Lyncoya Jackson

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

Lyncoya Jackson (c. 1811 – 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 house in 1813[2][4] 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,[2][5][4] 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.[2][5][4]

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