Jackson an His rT 4 cr TY Y 3 k T L P v 3 w W 4 r s sl sE l E t yA L b i a aM r 1 i ib 4 t L 4 M YX ti 7 f t CLE 4 ft T w k X s std S RACHEl lW jL z JAC i T 1 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON 8 S is a das dav for fur re recalling rei R 7 I calling a famous In 1 u I tight light and arid i q famous Amer JJ 1 lein fighter rile Tle fight V J the he battle hottle of or New w 0 Ork which took tool place on Tan Jn 8 S ind which is s unique In hl history or as us heln being a battle fought after the trial treaty of pence peace end endIng endIng In Ing tile the is war ar had lind been signed The tighter HI Mas as Gen Andrew Andress lack tr l lawyer lawser Lr by bs profession but a 11 II military leader h durIng the war ar with Ith the Creek Creel In Indians and the lie war nr with It II the by tJ Ills his hI follow fellow frontiersmen as ns Old Ills HI I on or orIn on in tribute to the s of his hber is as l a Ii m in in Hi and later tri trl elected liv by them to the 11 as the list fiat e of the new ness in to democracy dl to occupy the lie i bite House after a long lg reign there by hy and Mas aristocrats J Jacl son Is a 1 symbol of so 10 intensely American that In the words of a n recent biographer I be people still delight In the legends leg legends ends of hIs Ills prowess lIro H S of his Ills lurid Ian of hIs Ills Imperious und and dictatorial rial temper As a small boy boyhe boyhe boyhe he cones con reeling Into his hiss history history tory with Ith a saber aber s cut on his trend head and as the sears vear par gather upon him they gleans with steel sted and blood It was wasa wasa us usa a roaring career rebounding resounding to the roars of cheering rIng multitude of mus lUUS of artillery lie was a duelist dueIl t a great and a great Ireat lover loser lie He liea was a tier fler c lut hO and nud loal lo al lIeu lIe He u was tills v rom romantic The picture of red headed Andy Jacl Jackson on the time boy bo and und Old hickory the man mun cutting and slashing clashing hisnay his nay ay ay to power poser PO er a n raucous fell fellow 0 an et explosive e heasy Ii h fellow but withal Ith Ithal al a n mUll man who ho had bail a 11 ode lode and Ih cd up to It Is I too familiar to Amerl Amen 0 cans to necessitate calling It up again on the tyre anniversary annh er ary of ot his Ills great reat vie vietor tor In the light of these character characteristics It Is more Interesting to call up that th other picture of ot him because ot of time the vivid Sidi contrast which It presents presents- the picture of the great reat lover loser llO V as so 80 curiously romantic For or the of ot Andrew Andrus Jackson and his lle be belo cd 10 ed Hachel the woman oman lie he 10 loved to tile the end of ot his Ills di day days s Is one of the most 1 roman romances es In American hiss hl ton tors 1 T he stor story of tills romance goes oes cb b to the scar veir 1779 when Col John Julia Don Donelson elson Ison a is well ell ell to do planter led a n parts part of 00 OO emigrants on a 2 mile trip by bs 11 n from old oldFort oldFort oldFort Fort Henry In 1 ent at 1 Tennessee enne ee near the present city of or Kin to the Middle Ii B I tsin In of or Tennessee Tennes The trip trill was ans a made down doun clo n the upper brunch branch of the ton Holi-ton to tile the Tennessee e riser rh er do down n It Its whole hole length to 10 the Ohio up the Ohio to the Cumberland and thence up tint stream to the bluffs and an v here liere Col James earlier curlier of settlers had stab fished a frontier outpost which was sas to become the city citi of ot 1811 It had taken Donelson i s p four tour months to complete their journey bourne and during that time the had known no II the horrors t of In attak bitter winter Inter eather and ond the f scourge cour e of smallpox Amon time the parts larh wis s Donelson Donellon Don el son s t eh e ert Michel H who ho o de yi rt lr irold J daughter of frontier life life- life the tho h of them grew hem grew ew up or perhaps ucc b womanhood Those who to a n superb never ne In i 1 ness ne Donelson Donel on of ot her beauty her their d diy ty thug sweetness l II ess and ant natural goodness her 5 e Moore T-otwood T ot J J John Jolin arm irro says si 5 3 s a n Ten Tenni lit Ce ee historian lie hie Is de IC scribed as being i a brunette with lon e lon and high coloring blacke black bind ee es that danced and sparkled hn vivacious CJU kindly kind lip lips tint t el e true trul car Dellan a rare wilderness beauty Colonel Donl Donelson on was killed hilled bv by the Indians during the lie e a Irl s veirs e Irs ins of the settlement and aud Ills hits widow moved mosed to toKen Ken There she he ren rented ted a house from another frontier widow v