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ELIZABETH HUTCHINSON JACKSON

 

Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson (c. 1740-1782), the Antrim-born mother of the future

President Andrew Jackson , died of cholera while tending wounded on a hospital ship in

Charleston Harbor in 1782. She is buried in an unrecorded grave in the Charleston

Neck area. Elizabeth had already nursed her other sons, the 13-year-old Andrew and

his brother Robert, to health at their upstate S.C. home after their early militia service,

which also cost her the life of her eldest son Hugh (her husband and sister had died of

illness in the same period). Her home-schooled son went on to military fame in the Indian

Wars and the War of 1812 and to political victory as President of the United States

(1829-1837).