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==Biography==
Jackson was one of fifteen children born in [[Clay County, Kentucky]], as the daughter of Oliver Perry Garland and Deborah Robinson.<ref name=k459>Kleber 1992, p. 459.</ref><ref
In 1894, she married the miner Jim Stewart. She bore two children.<ref name=k459/><ref name=h66/> For the next decade, she worked as a nurse in Clay County before moving to Harlan County in 1908 and a job as a midwife delivering 884 babies.<ref name=h66/> Her husband was killed in a mine accident in 1917 and shortly afterwards, she married the miner Bill Jackson.<ref name=k459/> Tragedies struck her family when her father and a brother were blinded in another mine accident.<ref name=h66/> She became a member of the [[United Mine Workers]] and began writing protest songs
She was discovered in November 1931 by the Dreiser Committee, investigating the [[Harlan County War]] and workers' living conditions when she spoke and sang her song "
In the mid-1930s, she performed in New York City together with [[Woody Guthrie]], [[Pete Seeger]], [[Earl Robinson]], [[Will Geer]], her half-brother [[Jim Garland]], and her half-sister [[Sarah Ogan Gunning]].<ref name=k459/><ref name=h67/> After a bus accident in [[Ohio]], leaving her badly crippled, Jackson became incapacitated and was confined to her New York apartment.<ref name=h67/><ref name=r2/> She died in 1960 and was interred as Mary Stamos, next to her husband Gust Stamos, at the Odd Fellows Lawn Cemetery in [[Sacramento, California]].<ref name=r2/>
The given dates of Aunt Molly Jackson's life are mostly uncertain since she was
==Discography==
* Kentucky Miner's Wife, Part 1-2 (Ragged Hungry Blues) - Columbia 15731-D (1931)
* The Little Dove / Ten Thousand Miles - Library of Congress AAFS-7 (1942)
* ''The Songs and Stories of Aunt Molly Jackson'', 1960 - Folkways FH-5457 (1961)
* Aunt Molly Jackson, Library of Congress Recordings, 1939 - Rounder 1002 (1971)
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*[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA05/luckey/amj/amjmain.htm Kentucky Diva: Aunt Molly Jackson] from American Studies at the University of Virginia
*[{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p28029|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060905060916/http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f98/romalis.html Pistol Packin' Mama - Shelly Romalis]
*[http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=1022/ Recordings of Aunt Molly Jackson on Folkways Records]
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