George Cody JACKSON, 18971958 (aged 60 years)

George Cody Jackson, Sr.
Name
George Cody /JACKSON/
Given names
George Cody
Surname
JACKSON
Name suffix
Sr.
Birth
December 9, 1897
Temple, Bell, Texas, USA
Latitude: 31.098056 Longitude: -97.3425
Source: Family Bible
Quality of data: primary evidence
Text:

Jackson family

Occupation
Note: Oil Refinery Employee
Alt. Birth
December 9, 1898
Temple, Bell, Texas, USA
Latitude: 31.098056 Longitude: -97.3425
Citation details: xerox copy among Mary Williams papers
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Date: July 2, 2005
Military
Note: Serg., Co. M, 16Th Inf., USA Army, WW I, served in France

Serg., Co. M, 16Th Inf., USA Army, WW I, served in France
Army

Marriage
November 12, 1921 (aged 23 years)
Park Place, Harris, Texas, USA
Latitude: 29.692222 Longitude: -95.277222
Citation details: letter to Mary Hughes, dated 8 Sep 1986
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Date: July 2, 2005
Citation details: letter, 29 Jan 2009
Quality of data: primary evidence
Date: February 12, 2009
Note: Information from Marriage Book No. 27, Folio 373, Entry 53/82, File: Records Harris County Court House, Houston, Texas
FAM:MARR:SOUR:_NOTE: YES
Birth of a daughter
February 2, 1927
Harrisburg, Harris, Texas, USA
Latitude: 29.718056 Longitude: -95.279444
Citation details: letter, 29 Jan 2009
Quality of data: primary evidence
Date: February 12, 2009
Occupation
1958
Harris County, Texas, USA
Latitude: 29.76045 Longitude: -95.369781
Citation details: xerox copy among Mary Williams papers
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Date: July 2, 2005
Citation details: Death of George Cody Jackson (Sr.), Film # 2115590, Digital GS # 4167375, Image # 311, Reference # 46499
Quality of data: primary evidence
Date: February 10, 2009
Note: metallurgist
Death
August 4, 1958 (aged 60 years)
Liberty County, Texas, USA
Latitude: 29.763056 Longitude: -95.363056
Cause of death: suicide (self inflicted gunshot wound to the head)
INDI:DEAT:CAUS:SOUR: @S100@
INDI:DEAT:CAUS:SOUR:PAGE: xerox copy among Mary Williams papers
INDI:DEAT:CAUS:SOUR:QUAY: 2
INDI:DEAT:CAUS:SOUR:DATE: 2 JUL 2005
INDI:DEAT:CAUS:SOUR: @S868@
INDI:DEAT:CAUS:SOUR:PAGE: Death of George Cody Jackson (Sr.), Film # 2115590, Digital GS # 4167375, Image # 311, Reference # 46499
INDI:DEAT:CAUS:SOUR:QUAY: 3
INDI:DEAT:CAUS:SOUR:DATE: 10 FEB 2009
Citation details: letter to Mary Hughes, dated 8 Sep 1986
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Date: July 2, 2005
Citation details: xerox copy among Mary Williams papers
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Date: July 2, 2005
Burial
Forest Park Cemetery, Houston, Harris, Texas, USA
Latitude: 29.763056 Longitude: -95.363056
Citation details: xerox copy among Mary Williams papers
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Date: July 2, 2005
Citation details: letter, 29 Jan 2009
Quality of data: primary evidence
Date: February 12, 2009

The gravestone gives the year of 1895 for his birth (the same as was on his military records), w 1/2, Lot 108, Sec. "E"

