The widow of Jesse Jackson migrated to Sumter County, Alabama. Jesse, husband of Delilah Meador Jackson had passed away about 1825 and is buried in the Jackson-Carpenter Cemetery, Anson County, North Carolina.
Delilah and her children all traveled with Jackson Family members and other families to Sumter County, Alabama.
Shortly before 2 November 1843 Delilah Meador Jackson passed away1. Although no tombstone has been found for Delilah or her husband Jesse; we know from court records that she was deceased by 2 November 1843.
Estate of Delila Jackson}
Deceased} Upon application it is ordered by the Court that Jesse Jackson be and he is hereby appointed administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels rights and credits which were of Delila Jackson late of Sumter County Alabama deceased, and the clerk is ordered to ifsue to him letters…
The following excerpts from the Sumter County Alabama orphans minutes named the minor heirs and other children of Jesse and Delilah Jackson.
Page 302
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Orphans Minutes No. 3
Commenced 29 September 1842
November 18th 1843
Estate of Delilah}
Jackson Dec'd} This day came Jefse Jackson administrator of the Estate of Delilah Jackson Deceased & filed his petition to sell the North West quarter of the North East Quarter of Section thirteen township eighteen range one West lying and being in Sumter County Alabama because as he alleges the same cannot be equally fairly and beneficially divided amongst the heirs, whereupon Price Williams is appointed Guardian Ad Litem to Mary - John - Sarah - James & William Jackson the minor heirs named in said petition to represent then in the premises and the fourth Monday in December next is set for a final action to be had upon said petition and Oath having been made that James Gathings, Joseph Burch, Elizabeth Jackson, Holden Rushing are non residents of this State It is ordered by the Courts that a copy of this order be published in the Republican Pilot a newspaper in said county weekly for four weeks & cause continued.
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Page 356 December Term 1843
No. 89 Estate of Delila Jackson Deceased} This day came on for final action the petition of Jesse Jackson administrator of thee estate of Delila Jackson deceased praying that a sale of the real estate of which the said deceases died seized & possessed may be had because as alleged the Same cannot be equally fairly and beneficially divided amongst the heirs of said estate without a sale, and it appearing to the Court that upon the filing of said petition Price Williams was duly appointed guardian ad litem to represent the following minor heirs in the matter of said petition, to wit: Mary, John, Sarah, James & William Jackson minor heirs of said deceased & children of Clarissa & Elijah Jackson deceased, and it appearing further that the said guardian ad litem has devised the above allegation in manner & form as required by law, and that due & legal publication has been made as to James Gathings, Joseph Birch, Elizabeth Jackson & Huldah Jackson who are non-residents heirs, according to a previous order of this Court as found at page 302, and upon an inspection of the deposition taken in the matter of said petition as in Chancery Cases in manner & form as the law required, and no person urging any further objection thereof.
It is ordered adjudged and decreed by the Court that the prayers of said petition be granted and that the said Jesse Jackson administrator to be and he is hereby authorized to sell the North West quarter of the North East quarter of section thirteen Township Eighteen Range on West lying and being in Sumter County and in the Demopolis Land district, to the highest and best bidder, at public outcry after giving forty days’ notice of the time and place of sale as the law directs, on a credit of one and two years in two equal payments, the purchasers to give notes with 2 good and approved Securities, and to receive title for said Land upon
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Jesse Jackson and Delilah Meador had the following children:
i. Elijah Jackson, born abt 1798, Anson County, North Carolina; married Clarissa Rushing, bef 7 Aug 1820; died abt Dec 1839, Sumter County, Alabama.
ii. Jane Jackson, born 15 Aug 1799, Anson County, North Carolina; married James Gathings, 24 Feb 1817; died 23 May 1876, Monroe, Union, North Carolina.
iii. Susannah Jackson, born 26 Jan 1803, Anson County, North Carolina; married Joseph Thomas Burch, 1 May 1820; died 8 Aug 1860, Mt. Croghan, Chesterfield, South Carolina.
iv. James B. Jackson was born about 1804 in Anson County, North Carolina; died about 1867 at the age of 63 in Sumter County, Alabama.
v. Louis Jackson was born on 15 Aug 1805 in Anson County, North Carolina; died Jul. 2, 1887, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.
vi. John Lewis Jackson, born 8 Nov 1807, Anson County, North Carolina; married Temperance Ann Henry, 20 Dec 1827, Anson County, North Carolina; died 30 Mar 1887, Ramer, Montgomery, Alabama.
vii. Elizabeth Jackson, born abt 1810, Anson County, North Carolina; married Abraham Harrell, abt 1825, Anson County, North Carolina; died abt 1839, Sumter County, Alabama.
viii. Delilah B. Jackson, born abt 1812, Anson County, North Carolina; married Holden Rushing, ca 1827; died abt 1843, Sumter Co., Alabama.
ix. Lavenia Jackson, born abt 1813, Anson County, North Carolina; married Reuben Meador, 1832, Anson County, North Carolina; died 1852, Sumter County, Alabama.
x. Jesse Jackson Jr., born 1818, Anson County, North Carolina; married Eliza Williamson; married Louise E. Walker, 2 Jan 1850, Sumter County, Alabama; died aft 1880, Choctaw County, Alabama.
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