Life History

Notes

• Details from any one source are sketchy, but a combination of factorsseems to indicate that Bobbie J Jackson was born and died the same day14 September 1907.  There are two Jackson infants' graves in theCurtis 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 meon this family, reported that she and a cousin obtained death recordsat the Parker County courthouse on some members of this family.  Theyfound a record of death of Eliza Tate Jackson and two of her infantchildren.  Eliza's death record reports she died in November 1908 andan 8-month-old daughter died a month later, both of consumption(tuberculosis).  The infant daughter is listed in the next line afterEliza.
  
  Here is the information as Wanda transcribed it from the deathrecords:
  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 isof a child who died the same day of birth.  No name was reported onthe Death Record, but a filing date (no separate date of death) of 14September 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, wholived 7 hours.
  
  Wanda writes about what she and her cousin Teresa Tate Smithdiscovered:
  "And we found a baby that died in 1907 of Atilicthsis( or somethinglike that can't read it) and L.P. Lanier was the same person listed asthe Physician, Surgeon, Accoucheur or Coroner, and it was filed onSept. 14, 07 filed by L.P.L. and the baby said not named and it wasWhite, American, Male, and it only lived 7 hours, ResidenceWeatherford, Place of death Weatherford. ... Could this have beenBobbie J. Jackson?"
  --  Wanda Tate Cox, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 11 September 2008
  
  This correlates with somewhat with information from Betty JacksonHess, daughter of Eliza Tate Jackson, in a letter she wrote to LindaHanks.  Betty wrote several letters to Linda to report her memoriesand records of family information.
  
  Betty says "My brother Bobbie died when he was a year old.  And I hada baby sister who died soon after mama."  She gives no definite date.The death record Wanda found reports that the infant Jewel Jacksondied in December 1908.  This matches Betty's report, since Eliza Janedied in November 1908.  (The unreadable day on Eliza's gravestone isfilled 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'smemory 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 thismale infant is reported to have lived only 7 hours.  What we know fromthe combined sources about these two infants otherwise seems to makesense as Bobbie being the one-day child reported in the Death recordfor 1907.
  
  The cause of death was unclear on the death record discovered by Wandaand Teresa.  Two attempts to write the name of the cause of death weremarked through.  Wanda reports that the third was "Atilicthsis" orsomething like that.
  
  This is probably meant to be Atelectasis/Atelectases:
  "Atelectasis is caused by a blockage of the air passages (bronchus orbronchioles) or by pressure on the outside of the lung. ...
  "In an adult, atelectasis in a small area of the lung is usually notlife threatening. The rest of the lung can make up for the collapsedarea, bringing in enough oxygen for the body to function.
  "Large atelectases may be life threatening, especially in a baby orsmall 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

Sources

• 1. Betty Jackson Hess, Letters to Linda Martin Hanks, 1984-85
• 2. Carl Hess, email to Cynthia Mixon Beam, November 2007