Stone wall jackson

Stone Wall Jackson

Thomas J. Jackson lived a very respectable life. In his earlier years his family struggled. Born into a low class family in Clarksburg, Virginia on January 21,1824, Jackson was a child of five. His parents were Jonathan Jackson (1790-1826) and Julia Beckwith (1798-1831). Nine months after Julia became pregnant with their sixth child her husband and first-born daughter, Elizabeth died of Typhoid Fever. Julia gave birth to their sixth child, Laura Ann, the next day.
Jackson’s mother remarried to a man named Charles Woodson. Woodson disliked his stepchildren and all of the family’s financial difficulties. The family did not have the money to put food on the table every night or to be fully clothed all of the time. The two newly weds divorced and the Jackson family moved to Jackson’s Mill, Virginia into a cheaper house. During their stay at Jackson’s Mill, Julia died in labor. For losing her life Jackson’s half brother, Wirt Woodson was born. Ja...