GEORGE W. JACKSON, planter, Baconton, Mitchell Co., Ga., son of
Absalom and Elizabeth (Smylis) Jackson, was born in Wilkinson County,
Ga., Jan. 20, 1834. He was but a boy when his father and family moved to near Blue Springs, in what is now Dougherty county, and what education he received was obtained at the common schools of the country. His father died when he was about ten years old, but the family lived together until 1855, when his mother, with his sister, youngest brother and himself, moved to near what is now Baconton,
where his mother bought tract of 160 acres of land and settled upon it; where she lived, cared for by the subject of this sketch, until her death.
Mr.Jackson has gradually added to this original purchase until he has 2,000 acres of choice, eligibly located land, 1,250 acres of which have been cleared; nearly all of which is under improved cultivation.

Mr. Jackson enlisted early in the war between the states, and was Lieutenant in Dearing's Brigade, W. H. F. Lee's division. He served about four years, two of which were on picket duty along the Virginia and North Carolina coast, and participated in the obstinately contested fights around Petersburg.
After the war he returned to his farm, which it has been his pride to improve. He is wide-awake and progressive, and an active and liberal promoter of every movement calculated to advance the material and
moral interests of the county. He was county commissioner eight years, which is the only public office he ever held. He is devoted to his home and interesting family, and is particularly anxious that all his children should be well educated.
Mr. Jackson married Miss Eulelia Peacock a sister of the wife of his brother, Greene S. ), daughter of Robert Peacock, a wealthy Brooks County planter-a union which has been blessed with eight children three sons and five daughters; Lula V., wife of W. H. Brimberry, Camilla; Nellie A; Florence May; George Pierce; Harry N; Jewell; lrvin Finton, and Lucia.
Mr. Jackson is an ardent democrat, member of the A. O. U. W., and himself and wife and family are ardent members of the Methodist church.
From:
MEMOIRS of GEORGIA Vol. II
Containing Historical Accounts of the States Civil, Military, Industrial and Professional Interests, and Personal Sketches of Many of Its People

THE SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, Atlanta, Ga, Copyright 1895
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