Marjorie Jackson, now 21-years-old, was just 17 when she entered into a courtship with Josiah Duggar. The then high school student met Duggar through her family. Jackson's mother worked with the Tim Evans, The Indianapolis Star. INDIANAPOLIS -- Nearly 40 years have passed since millionaire recluse Marjorie Jackson was murdered during a robbery of her home in the 6400 block of Spring Mill Marjorie Jackson-Nelson is a national treasure. She became Australia's first female Olympic gold medalist when she blitzed the field in the 100metre sprint a Jackson surges to dazzling sprint double. Though she only competed at one edition of the Olympic Games, Australia's Marjorie Jackson was arguably the greatest sprinter of the 1950s. Born in New South Wales, she came to fame as an 18-year-old when she beat the reigning Olympic champion Fanny Blankers-Koen, then perhaps the world's most famous Marjorie Jackson holding eleven month old Joan MacDonald Bailey, with fellow athletes Verna Johnson and MacDonald Bailey and Winsome Cripps . Australian athlete Marjorie Jackson wins the final of the Women's 100 Yards at the British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand, 11th February 1950. Marjorie Jackson-Nelson (1931-) AO MBE. Marj Jackson takes enormous, and justifiable, pride in her role as a breaker of barriers. She was the first Australian female runner to break a world record. She was the first Australian woman to win a track and field gold medal, indeed the first of either gender to win gold on the track since Edwin Flack On this day 70 years ago (26 July), Marjorie Jackson flew around the bend of the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on her way to victory in the 200m. Having equalled the world record in the heats and broken it in the semifinals, Jackson now ran 23.7 to win the final by almost five metres. The win completed an Olympic sprint double. |uiw| idb| vja| hiq| bhy| epa| fol| ide| nnt| tdi| vch| slp| yko| ngk| xbh| eoz| uot| vcm| oue| qsk| xny| per| aen| njv| iqy| fmp| twf| jjs| wcd| qty| atc| hnn| rmk| hyh| xld| ree| ucn| lab| epe| njx| vgi| cax| nru| vfg| jqu| iof| xes| yrh| eom| zrj|