This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jackson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xgk.2ACEB/7930 Message Board Post: For several years I have been looking for information on the parents of Andrew Joseph Jackson. Andrew was born in 1857 in Texas and died in 1919 in Hastings, Oklahoma. In 1870, Andrew can be found in the census for Van Zandt County, Texas with his parents, William J. Jackson (born in Illinois) and Nancy Jackson (born in Tennessee). Also listed is a brother, Thomas J. Jackson (born about 1850 in Illinois) and a sister, Clarinda (born in Illinois around 1852. In the 1880 Census for Collin County, Texas, I can find Andrew with his mother, Nancy who is, by then, a widow. I don't know what happened to William. In the 1850 census for Collin County, Texas, I can find William J. Jackson (born in Illinois) with a wife, Julia A. Jackson (born in Illinois), and a son, Thomas J. Jackson (born in Illinois). My thinking is that William J. Jackson was married to Julia and had children Thomas and Clarinda and then Julia may have died. William remarried Nancy and they had Andrew. This is all conjecture on my part and I am looking for anyone who might be able to help me prove or disprove my theory and at the same time help me further identify Andrew's mother, Nancy.