Life History

Notes

• Details from any one source are sketchy, but a combination of factors seems to indicate that Bobbie J Jackson was born and died the same day 14 September 1907.  There are two Jackson infants' graves in the Curtis Cemetery in Weatherford.
  
  Jackson Eliza Jane Tate 10 24 1873  11 ? 1908
  Jackson inf 1907
  Jackson inf 1908
  --  Curtis Cemetery list, http://www.graveinfo.net/Curtis_FJ_pctx.htm
  
  Wanda Cox, a relative of the Jackson family and a coresearcher with me on this family, reported that she and a cousin obtained death records at the Parker County courthouse on some members of this family.  They found a record of death of Eliza Tate Jackson and two of her infant children.  Eliza's death record reports she died in November 1908 and an 8-month-old daughter died a month later, both of consumption (tuberculosis).  The infant daughter is listed in the next line after Eliza.
  
  Here is the information as Wanda transcribed it from the death records:
  Jackson, Eliza, race White, Nativity American, sex Female
  age 58 (error; she was 38)
  Residence Weatherford, Place of death Weatherford
  Date of death Nov 30 08, Cause of death consumption
  Physician L.P. Lanier, Weatherford
  Date of filing Dec. 17, 1908
  
  Jackson, Jewel, race White, Nativity American, sex Female
  Age 8 months
  Residence Parker County, Place of death Parker County
  Date of death Dec. 27, 1908, Cause of death consumption
  Physician L.P. Lanier, Weatherford
  
  There is another death record with incomplete information, but it is of a child who died the same day of birth.  No name was reported on the Death Record, but a filing date (no separate date of death) of 14 September 1907.  We can take this date of filing as the date of death.  Here is Wanda's report from the Death Record for this infant son, who lived 7 hours.
  
  Wanda writes about what she and her cousin Teresa Tate Smith discovered:
  "And we found a baby that died in 1907 of Atilicthsis( or something like that can't read it) and L.P. Lanier was the same person listed as the Physician, Surgeon, Accoucheur or Coroner, and it was filed on Sept. 14, 07 filed by L.P.L. and the baby said not named and it was White, American, Male, and it only lived 7 hours, Residence Weatherford, Place of death Weatherford. ... Could this have been Bobbie J. Jackson?"
  --  Wanda Tate Cox, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 11 September 2008
  
  This correlates somewhat with information from Betty Jackson Hess, daughter of Eliza Tate Jackson, in a letter she wrote to Linda Hanks.  Betty wrote several letters to Linda to report her memories and records of family information.
  
  Betty says "My brother Bobbie died when he was a year old.  And I had a baby sister who died soon after mama."  She gives no definite date.  The death record Wanda found reports that the infant Jewel Jackson died in December 1908.  This matches Betty's report, since Eliza Jane died in November 1908.  (The unreadable day on Eliza's gravestone is filled in by the Death Record above:
  "Jackson, Eliza ... date of death Nov 30 08,"
  
  But Betty says Bobbie was about a year old at death.  Could Betty's memory have confused one day with one year as Bobbie's age at death?  Betty would have been about 7.5 years old in September 1907, when this male infant is reported to have lived only 7 hours.  What we know from the combined sources about these two infants otherwise seems to make sense as Bobbie being the one-day child reported in the Death record for 1907.
  
  The cause of death was unclear on the death record discovered by Wanda and Teresa.  Two attempts to write the name of the cause of death were marked through.  Wanda reports that the third was "Atilicthsis" or something like that.
  
  This is probably meant to be Atelectasis/Atelectases:
  "Atelectasis is caused by a blockage of the air passages (bronchus or bronchioles) or by pressure on the outside of the lung. ...
  "In an adult, atelectasis in a small area of the lung is usually not life threatening. The rest of the lung can make up for the collapsed area, bringing in enough oxygen for the body to function.
  "Large atelectases may be life threatening, especially in a baby or small child, or someone who has another lung disease or illness."
  --  Medicine Plus, Nat'l Institute of Health, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000065.htm
  
  Gravestone in Curtis Cemetery
  Baby Jackson (Bobbie J Jackson)
  Born and Died 1907
  Burial 1907 Curtis Cemetery, South of Weatherford, Parker County, Texas
  Photo by Marion Mixon 18 July 2008
  Buried in Jackson Plot

Sources

• 1. Gravestones of Curtis Cemetery
• 2. Cemeteries of Texas
• 3. Personal Letters
• 4. Email Sources