The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-18
JACKSON'S BIRTHPLACE.
The Place i'm Union County Ought to
be Marked.

Esq. C. C. McIlwain has been con
tributing some historic articles to
the Waxhaw Enterprise on the Wax
haw settlement in Jackson township.
His last article tells of the birth OF
Andrew Jackson, and we reproduce
below that part of his narrative that
refers to the President that was born
in Union county:
I'VE pass the Cureton quarter and
cross a branch, then move through
a country once settled by the Scotch
Irish Among these were the Nc
Comans, McWhorters and Leslies.
Then we come to an old house place.
w. j. Cureton, John Porter, ST., and
Benjamin Massey tell us that George
McCamie once lived there. McCamle
got the land from Repentance Town
send, January 3, 1902, and sold it TO
Thomas Crawford, and from Crawford
it was sold to Jeremiah Cureton, ami
from Cureton to his son, w. j. Cure
ton, and from his estate to j. l.. Rod
man.
History tells us that on the nigh:
of March Is, 1867, Andrew Jackson.
Jr., the seventh president of the United
States, was born al this spot. His
grandfather lost his life at the siege
of Carafancus in the north of Ireland.
His father emigrated to America,
landed at Charleston and settled in the
Waxhaws, then moved near Pleasant
Grove camp ground, in North Caro-
lima and died there Mrs. Bette Jack
son. his widow. and two sons. Hugh
and Robert were left alone. The body
of Andrew Jackson. ST.. was hauled
on a sled to old Waxhaw church, in
South Carolina. and buried there.
MRS. Jackson, like Naomi of old.
turned her face toward Bethlehem.
which, to her was the Waxhaw set
a. n. - l..
home. She had four sisters living
down there. One of them married
George McCamie and one married
Major Crawford, and as she journeyed
back to her sister, Mrs. Crawford, in
South Carolina. for that was where
she intended going, she concluded to
stop with Mrs. McCamie and spend the
night, which was quite natural, for in
those days there were no buggies.
"She rode horseback or In a wagon,
and being in a delicate state, she
needed rest. Some time during that
night Andrew Jackson was born. for
Sarah Leslie, Sarah Latham and Eliza-
beth McWhorter We're sent for and
We're present at the birth. Four weeks
after the birth of her child Mrs. Jack
son finished her journey to Major
CrawfOrd's. a mile and half south
of McCamie's. and in South Carolina.
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and Company.
Mrs. Jackson intended her son
for the ministry. He went to old
Waxhaw Academy to school. 1t was
the only classical school in the coun-
try, and was located near old Wax
haw church. The preceptor was a
Mr.. Hampshire and here Andrew at
tended school until the revolution
broke out. All of Mrs. Jackson's sons
enlisted in the Continental army.
Hugh was taken prisoner at Charles
ton. Robert and Andrew were taken
prisoners at Waxhaw church by Ma
jor Coffin. Mrs. Jackson refugeed to
a Mrs. Wilson'S few miles north of
Charlotte. and attended preaching at
the old log church at Sugar Creek,
and after CORVALLIS recrossed the Ca
tawba at Landsford she returned to
her old home and went to see her son,
Huoh on n prison ship in Charleston
harbor. and died on her wav home.
Robert died from sabre wound
he received from a British soldier
on the head. Poor Andrew left alone
without a friend or a dollar in the
world. drifted to Salisbury. N. c.. and
took his seat on a harness makers
bench. And when / get time we viii
see him removed from that bench to
the presidential chair. South Caro-
lima has made some feeble efforts to
claim his nativity. but there is no
foundation to it,
"Mr. j. l.. Rodman now owns the
Andrew Jackson birthplace. and saws
he will give the Daughters of the
Revolution a good title to an acre Of
and supplied in Christ" by w. r. Gull