After Thomas Stonewall Jackson passed away, his military funeral parade was at Virginia Military Institute four days later on May 15th. The funeral then takes place at his family plot in Lexington, Virginia. Prior to the funeral, his body was placed in a wood coffin made from the soldiers of the 2nd Corps and placed on a special train that traveled between Guinea Station to Richmond. His remains would be covered by a Confederate flag and placed on a horse-drawn hearse that would have a military escort to the Governor’s mansion.
After the funeral procession of onlookers that walked past his coffin, Jackson’s coffin was placed on a boat and floated down towards Lexington. When it reached it’s destination, the coffin was placed at Virginia Military Institute where he used to teach. Upon the arrival of his wife and daughter, along with the coffin were shot every house in tribute to their late-professor who valued education, faith in the bible, and his leadership in the classroom and the field of battle.
Ms. Jackson and her daughter Julia move back to the Cottage House with her father on the plantation. When her daughter Julia needed proper education, they moved to Charlotte, and she remained in that city for her entire lifetime. Ms. Jackson was highly involved in the United Daughters of the Confederacy which was founded in 1896, and the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1890. However, both groups existed during the Civil War.
In Richmond, on June 2nd 1885, Julia Thomas Jackson married William Edmund Christian. Between 1885 and 1889, Julia would have a son and a daughter. Sadly, she died ahead of her mother on August 30, 1889 due to typhoid fever. Her husband would have to take care of two children after her death. Luckily, her son and daughter would continue the family name.
Just a brief history prior to continuing with the family descendants. Stonewall Jackson died in 1863, and his daughter died in 1889. His daughter had two children that you can see above on this family tree. Julia’s son, Thomas Jonathon Jackson Christian was born in 1888 and died in 1952. The highlight of Stonewall Jackson’s descendants is that of Julia’s daughter, Julia Jackson Christina. She was born in 1887 and yes, your reading that right, passed away the the old age of 104 years old.
Portrait of Mary Anna Jackson
Even though Stonewall Jackson passed away in 1863, his wife, Anna would continue to cherish and pay respects to her husband everywhere through her travels in the South. She lived her life with the honor that her husband gave to the Confederacy. When she passed away in March 1915, she was given military honors, and was buried next to her husband in the family plot in Lexington.