A soldier from Clinton County was among the nine U.S. military personnel killed in action Tuesday, according to numerous non-official sources.

The Department of Defense had not yet named the soldiers who died, but Bailey and Cox Funeral Home in Lathrop will handle arrangements for Issac Jackson, 27, a U.S. Army infantryman from Lathrop and Plattsburg, Mo.

Lathrop High School principal Stan Elliott said family members contacted him about holding Mr. Jackson's funeral at the school, though no time or date will be set until they claimed the soldier's remains from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

Family members contacted friends Tuesday night, who spread word across social networking Web sites by morning. It is widely believed Mr. Jackson was one of eight unnamed soldiers who died when improvised explosive devices (IEDs) detonated near their vehicles while on patrol in Afghanistan by the Pakistan border.

The Defense Department confirmed eight deaths Tuesday from IEDs in Afghanistan's Kandahar province and a ninth death in Baghdad, Iraq. A spokesperson from the Defense Department would not confirm if Mr. Jackson was among the dead or where he was stationed. A public affairs officer from Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Wash. - the home base for Mr. Jackson's unit, the 5th Stryker Brigade - said the Army deployed that unit's soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, when asked about Mr. Jackson, the officer referred to complications with notifying next-of-kin in incidents where "multiple soldiers" were killed.

Mr. Jackson grew up in Plattsburg, where he attended school through seventh grade. He moved to Lathrop the following year and graduated from high school in 2001.

Mr. Jackson joined the military after high school and was stationed at Fort Drum in New York before he deployed for his first tour in Afghanistan. The Mountaineer, Fort Drum's official military newspaper, interviewed Mr. Jackson in 2006 for a story about his platoon's heroics in the mountains of northern Afghanistan. Mr. Jackson told the paper about a fellow soldier who fell off a 30-foot cliff and broke his rifle, then limped through the rest of the patrol armed solely with a 9 mm pistol. The platoon climbed through mountain wilderness for 115 days with just one brief stop to resupply, encountering enemy fire roughly every other day.

After returning from his first tour, Mr. Jackson eventually transferred to Fort Lewis. Mr. Jackson and his wife, Kristen, recently purchased a house in Lathrop. The couple has a son, Enoch, and expects a daughter in December.

Clinton Thomas can be reached at clintonthomas@npgco.com.