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- "Andrew Jackson died in the early Spring of 1767, and shortly afterwards his widow, Mrs. Jackson, expecting a baby, took her two young sons and traveled to her community of relatives. According to the affidavits of "The Walkup Papers", she stopped at her sisters house, Mrs. George McCamie, whose house would have been the first household of her kin on her route traveling south from her farm on Twelve Mile Creek, and there in the night of March 15, 1767, she gave birth to Andrew Jackson, Jr., the 7th President of the United States." from Lessley Family Records by Samuel B. Lessley.
"Elizabeth Hutchinson was short, plump, blue-eyes and red-headed. She also is credited with having boundless energy, rare native intelligence, courage, determination and "spunk". Widowed early and with the loss of two sons in the War, would have been too much for some women. Not so with her. It did not deter her from a final act of courage and service. She traveled to Charleston and helped nurse Revolutionary War soldiers who were sick. She caught the plague and succumbed to it on an unrecorded day in November 1781. She is buried somewhere northwest of Charleston in an unmarked grave, along with other victims. From Early Leslies in York County, SC by Vice Admiral Marion Emerson Murphy.
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