WILLIAM LOWERY JACKSON

WILLIAM LOWERY JACKSON, AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN TO MANY RESIDENTS OF RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA, AS ” UNCLE BILLY JACKSON,” WAS BORN IN ILLINOIS ON JANUARY 24, 1849 AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT 5:30 P.M. SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1930 BEING 81 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AND 18 DAYS OLD. FOR THE GREATER PART OF HIS LIFE HE WAS IN GOOD HEALTH, BUT ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO SUSTAINED A STROKE FROM WHICH HE NEVER FULLY RECOVERED. LOVING HANDS MINISTERED TO HIM IN HIS LAST DAYS. HE DIED AT THE HOME OF A RELATIVE, BERT NORRIS, WITH WHOM HE AND HIS WIFE HAVE BEEN LIVING WITH THE PAST FEW MONTHS.

HE RESIDED WITH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTION OF A FEW WEEKS, ALMOST CONTINUOUSLY IN AND ABOUT REDDING SINCE A SMALL BOY. ON JUNE 20, 1867, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO LYDIA E. SHAW, WHO SURVIVES HIM. TO THIS UNION EIGHT CHILDREN WERE BORN, THREE OF WHOM NOW SURVIVE; ALBERT JACKSON AND ARILLA GARTEN OF DES MOINES, AND WALTER JACKSON OF ST. JOSEPH. FIVE OF THEIR CHILDREN PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH, LUTHER, ALDEN, LABAN, ELMER AND ALVAH.

THE DECEASED UNITED WITH THE UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH NEAR REDDING WHEN ABOUT FORTY YEARS OF AGE.

HE  LEAVES TO MOURN HIS LOSS HIS WIDOW, THE THREE CHILDREN, 18 GRANDCHILDREN, TWO HALF-BROTHERS RESIDING IN OREGON AND A HOST OF FRIENDS AND RELATIVES.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED AT THE REDDING METHODIST CHURCH SUNDAY, JANUARY 12TH, BY THE PASTOR, REV. FREDERIC W. AMACK, AND INTERMENT WAS IN FAIRVIEW CEMETERY IN WEST REDDING.