Jacob Beeson Jackson (April 6 1829 – December 11 1893) was the sixth Governor of West Virginia from 1881 to 1885. In 1855 he married Maria Willard.In his biography it is stated that he was a cousin of Stonewall Jackson. An examination of their family trees shows that the two men were second cousins once removed. He was also a 4th-cousin-once-removed to William Wirt Woodson who was Stonewall Jackson’s half brother.
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