David Edward Jackson

Jackson Hole was named for a man who died in a Tennessee tavern. David Jackson, born in 1788 in what is now West Virginia, answered a Missouri newspaper ad in 1822 to hunt and trap in the Rocky Mountains, joined Jedediah Smith and William Sublette in their own company, and sold out in 1830 as the fur trade declined. He then took part in expeditions toward Santa Fe and California. He fell ill with typhus while in Paris on business, wrote his son Ned to close his accounts, and died on December 24, 1837, at forty-nine.

What the plaque says

David Edward Jackson David Jackson was a famous Rocky Mountain fur trader, explorer, businessperson, and namesake for Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in the Teton region. During the War of 1812, he served as an Ensign in Ohio. In January 1837 Jackson traveled to Paris, Tennessee, on business where he contracted typhoid fever. Dr. Porter attended to him while he resided at Atkins Tavern in Paris. Jackson died on December 24, 1837. Sympathetic Paris Masons buried Jackson, himself a Mason, in the Paris City Cemetery.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge — 11 mi
  A 51,000-acre refuge along Kentucky Lake and the Tennessee River, created in 1945 for migratory birds, with a visitor center in Springville and a drowned Archaic site nearby.
• Paris Landing State Park — 16 mi
  A Kentucky Lake state park on the site of a Tennessee River steamboat landing, created after the 1944 TVA dam drowned a sulphur-spring resort.
• Patsy Cline Crash Site Memorial — 19 mi
  An engraved rock off Mt. Carmel Road near Camden marking where a small plane carrying Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins went down on March 5, 1963.
• Johnsonville State Historic Park — 26 mi
  A Tennessee River park on the site of a Union supply depot shelled in November 1864 and of the town later drowned by Kentucky Lake, with earthworks, a railroad bed and an African American cemetery.

More markers nearby

• John Wesley Crockett — steps away
• John DeWitt Clinton Atkins — steps away
• James Davis Porter — steps away
• Edwin Wiley Grove — steps away