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Henry Jackson | poll book

Known Information

Henry Jackson lived in Louisa County, Virginia in the 1870 Census.

Sources

Prints

Alexander G. McKenney, James H. Terrill, John O’Dwyer, “Notice. The Registration of the Voters,” Remaking Virginia: Transformation Through Emancipation, accessed December 23, 2020, https://www.virginiamemory.com/online-exhibitions/items/show/596.

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1868-07-25).Electioneering at the south. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-3fa3-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Poll Book

Poll Book, 4th District, Louisa County, Va., List of Voters, Colored, 1867, Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va.,

Military Rule Election Records of the Virginia Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1867, 1869, Box 21, Folder 3

Census

1870; Census Place: Northern District, Louisa, Virginia; Roll: M593_1660;Page: 331B

In the First Reconstruction Act of 1867, Congress required former confederate states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment before it allowed their representatives to be seated in Congress. Part of this Act required that each district would register all male citizens of the United States over the age of twenty-one years that were qualified to vote by Sept 1867. Officers of the US Army oversaw the registration of voters, keeping separate poll book for the races. Virginia did not ratify the 14th and 15th Amendments until 1869, keeping in under military law until the ratification. The first elections in which African American males were allowed to vote occurred while Virginia was under military rule in October 22, 1867.

Louisa County, 4th District

Henry Jackson is included among the list of voter for the 4th District of Louisa County. While nothing other than the first and last name is recorded, a comparison of neighbors on the 1870 Census allows the deduction that this Henry Jackson is Alice’s husband and Damon’s father.

Henry Jackson is one of nine Henry Jacksons living in Louisa County in 1870; only two of these nine were over 21 years of age in 1867. Henry, husband of Alice was living in the Northern District of Louisa County and the other in the Southern District.

James H Daniels were listed on the same page as Henry in the census, while Robert Stewart was listed on the next page and Samuel Boxley the previous page. All three are listed in the Poll Book.

Further Research Needed:

  • Locate relatives of Henry and Alice Jackson in Louisa and surrounding counties

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Alice | maiden name unknown

Known Information

Alice Jackson’s obituary listed her as the beloved mother of Clarence, Sarah and Nelson Jackson.

Sources

Death Certificate

Certificate of Death, Jackson, Alice, 176613, 11,11,1907 | DC Archives

Newspapers

Evening Star 
Washington, District of Columbia
13 Nov 1907, Wed  •  Page 5

Maps

Hotchkiss, Jedediah, and D. C Humphreys. Map of Piedmont Virginia. 1873. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2005625117/.

Hotchkiss, Jedediah, Robert E Lee, Washington And Lee University. Trustees, and Worley & Bracher. Map of Augusta County, Virginia. [Lexington, Va.: Trustees of Washington College, 1870] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/80693004/.

Prints

Rau, Woldemar, Lithographer, and Edward Beyer. Staunton, Va. / drawn from nature by Ed. Beyer ; W. Rau. United States Virginia Staunton, ca. 1857. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/93504429/.

Alice Jackson died on 11 November 1907; she was 53 years old. Her death certificate lists her place of birth as Orange County, Virginia and that she had only been a residence in DC for the past 20 years.

Her son, Clarence died in 1924. Both of his parents were listed on his death certificate: Henry Jackson, born S Carolina and Alice Ternel? in Virginia.

Sarah Hopkins, their daughter, provided the information, and she listed her father’s birthplace as South Carolina, when other records consistently list it as North Carolina, suggesting a close but off memory; the same is possible for Alice’s last name. It might be Ternel, and it might be Terrell, a common last name in Orange County, Virginia.

1880 Census | Staunton, Virginia

In 1880, Henry and Alice Jackson are living in Augusta County, Virginia in the town of Staunton. They are living off on Green Street. Green Street ran south from the City Water Works before curving slightly west. Their house sat on the curve. Immediately to the east, along Federal Street, a brisk 5 block walk would bring you to the Railroad Depot for trains running on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, a railway that had connections with Louisa County, as part of the Virginia Central Railway which was originally the Louisa Railroad. The trains east ran to Charlottesville and from there to Gordonsville, where it connected with the line out of Louisa County.

They are living with Thomas Ligins, a RR laborer and Mollie Carr, a housekeeper. They are listed as a separate household, but same address.

SW Quadrant of Staunton | The railroad follows the circle of the river with the depot on the left side of the curve. Green Street is the farthest west and curves around the hill.
Railroads are shown as line with circles

The census enumerator lists Henry and their children: William, Dayman, Joseph, Glance and Sallie with the last name Jackson. For Alice, he listed her as Alice Trimble. There was a large family of Trimble that lived in Staunton, including an Alice V Trimble, married to Joseph.

The census enumerator listed her relationship as “mistress”, a unique term in his records. A keyword search of the 1880 census for the term shows returns only one other record in Albemarle County. Both records lists an older male partner, and a younger female partner. It is unclear whether or not the census enumerators made the independent decision to record the term, or if the family used the term. Enumerators had clear guidelines of what they could and could not use. Given the use of the term, it is unclear if the last name Trimble was also meant in earnest.

Further Research Needed:

  • Identify possible relatives in Orange and Louisa Counties, Virginia

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