The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1911-05-03
From The State.


The Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution of Mecklenburg
county, North Carolina, having
set at defiance all authentic re-
cords and admissible evidence as
to the birthplace of Andrew Jack
son and erected a monument on
a spot manufactured into his
birthplace at a comparatively re-
cent date, l suggest that we form
in South Carolina an Andrew
Jackson birthplace association
and mark the spot in Lancaster
county where he was actually
born. A good time to form this
association and start a campaign
for a fund for this monument
would be during the coming meet
ing of the State Press association
in Columbia | ask that all who
are interested in the matter COM
municate with me and before the
day appointed for the meeting
the time and place of the meeting
will be announced. One of the
most distinguished jurists of this
State who has examined the evil
dence in the matter, is an enthu-
slastic advocate of such a memo
rial. and | believe there would be
little trouble in erecting it. 1t
would also meet with the appro-
baton of a number of painstak-
ing students of history outside of
South Carolina who have exam
ined the evidence and are con-
vinced that the North Carolina
claim is founded principally on
the imagination.
Up to 1858 six or seven biog-
raphies of Jackson had been pub
!isbsa -nscat of. then by k1tin,ste
friends of Jackson-and every
cne accredited him to South Car
olina. Besides these. there were
several hundred sketches in news
papers, magazines and encyclo-
paedias and all likewise credited
him to South Carolina. 1t was
not until Is years after his death
that new birthplace was found
for him about three miles from
his actual birthplace.
/ know of seven letters written
by Jackson (six of which have
been published) in all of which
he claimed South Carolina as his
native State, and there are two
documents (the notification"
proclamation and his wild liz
which he made the same claim.
There is also a map upon which
he himself located the spot in
one of the letters, written in an
swer to letter of inquiry as to
the exact place. he stated that it
was on the plantation of his fos-
ter father, Maj Robert Crawford,
in Lancaster district. His state
ment is confirmed by q map Of
Lancaster district in Mills atlas
Of South Carolina That map
was made by j. Boykin, of the
same section, il, 1920, when many
of the older people of the COM
munity were alive. Another may
made in the same year by Eugene
Reilly agrees with that of Boy.
kin. They are all corroborated
by a statement made in 1915 by
Gen. William R. Davie, sometime
governor of North Carolina, who
was nearly II years old when
jackson was born. He stated
positively, in answer to a ques-
ton, that Jackson was born in
the Waxhaw settlement of what
was subsequently Lancaster dis
trict. The rules of evidence per-
NIT a person to testify as to the
place of his, or her birth. but do
not admit hearsay evidence on
that point; therefore, Jackson s
own statements would be admis-
sible in court, and there is no
contradictory evidence that would
be admitted. There can be no
question then but that Jackson q
case has been made by Jackson g
own testimony.
The flimsy evidence upon which
these Mecklenburg daughters
base the claim that Jackson YVES
born at the place which they
have marked is as follows: About
1853 Mr.. Cureton acquired a
farm in Union county. North Car
olina, which was shown by his
muniments of title to have be-
longed to one George McKemey