The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-04-27
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

SSN sVE/ Oh our OOuSTeSSlOlHl RECORD, anu
-|S%T8T desire to contrOvert that proposition
" ~ and once for all place before the
" Congress and the country the evil
y dence to the birthplace of Andrew
Jackson
The speaker was Representative William f.
Stevenson of South Carolina. He was speaking In
the national house of representatives at Washing
ton. In short the old, old controversy over the
birthplace of Andrew Jackson has been set going
again. OF course every good American knows
or should knOw-all about Andrew jackson Q767-
lS43)-eXcept, perhaps the place of his birth.
Andrew Jackson after service In the Revolu-
uon and wild youth on the frontier, became
lawyer He served in the national house and SEN
ate. He defeated the Creeks and Seminoles His
uefeat OF the British at New Orleans in the War
OF lSl2 Is one of the great battles of history He
was the first American governor Of Florida QS2I.
he was the seventh president Of the United
otates. His firm stand against notification In
South Carolina is history. He died at THE Hermit
tage, Nashville, Tenn. "Old Hickory" is one
OF the popular figures of our history
The Andrew Jackson controversy seems to have
been sort of double-barreled dispute First
there was a controversy over the house In which
he was born-the Mckinney house or the Craw.
ford house That was apparently settled i'm favor
OF the Crawford house. Then the question was.
Was the Crawford house in North Carolina or
South Carolina?
As to the first controversy: Andrew jackson
ST., had land on Twelve Mile creek This land
was-Or is now-in North Carolina very close
to the present North Carona-South Carolina
state line. When Andrew Jackson, ST. died he
was buried in graveyard near by From the
funeral Mrs. Jackson went either to the home of
her sister, Mrs. James Crawford or to that of
another sister, Mrs George Mckinney The two
homes are only few miles apart, but the Craw-
ford place is now in South Carolina and the Nc
Kemey place is now in North Carolina.
One story had it that Mrs. Jackson, starting for
the Crawford place, stopped on the way at the
Mckinney place, where Andrew was born and
then went on to the Crawford place. where she
took up residence. The other story had It that
Mrs Jackson went directly to the Crawford place
and that Andrew born there.
The historians made q great ado about the
question of Andrew JackSon's birth-whether IL
at the Crawford place or at the Mckinney
place. 1t was finally settled-at least to the sat-
isfaction Of most people-in favor Of the Craw-
ford place
Later a new controversy broke out This time
II the question Of the location Of the
Crawford place-was it in North Carolina In
South Carolina?
Though this controversy died out there Is
curious conflict of opinion to this day. From
the debate In the house it appears that most Of
the encyclopedias of the present day say he was
born In North Carolina The histories differ on
tne point. Recently monument was erected In
North Carolina a spot stated to be his BIRTH
place.
1t appears that in 1867, when Andrew Jack.
son was born, the line between the two states In
the vicinity of the Crawford plantation was I'm
dispute and had not been legally settled Accord.
ing to Mr. Stevenson the eght-mile line between
the rock corner on Waxhow creek to the Gum tree
corner Twelve Mile creek was in dispute be-
ginning with 1865. He said in his address,
'The State of South Carolina claimed that II
a straight line and the State of North Car.
olina claimed that it followed the road and all
the maps, as 1 will show you by of them pres.
emily, carried 1t by the public road, which threw
the James Crawford grant of land largely into
North Carolina. Meanwhile the Crawfords were
granted tract of land by South Carolina and the
same tract of land granted by North Carolina
to Gen. Andrew Pickens, that being the place on
which General Jackson was born. So that from
1765 until an agreement was reached in 1915 the
Crawford land on which Jackson was born, &C.
cording to one claim in North Carolina and
according to another I'm South Carolina and
the map showed the Carolina road as the dividing
line, and that threw the Crawford land largely
into North Carolina, though the Crawford house
was In South Carolina. Therefore, while the claim
was set up that Jackson was born In North Car
ona, It was well established and everybody adj
mtted that he was born on the Crawford plnnta.
tion. There was no dispute about that. The dis
pute was whether the Crawford place was In
North South Carolina"
Now, Of course you've heard that famous story
about what the governor Of North Carolina said
to the governor of South Carolina But dollars To
doughnuts you don't know what made them so dry
Well, here's all about 1t, on the word Of Mr..
Stevenson:
Now, in 1913 the two States reached an agree.
ment and sent a commission to settle that line
and extended the northern line, which had only
been run about to TryOn, and ran it out to the
Georgia line That commission worked two years
They adopted the straight line from the stone at
Waxhaw Creek to Gum at Twelve Mile Creek
which put the Crawford plantation In South Car
olina and established the Crawford land as Craw-
ford's and not as Pickens' That was ratified at