Notes for Stella Brewer: In the 1910 census we find that Stella has had 4 children, but only two of them are still living. They have been married only 8 years by then. This means Stella had a child about every 2 years, but two of them died in this 8-year period.
1910 Federal Census, Nash, Muskogee, Oklahoma, 2 May, District 107, Page 14A, Hse/Fam #107 Jackson, Sam Head M W 36 OK TX GA Farmer Jackson, Stella Wife F W 26 TN TN AL Jackson, Alvin Son M W 6 OK OK TN Jackson, William Son M W 11mos OK OK TN
Some notes on a picture shared by Linda Martin Hanks is somewhat helpful here. In October 2007, Linda shared with Green family researcher Cindy Beam some letters and this picture from Betty Jackson Hess, a daughter of James Toliver and Elizabeth Tate Jackson. These documents were written about 1985. Cindy shared with me and another cousin Butch Mixon the basic transcriptions she made of these documents. We three worked on the analysis and interpretation of these valuable family notes form Betty.
Betty says that San and Stella had lost a little boy and that he is buried in the Curtis Cemetery in Weatherford (Parker county), Texas. This was written on the back of a picture of Sam and the three boys, dated probably about 1912, from comments by Betty. This could refer to one of the two children reported as lost in the 1910 census, or one that was born after the two surviving boys, Alvin and William. William was born in 1909, and only the two boys are in the 1910 census, so if there was another child, he might have been born in Texas in the next year or so before Stella died.
There are two Jackson infants in the Curtis Cemetery, but both are listed only as "Infant Jackson." Neither has the names of parents. One died in 1907, the other in 1908. One of these would seem to be the child Betty refers to, which would mean Sam and Stella were in Parker County, Texas around 1907-8, had a child there, but lost him at birth or shortly after.
We know Stella died before some time in 1912, from the note by Betty Hess on the picture of Sam and the boys. Betty says explicitly that Stella had died before that picture was taken. The picture was taken after Stella had died, before Sam and the two boys went back to Oklahoma. She says this was when she was about 12 years old. Betty was born in 1900, so that would mean the picture was taken about 1912.
It appears that after the 1910 census, Sam and the family went to Parker County, either to visit or to live. It is not known whether Stella died in Oklahoma, or in Texas. It is possible she died in Oklahoma, and Sam and the boys were just visiting his family in Weatherford. We know that shortly afterward Sam and the boys moved to Riverside, California, where they are recorded in the 1920 and 1930 censuses.
This means we lack clear information on 1. Stella's two children who died before the 1910 census, 2. the name and definite date for the infant lost while in Texas, either on a visit or a short move there, and 3. the date of death of Stella.
More About Stella Brewer: Residence: 1910, Nash, Muskogee, Oklahoma.282
Children of Stella Brewer and Samuel Westfall Jackson are:
Alvin Thomas Jackson, b. 24 Jan 1904, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory (likely Marietta, later Love County)283, 284, 285, d. 12 Jan 1969, Riverside, Riverside, California286.
Stella Brewer (b. 1884, d. Bet. 1910 - 1920)
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