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JACKSON, REV. HENRY GODDEN – (1838-1914) – Rev. Henry Godden Jackson, was the pastor of
the local church in Stockwell, Indiana. He was born January 1, 1838, in Manchester,
Indiana, which is near Lawrenceburg in Dearborn county. He attended Indiana Asbury
University (now DePauw) in Greencastle, graduating in 1862. He was appointed the
principal of the Stockwell Collegiate Institute by the Northwestern Indiana Conference of
the Methodist Church. In July of 1865 he was sent to New Orleans where the Church was
trying to assert its authority following the Civil War. While there he was involved in
the efforts of the State Constitutional Convention to write a new, postwar, constitution
for Louisiana. On July 30, 1866, the New Orleans police entered the hall where the
convention had assembled and shot and killed several people and then beat and shot Mr.
Jackson through both lungs. The Jackson family history, states he was thrown into jail,
apparently without !
treatment and was not found by his wife or the others from the church until late that
night. Miraculously he survived. Once he could travel the family returned to Indiana,
where he recuperated at Manchester, and was again assigned to Stockwell M. E. Church in
1867. In April 1868 he was sent to Buenos Aires, Argentina where the family lived for
about 10 years and where several of their children were born. Re. Jackson died in1914 in
River Forest, Illinois, the suburb of Chicago. (Ref: Charles L. Nix his grandson.)