Iowa birth records show a son, Michael Leon Jackson, born July 20, 1943 in Marshalltown, Marshall County, Iowa to father Roy Q. Jackson and mother Evelyn Irene Davis. The 1950 census shows a son named Michael L. living with Freeman and Eveyln Buchwald, but later records show the child under the name Miclael L. Jackson. No marriage record for Roy and Evelyn found.