Lyncoya Jackson

A Pictorial Biography of Andrew Jackson by John Frost (New York, 1860)[1]

Lyncoya Jackson (c. 1811 – June 1, 1828)[2] was the second adopted son of American President Andrew Jackson.[3] Born to Creek (Muscogee/Red Stick) parents, he was orphaned during the Creek Wars following the Battle of Tallushatchee. It is more widely thought that Lyncoya was brought to the Jackson home, The Hermitage, in 1813[4][5] meaning he was most likely found after the Battle of Talladega. 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 Junior,[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]

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  2. ↑ Remini 1998, p. 144.
  3. ↑ Andrew, Jackson (1984). Papers of Andrew Jackson, vol. 2. University of Tennessee Press.
  4. 1 2 3 http://thehermitage.com/learn/andrew-jackson/family/children/
  5. 1 2 3 https://featherfoster.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/lincoya-andrew-jacksons-indian-son/
  6. 1 2 http://www.american-presidents.org/2008/05/lyncoya-jacksons-native-son.html

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