Early Life
Born William Harding Jackson (II), March 25, 1901 on the Belle Meade Plantation, in Nashville, Tennessee to parents William Harding Jackson (I) and wife, Anne Davis (Richardson) Jackson (later remarried to Stevenson).
Much confusion surrounds Bill Jackson's name (perhaps convenient by design, given his importance in U.S. national security affairs). Bill Jackson's grand-father, a U.S. Military Academy at West Point graduate (1856) and former Confederate States Army General, was named William Hicks Jackson (more commonly known during his lifetime as 'General Red Jackson'); Bill Jackson's father was named William H. (Harding) Jackson and one of Bill Jackson's sons was named William H. Jackson, Jr., as well. All four men are known as 'William H. Jackson' making it difficult to distinguish one from another.
To further confuse the issue, Bill Jackson's paternal grand-father, General Red Jackson, died at age 67 of natural causes—and young Bill's father, William Harding Jackson (I), died of complications from typhoid fever at age 29—both within four-months of each other—during the Spring-Summer of 1903 when young Jackson was only two-years old.
All three of these men were heirs to the world famous Belle Meade Plantation near Nashville, Tennessee, during their life times.
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