Documents
- When I was a small boy on the farm I was my mothers favorite – I was always doing something for her: I was dependable
- When I was 12 years old I turned $2 into $4 on a business venture with the aid of a brother and cousin: I was aggressive
- I only worked a short while at Capital Theatre before I was made floor manager: I showed future managerial qualities
- I cured myself from stuttering when I was very young: I have perseverance
- I also helped cure Fred Coulter, an air force buddy, when I was in the service: I am a good teacher
- I was picked for precision drill squad in Debert, Nova Scotia: I wore a uniform and carried myself well
- After the war in the insurance business I was runner-up for Rookie of the Year in Canada: I proved I was a good man in competition
- I won the coveted Hartley D McNairn Cup two years in a row. (McNairn was President of Prudential Insurance and later became Superintendent of Insurance for Ontario)
- Early in my real estate career I helped a friend buy his first home
- In 1963 I fulfilled a lifelong dream and bought my wife a huge home
- In 1972 I took my son into the business and am teaching him the business
- In 1973 I fulfilled another lifelong dream and bought a Lincoln
- In 1973, with one salesman only we sold $1,500,000
- In 1973 we had a successful family holiday
- In 1973 I paid all bills except the bank
- In 1973 I equipped the den as an office
- The day our daughter Trisha was born I quit smoking and haven’t had a cigarette since
- I helped our daughter and her husband get a start
- I helped Kevin, Kirk and Donald buy lots in 1972
- I taught my sons how to paint
- I taught my daughter Trisha how to bake a cake
One of a series of wills by dad, prompted with each new addition to the family. His final will bequeathed the business DM Jackson Real Estate to his eldest son. But Cam’s destiny lay elsewhere, so mom was free to sell the business. However, she decided to not sell it, despite the fact that she needed the money and a number of people wanted to buy it. Mom was concerned that dad’s good name remain untarnished.
Dad’s annual christmas letter he sent out to his clients when he sold insurance. With no more than a grade 9 education, dad read books by Dale Carnegie and always sought to improve himself
Plot at Woodlawn Cemetery purchased on June 6, 1947
Dad was a top selling insurance agent at Monarch Life.
This was the historical home of the Cross family, as decended from Moses Cross in the mid-19th century. Cedric loved Florence deeply. During his second marriage to Mary Enns he kept a portrait of Florence hanging over the fireplace. When Florence died giving birth, Cedric named the surviving daughter Florence
Married at Smith Falls on June 17, 1938, Mary was 19 and Cedric was 47. My Aunt Betty, who was 8 years younger than her step-mother, was told she had to find another place to live after Cedric and Mary began having children in 1939. Uncle Bill, the only other sibling living at home, was often beaten by Cedric for no apparent reason.
Cedric had his own farm and sold milk
Cedric was a poet and made weekly contributions to the local newspaper. His future wife read his poetry, began corresponding with him and fell in love. When she arrived by train and met her future husband she had no idea that he was 28 years older than her. Alone, wth no money, no home, no security, she married him shortly afterwards.
What is interesting is that Cedric’s obituary only mentions the four daughters from his second marriage and no mention of the seven children from his first marriage. During his first marriage he was an alcoholic and an abusive father to my Uncle Bill. His second wife was a 19 year old mennonite. Cedric stopped drinking at that time. My theory is that Mary wanted to forget his earlier life and all that it produced.
Born in 1891, dad’s mother died one day after giving birth to Florence, May 26, 1930. Dad was just 8 years old at the time
A poem written by our scoutmaster Bill Orchard: I’m thankful for the life I’ve had, to keep some young lads from going bad. Oh God its awful nice to know, that I have helped them all to grow. So young me so straight and tall and true, I remember them all a few years ago when we had a friendship we all knew. They come to see me once in a while and I greet them all with quite a smile. We talk of camps and hikes we had, I’m proud of all and every lad. I may be getting over the hill, but they seem to remember Scouter Bill. I can still do something for the boys, and keep the fellows high, which I enjoy. I often wish that I were thirty four so that I could have a troop once more. To go on camps and hikes again, even to cooking out in the rain. I’m happy with the things I’ve done, and with my fellowship with everyone. Scouter Bill Orchard
Held on April 6, 1967, at the Rainbow Restaurant, this was the high-water mark of the 11th Burlington Cub/Scout Troop. Mr. Evans died from cancer a year later at the age of 48.
Along with Bill Orchard, Mr. Evans founded the 11th Burlington cub/scout troop. Shrugging off the conventional Scout camps in the area (Mount Nemo, Camp Manitou) he leased a wilderness area outside of Acton, Ontario for $1 a year and carved out a camp out of the wilderness, complete with a road, kitchen, dammed creek, tree house, cabins, dining area, church and more.
For moms funeral copies of Climbing Mount Never Rest were handed out to visitors paying their respects. Mementos from moms life were on display…..her button collection, framed photos of her children and grandchildren, pants that she had mended for Kirk and more
Mom’s Will divided everything equally between all her children, awarding my deceased brother Craigs share to his children.
