{"id":15545,"date":"2016-07-14T10:49:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T14:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=15545"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T14:24:23","slug":"did-i-know-that-unparalleled-shock-grief-in-1828","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/did-i-know-that-unparalleled-shock-grief-in-1828.html","title":{"rendered":"Did I Know That? Unparalleled Shock & Grief in 1828"},"content":{"rendered":"

In November 1828 General Andrew Jackson was elected President of the United States. Just weeks later, three days before Christmas, Rachel (Donelson) Jackson \u2013 his wife of nearly four decades \u2013 suddenly died. She was 61 years old.<\/p>\n

\"Portrait:<\/a>
Portrait: Rachel Jackson, by John Chester Buttre. Credit: U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In reporting her death, her obituary said:<\/p>\n

The intelligence of this awful and unlooked for event has created a shock on our community almost unparalleled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"An<\/a>
National Aegis (Worcester, Massachusetts), 14 January 1829, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Such a deep personal loss at the pinnacle of their lives together!<\/p>\n

She was buried at their home, the Hermitage in Tennessee, on Christmas Eve \u201cwearing the white dress she had purchased for her husband\u2019s inaugural ceremonies.\u201d (Source: WhiteHouse.gov)<\/p>\n

Rachel Jackson never got to serve as First Lady during her husband\u2019s presidency. That role was instead filled by her niece, Emily Donelson.<\/p>\n

GenealogyBank\u2019s online Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> (1690-Today) contain the stories of our ancestors and the news of the day. Their grief, their losses \u2013 their stories are recorded. Find them, document them \u2013 don\u2019t let their stories be lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article about Andrew Jackson\u2019s wife Rachel dying after he was elected but before he could be inaugurated as the nation\u2019s 7th president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12235],"tags":[6713,4076,2020,11819],"class_list":["post-15545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-american-history","tag-andrew-jackson","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-rachel-jackson"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/photo-0714-2016-the-hermitage.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98215,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15545\/revisions\/98215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}