Sunday, December 26, 2010

The First Mystery Regarding Oscar L. Jackson

We already know that Oscar lived in Sumner County, Kansas and he is enumerated there in 1920 and 1930 with his known wife Leanna Andrews and he is buried with her in the Caldwell Cemetery.  But did he die in Monterey County, California?  The evidence is indicating that indeed he and Leanna lived in CA. The California death record for an Oscar Lothair Jackson, indicates that he was born in Arkansas, got his social security card in California and the Caldwell cemetery dates match this CA death date. When I search the social security death index I find that Leanna also received her social security card in California. Now this is becoming more than coincidence.  It is likely that she returned to Kansas after Oscar's death, because her last benefit address was in Caldwell, Kansas.  Why were they in California??

Further investigation into their life in California, has only led me to a few tidbits of information, most of which have just led to more questions.  A search of the CA voter registration records (1928-1938) finds on Oscar L Jackson living at 130 Forest Ave., Pacific Grove, Monterey County, CA.  He is listed as a farmer, and Democrat.  At the same address is a Miss S. (later voter records show this to be Stella) Virginia Jackson, a housewife and Republican.  Is she related to Oscar?  I find her in the CA census as born in Kansas in 1900, but her father is listed as from Germany and mother from Denmark.  She is married to a George Jackson who was born in 1895 in Wales, parents born in England.  This census listing indicates a Cedar Rd., but a close look at a map of the area shows that the flip side of the house probably did face Forest Ave.  Oscar's mother, Mary Jane, does list her father as Canadian English, so perhaps they did have some familial connections still overseas.  George did  not immigrate to California until 1908.  Perhaps after we receive their social security application records, and if I am able to find an obituary in the newspaper we will find some answers to these questions?  Stella is also in the CA registration records, still at the same address in 1942, so the 1940 census release may also be helpful.  As we continue to look at the family on the reverse timeline, perhaps we will find some other connections, and maybe we won't.  We will return to this mystery later after the arrival of more documentation or other discoveries that may illuminate this situation.

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