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there is a Minnie Gekill enumerated in ON TORONTO (West/Ouest) (City/Cité) (#118)
Subdistrict: Ward/Quartier No. 4 B-39 Page 15. She was born Mar 12, 1869, is single and a Domestic. She was also shown as English, Canadian, Bretheran and a Servant.²

Survivor(s): Hazel Shaw, Ethel Davis, Marjory Heslip and Verna Gekill. Predeceased by his parents: Henry Gekill and Hannah Gelder.¹¹

Ralph and Kate were born in Dearborn Co, IN; started housekeeping in the log house on Leapers Creek, west of the Reuben Jackson homestead. The stone chimney and pantry or cellar to this house was still intact when I left home in 1947. They moved to Farmer City, De Witt Co., IL in 1881. Ralph died at Flora, Clay Co., IL of pneumonia in 1900.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM CARL HARLEY MANKIN:

Carl's Mother (Helen Jackson) and grandmother (Clara Bertha Luehm Jackson) wrote in their copy of Alta Mae Jackson's genealogy the following:

Attached to obituary of Thomas Langdale Jackson "...and one granddaughter, Helen Marie Jackson."

Also, the following:

"Thomas and Mary Ellen Jackson began their married life 1870 in the log house on Leapers Creek just west of the Reuben Jackson home later called "The Valley Hill Farm." Tommy and his wife lived there only a few years because a younger brother, Ralph and Katharine Jackson were married in 1877 and set up housekeeping in the same log house. The big stone chimney, pantry and well were still there when we were kids, but all was wiped out by the big Texas Pipe Lines when they went thru Dad's farm the second time in 1964."¹

Survivor(s): Winifred Creekrnur, Ralph Jackson, Norman Delmar Jackson, Katharine Falls and Eileen Clagget.^5,8

CHARLES E. JACKSON
     Charles E. Jackson, 67 years old, of 523 A street southeast, died at Miami Baptist hospital at 3:15 p. m. Saturday after a long illness.
     He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bertha Jackson; a daughter, Mrs. Moody Wilson of Miami; a brother, C. R. Jackson of Adair, Okla., and three grandchildren.
     Short funeral services will be conducted at the Cooper chapel here at 10:30 a. m. Monday. Final services will bo held at the Baptist church in Chouteau, Okla., at 2 p. m. Monday, The Rev. Raymond Plake will officiate at both services. Burial will be in the Chouteau cemetery.⁹

Survivor(s): Ralph Jackson, Norman Jackson and Katharine Falls. Predeceased: C. R. Jackson.²

Winnifred's family came to this country from Hanover, Holland in 1770. They had a large family of boys and they all fought in the American Revolution with their father.²

Survivor(s): Dale Jean Falls, Edna Joan Littleford, Ralph E. Jackson and Norman D. Jackson. Predeceased: David Rex Falls, Dorthy Jewell Falls and Reba Eileen Jackson.³

Ralph Jackson, a man who served his community as a businessman, realtor, builder, city councilman, chamber of commerce president, teacher and farmer during his 78 years of life, died Saturday in a Tulsa hospital.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the United Methodist Church in Adair where he had been a member for the past 65 years.

Jackson had been active in Pryor business and civic activities since moving to Pryor in 1961, and had received all of the top honors awarded by Pryor civic organizations.

He was born Dec. 24, 1910 in Miami to Clint Rowe and Winifred Jackson. The Jackson family had moved to Chouteau, Indian Territory from Flora, Ill., in 1906.

The family then moved to Miami but returned to Mayes County in 1919, and settled in Adair in 1924 when Jackson was in eighth grade.

He graduated from Adair High School in 1929, and later, Murray State School of Agriculture at Tishamingo.

On June 16, 1935, he was married to Bonnie Fitton at Anderson, Mo., a former Adair school teacher. Jackson also worked for soil conservation for nine years and the Civilian Conservation Corps as a local experience man and assistant engineer.

When Dupont was considering building a munitions plant south of Pryor, he served as chief of the survey party, laying out the base coordinant line for the plant.

During World War II and for several years afterwards, he opened a Grade "A" dairy and farmed extensively.

Following in his father's footsteps, he became a state farm agent in 1952.

He and his wife moved to Pryor in 1961 and built their home on South Coo-Y-Yah. With his brother, Norman, he built several homes in Pryor and the surrounding areas.

He was an organizer of the Exchange Club in Pryor, was a past president of the Pryor Lions Club and the Chamber of Commerce, and served on the Pryor city council.

He received the prestigious Service to Mankind Award from the Sertoma Club in 1975 and also, in that same year, was named Citizen of the Year and received the Mayes County Fair Service Award.

In 1984, he received the Green Country Distinguished Service Award, and last year was saluted as "Founding Father" of Kendrick-Jackson Realty in Pryor.

He was a sponsor of a Little League team and was active in the Mayes County Free Fair, particularly with the Junior Livestock and Future Farmers of America. He served on the Pryor Home Rescue Mission board of directors for many years.

Jackson retired as a State Farm agent in 1977 but continued his interest in real estate. He enjoyed working in his fix-it shop and making jewelry for friends.

A member of the United Methodist Church since 1924, he had held almost every office and had taught the Adult Bible Class for almost 40 years. His church was the most important part of his life, his family said. He was also a Gideon.

Ralph Jackson was described as a man "who never turned down an opportunity to assist his fellow man or his community."

Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Bonnie, of the home; one brother, Norman D. Jackson, of Adair; one sister, Betty E. Hood of Friday Harbor, Wash; 11 nieces and nephews, Barbara Sissom of Anchorage, Alaska, Susan Sissom of Fairbanks, Alaska, Becky Davis of Fairbanks, Jean Anderson of Pryor, Jo Ann Littleford of Albuquerque, N.M., Mary Katherine Boston of Fountain Valley, Calif., Paul Falls of Plano, Texas, Dwayne Jackson of Bixby, Jimmy Jackson of Faxson, David Jackson of Adair and Ken Clagett of Tulsa.

He was preceded in death by two sisters, Eileen Clagett in 1963 and Katherine Falls in 1986 and his parents.

The Rev. Gary Harber and Rev. Neil Winslow will officiate at Mr. Jackson's funeral services.

Interment will follow in the Adair Cemetery under the direction of Key Funeral Home of Pryor.

The family suggests memorials be made to the Adair United Methodist Church Building Fund.³

Survivor(s): Ida Belle Hunter, Dwayne Jackson and Jim Jackson. Predeceased: Clinton Rowe Jackson, Ralph Jackson, Katharine Falls and Eileen Clagget.⁴

Excerpt from David Norman Jackson's letter in reference to his father, Norman Delmar Jackson. "Dad made a rolltop desk for Dwayne (Dwayne Rowe Jackson) about 5 years ago. It was made out of oak. He made one for Jim (James Edmond Jackson), Mark's dad last year. Dad's health got so bad he couldn't finish it by himself. He asked a friend of ours here in Adair to help him finish it. Jim's desk is made of black walnut. Dad also made all of the altar furniture at the church. He made the pulpit in 1960 after his father died. There is also a communion table and a lectern. There is also a cross that is about 4 feet long that is on the wall behind where the choir sits. Everything is made of black walnut. The communion table, lectern and cross were made about 10 years ago. He made me a bookcase of black walnut. Dad's death was a shock, but I had been expecting it. He couldn't hardly get around."²

Survivor(s): Winnie Jackson, Vernie Clagett, Ralph Jackson, Norman Jackson and Kathryn Fallis. Predeceased: C. R. Jackson.⁵