Mystery Headstone on College of Charleston Campus

Elizabeth Jackson and her husband Andrew Jackson Sr were both immigrants from northern Ireland.  These are our parents of the United States of Americas 7th president Andrew Jackson.  Elizabeth Jackson gave birth to Andrew on the way home from Her husbands funeral in 1767.

The Headstone located by The Robert Scott Small building is not Elizabeths actual burial site.  This headstone is just a cinotaph.  The stone has not always been located on the campus, at first it was located at ther Waxhaw from 1954-1967.  The headstone was moved due to the fact that people presumed that it was the closest place to her actual gravesite.  This was not her only Monument, there is also a monument at Fort Moultrie in South Carolina.

On the headstone reads; "Near this spot is buried Elizabeth Jackson, Mother of President Andrew Jackson.  She gave her life cheerfully for the independence of her country on an unrecorded date on Nov. 1781, and to her son Andy this device.  "Andy never tell a lie nor take what is not your own.  Nor sue for slander, settle those cases for yourself."

Elizabeth died while serving the revolutionary war when she served as a nurse.  Before she died her sons, Andrew and Robert Jackson were being held prisoner in Camden South Carolina.  Elizabeth arranged a deal to get the boys released.  But after release it was not long until Robert and Elizabeth Jackson died from small pox.

Elizabeth Jackson

Elizabeth Jacksons headstone on the College Of Charleston campus