Jackson, Samuel bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 937, Waterford Township
Samuel Jackson, farmer, sec. 2; was born in Tazewell county, Ill., March 17, 1839; his parents were George and Sudner (Tanner), natives of Virginia; came to Fulton county in 1865; July 8, 1862, he enlisted in the 85th Regt., Co. A, and was discharged May 25, 1865; was in all the battles of his Regt. Except one. Of his marriage in 1869 is one boy, and of that in 1878 one girl.