1. Rachel Jackson was the wife of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States.
20 Facts About Rachel Jackson
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Rachel Jackson was married at first to Lewis Robards in Nashville.
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Rachel Jackson was usually anxious while he was away tending to military or political affairs.
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Rachel Jackson believed that these attacks had hastened her death, and thus blamed his political enemies.
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Rachel Jackson's father was Colonel John Donelson, co-founder of Nashville, Tennessee, and her mother was Rachel Shockley Donelson.
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Rachel Jackson's great-grandfather Patrick Donelson was born in Scotland about 1670.
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Rachel Jackson's father led about 600 people from Fort Patrick Henry, in Northeast Tennessee, to Fort Nashborough, down the Cumberland River.
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Unlike Jackson, Rachel never liked being in the spotlight of events.
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Rachel Jackson was an avid reader of the Bible and religious works as well as poetry.
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Rachel believed that her husband had obtained a divorce, but as it had never been completed, her marriage to Jackson was inadvertently bigamous and therefore invalid.
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In 1793, Andrew and Rachel Jackson learned that although Lewis Robards had filed for divorce, the divorce had never been granted.
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At about the same time, the legitimacy of the Rachel Jackson marriage was questioned because they were married in then-Spanish-controlled Natchez, Mississippi.
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Rachel Jackson married Sarah Yorke of Philadelphia on November 24,1831.
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Rachel Jackson then attended colleges in Washington and Virginia while Jackson was president.
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The publicity surrounding her and the public knowledge of what was considered a very private matter caused Rachel Jackson to sink into depression.
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That her death came immediately before Rachel Jackson left for Washington was more than an inconvenience; it was crippling.
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Rachel Jackson held her body tightly until he was pulled away, and he lingered at the Hermitage until the latest possible date.
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Rachel Jackson was buried on the grounds at the Hermitage wearing the white dress and shoes she had bought for the inaugural ball.
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Rachel Jackson was the title character of a 1951 historical novel by Irving Stone, The President's Lady, which told the story of her life with Andrew Jackson.
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Rachel Jackson appears as a character in the stage musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, which includes multiple jokes about bigamy.