Ernest Alonzo Jackson (1877 - 1928)

Born 13 Aug 1877 in Brook Hall, Glade Spring, Washington County, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Jannette Catherine Beazley — married 31 Dec 1902 in Mt. Zion Baptist Ch, Dunbrooke, Essex Co., Virginia

Died 12 Nov 1928 at age 51 in at sea aboard the S.S. 'Vestris'

Biography

Ernest was born on 13 August 1877 at Brook Hall, in Glade Spring, Washington County, Virginia, the older of two children, both sons of Stephen and Mary Ernest Jackson.

Ernest attended Emory and Henry College and Roanoke College (Salem, , Roanoke County, Virginia) in the 1890s.

He attended Missionary Training Institute, Nyack, Rockland County, New York.

On 31 December 1902, when he was twenty-five, he married Jannette Beazley at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church, in Dunbrooke, Essex County, Virginia.^[1]

In 1903 he began serving with his wife as Baptist missionaries In Brazil. 1903 Santa Rita do Rio Preto, Bahia, Brazil.

Ernest and his wife lived in Brazil after their marriage doing mission work under the Southern Baptist Board of Virginia. Their first children were twins. Both died when they were three months old.

They were appointed as missionaries on January 1, 1903. Rev. Jackson served in both the North and South Brazil mission districts. He began his mission work in Santa Ritta in 1904. By 1914, he and his wife were assigned to the Bahia Mission. After a two year furlough due to illness the Jackson's returned to Brazil in 1918 to work in the Victoria Mission in South Brazil. In 1922, they were in Campo Grande. From 1925 to 1928, they were in Rio de Janeiro.

Ernest and Jannette were in the states on a visit to their children in school here, leaving five sons and daughters behind, returning to Brazil with their youngest son on board the S.S. Vestris. The ship capsized and sank about two hundred miles off the Virginia capes. All three were among those drowned. Ernest was fifty-one when he died.

Email from R. Jackson: “My grandfather seems to have been a bit unusual among the missionaries. He went on his own without support. His ticket in 1899 may have been purchased by a cousin. When he changed to Baptist, still without support, the senior Baptist missionary in Recife arranged for him to preach and sell bibles locally. As a result he was completely in the culture and not isolated among other alien missionaries.”

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Citations

1. ↑ [Essex County, VA, Marriage Register, Book 1, Page 147]. E.A. JACKSON, age 25, single, born in Washington County, VA, living in Bahia, Brazil, missionary, son of S.A. JACKSON and Mary ERNEST, married J. BEAZLEY, 32, single, born and living in Essex County, VA, daughter of James BEAZLEY and Catharine BOUGHAN. F.B. BEALE officiated marriage.

Acknowledgments

• Patricia Prickett Hickin created Ernest Jackson. (Imported data from GEDCOM upload #120770 on 12 Jul 2018.

Sources

• Jackson Ledger from Hackers Creek Pioneer Descendants URL: https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Jackson_Ledger_Transcriber%27s_Notes 53, 58.

• Jackson Ledger transcript URL: https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Transcript:Jackson%2C_P_A._Jackson_Ledger

• Email from Ramon Jackson.