The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-03-12
BIRTH PLACE OF ANDREW JACKSON.

Tho Strange Storios Told about Old Hickory
--He Had kinfoks in Spartanhuro County.
Maj VIM. Hoy in The Spartan,
For several years l have been seeing
erroneous statements In regard to the
place OF Con. Andrew Jackson's natiy-
ity. Tho latest that | have seen was
IN the Atlanta Almanac for the year
| lo96, stating that he was born In Union
county, N. G., and his mother was q
Hutchinson. | corrected that mistake
forty years ago. He was born in one
quarter Of mile Of Waxhaw meeting
| house c(t'resbytorian), Lancaster county,
5. Z. Ills mothers maiden name was
Crawford, closely related to tho Craw-
| lord's OF the Tigers, as will be seen
further on. Sometime between 1885
and 100, several members Of the Wax
| haw church moved to Ben's creek, in
| cluding the MOoros, Haddens, McCords,
Coons and Weeks. The Moore and
Hadden children went to school where
Gen. Jackson did, and their parents
wherc Mrs. Jackson's g nom bership was.
My mother was q Hndden and went to
the samo school. Her fathers resi-
dcncc was only one-quarter Of mile
from Mrs. Jackson's. Eaton's "Lifo of
jackson" says his mother was Craw-
ford and that he was born ut Waxhaw,
Lancaster county, S. @. That was the
first life of Jackson written. I have
seen it hundreds OF times stated in
that book. Eaton was afterwards C.
member of Jackson's cabinet. jack
sons proclamation against nullitica-
tion calls South Carolina his native
State. His mother diod after he had
cntorcd his teens, and she had, no
doubt made him aware OF hor maiden
namc and tho place OF hor nativity.
I have stated I would show tho rela-
tionship between tho Tiger Crawfords
and Cen. Jackson. In 1860 l was in
| troduccd to an old gentleman by the
| name Of Crawford, u native of Abbe-
Vile, S. G. He told me ho was q
nephew OF Patrick Crawford, who was
killed by mistake OF two whig parties
meeting on tho waters Of tho Tygers
and firing at each other before the mis-
take was found out. He was then q
mo homo with him aud he told mo he
could show me, in Con. Jackson's own
handwriting, Il statement making
himself and Patrick Crawford first
cousins. l was sorry could not accept
tho invitation. When I got home 1
found tho sonior members OF tho Craw-
ford CONNECTIONS knew it, but knowing
they might be criticised had never
said anything about it. I hope, Mr..
Editor, that the South Carolina histo.
ran will sec that this is placed in It's
proper place. The changing his moth
or's name from Crawford to Hutchison
shows something wrong, or that the
| North Carolina claim to the honor Of
his birth is groundless. This North
Carolina claim is nothing new to me.
! know the parties that gave that in
formation. The same parties gave tho
information that Jackson could hardly
read or write and was saddler by
trade. A Bishop Potter used some OF
that information in centennial ad-
dross and got himself compared to q
certain long animal by Dana, OF
the New York Sun, and quoted Living
ston's speech in the United States Som
ato in 1926, to show Jackson was tho
best qualified by education and admin
strative ability to bo the President Of
tho United States. Livingston was
the head Of Jackson's brilliant staff at
New Orleans and afterwards his Pre-
mier, and had the reputation Of boing
tho best lawyer in the United States.