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Berrien-Screven-Burke County GaArchives Biographies.....Jackson, George Archibald 1839 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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CAPT. GEORGE ARCHIBALD JACKSON. Probably none of the colonial Georgia
families through the different generations have given more worthy and efficient
members to the varied professional, business and civic life of the state than
the Jackson family, a prominent representative of which is Captain Jackson of
Adel, Berrien county.

Of Scotch-Irish parentage, Benjamin Jackson, the founder of the family in
Georgia, was a native of Virginia, whence he moved to North Carolina, settling
in the Peedee river district, fought the British armies during the Revolution,
and soon after that war came to Georgia and was one of the pioneers of Hancock
county, while one of his brothers settled in Greene county. Benjamin was the
great-grandfather of Captain Jackson.

John Jackson, grandfather, was born in Hancock county, Georgia, afterwards
bought land in Screven county, employing a number of slaves in its cultivation,
and resided there until his death, both he and his wife being buried in Sparta.
On coming to Screven county soon after his marriage he bought land near the
Ogeechee river, but from there moved to Hudson's Ferry, which continued his home
until his death at the age of eighty-seven. John Jackson was a soldier of the
War of 1812, so that the Jackson family has been represented in practically all
of the great wars of the nation. The maiden name of his wife was Sarah
Whit-field, and she was born in Putnam county, and her brother William lived in
that county and another brother in Jackson county. Sarah (Whitfield) Jackson
attained to a ripe old age, and she reared ten children, whose names were
Thomas, John, William, George L., Andrew, Robert, Loreta, Sarah, Martha and one
whose name is not now recalled.

Of this family, George Lewis Jackson was the father of Captain Jackson. He
was born in Screven county on the llth of February, 1811. During his youth he
was converted and joined the Newington Missionary Baptist church, which he
served as clerk for seven years, was licensed to preach in 1846 and the
following year ordained at Newington. He was missionary for three years in the
counties of Screven, Burke, Effingham and Chatham, and later spent many years of
devoted service as pastor at different churches in these same counties,
baptizing upwards of a thousand persons. He continued in the active work of his
church until two weeks before his death, which occurred in his ninety-first
year. His remains now rest in the Little Buckhead churchyard near Millen in
Jenkins county.

Rev. George L. Jackson married Elizabeth Zetrower on April 18, 1836. She was
born in Effingham county, a daughter of Solomon Zetrower, whose ancestors had
come to Georgia with the Sulzbergers and settled at Ebenezer. She died in June,
1859, and left four children, namely: George A., Ann Lavinia, Solomon Z. and
Julia E. Solomon Z. died unmarried; Ann L. married Dr. Thomas J. Ward of Burke
county; and Julia E. married Dr. Edward Perkins, of Burke county.

George Archibald Jackson was born in Screven county, Georgia, May 21, 1839.
During his youth he attended the public schools of Sylvania and also the high
school. In November, 1860, he and some other associates formed a military
company known as the Ogeeehee Rifles. The Confederate records show that George
A. Jackson was successively third, second and first lieutenant, with Andrew J.
Williams as captain of the Rifles. Later the organization became Company D, then
Company B, and finally Company K of the Twenty-fifth Georgia Infantry, C. S. A.
The company was mustered into the Confederate service at Savannah on August 8,
1861. The Federal records show that George A. Jackson, captain of this company,
was paroled in Augusta the 22d of May, 1865. From August, 1861, until the spring
of 1863 Captain Jackson, with his command, was engaged in coast defense in
Georgia, South and North Carolina, after which he joined the western army in
Mississippi. With the fall of Vicksburg he went into Tennessee, participating at
the battle of Chickamauga, and then fought Sherman's army all the way to
Atlanta. When that city surrendered, he was ordered into Hood's command, with
which he participated in the battles of Jonesboro, Franklin, Murfreesboro and
Nashville. Captain Jackson was next sent into Mississippi and after a short time
to South Carolina, being with the southern forces that interrupted Sherman's
march at Branchville early in February, 1865, and also fought at Rays and
Binache's bridges and at Orangeburg. At the last named place he was severely
wounded and taken to the hospital at Columbia, being among those made prisoners
when that city fell, and he was an eye witness of the burning of Columbia, In
that city he remained in confinement until the end of the struggle a few weeks
later, when his father sent a horse and cart to convey him back home. During his
long and arduous service he was five times wounded, but not seriously until at
Orangeburg.

