Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson
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Elizabeth Hutchison Jackson (c. 1740 – November 2, 1781, Charleston, South Carolina) was the mother of US President Andrew Jackson. She was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland of Scottish Presbyterian ancestry as was her husband, Andrew Jackson, whom she married in Carrickfergus about 1765.[1]
[edit] Children
- Hugh Jackson (1765-1779), died at the Battle of Stono Ferry
- Robert Jackson (1766-1781), died of smallpox during the American Revolution
- Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)
An indomitable woman from whom Andrew Jackson inherited his reddish hair and blue eyes, she attempted to raise her three fatherless boys amid the hardships of the American Revolution. After seeing son Andrew through a near-fatal case of smallpox, she went to Charleston to help nurse captured American soldiers languishing on British prisoner-of-war ships. There she contracted cholera and died when the future president was 14-years-old. Some accounts have her being accused of being an American spy and hung by the British on the site of The College of Charleston.
[edit] Sources
- "Report on Andrew Jackson's Genealogy". The Hermitage. http://www.thehermitage.com/images/stories/geneology_report.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-02-24.
- Cyrus Hutchinson given in Burkes Presidential Families of The United States of America, Burkes Peerage Limited 1975 edition.
- American Presidential Families, By Hugh Brogan & Charles Moseley. MacMillian New York,1993 792 pages.
- Tour guide, on bicycle, at The College of Charleston, circa August 2008
[edit] References
- ^ Benton Rain Patterson. "The Generals: Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Pakenham, and the Road to the Battle of New Orleans". NYU Press. http://www.nyupress.org/webchapters/0814767176chapt1.pdf.
