Rachel and Andrew Jackson: A Love Story
Nashville Early 1800s
Donelson Family
Rachel's First Marriage and Divorce
Rachel and Andrew
Campaign of 1828
Rachel's Death
Nashville Public Television
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Presidential Years / Death
1824 March 4 Jackson nominated for president
1825 February 9 John Quincy AdamsHouse of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president
  April Jacksons returned to Tennessee
  May 5 The Marquis de Lafayette visited the Hermitage
1826 December Nashville Central Committee began collecting affidavits concerning marriage of Rachel and Jackson
1827 June Nashville Central Committee completed report on marriage
1828 January 8 Attended New Orleans anniversary celebration in New Orleans
  June 1 Lyncoya died
  November Jackson elected president
  December 22 Rachel died
1829 January 19 Jackson departed for Washington
1832 November 1 Rachel Jackson, granddaughter, born
  March 4 Inauguration
1833 March 4 Jackson inaugurated for 2nd term as president
1834 April 4 Andrew Jackson III, grandson, born
  October 13 Hermitage partly destroyed by fire
1845 June 8 Jackson died at the Hermitage, aged 78
  June 10 Rachel's TombJackson buried in the Hermitage garden beside Rachel
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Source:
Katherine W. Cruse, An Amiable Woman: Rachel Jackson (Nashville: The Hermitage and the Ladies Hermitage Association, 1994) pp. 28-33.

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