Melissa Jackson

Melissa was born in February 1863 in Washington Co., Missouri.¹ Melissa's father was Smith Jackson and her mother was Eada Simmons. Her paternal grandparents were Phillip Jackson and UNKNOWN Baker; her maternal grandparents were John Simmons and Rachel UNKNOWN. She had four brothers and five sisters, named Phillip, William, Austin Clark, John, Susan, Martha Ellen, Rachel, Sarah Catherine and Mary. She was the fifth youngest of the ten children. She had four half-brothers and four half-sisters, named George Chester, Walter J., Rush, Albert, Fanny, Bertha, Jessie and Lizzie.