1788 Dempsey Jackson and Molly Pickett received a license to marry dated 29 dec, 1787, in Fauquier County, Virginia. [1] They were married by John Monroe on January 1, 1788. [2] "Four days after Christmas of that [1787] year, at age twenty-five, Dempsey Jackson married Mary Pickett, or "Molly" as she was called, five years his junior and seventh child and third daughter of a prosperous local planter, William Sanford Pickett, a captain of the Fauquier County militia during the Revolution. Molly's oldest brother, John, was an officer in the war." [3]
1798 Molly Jackson was named as a daughter in the will of William S Pickett. [4]
1846 Mary Pickett Jackson died on March 7 in Fayette, Howard County, Missouri. [5]
[1] Fauquier County, Virginia Marriage bonds and returns, 1759-1854; marriage register, 1854-1906, 1-220, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[2] Fauquier County, Virginia Marriage bonds and returns, 1759-1854; marriage register, 1854-1906, 1-443, [FamilySearchImage].
[3] Christopher Phillips, Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West (2000), 6, [GoogleBooks].
[4] John P. Alcock, Fauquier Families, 1759-1799 (Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Co, 1994), 281, [GoogleBooks].
[5] Christopher Phillips, Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West (2000), 60, [GoogleBooks].