Lyncoya Jackson
Lyncoya Jackson (c. 1811 – July 1, 1828)[2] was the second adopted son of American President Andrew Jackson and his wife Rachel Jackson.[3] Born to Creek (Muscogee/Red Stick) parents, he was orphaned during the Creek War following the Battle of Tallushatchee. Lyncoya was brought to the Jackson home, The Hermitage, in 1813.[4][5] Lyncoya was brought to Jackson after the surviving women in the village refused to care for him.[1] Jackson took pity on the orphan, writing that he felt an "unusual sympathy" for the child, perhaps because of Jackson's own past as an orphan.[1] Lyncoya was educated along with Andrew Jackson's first adopted son, Andrew Jackson Jr.,[4][5][6] and Jackson even had aspirations to send him to the American military academy, West Point, but this proved impossible. Instead, Lyncoya was apprenticed to be a saddle maker until he died of tuberculosis in 1828.[4][5][6]
References
- 1 2 3
- ↑ Remini 1977, p. 194.
- ↑ Andrew, Jackson (1984). Papers of Andrew Jackson, vol. 2. University of Tennessee Press.
- 1 2 3 http://thehermitage.com/learn/andrew-jackson/family/children/
- 1 2 3 https://featherfoster.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/lincoya-andrew-jacksons-indian-son/
- 1 2 http://www.american-presidents.org/2008/05/lyncoya-jacksons-native-son.html
Sources
- Remini, Robert V. (1977). Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767–1821. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8018-5911-3.