ABSTRACT
Leon Quincy Jackson was born on January 9, 1926, in Wewoka, Oklahoma, which is approximately sixty miles southeast of Oklahoma City. His natural father abandoned him and his mother soon after his birth. Leon’s mother, Roxie Ann Jackson, was a high school principal. Leon was her only child. Subsequently, she attracted the attention of Lonnie Galimore, a pharmacy graduate of MeHarry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. He became Leon’s stepfather and raised him as if he were his natural son. Roxie Ann Jackson Galimore was one-half Seminole on her mother’s side of the family. She owned a two-hundred-acre farm that was rich in oil deposits. By 1949 there were seven to eight pumping oil derricks. Black gold royalties paid for construction of their 20-room house and for Leon’s nanny.
