Arthur E. JACKSON

JACKSON, BLACK, WESSLUND, POOLE, FREY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/20/2008 at 22:18:52

Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
June 9, 1943

Arthur E. Jackson, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Jackson, was born Aug. 25, 1875 at Pickering, Canada. When a small boy he came with his parents to the United States and settled near Utica, Ill. On Feb. 8, 1898 he was united in marriage to Edith May Black at Ottawa, Ill. He and his wife came to Iowa in 1898 and took up farming in Wright county. In May 1903, he moved to a farm in Madison county, where he remained until 1918 when he located near Booneville. Here he lived the remainder of his life with the exception of two recent years which were spent in Hancock county. Mr. Jackson had been in frail health for several years and he departed this life on June 1, 1943 at the Methodist hospital in Des Moines at the age of 67 years.

He is survived by his wife and four children; Charles of Brawley, Calif., Vivian Wesslund, Raymond and Paul of Booneville; also eight grandchildren, one great grandchild; two sisters, Mrs. Russell Poole of Chicago, Mrs. George Frey of Winterset; four brothers, James of Mobridge, S. Dak., Robert of Chicago, Will and Tom of Winterset and many other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held at the church in Booneville in charge of Rev. Dean Chapman of Des Moines. His nephews acted as pallbearers. They were; Francis, George, Embree and John Jackson, Richard Frey and Jack Jackson. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery