JACKSON, Reuben

Date of birth:  About 1873
Date of death: 9 Jan 1892 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 15, 1892,
Volume XXXII Number 30, page 1 column 6

DEATH’S HARVEST.

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REUBEN JACKSON.

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Reuben Jackson, recently a brakeman on the Fairland, Franklin & Martinsville road, died Saturday night of con­sumption at his home in this city. Deceased was in his twentieth year. The funeral occurred Monday morning.

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 103, referencing Book H-16, page 28, records that Rhenben [sic] Jackson, a nineteen-year-old colored male, died 9 Jan 1892 in Franklin.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry