1878 - 1920 (41 years)
Set As Default Person
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Name Nina Lee JACKSON Relationship 
with Henry Walter ROLFE Birth Oct 1878 West Point, Hardin County, Kentucky, USA 
Gender Female Death 28 Jan 1920 Imperial, Imperial County, California, USA - Killed by her 3rd Husband Joseph A. Gilliam
He killed her because she had found his papers and many marriage certificates and was going to report him.
Her naked body was found outside of town, strangled, her skull was crushed and her breasts and genitals were mutilated.
He buried her in Imperial Valley
Burial Red Hill Cemetery, Hodgenville, LaRue County, Kentucky, USA 
Nina Lee Jackson (1878-1920)
Plot: Pine Tree Section
Red Hill Cemetery
Hodgenville, LaRue County, KentuckyPatriarch & Matriarch 
George W. JACKSON (Father)
Catherine Surilda COLBERT, b. 4 Mar 1852, Daviess County, Kentucky, USA (Mother) Person ID I36520 Rolfe Family Tree Last Modified 23 Feb 2024
Father George W. JACKSON Mother Catherine Surilda COLBERT, b. 4 Mar 1852, Daviess County, Kentucky, USA Marriage 22 Feb 1872 Hancock, Kentucky, USA Family ID F12937 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Harvey Franklin YOUNG, b. Oct 1867, Reads Landing, Wabasha County, Minnesota, USA d. 10 Jan 1914, Kalispell, Flathead County, Montana, USA (Age 46 years)
Marriage 19 Apr 1901 Tobacco, Lincoln County, Montana, USA Family ID F12936 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 23 Feb 2024
Family 2 John H. DELONEY, b. 15 Oct 1872, Louisiana, USA
Marriage 4 Mar 1918 Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA Family ID F12938 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 23 Feb 2024
Family 3 Charles GILLAM, b. 3 Jul 1871, Carroll County, Arkansas, USA d. 15 Oct 1939, San Quentin State Prison, Marin County, California, USA (Age 68 years)
Other Partners: Mary A. Louise WATT m. 1912; Marie M. AUSTIN m. 1912; Alice M. LUDVIGSON m. 6 Oct 1917; Katherine "Kaie" MERKLEY m. 31 Oct 1917; Agnes WILSON m. 20 Sep 1918; Eleanor FRAZIER m. 1919; Elizabeth PRIOR m. 15 Mar 1919; Bertha Anna GOODNICK m. 11 Jun 1919Marriage 5 Dec 1919 San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA Family ID F12940 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 23 Feb 2024
- Killed by her 3rd Husband Joseph A. Gilliam
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Birth - Oct 1878 - West Point, Hardin County, Kentucky, USA 
Marriage - 19 Apr 1901 - Tobacco, Lincoln County, Montana, USA 
Marriage - 4 Mar 1918 - Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA 
Marriage - 5 Dec 1919 - San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA 
Death - 28 Jan 1920 - Imperial, Imperial County, California, USA 
Burial - - Red Hill Cemetery, Hodgenville, LaRue County, Kentucky, USA = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Nina Lee Jackson (1878-1920)
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Notes - May 5 1920, EL CENTRO, CALIF.
- The body of Mrs. Nina Lee Deloney was located yesterday by her husband William B. Huirt, who is said to have admitted that he killed her and hid the body in the unfrequented valley in the mountains near El Centro, Calif. When the officers who were escorting Huirt, or Watson, as he is now called, told him that they had found the body, he collapsed. Watson is charged with murder. The picture is that of Mrs. Deloney.
As the hour approached for the officers to place Watson on the train for his return to Los Angeles tonight, after he had located the grave of Nina Lee Deloney and calmly testified at the inquest that he had killed her, a growing mob gathered at he railroad station and threats of lynching grew so loud that Sheriff Applestill and the Los Angeles deputies spirited their prisoner to another station by automobile, concealing their destination.
The mob had not learned of the change of plans and was still waiting at the depot at 9 o'clock
- May 5 1920, EL CENTRO, CALIF.