As soon as he was able to get about on crutches, Captain Jackson commenced
teaching school in Burke county and continued teaching four years. In the
meantime he had married and bought a farm in Burke county, and there he lived
and was engaged in the quiet pursuits of the soil for nearly twenty years. In
1884 he moved to Morgan county, and a year later to Walton county, where he
bought a farm and resided until 1893. He was a resident of Irwin county about
seven years, in 1900 came to Adel, living in town four years, and then bought a
farm in Brooks county, on which he resided until 1909, since which date his
residence has again been in Adel.

Captain Jackson has been well prospered in life and has a fine family. He was
married on the 17th of January, 1866, to Lavinia Jamieson Zealy. Their marriage
was the result of a rather romantic meeting, as will be mentioned. She was born
at Orangeburg, South Carolina, October 8, 1843. Her grandfather, James Zealy, of
English ancestry, was a native of Beaufort, South Carolina, as was also her
father, Joseph T. Zealy. The maiden name of her grandmother was Rebecca
Parsonage. Joseph T. Zealy, the father, learned the trade of carpenter, and was
a carpenter and contractor of Orangeburg for a number of years. Later he
acquired the then new art of photography, and had a gallery in Columbia and was
in active business there until the city was captured and burned by the Federals
on February 15, 1865. His home and gallery were both destroyed by the flames,
but as soon as the bricks were cold he began cleaning them, and with this old
material erected a building which he named the Phoenix. Financially he was at
the very bottom, and with a capital of five dollars which he borrowed he engaged
in mercantile business on a very modest scale. In a few years he was again
fairly prosperous and finally sold out his business and lived retired.

His death occurred at the home of Captain and Mrs. Jackson in Walton county. The
maiden name of his wife was Sarah Badger, who was born in Charleston, a daughter
of James and Mary (Bell) Badger, both natives and lifelong residents of
Charleston. Mrs. Zealey died in Charleston while on a visit to that city. She
reared four children, Lavinia J., Anna, Richard and Mary G. Richard Zealey was a
Confederate soldier, being a member of what was first known as the Rich-land
Rifles, and later as Company A of the Fifteenth South Carolina Infantry. He was
wounded in the battle of the Wilderness in June, 1864, and he died at home a
month later as a result of these wounds. He had gone into the war when fifteen
years old. His sister Lavinia, as a member of the Ladies Relief Corps, was one
of the devoted southern women who carried the cheer of their presence and
practical aid into the hospitals of the sick and wounded, and it was during
these visits to the Columbia hospital that she met Captain Jackson, who soon
after the war became her husband.

Mr. and Mrs. Jackson reared seven children: S. Annabel, Lizzie T., George L.,
Caroline W., Joseph Zealy, Henry Lee, Robert F., and a daughter Mamie who died
at the age of seventeen months. S. Annabel married Jesse L. Watkins and has five
children, Archie Jackson, William Mason, Jesse Bernard, Thomas S. and Winnie
Bell. Lizzie T. married James Cooper, and their children are John Zealey,
Lucille and Keith L. George married Miss Nannie Bracken and has one son, George
Archibald. Caroline became the wife of Eugene M. Horn, and their children are
Mattie C., Fannie E., E. M. and Lorell. Joseph L. married Evelyn Cunningham and
has two children, Charles E. and Evelyn. Henry L., who married Alice Kent, has
two children, Henry Lee and Flora A. Robert F. married Lela Wilkerson, and their
children are Ouida and Robert Lee. The grandson, Archie J. Watkins, married Anna
Miller, and their children, Archie Jackson, Jr., and Annabel, are the
great-grandchildren of Captain and Mrs. Jackson. The captain and his wife are
members of the Baptist church.


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From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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