Tito Jackson finally found the peace he was looking for in Claremore, Oklahoma. At 70, the member of the iconic band The Jackson 5 — which over the years included his brothers Michael, Jermaine, Jackie, Randy and Marlon — kept looking for silence away from the tours and attention his family still attracts to this day. Earlier this year, Tito found that place in a house in the Claremore countryside, where he likes to sit on his patio and enjoy nature, far away from the stages and without the screams and cameras he's heard and seen all his life.
“I always wanted to get away from the West Coast and experience living somewhere with new people and new culture,” Tito told the Tulsa World. “California is," he said before taking a long pause, "different.” “I always wanted to get away from the West Coast and experience living somewhere with new people and new culture,” Tito Jackson told the Tulsa World.
He recently shared his story at a Juneteenth event at the Claremore Museum of History. His choice to be one of the 20,174 people living in Claremore is not random. His agent and some of his closest friends live in Tulsa.
He wanted to spend more time with them. But what many might not know is that his connection to Oklahoma runs much deeper. Tito’s uncle, Samuel Jackson, opened Jackson Undertaking Co.
in Tulsa in 1917. It was located at 617 E. Archer St.
On the evening of May 31, 1921, it was burned down during the Tulsa Race Massacre. Samuel Jackson was hired by a whi.
