Israel Jackson (1860 - aft. 1941)

Born 3 Aug 1860 in Yalobusha County, Mississippi, United States

Died after 1941 after age 80 in Arkansas, United States

Biography

Israel Jackson is a part of US Black heritage.

Israel Jackson was interviewed in Pine Bluff, Arkansas about 1937 about his life and his time as an enslaved person.

"My name's Israel Jackson. No ma'am, I wasn't born in Arkansas - born in Yaller Bush County, Mississippi August de third, 1860. My old master? Called him General - General Bradford. I don't know where he was but he was gone somewhere."

"Old master had us go by his name. Dat's what dey called 'em - all de hands on de place."

"After dem Blue Jackets come in dere General Bradford never did come back and our folks stayed dere and when dey did leave dey went to Sunflower County. After dat we got along better. How many brothers and sisters? I b'lieve I had five. I stayed with my parents till I was grown. No ma'am dey didn't 'low us to marry. When we was twenty we was neither man nor boy; we was considered a hobble-de-hoy. And when we got to be twenty-one we was considered a man and your parents turned you loose, a man. So I left home and went to Louisiana. I stayed dere a year, den I went back to Mississippi and worked. I come here to Arkansas twenty-six years ago."

Slave Owners

1. General Bradford

Interview: Israel Jackson was interviewed in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, by Mrs. Bernice Bowden as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The results are made available by the Library of Congress. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ [1] Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - Israel Jackson - Vol. 2, Arkansas, part 4; pages 5-8, images 8-11 of 314.

• 1870 Census: "1870 United States Federal Census"
  Year: 1870; Census Place: Range 7, Bolivar, Mississippi; Roll: M593_722; Page: 201A
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry ca Record 7163 #36286351 (accessed 4 December 2022)
  Israel Jackson (9) in Range 7, Bolivar, Mississippi. Born in Mississippi.

• 1880 Census: "1880 United States Federal Census"
  Year: 1880; Census Place: Beat 3, Bolivar, Mississippi; Roll: 641; Page: 381A; Enumeration District: 140
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry ca Record 6742 #13449805 (accessed 4 December 2022)
  Isreal Jackson (19), single son, Laborer, in household of Pompey Jackson (45) in Beat 3, Bolivar, Mississippi, USA. Born in Mississippi.

• Social Security: "U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007"
  Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007
  Ancestry ca Record 60901 #11393797 (accessed 4 December 2022)
  Name: Israel Jackson; Gender: Male; Race: Black; Birth Date: 3 Aug 1860; Birth Place: Yellowbush, Mississippi; Father: Pompy Jackson; Mother: [No Name]; Notes: Jan 1938: Name listed as ISRAEL JACKSON.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQK3-TY9 : 8 January 2021), Isirel Jackson, Vaugine Township, Jefferson, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 35-63, sheet 18A, line 3, family 399, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 146.