Minor Jackson (1851 - 1925)

Born 24 Dec 1851 in Alabama, United States [uncertain]

Husband of Lillian (Burton) Jackson — married about 1886 in Oregon, United States

Descendants

Died 27 Sep 1925 at age 73 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States

Biography

Minor Jackson is a part of US Black heritage.

This profile is part of the Brownsville, Oregon One Place Study.

Parents unknown. Birthplace in census records varies; most often it is recorded as Alabama. His death certificate has the birth date 24 Dec 1851 and birthplace as Indiana. It says he was divorced. ^[1]

A Minor Jackson, colored, was a registered voter 4 July 1867 in Georgia.^[2]

Married Lillie Burton.

Father of Harry Dean Jackson, Wilma Jackson, Alice Mae Jackson Lewis, Florence Jackson and Horrace Jackson.

Minor Jackson's barber shop in Brownsville for many years had the only bathtub in town. For 25 cents one could go there and have a warm bath.

Jackson's shop was the center of numerous practical jokes. The barber himself perpetrated many of these but he also was the object of such pranks. A few of these follow:

Someone stuffed Minor Jackson's chimney with wet gunny sacks while his customers were waiting. The whole establishment filled with smoke and the customers coughed, their eyes watered.

Jackson had a neighbor with a chicken yard next to his barber shop. Jackson had a pole and a fish line. He baited the hook on the end and tossed it over the fence into the adjacent yard. On one occasion Jackson caught a hen and pulled her over the fence. He killed her and plucked all the feathers and when he had cleaned her, put her in a pot on his stove. He left her cooking and went off to work. While he was away, the owner of the hen or some other young man came and removed the hen from the pot. In her place they left a pair of old dirty socks.^[3]

The Linn County Historical Museum has preserved Minor's checkerboard and checkers in their barbershop display.

Minor Jackson died in Los Angeles 27 Sep 1925. Minor Jackson Dies At Los Angeles

Halsey Enterprise-- Miner Jackson, colored, who for many years, conducted a barber shop in Brownsville, died at Los Angeles Sept. 27, about 70.

He was born a slave. Through the efforts of the freedmen's bureau, after the war, he was educated in Indiana.

In 1877 Jackson went to Brownsville, paying his last 50 cents for his fare over from Halsey.

As time wore on he became the owner of the shop he conducted there and was still the owner of the ground on which it stood at his death. After the fire of 1919, which destroyed his shop, he had space for a time in the hotel Brownsville, but in about a year closed it and went to Los Angeles, where his son Harry and married daughters Alice and Wilma reside.

He did not want to be idle, so Harry fitted him up a barber shop, which he conducted until his death.

At the breakfast table, on the 27th, he read in the Brownsville Times of the death of Mrs. James Callaway and remarked that he had once worked for her on the Frank Cochran place. He died suddenly, still at the table.

He owned property in Portland, in addition to the Brownsville lot.

Harry, his son, ran the first automobile in the Brownsville-Halsey country for some time.

Jackson was respected and popular. ^[4]

1900 Census:

• Minor Jackson Head black male b Dec (year and age unknown) married 14 yrs b MO parents b GA barber
• Lillie Jackson wife black female b Apr 1870 age 30 married 14 yrs mother of 6, 5 now living, b MO as were parents
• Harry Jackson son black male b Mar 1889 age 11 single b OR parents b MO at school
• Wilma Jackson dau black female b Aug 1891 age 9 single b OR parents b MO at school
• Alice Jackson dau black female b May 1893 age 7 single b OR parents b MO at school
• Florence Jackson dau black female b Jun 1897 age 2 single b OR parents b MO
• Horrace Jackson son black male b Dec 1898 age 1 single b OR parents b MO

^[5]

Buried in Los Angeles, in Evergreen Park Memorial Cemetery, lot 2868.^[6][7]

Sources

1. ↑ "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP7Y-KT1G : 26 September 2019), Minor Jackson, 1925.
2. ↑ "Georgia, Reconstruction Registration Oath Books, 1867-1868," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGLZ-Y6J3 : 17 March 2018), Minor Jackson, 04 Jul 1867; citing Voter Registration, Georgia, United States, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Morrow, Georgia; FHL microfilm.
3. ↑ Manuscript memoir of Stanley L Robe in possession of his daughter Margaret Robe Summitt, Everett, Washington, recorded 1960s.
4. ↑ Brownsville Times Thursday, 22 October 1925 page 1
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSDF-LFG : accessed 3 February 2019), Minor Jackson, North Brownsville and South Brownsville Precincts Brownsville city, Linn, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 47, sheet 12A, family 240, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,348.
6. ↑ "California, Los Angeles, Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery, Deceased Card File Index, 1877-1989", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W8J7-TJZM : 20 August 2019), Minor Jackson, 1925.
7. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV23-8C3J : 13 December 2015), Minor Jackson, 1925; Burial, , , ,, ; citing record ID 61214593, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61214593/minor-jackson

• 1880 Census: Mion Jackson age 30 black single b Ala, father b VA mother b NC , barber. "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNCL-D44 : 16 July 2017), Mion Jackson, North Brownsville, Linn, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district ED 75, sheet 402A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1082; FHL microfilm 1,255,082.

Minor Jackson, 1890 Census of Union Veterans of the Civil War Private, I Company, 12th Missouri Vol. Inf. May-Oct 1864 resides Brownsville, Oregon. "United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K83T-8MG : 11 March 2018), Minor Jackson, 1890; citing NARA microfilm publication M123 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 338,236.

"United States City and Business Directories, ca. 1749 - ca. 1990", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:68JZ-G2DP : 15 February 2022), Minor Jackson, 1909.

"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLYT-L8K : accessed 27 March 2020), Miner Jackson, Brownsville Ward 1, Linn, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 183, sheet 4B, family 95, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1283; FHL microfilm 1,375,296.

"California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XLHP-K4S : 8 December 2017), Minor Jackson in entry for Lawrence Edwards and Willmer Jackson, 19 Jul 1918; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 1,033,283.

"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH7S-8LT : accessed 26 March 2020), Minor Jackson in household of Harry D Jackson, Los Angeles Assembly District 73, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing ED 386, sheet 6A, line 1, family 150, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 113; FHL microfilm 1,820,113.