Grandpa Joe was born in Ukraine in 1893 and moved to Winnipeg in 1913. His wife and my grandmother, Polly Chernican Kyryliuk (1905-1972) married several times. I know one of her husbands was Dmytro Chernichan; they had no children. After his divorce Joseph married Mary Kuzyk (1914-2001). They had one child together, Nicholas Joseph (1932-2004)
News article of the accidental death of my brother Donald Mathew Jackson
Donald had tremendous insight and was almost something of a mystic, actually predicting the date of his accidental death. Mom was going through a tough time after dad died. Don wrote this to help her cope
Original 1991 contract made between Kirk Jackson and Kevin Jackson over their joint ownership of a comic collection
The most intelligent, selfless and insightful of my siblings, Craig struggled with his closest relationships. I still read his emails to me as a self-check to see that I have not deviated from my true north
My step-grandmothers recollection of the family. She writes “They were intelligent, hard working people. Farmers. Robert Jackson (Cedrics father) picked (or worked with a pick) rocks on the railroad for 25 cents a day at one time. Was a successful farmer, Cedric, the eldest son, was born deaf, very hard working, politically iterested in world affairs, etc, was a farmer and a moulder at GM with 3 years apprenticeship; hurt and injured during the last war (WW1), got $13 for 15 week, it was small and he was laid up a year on his back, when we first married and (he was) dismissed from job he couldn’t prove the acident, his vertebrae in back torn apart. Things were different then, union not strong, that was that, it was hard times, depression and we were in debt for years. Thank God for credit in those days. It was very hard.”
Uncle Bob’s obituary. He was a bombadier with the RCAF 420 Squadron, shot down in a useless raid over Stuttgart, Germany March 16, 1944
Uncle Bob is interred at Durnbach Cemetery, just outside Munich. It is doubtful there are any remains in the grave as his Halifax exploded when hit by a Messerschmitt with night radar. The favorite tactic of a Messerchmitt fighter was to aim for the bomber’s gas tank
Transcribed extract from a German monograph titled War in the Skies Over Zillhausen on March 15, 1944, Crash of a Bomber of the British Air Force, by Kurt Schneider. This is the botched air raid where Robert Jackson was killed. The pathfinder bomber released his bombs too early and bad weather combined with intense Luftwaffe activity resulted in all other bombers dropping their load prematurely. At a cost of over 43 aircraft lost, the result of the nights work was damage to mainly farmland
Analysis by Brett Langevad of the RCAF/RAF losses of the raid on Stuttgart, March 15, 1944. The plane carrying Robert Jackson also contained one of the youngest Canadian (W.H.O. Heidman) airmen killed in bomber operations in 1944. The German night fighter that downed the bomber was Hptm. Floitgraff. It seems the aircraft was some 30 minutes late or it had arrived earlier and was waiting to bomb. There was one extra crew on board – possibly the young P/O Heidman getting combat experience. 43 bombers shot down, 2 more interred in Switzerland. Allied losses 220 killed, 65 POW/injurred/interred, compared to German civilian losses of 88 killed and 203 injured.
Night fighter pilot who shot down Robert Jackson, Hauptmann Karl Floitgraf of the Stab II./NJG 102, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Echterdingen airfield the night of March 15, 1944. He was the Gruppenkommandeure of Group II of Nachtjagdgeschwader 102 from December 24, 1943 to July 17, 1944. He never got on an aircraft after the war and never talked about the war. He died of cancer in 1965.
Last entry in the flight log of Robert Jackson, showing “failed to return, posted as missing”
These Luftwaffe Fighter Claims are extracted from BA-MA 35-mm. micro-films, and are supplemented by Claims from other published lists and MSS, to provide what is a daily log of some of the air battles of WW2. The list in the Films were, in 99% of cases, hand-written by members of the Personnel Department under the Chief of Training and Discipline within the realms of the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe.
Cover page of Floitgraf’s enlistment in Luftgaukommando VI on March 19, 1939 as well as the page entry of his downing Uncle Bob’s Halifax the night of March 15, 1944
Aunt Betty’s recollection of of her family tree. Robert A Jackson (1868-1944) married Eliza A Leaky (1868-1950). Their children were Cedric Clifton Jackson (1891-1973, Maude (1893-1936), Charlie, Ada, Lyla, Kenneth, Laverne
Document by Mildrid Ruth Livingston, housed at the Mormon Genealogical Department, showing Henry Cross as a United Empire Loyalist. Printed in Kingston, Ontario, 1981
Copy from the Public Records Office in Montreal, dated February 27, 1788, of the claim by Henry Cross that he is a UEL. Includes witness statements and a list of what he lost when he abandoned his farm in New York and moved to Upper Canada.
From the Leeds Country Probate Records, 1786-1885, film #1312272, shows Henry Cross’s will made out on December 17, 1828 and filed March 31, 1851. He names a black man, Obadiah Dixon of Prescott to receive all of his property
Transcribed copy of an original document that found its way into the hands of Firman Cross (then County Reeve), and passed eventually to Kevin Jackson
Document given to Kevin Jackson by the Reverend Clarence Cross on the family history
Sheet from Sons and Daughters of American Loyalists showing Henry Cross. Front of Leeds & Lansdowne Twps Assessment Rolls from Reel MS 248-9, showing Cross family members. LDS film #1445817 showing Henry Cross’ family, with 5 daughters marrying UEL’s.
Published by the Leeds and Grenville Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society in May 1982
