HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY--BY BENJAMIN CROWLEY
Twelfth Installment--Transcribed by: Tina Easley
(Reprint from 1906 issues of Paragould Soliphone)
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ar/county/greene/12th.htm
J.R. Jackson the senior member of the Jackson Merchantile establishment business for years the strongest in Gainesville, came to this county just after the war, from Missouri. Jim had been a officer in the Confederate army but Richard Jackson, the other member of the concern was a mere boy when they came to the county. Jim was the outside man and did all the buying and became a first rate stock man. Dick attended to the store and they made a strong firm. Jas. R. Jackson was a whole souled fellow and numbered his friends by the legion. He was married when he came here, having married in Missouri. His family consisted of three children: Jennie, who married John H. Penny and now lives in Paragould, Albert D. Jackson, who is now ans has been for years the Road Commissioner of Clark township, and lives in the western section of the city with an interesting family, Lela married Oscar Hough, of Hot Springs, and is now dead. Their mother, Mrs. Nan Jackson, the widow of the late J.R. Jackson, died recently after having been an invalid for the past twenty years
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