Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson

Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson. . , Mother of Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States; was born ca. 1737 in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland, a daughter of Francis Cyrus Hobart Hutchinson and Margaret Lisle Hutchinson, linen weavers and drapers; married ca. 1760 fellow Ulster Scot, Andrew Jackson (1730-1767), with whom she immigrated to America in 1765, settling in the North Carolina Waxhaws region. After her husband's unexpected death and burial at Waxhaw Meeting House in February 1767, she moved her family to the home of her brother-in-law, James Crawford, in South Carolina, where she gave birth on March 15, 1767, to Andrew Jackson, Jr., who became a military hero of the War of 18 12, a prominent lawyer, judge, and politician in Tennessee, and twice-elected President of the United States, serving from 1829-1837. In the American Revolution, she lost sons Hugh in battle in 1779, and Robert from smallpox in 1781, but nursed Andrew back to health from smallpox and wounds received at the hands of British officer for refusal to clean his boots. Learning of her Crawford nephews illness aboard a prison ship in Charleston harbor, she traveled there to provide aid; however, while visiting William and Agnes Barton just north of the city gates, was taken ill with cholera (ship fever) and died in November 1781, being buried in a nearby unmarked grave. A devout Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, she lived a life devoted to her faith, family, hard and honest work, and, without regard for her own life, the aid of those suffering illness. She was a true heroine of the American Revolution.