John George Jackson

John George Jackson. , (Panel 1):, John George Jackson (1777-1825) - also known as John G. Jackson - of Clarksburg, Harrison County, Va. (now W.Va.). Born in Hardy County, Va. (now W.Va.), September 22, 1777. Son of George and Elizabeth Brake Jackson; married 1800 to Mary Payne (1781-1808), sister-in-law of James Madison; married, July 19, 1810 to Mary Sophia Meigs (1793-1863), daughter of Ohio Governor Return Jonathan Meigs Jr. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1798-1801, 1811-12; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1803-10, 1813-17 (at-large 1803-07, 1st District 1807-10, 1813-17); U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Virginia 1819-25; died in office 1825. In November, 1807, leaving the courthouse in Clarksburg, he was attacked and suffered a skull fracture. While in Congress, he fought a duel with Joseph Pearson of North Carolina, and on the second fire was wounded in the hip. Died in Clarksburg, Harrison County., Va. (now W.Va.), March 28, 1825., (Panel 2):, Mary Payne Jackson, first wife of Judge John G. Jackson and daughter of Mary Coles Payne. Inscribed on her dark gray marble slab was the following: , "Here lies interred Mary, the beloved wife of John G. Jackson. It requires not this marble slab to perpetuate her memory. It is embalmed in the heart of a husband who adored her and of many relatives and friends who loved her sincerely, but that when the stranger shall tread this hallowed place, he may with reverential awe approach the spot where lies the form which once contained the noblest spirit that ever adorned her sex in all the endearing attributes of wife, mother and friend, and contemplate the destiny of all in her whom virtue, love, and youth could not exempt from death. She expired in the arms of her husband on the 13th of February, 1808, in the 27th year of her age."