Ido a Mrs Irs Robards whose ho e son I lewis e eis Is wooed and won Richel H Donelson But Hut the marriage mar marriage isms s a n failure from the begIn beginning ning Robards rd was isas as moody tempera temperamental mental and Intense luten cly lous je of ot his wife So Hachel e eventually left him returning to her lIer mother who had bad In Inthe inthe the meantime gone Jone hick bick to Na Ule h to live raced with ith the necessity of making her 0 own n Ih thing living In after her bus hus band s death Mrs Irs Donelson on hid taken takena n a few men boarders into her Ilu home One of them themas was isas a young oung In lawyer Iner r e-r named John Overton who brou brought ht a n reconciliation bet between een Rachel H and Robards who then cime to 11 the e ith his ii wife Ife and her mother brother nother boarder it at the Donelson I home was as a red headed young oung Curo Caro named Andrew Andrt Jackson Jaclson who ho hind had arrived ed In a llIe h In 1788 1753 and b began an the practice of law v jealousy lamed out ind he accused Richel of being In love lose 10 e Jackson The young loung oung hissers 11 Hr s protect t to the when hen he heard the ac cu atlon only m um ide rde matters worse Of e and Robards returned to Kentucky Through 0 erton s Intercession Rachel went lit ther there to live 11 e with him again but finding the situation soon qoon returned resolved ell never nc again to Ih the e with ith Robards Robards then applied to the ture of Irginia since Ince Kentucky was as still a part of that state for a dl di divorce vorce and aud on December 20 MJ 1710 that body paS paS- passed d an nn act permitting him to togo togo go Into court to seek tb a divorce orce from his wife Ife tack Ball to Tenne Tennessee came the report that the dh divorce had been grant grant- granted granted ed ell In the summer of 1701 1791 while Ita Ha Rachel chel was visiting In Natchez Jackson who ho had fillen Alen Illen in love lose 10 e Irr r but hul had not spoken of his 10 lose e while she was still E Robards wife sought her out and they ss were ere mar mar- marred married red ried The swung oun couple soon oon returned to rennes Tennessee le and went ent to 11 the live e at the home Hunters Hunter's Hill which Juch Jackson on now United States attorney and nl al already already ready marked as ns a man who ho would be- be became be become come came ollie famous hid hlll established hed In Nash ash slue lao J 0 years vears ears later and his wife Ire learned rnell that she was not legally l from rolD Robards when hen the marriage mar marriage ceremony In atchez had taken place The mongers and Jack Jach Jackson's Jacksons Jackson's sons son's political enemies became me bu busy 55 th the tale Robards had hud alt salted three years vears eari after filing his first before lIy securing the final decree of or divorce Immediately after afterwards afterwards wards on 17 1791 Jacl Jackson on remarrIed his wife life 1 Then hen he bou bought ht t tiso 0 dueling pistols and Ml ed notice upon his enemies that he would kill 1111 any man ho assailed his sites Ife I name or the purity purit of ot their motives moth es hen hen they v were ue fir first t married rom For a time the tongues ues of hl his one eDe mica were sere silenced Then a as the re re- result Butt sult of a n dl dispute pule over oser 0 pr i m horse IlOre race ayoung a ayoung young oun man maim named Charles Dickinson on ho seems to ha have base e been made the tool of Jackson s a political enemies after a session ses lon of ot y he drinking de- de denounced de de- denounced Jackson Jack on as a coward COard CO ard and a poltroon and added the further insult of declaring that He lIe Ih lived ul two t 0 ears with his Ills wife Ie before he lie was say married to her ter The result was as the now fa mOils minus Dickinson lackson duel In which Dickinson was killed Dickinson Diet Inson fired first t and seriously wounded sounded Jack Jact- Jackson Jackson son LatH Later Jut l Ju Ja on said caid to his sec ec secand second and If If he lie had hall mIs missed d me I l to shoot In the air but when I felt his ball plow my ribs I hn killed him If It he le had hud shot me the heart hurt The Time death deith of Dickinson silenced Jacksons Jackson's enemies for tor a awhile ahUe hUe and he and his wife enjoyed n a period of ot hap happiness happiness at Hunters Hunter's Hill Then he lost the jor ID part of hl Ills Ida estate of ot some fO acres l through h debt but on the part is which filch he lie retained he built hullt a group roUp of or 10 Ing houses house and one frame trume building To the he new estate he save ave I he name of ot The Some Somi Sometime Sometime time liter he built u a handsome hand ome two stor