Family with parents
father
William Henry Jackson
18431905
Birth: June 18, 1843Edinburgh, Scotland (?)
Death: November 23, 1905
mother
Emily Straley
18651910
Birth: April 17, 1865Texas, USA
Death: January 26, 1910Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA
Marriage MarriageMay 22, 1892Temple, Bell, Texas, USA
6 years
himself
George Cody Jackson, Sr.
18971958
Birth: December 9, 1897Temple, Bell, Texas, USA
Death: August 4, 1958Liberty County, Texas, USA
Mother’s family with Joshua Parks SORRELS
mother’s ex-husband
Joshua Parks Sorrels
18501927
Birth: February 28, 1850Arkansas, USA
Death: July 19, 1927Gatesville, Coryell, Texas, USA
mother
Emily Straley
18651910
Birth: April 17, 1865Texas, USA
Death: January 26, 1910Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA
Marriage Marriageabout March 6, 1879Lampasas County, Texas, USA
Divorce DivorceJanuary 25, 1890
2 years
half-sister
18811955
Birth: April 8, 1881Coryell, Texas, USA
Death: June 8, 1955Gatesville, Coryell, Texas, USA
21 months
half-brother
18821970
Birth: December 28, 1882Coryell, Texas, USA
Death: November 30, 1970Rollins-Brook Hospital, Lampasas, Lampasas, Texas, USA
3 months
half-sister
18831939
Birth: April 9, 1883Texas, USA
Death: August 13, 19395 MI. south of Bakerfield, Pecos, Texas, USA
3 years
half-brother
18861952
Birth: April 18, 1886Texas, USA
Death: March 15, 1952Scott and White Hospital, Temple, Bell, Texas, USA
2 years
half-sister
20 months
half-sister
Tiney Sorrels
18901984
Birth: March 14, 1890stone house with marker on the highway, Adamsville, Lampasas, Texas, USA
Death: February 23, 1984Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA
Family with Hermina Johanna KROHN
himself
George Cody Jackson, Sr.
18971958
Birth: December 9, 1897Temple, Bell, Texas, USA
Death: August 4, 1958Liberty County, Texas, USA
wife
19031991
Birth: November 6, 1903Port Arthur, Jefferson, Texas, USA
Death: September 17, 1991Pasadena, Harris, Texas, USA
Marriage MarriageNovember 12, 1921Park Place, Harris, Texas, USA
son
daughter
19271927
Birth: February 2, 1927Harrisburg, Harris, Texas, USA
Death: February 2, 1927Harrisburg, Harris, Texas, USA
Birth
Source: Family Bible
Quality of data: primary evidence
Text:

Jackson family

Alt. Birth
Citation details: xerox copy among Mary Williams papers
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Date: July 2, 2005
Marriage
Citation details: letter to Mary Hughes, dated 8 Sep 1986
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Date: July 2, 2005
Citation details: letter, 29 Jan 2009
Quality of data: primary evidence
Date: February 12, 2009
Note: Information from Marriage Book No. 27, Folio 373, Entry 53/82, File: Records Harris County Court House, Houston, Texas
FAM:MARR:SOUR:_NOTE: YES
Occupation
Citation details: xerox copy among Mary Williams papers
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Date: July 2, 2005
Citation details: Death of George Cody Jackson (Sr.), Film # 2115590, Digital GS # 4167375, Image # 311, Reference # 46499
Quality of data: primary evidence
Date: February 10, 2009
Death
Citation details: letter to Mary Hughes, dated 8 Sep 1986
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Date: July 2, 2005
Citation details: xerox copy among Mary Williams papers
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Date: July 2, 2005
Burial
Citation details: xerox copy among Mary Williams papers
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Date: July 2, 2005
Citation details: letter, 29 Jan 2009
Quality of data: primary evidence
Date: February 12, 2009
Shared note
Citation details: 1930; Census Place: Houston, Harris, Texas; Roll: 2351; Page: 65A; Enumeration District: 131; Image: 251.0
Quality of data: primary evidence
Date: February 10, 2009
Citation details: Death of George Cody Jackson (Sr.), Film # 2115590, Digital GS # 4167375, Image # 311, Reference # 46499
Quality of data: primary evidence
Date: February 10, 2009
Occupation

Oil Refinery Employee

Military

Serg., Co. M, 16Th Inf., USA Army, WW I, served in France
Army

Marriage

Information from Marriage Book No. 27, Folio 373, Entry 53/82, File: Records Harris County Court House, Houston, Texas

Occupation

metallurgist

Burial
Shared note

The gravestone gives the year of 1895 for his birth (the same as was on his military records), w 1/2, Lot 108, Sec. "E"

Shared note

He was born at born 4:50 PM. His military records say he was born 9 December 1895. He was reared by Tiney Sorrells Williams after their mother's death.

