Helen, The Jackson is my married name. His line has been researched and found which is amazing considering it's so common. And it to make it more difficult my husband's Dad's Father died when he was only 6 in a fall in a well. So he knew nothing much about his Jacksons. But a fabulous researcher had a website called "Gone to Texas" and as my husband was reading it as it was like a book, he found his grandfather's name with his first and middle name correctly, reversed!!! Talk about a miracle. So there's the Jackson part. This was in TN then on to Oklahoma. That is my husband's side. Mine is Curtis with this ggrandmother Bradshaw from Arkansas, her father James Logan Bradshaw born in NC, mother was Martha Jane Ryals from TN. Martha's father Billy Ryals, (b NC), had three wives, (not at one time!!) and 22 children. He married at 71 to a 29 year old lady and had his last children. Billy's first wife, Nancy Smith, was mine line. (one of about 8 separate Smiths in various lineages of mine. Judy