Absalom Jackson

Absalom Jackson when a boy accompanied the family to Wilkinson County, Ga., where after attaining his majority he married Miss Elizabeth Smylis of Jefferson County, Ga. They remained in 'Wilkinson County until 1841, when they removed to that part of Baker now included in Dougherty County, and settled at Blue Springs, near Albany. His intention was to build a saw and grist mill, but abandoning the enterprise, he returned year afterward to Wilkinson County, where, forty-five years of age, he died. He was an "old-line whig," and consistent member of the Baptist church. Soon after his death his widow and children returned to Blue Springs, where they lived until 1855, when the family moved to Mitchell county and settled near what is now known as Baconton, where the mother died in 1880, aged seventy-six years, at the home of George W. Jackson. She was strict member of the Baptist church. They were the parents of six children: Rev. James W., deceased, Methodist minister; Greene S.; John L., Pike County; George W., near Baconton; Jason M., Miller County, and Mary, deceased wife of Joseph Walker, Camilla. From: MEMOIRS of GEORGIA Vol. II Containing Historical Accounts of the States Civil, Military, Industrial and Professional Interests, and Personal Sketches of Many of Its People

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