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Descendants of Samuel Gamel


18. WILLIAM OTIS6 JACKSON (ADA JOSEPHINE5 GAMEL, WILLIAM THOMAS4, WILLIAM THOMAS3, AYERS2 GAMELL, SAMUEL1 GAMEL) was born June 24, 1903 in Sylacauga, Alabama, and died April 30, 1958 in Sylacauga, Alabama.

Notes for W
ILLIAM OTIS JACKSON:
Uncle Otis died from a gunshot wound to the head. His son "Billy" died the same way. Uncle Otis left one daughter named Gloria. Uncle Otis and my Daddy, Ernest Edwin Jackson could sing together beautifully. They could harmonize and I remember them singing "I'm forever blowing bubbles". I remember going to the funeral home to stay with Uncle Otis with my sister Dorothy Faye Jackson. Daddy could not handle the death and could not even go to the funeral home. When my son Barry died of suicide (19 yrs old) it made me wonder if there are more suicides in this family. My sister and I received the call at home about Uncle Otis. The person calling said that the man they were calling about was called "Jack". As my father was called "Jack" and my uncle Otis was called "Jack" we did not know which it was until we went to this home out in the country and identified him. We picked up my mother Dorothy Bates Jackson from where she was working, Foremost Dairies, and drove out to the country house together. My poor mother must have been terrified and we prayed that it was not Daddy or Uncle Otis. As is classic, according to text books, Uncle Otis gave away his few belongings to the young boy living in the house before shooting himself.

Those attending his funeral were as followed:
S. N. Gamel
Mrs. Mable Hamby
Mrs. D. E. Lambert
Mrs. Winona Graham
Mr. and Mrs. Odis Bennett
Frank Lambert
Jerrie Jackson
Dorothy Faye Jackson Jones
Bill Jones
C. Hamby
Mrs. Edna Gamble
Orville O. Gamble
Ima Lee (Gamble) Pylant
Lorene (Gamble) Trwarthen
Mrs. Minnie Gamel
Mrs. L. J. Blocker
Mrs. Mattie L. Cliett
Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Carter and Family, Billie Jean and Reuben, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Jackson, Jr. and Joan
Mrs. Ernest Jackson
Thelma Chappell


Friends who called:
W. T. Goggins
A. L. Dale
Henry Smith
Clarence Packers
W. H. Carter, Jr.
Mrs. T. L. Lightsey
Mrs. W. H. Carter, Jr.
Mrs. Doris Goggins
Mr. F. R. Goggins
Jimmie L. White
Mrs. R. N. Wesson
Joe Bannister
Buck Howard
Carl Jones
Thelma Chappell
Mrs. R. W. Taylor
R.n.Gamel ?
Ms. Johnnie P. Jones
James Perry
R. C. Callum
Mrs. G. L. Wilem, ??
R. K. Farris
C. M. Farris
Pastor C. M. Christmas, Sr.
Mrs. C. M. Farris
Mrs. Roch
Ruth Moncus
Wyatt Moncus
Mrs. W.O.Barnette
Otis Barnette
Pat Williamson
Harry D. King
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Moncer
Mr. & Mrs. G. S. Shockley, Sr.
Mrs. J. F. McMullan
Mrs. C. M. Christmas
Mrs. Ruby Rayfield
Ja? Chapman
Himmy Hare
Rascal Chapman
Walter Lambert
Mrs. Jessie Farr
Mr & Mrs. Windle Batchelor
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tarmia
Mrs. James Kitchens
Mr. and Mrs. Cay Horne
Charter Hamby
Mrs. Jean Ervin
Mr. & Mrs. G. S. Shockley, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Orrin Williams
L. S. Adair
Glenn Moore
Mr. & Mrs. James Gray
Mr. & Mrs. Bill Potts
Mrs. B. S. Edmondson
H. O. Patton
Mrs. O. B. Leonard
Dewey Blackmon
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Jefferson
Mr. & Mrs. George Greer
Mr. & Mrs. O. L. Gamel
Mrs. Willie Watson
Rev: Merrell Arnold
J. W. Dees
Myrtelene Walker
Mr. & Mrs. Walter Lambert & Son
Mrs. Drayton Caldwell
John E. Dickinson
Bill Wilson




More About W
ILLIAM OTIS JACKSON:
Burial: May 03, 1958, Macedonia Cemetery in Weogulfa, AL near Sylacauga, AL
     
Children of W
ILLIAM OTIS JACKSON are:
33. i.   GLORIA DEAN7 JACKSON, b. Private.
  ii.   WILLIAM OTIS JACKSON, JR., d. Unknown, Suicide.
  Notes for WILLIAM OTIS JACKSON, JR.:
"Billy" died of a gunshot to the head. His father died the same way.



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