Jackson Curtis Sledge

A long-time Smith County Emergency Medical Technician, Mr. Jackson Curtis Sledge age 37 of the Pleasant Shade Community, was pronounced deceased at 10:43 a.m. Monday morning October 13, 2025. He was discovered deceased earlier that morning by his wife of just over ten years.
A memorial service to Celebrate his Life will be conducted Friday afternoon October 17th at 3 p.m. from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Family members and friends will deliver the eulogies. Burial will be private for the family at the Pleasant Shade Cemetery.
The Sledge family will receive friends at Sanderson in Carthage only on Friday October 17th from 1 p.m. until the Celebration of Life at 3 p.m.
He was born in Nashville on November 3, 1987 and was one of two children, a son and a daughter, of Milton Sledge and Vickie Sledge of Gallatin.
Mr. Sledge was a 2006 graduate of Friendship Christian School and continued his education at Hiwassee Junior College in Madisonville, Tennessee where he was a baseball athlete for the College.
He later received his Emergency Medical Technician degree from Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville and had later obtained his E.M.T.-Advanced rating.
For fifteen years he had practiced his chosen profession most recently serving with Ameri-Med Ambulance Service.
At the Carver Barn in the Defeated Creek Community on October 3, 2015, Mr. Sledge was united in marriage to Pleasant Shade Community native, the former Marah Renee' Gregory.
An avid sports fan, his favorite football team was the University of Alabama Crimson Tide.
Mr. Sledge was a Christian and believed in gods mercy and saving grace.
Surviving in addition to his parents and his wife Marah are their two children, Raylan Curtis Sledge and Tillie James Sledge, both of the home; sister, Layla Sledge Fox and husband Jason of Lebanon and their children, Jaden Hinchman, and her daughter Aubrie, Liam, and Clementine Fox; mother-in-law & father-in-law, Jazanne Wilmore Gregory and Ray Gegory of the Pleasant Shade Community; maternal grandmother, Marvalene Wright of Athens, Alabama.
The family has requested memorials to either Marah for the Childrens Education Fund, The Tennessee First Responders Foundation or https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-raylan-and-tillies-educataion-fund.