He was discharged from the USA Army 29 Mar 1919 at Camp Travis, Texas following distinguished service during the war. His service number was 44 356. The records show that he was gassed 18 Jun 1918 and 09 Oct 1918. He was shipped from the U. S. 14 June 1917 and returned to the U. S. 13 Feb 1919. He was awarded the Distinguished-Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in action in Europe. It was awarded "For extraordinary heroism in action near Fleville, France, October 2, 1918. His platoon becoming disorganized by enemy artillery fire, Sergt. Jackson halted his men, reorganized them under the heavy fire, and resumed the advance. Later he borrowed an automatic rifle from one of the men in his platoon and firing it from his hip advanced on an enemy machine gun, killing two members of the crew and capturing another."

July 9, 1918 he was also cited "for conspicuous gallantry in action" when he "was a member of a carrying party which was misled by a guide to a point 200 yards in advance of our front line where it came in contact with two enemy patrols. Cpl. Jackson, alone, ran forward to meet them and upon finding that they were Germans killed one and caused the others to retire; in the ensuing fight he aided in the withdrawal of his party and when its return drew heavy fire from our front line he ran forward and established its identity." For this he received the silver star medal.

On Mar. 30, 1919 he was cited by the Commander in Chief of the French Armies of the East as "an excellent soldier. October 2, 1918, he cooly and courageously fulfilled an important reconnaissance mission inside the enemy lines."
Not everything was praise for his service however. He spent the night in the brig after he became the first "doughboy" to go ashore in France in 1917. It seems that the sailors were given shore leave while the soldiers were quarantined for 24 hours. George Jackson borrowed a sailor's uniform and walked off ship with the sailors. The next day he was placed in the brig on bread and water for 24 hours. The Star-Telegram article that tells about this also mentions that he had 10 decorations and was cited six times for his conspicuous bravery and gallantry in action. He was wounded seven times and it mentions only one gassing. He took part in six engagements. He was especially proud of the citation he received for spending seven days behind the Hindenburg line doing reconnaissance work.

Death Certificate:
He was George Cody Jackson, born 9 Dec 1898 in Temple, Texas, to William Jackson and Emily Brock. He died 4 Aug 1958 near his residence, Rt. 1, Box 181, Cleveland, Liberty, Texas (rural - pct. 6). He was a veteran of WWI. His occupation was metallurgist. The informant was Hermina J. Jackson. The cause of death was a self inflicted gun shot wound to the head. He was buried in Forest Park Cemetery, Houston, Harris, Texas.

1930; Census Place: Houston, Harris, Texas; Roll: 2351; Page: 65A; Enumeration District: 131; Image: 251.0
7702 Ave. D
415/152, Jackson, George C., head, rent, 32, not a farm, m, w, 37, m, 26, TX, Ireland, Ireland, stationary fireman, oil refinery, wages, veteran, WW
----, Hermina J., wife, f, w, 26, m, 15, TX, Ger., Ger., none
----, George C., Jr., son, m, w, 6, s, att. school, TX, TX, TX, none

Citation details: 1930; Census Place: Houston, Harris, Texas; Roll: 2351; Page: 65A; Enumeration District: 131; Image: 251.0
Quality of data: primary evidence
Date: February 10, 2009
Citation details: Death of George Cody Jackson (Sr.), Film # 2115590, Digital GS # 4167375, Image # 311, Reference # 46499
Quality of data: primary evidence
Date: February 10, 2009
Shared note

(Medical):It took place near his residence in rural Liberty County, Texas at 1:25 PM. He was found by a postman.

Media object
George Cody Jackson, Sr.
George Cody Jackson, Sr.