Son of John Berryman Ezell Jackson (1835 – 1863) and Elizabeth Angeline Robison (1836 – 1926). His family migrated to Dallas County Missouri sometime after 1850 and after his father passed away in 1863, his mother and siblings migrated to Cooke County, 15 miles s.e. of Gainesville (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrb38). It was here that he met and married the beautiful lady, Nancy Jane Porter (1858 – 1900) 28 May 1876. The family was involved in the milling business in this area as well.
However, around the turn of the century, the Jackson family, except his sister, Nancy, relocated to the Oklahoma Indian Territory, in what has become Bryan County.
After Nancy passed away during childbirth in 1900, he remarried to a Miss Hamilton. Then about 1919 he remarried again to a Mattie Rose (1866 – 1926).
In 1926 they were residing in Caney, Atoka County, Oklahoma, when a tornado came through their homestead and destroyed it, and killing them as well.
Monroe left quite a legacy and many of his descendants can be found in the same Oklahoma area today, as can be realized at their annual June Family Reunion in Caddo, Oklahoma, for which I have had the honor and pleasure to attend.
Monroe and Nancy Jane Porter had the following children:
Alfred Wallace Jackson (1876 – 1960)
Ada Almeda Jackson (1878 – ???)
Viola Atta Jackson (1882 – ???)
Martha Angeline Jackson Buck (1884 – 1922)
Walter Lefet Jackson (1886 – 1973)
Cora Lena M Jackson Williams (1889 – 1921)
Elves Durell Jackson (1890 – 1976)
Effie Claudus Jackson Gossett (1893 – 1968)
Glennie Elvira Jackson McDougal(1894 – 1918)
Nannie Luerimondo Jackson (1900 – 1900)

Monroe and Miss Hamilton had one child:
Ola M. Jackson.

The Caddo Herald
April 30, 1926

Death and Destruction in Storm Near Town

A small, but terrible, cyclone dealt death and destruction in its wake six miles north of Caddo last Friday afternoon about 5:30. The storm swept a path of 200 yards wide almost clean of trees, houses and vegetation, for a length of some sixteen miles.
The little town of Fillmore, northwest of Caddo some 18 miles, was first struck, and hardly a house was left standing, traveling east it swept through Voca, 9 miles northwest of Caddo, going thence southeast it struck near the Holder barn, crossed the Katy tracks at the overhead bridge just north of Rice’s store.
The miracle is that not more people were injured. Some were bruised by being thrown around promiscuously. Some were saved by finding shelter in stormhouses.
Seven farm houses belonging to Amos K. Bass were wrecked. Other farm houses also were demolished. Hundreds of people were shelterless and foodless. Local committees began work relieving the storm sufferers. Good weather made this much easier, as not much rain fell. More fortunate neighbors took in the homeless.
The injured were four children of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Jacobs and one child of Mrs. Alice Folsom, all living near the Jackson place; Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Morton, of Fillmore.
The dead are: Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Jackson, of near Voca.
Many freaks of the storm were noted: A horse and saddle were separated from each other without the girth being untied or broken. One tree would be uprooted while its neighbor would be riddled and twisted. In places the branches were torn from trees and the trunk left standing, silent sentinels in the forest.
Many people had opportunity to view the storm as it gathered, shortly after a light hail and rainstorm. The cloud quickly assumed its funnel shape and dipped to the earth, roaring as a train crossing a railway trestle, being heard miles away. Soon the air was filled with flying debris. In a minute the storm was over; calm settled over the vicinity, and the work of rescue immediately began. Before nightfall the dead were taken care of, the wounded doctored, and the hunt for scattered property began.
Thousands of visitors have viewed the path of the storm. They report many queer incidents, many strange antics. And through it all the mind of man is bewildered at the power and force of the unseen typhoon. A mightier power than mankind ever dreamed must have directed and controlled this force.
In the fields all vestige of crop is gone, the ground packed as if a steam roller had gone over it. Fences are gone, as are barns and outhouses. In fact the path of the cyclone now resembles a great clearing as if made for a wide highway.
Not much rain or hail accompanied this holocaust. The creeks are not up, though in places a heavy rain was reported, but for a few minutes. Happily, too, the season is not so far advance but that crops may be replanted.


Jackson Funeral
The remains of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Jackson, who lost their lives Friday afternoon in the storm, were buried in Caddo Cemetery Sunday afternoon.
There was a large attendance of friends of the family. The funeral was conducted by Rev. H. T. Wiles, pastor of the Caddo Baptist Church.