08/24/2026
One of Affleck's neighbors was DEMPSEY PICKETT JACKSON. Jackson's family was a family of to***co planters in Kentucky. His famous brother, Claiborne Fox Jackson, was Missouri's first Confederate Governor and also a member of the Missouri "Central Clique" and the Sappington family (marrying 3 of the Sappington daughters), a group of wealthy enslavers, landowners, and planters from Howard, Cooper, and Saline Counties, Missouri. His father-in-law was the famous Dr. John Sappington, whose family developed a working cure using quinine to treat malaria and other fever diseases, which brought the family great wealth. Dempsey came to Mississippi at an early age in the 1820s after first settling in Missouri. In January 1828, he married Maria Forsyth, the eldest daughter of John Forsyth, who had for many years been Sheriff of Adams County, a position Dempsey would later hold himself. The Jacksons resided in Natchez for a few years after his marriage, but after John Forsyth's death in 1832, he moved to the country residence known as "Sheriff's Retreat," where he died in 1874. He was born in Kentucky in 1796 to Dempsey Carroll Jackson and Molly Pickett, who were natives of Fauquier County. Va. His wife, Maria Jane Forsyth, died in 1892 at "Trinity Plantation" near Washington, MS, and was born in 1811 in Adams County, Mississippi.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37027985/dempsey_pickett-jackson