story brick house hou e to sire cire for the Increasing In crewing number of ot guests who v s eu ele coming to visit IsH this rising young iron fron In 1700 he was elected to tc congre congress q ind the following veir e lr he ht an nn appointment to fill a semi In the United States senate not so sc much because c lie he was as him m himself himself self but because he wanted w tell to his bolos belo beloved ed Rachel to i a social position which would show his pride In her WIthin a u year car ho lie resigned re-I re ned served a n short hort time as a judge of the court In Tennessee Tennesee and then hippy h In the thought tint that he lie was as h public life I looked ell forward for ard to tc spending the remainder of his years ears as a gentleman planter at nt The IIer ge But nut the of the ir lr of or called him into service sen Ile again as again as the commander comm of Tennessee Tenne ee to fight the Creek Creel Indians ho had gone on the In January 1814 he lie defeat defeated ell the Creeks In two t pitched battles bittles and ended the war wu In March at the Great Horseshoe hoe I end endon endon on the time n river riser rl er ers As s the result of his Ills splendid campaign he v was as made majot majol general In the regular arm army Then came word that the British wele preparIng to attack New Orleans anti Jacb Jackson con with his small irmy of men there ss on one of the most astounding battles in history defeat history lug Ing s British veterans and Inflicting upon till m a gre greiter gretter loss than Jackson b a own force Tins Tills victory Ictor made malIc him the lie hero ot of the old I rench city and in hi his triumph Jackson red sh lor I or he sent for her hr to come comae to Sess e v Orleans and there this dau daughter of or the frontier won the hearts of the of Louisiana with her naturalness amid hEr lULl luck of or self con consciousness dounes They presented her lier with Ith i m set et of topaz je and und gave Base Ja e a u grind bill 11 In her honor at w the ictor of or V ew Orleans proud proudly led Ild her lier out nut as hIs first choice holce a as a dancing partner L Ly Lv this tills time J chon on hind had become a national figure fIure with Ith the promise e ot of further public honors honor In store for him Ills devoted de des Richel H hoped that lie he return to Tennessee 1 l nl ee and In III the quiet of life at the Hermitage recuperate recuperate ate Ills his lie he which h had lud been 5 shat shattered hat bv bs his Ills arduous campaigns campaign But she soon r re cd lint chit her lier ambition was not to be I leali cd s is time the campaign n of nf 18 1824 1924 4 drew dress near ee was as for her lier t fa son con to be a lie He made malle the race won on the largest t popular cote ote but In the elector il it college John Quines Ad ims uns aided by II Henry Clay as the winner Inner Four years vears Lar later litter another camp sins aJ on and again J Jackson ack on fl was a J an n iho Iha hc camp tin lien of 1828 1823 tt ss m l bitter one and anti once mOl inome e J cL oll enemies unearthed the chare charge f hi hits Judson Jackson t his wrath south until the election was ions use 0 e but he de desired more ardently that e eser eer er to win In so tint that he could v sindicate his hIJ wife Ife by making her lier the I ira ir Lad Lady of the I land hand nil That would ouid be het supreme triumph us 0 over er en those lm spoke Ill III of ot her lier I 1 The he result null n ull c cf f the lie electron was vas a victory for Old hickory hen II the If news ness lime came to tn the age Jackson after much per Iler persuasion ua lon set forth for tor Nashville to tu of 01 obtain tamn a n ard 01 e a In keeping with hem hel hemness helne ness ne station Time Tile honor of being till lie President s wife Ie was as not one whilst laic she had eo coveted eted but her husband hub t Ish was arts tier her law inn and she he planned tt tc him to Washington ashington and share hure In Ills Ids triumph v y bile seated In Hie Etie back parlor of a hotel In rill she he overheard o herself as the woman oman ho was hampering a areat treat reat mans mins m tn's rI rise e to fame tame For or the fir firs time there came carne to her horrified rs e the stories hind had shout about her and which her husband hud hind Succeeded In keeping from her I edge Her lIer f paid faith she hf returned to her lier home looking stunned a few lIa days davs q she suffered n lit start attack from which she he failed taIled to rally She li h hili id td lot lost the desire to live I or hours a heart broken en man st 6 nt at her lier led bedside helpless to aid hu hr Then she he died and with her died al 11 happiness for Andrew Jackson a 1930 1120 ii tern l