Whatever the case, this family does not show up clearly in the 1930 census of the Fountain Hill area, which means that they moved shortly after Joe's birth, or they were missed in the census, or they used names other than those presently used.
For Joe Jackson to be born at Fountain Hill, Ark, means that at least his mother had to be there. Let's presume that mother and father were both there. What does that imply?
Why would anyone be at Fountain Hill unless they had relatives there? Everyone would be trying to get out of Fountain Hill -- not get there. Out west in California was a place of opportunity. So was Indiana and the Chicago area. Yes. Sometimes relatives from up north came back south to visit family. A child could be born on such a trip -- kind of like Jesus being born at Bethlehem instead of Nazareth. It's unlikely that anyone would go to Fountain Hill for vacation. I went there once to look at a car about 45 years ago. I never had any cravings to return for anything.
My conclusion at this point -- until I see other evidence -- is that Joe Jackson's father was the Samuel Jackson of the Ashley County census records of 1900, 1910, and 1920. That Samuel's father was James Jackson of Ashley County. James Jackson was the son of another Samuel Jackson, who had been born in Georgia. These Jacksons were probably associated with the white Samuel Jackson family that migrated to Arkansas from Georgia in the mid 1800s.
Prior to being at Fountain Hill in Ashley County, the family appears to have been in De Bastrop Township of Ashley County, which is east of Fountain Hill and Parkdale.
We have no idea of the twists and turns this family history may have taken over the time from 1890 to 1930. It would take a book to cover the family as it is today with all of its relationships.
But watch, someone will read this and add a little something. Then someone will add something else. And soon it will all come together.
Bobby Lamb
A retired teacher.
Pine Bluff in Southeast Arkansas.
***Again... I have no connection with this family. I get curious and enjoy searching for things. Many times I have been successful in solving old family mysteries.
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