Photo: Here lie Remains of Mrs. Rachel Jackson wife of President Jackson who died the 22n Dec 1828- age 61.

Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: September 25, 2010
Caption: Here lie Remains of Mrs. Rachel Jackson wife of President Jackson who died the 22n Dec 1828- age 61.
Additional Description: The exact cause of Rachel’s death is not known, but evidence points to heart failure. After Rachel died, Jackson hired Louisa Catherine Strobel to paint this miniature of her. Jackson carried it with him all the time.

This moving inscription Jackson placed on Rachel’s tomb highlights his sensitivity towards questions about her honor. It shown here as it appears on the tomb.

Here lie Remains of Mrs. Rachel Jackson wife of President Jackson who died the 22nd Dec 1828- Aged 61

Her face was fair, her person pleasing: her temper amiable, and her heart kind; she delighted in relieving the wants of her fellow creatures and cultivated that divine pleasure by the most liberal and unpretending methods: to the poor she was a benefactor; to the rich an example; to the wretched a comforter, to the prosperous an ornament, her piety went hand in hand with her benevolence, and she thanked her creator for being permitted to do good. A being so gentle, and yet so vituous, slander might wound but could not dishonor; Even death, when he tore her from the armes of her husband, could but transport her to the bosom of her God.
Submitted: February 8, 2012, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p191989
File Size: 0.278 Megabytes

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