When Burwell Canady Jackson was born on October 26, 1896, in Lenoir, North Carolina, his father, Jesse, was 42 and his mother, Eliza, was 36. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I as a Private First Class in Company F, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action but declared ""Missing"" on July 20, 1918 and is memorialized on Tablets of the Missing, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, France. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and his citation reads: ""For extraordinary heroism In action near Soissons, France, July 19, 1918. He, alone, captured a machine gun, killed two of the crew, and took the remaining three prisoners. Later in the same day he was killed while making a similar attempt."" There is a cenotaph in his memory at the Jesse Jackson Cemetery, Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina.

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