African American, Company E, Alaska Highway. Born: 31 August 1922, Jefferson County, West Virginia. Died: 15 October 1948, Pittsburg, PA. Buried at Kearneysville Cemetery West Virginia. Death certificate records that James died at age 26 from shock and hemorrhage due to multiple stab wounds in chest and abdomen and labeled his death as a murder.
Enlisted: 7 November 1941, Huntington West Virginia and discharged 21 November 1944. He received a Good Conduct Medal in the 93rd Engineer Regiment.
Education: two years high school. He was married and in 1940 he worked as a miner in West Virginia. His death certificate records that he was employed as a chauffeur in Pittsburgh, PA.
His father was James E. Jackson, a laborer in an orchard, and his mother was Isabelle Furgeson.
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