Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — SUPREME JUDGE DIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SUPREME JUDGE DIES.

Justice Howell E. Jackson of Tennessee Passes Away. Howell Edmunds Jackson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died at his residence at West Meade, six miles west of Nashville, Tenn., at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon In the 64th year of his age, of consumption. Judge Jackson was appointed by President Harrison in 1890. He had been In failing health for the last four years, but It has been only in the last eight or nine months that the progress of the disease began to cause his family and friends uneasiness. Quite lately he seemed to improve slightly. He went to Washington

to sit in the second hearing of the income tax cases. He stood that trying trip only fairly well, and after his return home appeared to lose strength rapidly. Judge Jackson was twice married, the first time to Miss Sophia Malloy, daughter of David B. Malloy, a banker of Memphis, who died in 1873. To this union were born four children, as follows: Henry, Mary, William H., and Howell Jackson. Henry Jackson is at present Soliciting Freight Agent of the Southern Railway, with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga.; W. H. Jackson is District Attorney of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at Cincinnati; Howell E. Jackson is manager of the Jackson cotton mills at Jackson, Tenn. In 1876 Judge Jackson married Miss Mary E. Harding, daughter of Gen. William G. Harding.

JUSTICE HOWELL E. JACKSON.