Jackson had been in the habit if going to the home of his brother Frank Jackson the past few days and spending his time there. When he failed to come yesterday his eldest son William and T. B. Smith went to the man's home where he had been batching to find out the cause of the delay. They found him dead, leaning in a sitting posture against the door case, apparently asleep. The floor around him was covered with Paris Green which he had vomited forth. A big tomato can containing some of the poisonous mixture was close at hand. Apparently the man had consumed a complete package of the poison.

It is not known just how long Jackson was dead before he was found. It was said that he was last seen alive about 11 o'clock in the morning.

Jackson was well known in this locality. A few years ago he came into public notice over domestic troubles. He was tried in court after shooting at his wife. At the time he was adjudged insane and spent some time in an asylum. Recently he had been quite normal and shortly before his death had done some work for a local undertaker. It was only during the past week that his condition seemed to have been subnormal again. He is survived by four sons, William, Herman, Edward and Ray, three brothers Ellis Frank and Al and two sisters Mrs. William Davis and Mrs. Charles Luce.

The body has been removed from the Frist undertaking establishment to the home of Mrs. Davis in Morey Street. The funeral will be held there tomorrow with Rev Halstead of the Christian Church officiating. Burial will be at the Gorton Cemetery located on the old Gideon Jackson farm of which Wren Jackson himself owned 46 acres." - Daily Clintonian, June 27, 1923