Born in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Andrew Lee Jackson Sr.
and Effie A. (Roy) Jackson
Sister of
Preston Jackson, Helen A. Jackson, Hattie P. Jackson, Robert Emmet Jackson, George Linton Jackson, Martha E. Jackson, Paul Sylvester Jackson, Fannie Lou Jackson, Andrew L. Jackson Jr. and Virginia E. Jackson
Wife of
Louis Dacosta Merritt Sr.
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Mother of
Janice Lenora Merritt
Died
at age 74
in Burlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 24 Feb 2012
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Biography
Bessie (Jackson) Merritt is a part of US Black heritage.
Bessie was born in 1919, the daughter of Andrew Jackson and Effie Roy. [1]
Children: Louis D. Merritt, Jr.; Janice Merritt. She passed away in 1970. [2]
She passed away in 1994.[3]
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLGR-YVFZ : 28 September 2017), Bessie Mae Jackson, 1919.
- ↑ Joe Fitzgerald, firsthand knowledge. as remembered Feb 23, 2012
- ↑ The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. 17 Jan 1994, Monday, Page 22. Link
- "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4J5-LYY : 10 January 2021), Bessie Jackson in household of Andrew Jackson, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 15-330, sheet 15B, line 73, family 363, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1667.
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