Brief Life History of Andrew
When Col Andrew Jackson III was born on 4 April 1834, in Hermitage, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Andrew Jackson Jr, was 25 and his mother, Sarah Yorke, was 30. He married Julia A Jackson on 18 October 1857, in Owen, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Davidson, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 17 December 1906, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Hermitage, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States.
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- A Jackson in household of Andrew Jackson, "United States Census, 1850"
- Andrew Jackson, "Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Andrew Jackson, "Find A Grave Index"
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1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from Jack . In North America, this surname has absorbed other patronymics beginning with J- in various European languages, in particular those derived from equivalents or short forms and other derivatives of the personal name Jacob , e.g. Norwegian Jacobsen or Jakobsen and, in some cases, Slovenian Jakše (from a derivative of the personal name Jakob ). This surname is also very common among African Americans (see also 2 below).
African American: from the personal name Jackson (or Andrew Jackson), adopted in honor of Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the US; or adoption of the surname in 1 above, in many cases probably for the same reason.
History: This extremely common British name was brought over by numerous different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One forebear was the father and namesake of the seventh US president, Andrew Jackson, who migrated to SC from Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland in 1765. The Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson came from VA, where his great-grandfather John, likewise of Scotch–Irish stock, had settled after emigrating to America in 1748.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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