Hood County Texas Genealogical Society
NATHAN OSBORNE JACKSON
1916 - 1999
by the Rock Church Cemetery Association
Nathan Osborne Jackson, age 83, passed away August 21, 1999 in Granbury, Texas. Interment was in Tolar Cemetery on August 24, 1999. He was born January 11, 1916 in Tolar, Texas. Nathan served as a Private First Class in the 7th Infantry of the U. S. Army in World War II in the Aleutians and other islands in the Pacific Campaign.
Nathan O. Jackson and Loretta (Jackson) Brazell were children of Adran Clyde and Daisy Victoria (Wood) Jackson, and grandchildren of Newman Osborne and Mary Louise (Wood) Jackson, who are all buried in Rock Church Cemetery. They too are great-grandchildren of David Andrew and Mary M. (Osborn) Jackson, and David M. and Mary E. (Read) Wood, and great-great-grandparents, Lorenzo Dow and Louisa Rhea (McCleskey) Wood, who all except Mary M. (Osborn) Jackson are buried in Rock Church Cemetery. They are also grandchildren of Texas State Representative William Lee and Isadora Josephine (Johnson) Wood of Ellis County, who were Daisy Victoria (Wood) Jackson's parents.
Nathan married Annie Haught July 20, 1946 in Hood County, Texas. She preceded him in death on August 26, 1983, as well as his daughter, Debra Jackson, born February 19, 1953, who was tragically killed in a automobile accident in September 1970 and is buried in Tolar Cemetery. Nathan married a second time to Freda Bell (Davis) Campbell, a former school friend. She preceded him in death, May 19, 1987.
He is survived by his third wife, Darence L. (Hayworth) Mabrey Jackson of Granbury, and his son and daughter-in-law, Don 0. and Peggy Jackson of Tolar, Texas; two stepsons, Hulen Mabery, Ronnie Mabery; 3 step-daughters, Deborah Strickland, Mary Brewer, and Becky Snapka; 3 grandchildren; 10 step-grandchildren; 3 step-great-grandchildren; a sister, Marie (Jackson) Haught of Fort Worth, Texas; sister-in-law Marty Jackson of Kansas City, Missouri; several nieces and nephews; and a bunch of cousins.
Loretta and Nathan's younger brother, Adran Carroll Jackson, preceded them in death on August 29, 1997 and was buried in Kansas City, Missouri's Mount Olive Cemetery. Two infant brothers, Harold and Newman Lee Jackson, preceded them in death in 1914 and 1915, respectively, and are buried in Rock Church Cemetery. Their half brother, Loyd Emory Jackson, son of Adran Clyde and his first wife, Annie (Thomasson) Jackson, preceded them in death on May 24, 1984 and is also buried in Rock Church Cemetery.
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