He registered for the draft on 16 Oct 1940 while he was single and unemployed. He later enlisted in the US Army during World War II and served from November 25, 1940 to September 25. 1945 [3]. He was assigned to the Quartermaster Corps as a Private [4].
According to a Newburyport, Massachusetts, City Directory, 1959, Lewis worked as a chauffeur for the Diamond Gardner Corporation in Newburyport while he resided in Haverhill with his wife, Valira.
↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-2008," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KFYG-79N : 6 December 2014), Lewis Townsend Jackson, Birth, 15 Sep 1916, Hartford, Windsor, Vermont, United States; from "Vermont, Birth Records, 1909-2008," "Vermont, Death Records, 1909-2008," "Vermont, Marriage Records, 1909-2008," and "Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908." Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2010); citing Vital Records Office, Vermont Department of Health, Burlington and New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston
↑ U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010. Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Accessed on ancestry.com, November 2019.
↑ U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2005. Accessed on ancestry.com, November 2019
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZYW-3BD : accessed 9 June 2019), Lewis J Jackson, Hartford, Windsor, Vermont, United States; citing ED 141, sheet 16B, line 71, family 79, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1873; FHL microfilm 1,821,873
Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988; Marriage date: 18 Jun 1941 Marriage place: West Newbury, Massachusetts
U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
"Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZ5P-P5Q : 4 December 2014), Lewis T Jackson, 03 Nov 1986; from "Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing Boston, Massachusetts, death certificate number 007879, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Health Services, Boston
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