| 1888 |
Born July 16 in Pickens County, South Carolina to George and Martha Jackson |
| 1893 |
Moves to Brandon Mill, South Carolina, near Greenville |
| 1894 |
Begins working in a textile mill at age six |
| 1901 |
Becomes the pitcher for the Brandon Mill team |
| 1906 |
Begins semipro career with Greenville Near Leaguers |
| 1908 |
Marries Katherine Wynn |
| 1908 |
Begins pro career with the Greenville Spinners in the Carolina Association |
| 1908 |
Signed by the Philadelphia Athletics |
| 1909 |
Traded to Cleveland Indians |
| 1915 |
Traded to Chicago White Sox |
| 1918 |
Accepts draft-exempt employment in a shipbuilding plant |
| 1919 |
White Sox lose World Series to Cincinnati |
| 1920 |
Charged with throwing 1919 World Series with seven other White Sox players and suspended |
| 1921 |
Acquitted by Chicago jury but banned from baseball by Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first commissioner of baseball |
| 1922 |
Moves to Savannah, Georgia and opens dry cleaning business |
| 1922 |
Plays baseball with a team in Bastrop, Louisiana |
| 1923 |
Leaves the Bastrop team to play for the Americus, Georgia team, which wins the Georgia Little League Series in six games. |
| 1924 |
Manages the Waycross team for two seasons, winning the Georgia State Championship in 1924 |
| 1929 |
Returns to Greenville when his mother becomes ill, then takes her to Savannah, Georgia, where she is cared for by his wife and sister Lula |
| 1932 |
Returns to Greenville where he plays most of the season with the Greenville Spinners and finishes with a semipro team in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1933 |
Returns to Greenville with Katie to open first a barbecue restaurant then Joe Jackson's Liquor Store |
| 1933 |
Plays ball for Poe Mills in Greenville |
| 1934 |
Plays and manages the Winnsboro Mill Royal Cords |
| 1937 |
Manages the Woodside Mill team |
| 1951 |
Suffers a heart attack and dies at home on December 5 |
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