The Ohio union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1849-1854, 1853-09-21
5rlrtt MisrrIIanll.
"REMINISCENCES OF
PRESIDENT JACKSON.

10 The Editors of Tie EUsning Post:
Sirs: The following paragraph has
been going the rounds Of the public jour.
nails:
JAcEsoN's EPITApH on HIS WIFE,
Tie Richmond Enquirer Sys:
"a lady in the west has been kind
enough to send US copy Of Andrew
Jackson's epiloph on his wife. 1t is
known to have been his own composition,
yet, although i, has been read by thou.
sands on her tomb in Tennessee, it has
never appeared in print before. This sin
gular inscription runs thus:
Here lie the remains Of Mrs Rachel Jackson, wife
Of President Jackson, who died on the I'D Of Decem.
ber, l6.e, aged Gl Her face was fair. heI person
pleasing, her temper amiabie, aud her heart kind.-
She delighted in relieving the wants Of Der fellow.
creatures, aud cultivated that divine pleasure by the
most liberal and urprcicudng methods. To the poor
she was hene laCtess; to the ich she was an exam.
pie; to the wTetchcda cOmlUreri 10 the prosperous
an mt. Her pely went baud in hand with her
benevulenct; and she thanked her Creator for being
permitted to do good being 50 gOud aud yet 50
yrtuUue. sander might wound but could not dish n.
or. Even death. when 1t tore her from The arms Of
her husband could but transplant her to The bosom OF
her God"
This revived, for the one hundredh
time, or more, long entertained intention,
which now at length engage in fulfilling
party, at ! aa-ly committing 10 pa.
per some incidents which, as regard the
point of character in respect 10 which he
was most misunderstood, afford just con.
cepion Of what Andrew jackson truly was,
not fiiulIy or exceptionally, but haJiu,IIy
and regularly.
Shortly after becoming his private Sc.
crelary (al the period Of the dissolution of
his first eabinel) accompanied him from
Washington 10 The rip Raps." an arIili.
cial mound of stone, termed in The Chpsa,
pcake Bay, opposite 10 Point Comfort, as
The foundation for Ca NE Calhoun, one Of
the deieucrs oi those waters, then in the
process o. erection.
There. amid the sounding surges, in one
Of the temporary buildings provided lor
officers quarters, he took up his abode lol
the few weeks he could devote 10 the in.
vigorarion Of his health.
One evening after | had parted with hin
for The night, revolving over the directions
he had gwen about some letters was tt
prepare, one point occurred, on which
was not perfectly satisfied as to what thos,
directions had been. As the letters wert
to be senI or early next morning, | re-
turned to his chamber door, and tap
ping gently, in order no, to wake him
il lie had got to sleep, my tap wars an
swered by "come in"
lie was undressed, but not YET in bed
as | had supposed he must be by lhi
time. lie was sitting at the little table
with his wiie's miniaure--a very largO
one, then for the first time seen by me
he(ure him--propped up against somt
books; and between him and The picur
lay an open book, which bore the mark
Of long use.
THIS boob, as afterwards learned, wa
her Prayer Book. The miniature he al
ways wore next to his heart, suspended
round his neck BY strong black cord
The las, thing he did, every night, belor