The Idaho recorder., 1922-04-21

u AN nhd once Tor all place before the
W Congress and the country the evil
~ dence as to the birthplace of Andrew
Jackson
The speaker was Representative William r.
stevenson Of South Carolina. lie was speaking in
the national house of representatives al Washing.
Ton IN short the old, old controversy over the
birthplace OF Andrew Jackson has been set going
again. or course every good American knows
or should know-ali about Andrew Jackson u767.
isfo)-cxcept perhaps the place of his birth
Andrew Jackson, after service In the Reyolu.
tloh ana Wild youth the frontier becntne 81
'h"yer. He served in the national house and sen.
ute lie defeated the Creeks and Seminoles uis
defeat of the British at New orleans in the War
ot iSla Is one of the great battles OF history He
was The FIRST American governor of Florida us2D
lie was the seventh president of the United
states, His hrm stand against notification I'm
south Carolina Is history. He died at "rhe Herml.
thge, Nashville, Tenn. "Old Hickory" Ia one
OF the popular figures of history
Inc Andrew Jackson controversy seems to have
peeh sort OF double barreed dispute First
."ere was controversy over the house In which
he was born-the McKemey house or the Cray
iord house. That was apparently settled I'm favor
or the Crawford house. Then the ouestio, ,yos
Was the Crawford house In North Carol,n, or
South Cnrolinnf
As TO the first controversy: Andrew jackson
sr. had land on Twelve Mile creek This lond
wns~or Is now-in North Carolina very close
To the present North CnrolIna-South C'oroIln.
state line. When Andrew Jackson Sr died no
was buried In graveyard near by From the
ihhern' Mrs Jackson went either TO the home OF
her sister, Mrs Jumes Crawford or To thar OF
another sister. Mrs George McKemey The two
homes ARE only few miles apart but the Craw.
iord place is now IN South Carolina and the Me
kemey place Is now In North Carolina
One story had It that Mrs, Jackson, starting for
me crawford place stopped on the way at the
Mckemey place where Andrew was born and
then went ON tn the Crawford place where she
took up residence, The other story had It that
Mrs, Jackson went directly to the Crawford place
aud that Andrew was born there
The historians mnde great ado about the
question of Andrew Jackson's blrth--whether Il
was ut the Crawford place or at the McKemey
place. II was finally settled-nt least To the sat
sfactlon OF most peopleip favor of the Craw-
ford plnee.
Later new controversy broke out This time
II was over the question of the location OF the
Crawford place--was 1t In North Carolina or In
South Carollnap
Though this controversy died out there Is a
curious conflict of opinion even To this day From
the debate tn the house II appears that most OF
the encyclopedias OF the present day say he was
born In North Carolina. The histories differ on
the point Recently monument was erected In
North Carolina over u spot stated to be his birth
place.
son was born, the line between the two states In
the vicinity Of the Crawford plantation wns In
dispute and had not been legally settled Accord
Ing to Mr.. Stevenson the eight-mile line between
the rock corner Waxhow creek To the Gum tree
corner Twelve Mile creek In dispute be-
ginning with 1865. lie said In his address:
THE state OF South Carolina claimed that II
was a straight line and the state of North Car.
olma claimed that 1t followed the road. and all
the maps. as viii show you by one of them pres,
entity, carried II hy the public road which threw
the James Crawford grant of land largely into
North Carolina. Meanwhile the CrawforJs were
granted a tract OF land by South Carolina. and the
same tract OF land granted 10y North Carolina
To- Gen. Andrew Pickcns, that being the place on
Which General Jackson was born. So that from
1895 until AN agreement reached in 1918 the
Crawford land which Jackson born az
cordng 10 one claim was In North Carolina aud
according To another was In South Carolina and
the map showed the Carolina read rs the dividing
line and that threw the Crawford land largel,
into North Carolina, though the Crawford house
wns In South Cnrolina Therefore. while the claiu
was set up that Jackson VAS born In North Car
,iina II vas well established and everybody ad
rittcd that he was born on the Crawford p,anta
tlon. There no dispute about that The dis
pute was whether the Crawford place was II
North or South Carolina"
Now of course you've heard that famous stor,
about what the governor ~ North Carolina sat,
10 the governor of South Carolina. Hut dollars &
doughnuts YOU don't know what made them 81 dry
Well. here's all about it. the word OF MI
stevenson.
Now. In 1913 the two states reached an agree
nent and sent a commission to settle that lin,
and extended the northern line which had onl
been run about to Tryon aud II out To III
Georgia line. That commission worked two year,
They adopted the straight line from the stone a
Waxhrw Creek 10 Gum Twelve Mile Crerl
which put the Crawford plantation In South Cal
0lina and established the Crawford land CraN
fords aud not Pickeus' That ratified Il