Life History

Notes

• Joan's brother James reports her birth and death dates, but this is the birth date for their sister Joy Ann in her Parker County birth record.
  
  JOAN RUBY JACKSON (GRAY/CLARK)  03-05-1933 WEA. TX.    01-16-1998 DALLAS, TX
  --  James Edward Jackson, email to Marion Mixon, 9 April 2010
  
  Here is the Texas Birth Index for the child reported as Joy Ann, born in Parker County, reporting the same birth date as that for Joan reported on her gravestone.
  
  Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
  Joy Ann Jackson
  Birth 5 Mar 1933 Parker County
  Father's Name George Jackson
  Mother's Name Adie Miller
  
  When I found the 1940 census for this famliy, the matter became clearer.  The nlly child matching the age and similar name for either Joan Ruby or Joy Ann was Jo Ann, age 7.  There was only one child age 7, indicating that Joan and Jo Ann were ther same person.  From the name given by her brother, Joan Ruby, we may understand that the name Joan was not pronounced Jone, as we would sxpect, but Jo Ann, as we find in the 1940 census.  The birth record was just incorrect on the first name as Joy instead of Jo.
  
  1940 Federal Census, Hidalgo County, Texas, 30 April, Justice Precinct 2, District 108-14, Page 5A, Hse #286, Rents $10
  Jackson, George  J Head M W 38 Married Grade 3 b Texas In Rural Jefferson Co Okla in 1935 Farm Laborer [b abt 1902]
  Jackson, Addie Wife F W 30 Married Grade 4 b Texas In Rural Parker Co Texas in 1935 No Occup [b abt 1910]
  Jackson, Jewell Dau F W 14 Single Grade 4 b Texas In Rural Parker Co Texas in 1935 [b abt 1926]
  Jackson, Idella Dau F W 13 Single Grade 4 b Texas In Rural Parker Co Texas in 1935 [b abt 1927]
  Jackson, Jo Ann Dau F W 7 Single Grade 0 b Texas In Rural Parker Co Texas in 1935 [b abt 1933]
  Jackson, James Son M W 1 Single Grade 0 b Texas In Rural Parker Co Texas in 1935 [b abt 1939]
  
  In May 2010, I got an email from a cemetery historian, with further information on this family.  Edd Painter is the cemetery historian for Copper Canyon (Denton County) Cemetery.  He also reports the birth date of Joan Ruby to be 5 March 1933, the same date of birth the Texas Birth records report for her sister, Joy Ann Jackson.
  
  "George Jerome Jackson was married to Addie Katherine Miller and they had [a] daughter, Joan Ruby who married James Junior Clark.  Both Joan and James are interred in the Chinn's Chapel Cemetery, Copper Canyon, Texas.  I am the historian for the cemetery...."
  --  Edd Painter, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 25 May 2010
  
  With the cemetery name from Edd, I was able to locate the cemetery registry online.  The date on the gravestone is the same as the birth date reported for Joy Ann in the Texas Birth Index.
  
  Clark, Joan Ruby
  Maiden Name Jackson
  E3-10  II   FD
  b: 3/5/1933        d: 1/16/1998
  Place of birth Texas.  Daughter of George Jackson (unknown) and Addie Katherine (Miller) Jackson (unknown).  Wife of James Junior Clark (7/23/1925, Arkansas - 11/27/?, interred Chinn's Chapel Cemetery) married 2/19/1968
  --  Chinn's Chapel Cemetery (Denton County, Texas) List, http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/etx/denton/cemetery/ChinnchapelA-J.htm
  
  Joan's marriage certificate, which my cousin and coresearcher Marion Mixon found, reports Joan's estimated birth year from her age as 1934.  This seems to confirm the 1933 date of birth.  This seems most likely, and is the simplest way to account for the two separate reports for the girls born on the same date.
  
  Texas Marriage Index, 1966-2002
  James Junior Clark
  Marriage 17 Feb 1968 Denton County, Texas
  Age 42, Estimated birth year abt 1926
  Spouse Joan Ruby Jackson
  Spouse Age 34, Est Birth Year abt 1934
  
  Other details Edd Painter reports in followup email definitively confirms that Joan was born in 1933.  This includes information on Joan's first marriage and a daughter born in 1952.
  
  "I have found a record of the marriage of Joan Ruby to William Wesley Gray which resulted in a daughter, Karen Ann, born on 9-12-1952; therefore, Joan could not have been born in 1943 and had a child in 1952.  Furthermore, there is the record of Joan's marriage to James Clark in Denton County, Texas in 1968 which listed her age as ca 34; therefore this would put her date of birth about 1934.  This should explain that her correct date of birth is 1933.  My date of 3-5-1933 comes from the obituary that I received when I attended the funeral for Joan and it matches the headstone for her. "
  --  Edd Painter, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 13 June 2010
  
  Her Social Security Death Index record also confirms her birth date.
  
  Social Security Death Index
  Joan R. Clark
  Born 5 Mar 1933
  Died 16 Jan 1998
  Last Residence Argyle, Denton, Texas 76226
  SSN 467-46-6810 issued Texas (Before 1951)

Sources

• 1. Cemetery Registries
• 2. Email Sources
• 3. Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997
• 4. Social Security Death Index
• 5. James Edward Jackson, email to Marion Mixon, 7 April 2010
• 6. 1940 Federal Census, Hidalgo County, Texas
  • 30 April, Justice Precinct 2, District 108-14, Page 5A, Hse #286, Rents $10
• 7. Obituary of George J Jackson, Weatherford (Texas) Democrat, 5 March 1973