Below are: (1) a brief biography of Levi Jackson; (2) his obituary that appeared in The Dillon Herald; and (3) an article about the wedding of Levi and his second wife, Martha Dove.

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Levi Jackson was the son of William W. Jackson and Mary Hamilton Jackson. He was the husband of Adaline Coward Jackson, (first), and Martha Dove Jackson. He served as a Private in Company L, Eighth Regiment Infantry, South Carolina Volunteers, Confederate States Provisional Army.

Per the book, "The History of Dillon County, South Carolina", page 125: "The site of the future Moore Brothers store was a sizable pond. The land had so little value that about the time the railroad was proposed Levi Jackson sold a tract in the vicinity for only $1.50 per acre."

He was one of seventeen citizens of Marion County that signed the application for a Dillon City Charter in 1888.

Per the Dillon Herald, March 1913, Levi lost his home and contents by fire. No one was harmed.

Per the Dillon Herald, December 1919, Levi at age 82, was praised for his active mind, good appetite, sleeping well and a farming record few men his age ever attain and still fewer ever surpass.

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The Dillon Herald

February 15, 1923

Death Claims Brave Soldier

Mr. Levi Jackson Passes At His Home Near Dillon After Brief Illness

While the passing of Mr. Levi Jackson, better known as "Uncle Levi", whose death occurred Monday morning at his home near Dillon, another brave follower of Lee and Jackson has been drafted from the thinning ranks of the living to join his comrades on the other shore. The end came peacefully and "Uncle Levi" obeyed the final summons as calmly as he had faced the dangers of the battlefield in the days of civil strife.

As late as last Friday Mr. Jackson was on the streets of Dillon greeting his friends and acquaintances in his usual cheerful way. In conversation with several gentlemen he said if the Lord spared him until next July he would pass his 86th year. Apparently his health was good and he showed unusual vitality for one of his years. He conversed freely with those about him and looked into the future with confidence. He was ill only a few days and his passing was a severe shock to those with whom he had mingled a short while before his death.

"Uncle Levi" was one of the bravest soldiers that ever followed Lee and Jackson. He was one of six brothers who went through the war, all of whom were good soldiers. Mr. Jackson himself volunteering in 1862. He was sent to camp near Florence, S.C., being transferred from there to Manassas, Va., where he went into his first battle under command of Kershaw's Brigade, McLure's Division, Longstreet's Corps.

He was in battle at Orange Court House, Culpepper, Ga., twice at Malvern Hill, Jamestown, the Battle of Seven Pines, the Battle of the Crater near Petersburg. He was wounded in the Battle of White Oak Swamp or Riddle's Shop, the Battle of Winchester, the Battle of Guinea Station and at Strauseburg, being wounded in both arms in the latter battle. He was also in the Battle of North Ann River, being sent from there to Sharpsburg.

Next he was sent to Gettysburg, Pa., and from there to Missionary Ridge in Tennessee. He marched from Chattanooga to Knoxville where he was engaged in another battle, thence to Bristol, Tenn. and on to Virginia where he took part in the Battle of Wilderness, Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg. At Spottsylvania Court House he was engaged in forty days of continuous fighting.

Mr. Jackson had a war record of which any soldier should be proud. He never shirked. He was always among the first to respond to the bugle call and no braver soldier ever followed Lee and Jackson. He was a born soldier and even though advanced in years he watched the movements of troops in the late war with keen interest. He knew the positions of the various armies at the front and commented in characteristic style on the different maneuvers they employed in outwitting the enemy. Trench warfare was not pleasing to "Uncle Levi". He criticized it as being too slow. He often said that old Stonewall could take an army of men like those who followed him through the civil war and reach Berlin while the allied armies were thinking about it.

At the close of the war Mr. Jackson returned to his home and engaged in farming which he followed until the day of his death. He did not accumulate much of the world's goods, but he lived the life of a good citizen, doing his duty as he saw it, with charity toward all and malice toward none. His passing removed a familiar figure in the life of the community, and he will be missed not only by those with whom he came in close contact each day, but also by those who know him by his cordial greeting and friendly spirit.

He was buried as he would have wished with military honors, the National Guard turning out to a man, in full uniform, as a mark of respect to the memory of a man who was deserving of respect in every sense of the word.

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Marriage of Levi Jackson to Marthy Dove on Friday, July 31st at the grooms home. Rev. W. C. Wallace "tied the silken knot". The quiet home wedding was without frills and orange blossoms, only Mr. Bud Trubleville stood as best man.

Mr. Jackson deserves more than passing notice. When the old Palmetto State announced to the world that she was going to housekeeping on her own account, come weal or woe, she would face the music, and when the bugle call came for her sons to repel an invading foe, William Jackson, whose antiquated dwelling is now standing in Dillon, sent his eight lusty sons to the firing line to do or die for Dixie. Levi was one of them and during the four long and bitter years when death and carnage swept our southland he was in the thickest and never faced the pitless storm

"nor shall his glory be forgot

While fame her record keep,

No braver man, more daring deeds

On Pee Dee never sleeps"

(The Dillon Herald - Thursday, August 20, 1908)

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