The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-24
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Ms. a acfel jackson Lawrence TO Wis
the ST.. LOUIS Fair.
ie state Building Of Tennessee in
b s. louis Worlds Fair Exposition
5sviiI H. al reDTod ucrion Of the Hermit
and great eorlraoner Jackson. It will
aheS fnrll hea with the identical furni-
ture, IL an gings and portraits once the
Iashpuse ho1d goods OF General Jackson,
and nov IN TT q castodyaof the Ladies
He naitage Association, which pre-
serves and Oh es over the historic
d,
Most b aas. Ing al al Of the tncount-
Sed tho sands of exposition visitors
IssaiI he presence, as the hostess of
hui dfng General Jackson's
Grand daughter, Mrs. Rachel Jackson
SSLaWrence. of Nashville. Owing to her
S'17I years and their burden of feeble
mess; III Is. - ackson viii be charged
agv Hi $none of5 the manual duties of the
once FER place will be to preside
over the house merely and welcome
visitors, as She did to the real Hermit
;a1age. sa hen IT was her home in the
" days of her youth and beauty. An
other custodian, a younger woman
drawn from later generation, win
pert i, u clerical work.
S3s55 Trs. Lawrence is really the great
#nieceSof General Jackson, as his union
son. IS t1nblessed with children, but
#her father Andrew J ackscn. Jr., who
twas general Jackson'S nephew, was
n also his adopted son, and was taken by
HE hero Of. New Orleans when he was
anl threeHdays old to the hermitage,
here he afterWard lived until the
Il house was sold to the State in 1856.
A Sty picalS grande5 dame of the Old
school N is Mrs. Lawrence, and capa-
sSbis 81 creating IN any environment
social atmosph ere which is delightful.
life has been full of events. She
was as baby Of the White House, al
Illlotlg III born at the historic Hermitage,
sI y miles from Nashville on November
$50 ~ (. but when only two months
s$oId was taken by her parents on the
long overland Journey to Washington,
General Jackson having become i'm
pa1ientsforth the presence Of his son and
8daughtef and t e baby of whom he
wrote at her birth that he accepted
sIts rom Providence as the lzindest
s:sbIess Two months they were on
trip. but the baby survived it and
suuicllv became General Jackson's de-
III ghts When he took his trip to Wash
ing ton 10 be inaugurated President Of
the United States he left behind him
M u garden grave, the body of his
3ifEssife. i3
The baby received her name
aIsacheI, another tie to bind her and
her grandfather in closer union. She
remembers distinctly incidents OF her
the White House, although she
Twas only six years old when General
SJackson's terms of office ended and
the family returned to Tennessee.
From til en- until his death when she
sWas i s. she became her distinguished
grandfather's inseparable companion,
$$ssii ling before him on pillow on his
horse, Sam Patch, every morning and
ssSafternoon around his plantation and
ss3snl ating on the Old fashioned settee in
@fIis Bedroom as he sat before the por-
Etrait$sof his beloved wife and read and
wrote
the Hermitage in st. Louis, over
which she is again called to preside,
THE same room Will be. reproduced,
The same furniture used by General
]. Jackson, the bed On which he died, and
sstlae$s ettee on which the little girl once
99played wi IL all be there.
Mrs. Lawrence's marriage to an EN-,
sinent physician took place in the great
aSdoEbIe par1ors q the Hermitage, and
here She celebrated her silver. we'd
ssss ing anniversary, although she had
II Then removed to her own home,
ggsearcely a mile. away, where she now
Hsresities, the most distinguished and
aShonored figure in the neighborhood
which her ancestors made historic.
:ssssk her life she has lived in sight OF
the Hermitage. For many years she
as been a widow, living in queenly
STaEtrement until called by the imam
ssirlolls request of the State to grace
with her presence the State home al
ssthe st. Louis Fair.
Many historic treasures has Mrs.
s$Iaawrence, but there are three which