Life History

Other facts

Notes

• The name of Mary Polly Beavers as the mother of Abraham Jasper Jackson and siblings seems quite well established in Jackson family sources.  It appears that an Abraham Borland Jackson with very similar data as our Abraham B Jackson is a different person.  I have found several genealogies that have confused two lines of Jacksons in Alabama.  I amtrying to sort out details of this into a more coherent picture.  It appears that the name of our Abraham was not Abraham Jasper but Abraham M.  I have not yet discovered what the M stands for.
  
  October 2007:  A set of genealogies on another line of Jackson appearas another likely lineage for our family.  This set of genealogies reports that the father of Abraham (Jasper) was Abraham M, son of EdwardJackson, born about 1755.  A line of Jacksons form Baltimore and backto a separate origin in the UK seems to have been merged with this line of Jacksons, due to the confusion of similar names in Abraham in two generations.  I will develop more on that as I sort out the details.
  
  There are three other Abraham B Jacksons in Montgomery in 1860, whom some sources might confuse with our Abraham B.  One is a Mulatto slaveowner born in 1815, another is a black man also born in 1815.  A third is Abraham Borland Jackson, who was born in Baldwin, Georgia, in 1797.  The latter was married to Martha Hudnall in 1830, and perhaps earlier to Nancy Urquhart, in about 1822.
  
  A genealogy in the Ancestry.com One World Tree (sm) had a different birth year of 1797, which  appears to be for an different person, Abraham Borland Jackson, married to a different woman, also lived in Birmingham, Alabama, and born in Baldwin, Georgia.
  -- http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=179660959&st=1
  
  The confusion of two or more Jackson lines led me to disassociate these sources form our Abraham B Jackson.  In October 2007, a distant cousin and co-researcher, Cindy Mixon Beam, found a genealogy of Jacksonsthat included our family, and the name of Abraham Jasper Jackson in this was Abraham Borland Jackson.
  
  It appears that this line is a different line of Jacksons, winding upin the Montgomery, Alabama area in the same generations.  It appears that Abraham Borland is in a different Jackson lineage from the Abraham who married Talitha Green in Texas.  I had earlier removed information on the Abraham Borland family, but kept the middle name Borland, which still seemed likely at that point.  I think the children I show here are for Abraham Borland.  The other line of Jacksons mentioned above have different children, but match our Abraham.  Some of the data in the Abraham Borland lineage present discrepancies that make it appear this was a different person.
  
  The genealogies for Abraham Borland Jackson report two wives:  Nancy Urquhart and Martha Hudnall.  Urquhart is a well-known name in Texas, where Irish and Scottish names are abundant.
  
  The other set of genealogies also shows the father of Abraham as married twice, and also Abraham was the son of the second wife.  But the wives' names are different, being Hill and Hall, and the father is not Abraham (Borland or otherwise) but Edward, which is a name appearing in an earlier generation in the Abraham Borland genealogies.

Sources

• 1. Ancestry World Tree
  • http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:885655&id=I48995
• 2. One World Tree (sm)
  • http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=37196046&st=1
• 3. Marriage Records, Family Tree Maker Archive, Vol #403
• 4. One World Tree (sm)
  • http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=179660959&st=1
• 5. Marion L Mixon, Bearden-Langston Genealogy
• 6. Ancestry World Tree
  • http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=*v25t1081&id=I294
• 7. RootsWeb Genealogy South Alabama Roots and Branches, by Mary Stearns Henley
  • http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET &db=marjoeal&i