“The popular Cashier of the Marion State and Savings Bank is wholly a child of Marion, where he was born October 9, 1874. With the exception of two terms in Carbondale he received his education in the public and High Schools of this city from which the graduated in 1893. For eighteen months he was Assistant Postmaster and afterwards for about twenty months Assistant Cashier of the Bank of Norris City in White county, when he entered the employ of the Old Bank of Marion as Assistant Cashier. After two and one half years he was promoted to Cashier.

Upon its reorganization in July 1913, he was at once selected by the management for Cashier, which position he still holds. In July 1898, he was united in marriage to Miss Carra Barnes, of Norris City, by whom he is father of one child Pauline, now four years old.

Besides his bank interest he is a partner with his father. J. C. Jackson, in the furniture business at (105) West Main Street, and Treasurer of Special School District of Marion. He is an active member of the M. E. church and belongs to the K. of P. and Modern Woodmen.”  (Excerpt from 1905 Souvenir Book, WCHS)

According to census data, the 1900 census lists Earl as an undertaker, 25 years old and living with his wife Carra 20. They have a 14 year old servant named Maggie Craig living with them. By the 1910 census, Earl is a Cashier at a bank and they have a daughter Pauline 10. They are living at 407 S. Madison, only two houses away from his parents at 402 S. Madison.

Jackson, like his father, served as Marion Mayor from 1917 to 1919. 

In 1920, he is listed as a bank cashier living in the same location. The 1930 census reveals he owns his home on Madison Street and he is Vice President of a bank with a claimed personal estate of $10,000. His father James died in 1930 so by 1940 he has sold his house on Madison and is living at 409 E. Warder St. near his sister Augusta. The couple are now in their ‘60’s and his occupation is shown as income broker. They appear to have only had the one child Pauline.

Carra Jackson passed away July 31, 1944 and Earl B. Jackson died Sept 6, 1956. Both are buried at Rose Hill City Cemetery.

Earl was active in the Marion Rotory Club and served as President in 1937-38.

(Compiled from 1905 Souvenir book, WCHS, federal census records and Marion City Cemetery records and compiled by Sam Lattuca 12/16/2012)