Thursday, November 2, 2023

Elizabeth Jackson Memorial

Lancaster County, The Waxhaws, SC  2023

This memorial was erected to remember Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, the mother of Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States.  She is flanked by the graves of two of her sons,  Robert and Hugh, both who fought and died in the Revolutionary War.  Elizabeth contracted small pox while aiding Waxhaw patriots near Charleston SC and died November 1781.  She is buried somewhere near Charleston, but the location of her grave has been lost to time.  


 

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