A notice appeared in the Hermitage Bulletin of Spring 1994 about the death of Fannie Mitchell Jackson at the age of 101 on December 18, 1993, she was the wife of the late Albert Prescott Marble Jackson who died in 1925 (or 1926).
They were married in 1921. Albert was a great-grandson of President Andrew Jackson. The Rich connection is in the seventh generation from immigrant ancestor Nicholas Rich when Amy, daughter of Alston and Mary Sawyer (Dyer) Rich, in 1885 married Colonel Andrew Jackson I. They had two sons: Andrew Jackson IV, and Albert Prescott Marble Jackson.
Several members of the Rich Family Association are also descendants of Alston Rich. Andrew Jackson Jr. was adopted as an infant by General Andrew and Rachel (Donelson) Jackson, who were unable to have children of their own. He was one of twin boys born to Rachel’s brother Severn and his wife Elizabeth (Rucker) Donelson on 4 December 1808. Colonel Andrew Jackson I was the son of Andrew and Sarah (Yorke) Jackson Jr., who had five children.
Only Andrew I (1834-1906) and Samuel (1837-1863) lived to maturity. Andrew I was a Colonel in the First Tennessee Heavy Artillery C.S.A. He was a prisoner in the North during most of the Civil War. After the war Amy Rich, who was born in Hamilton, Ohio, came to Tennessee to teach, met Andrew I, and they were married in 1885. The Jackson estate the Hermitage (13 miles east of Nashville) had been purchased in 1856 by the State of Tennessee.
The brick Hermitage, built in 1819 on a site selected by Rachel Jackson, was remodeled in 1835, following a fire which destroyed much of the interior. At that time, two wings were added, and the front was painted white (perhaps to hide the smoke stains.) Rachel Jackson died at the Hermitage in January 1829, shortly before her husband’s inauguration for his first term as President of the United States.
Amy (Rich) and Andrew Jackson I were permitted to live there. They initiated the founding of the Ladies Hermitage Association which is still active in maintaining the mansion with original furniture and fixtures in place, and the garden as Rachel had planned it. Nearly all the personal effects of President and Mrs. Jackson are in this home, which is open for tours daily.
The obituary of Fannie Mitchell Jackson states that in 1985 she presented to the Hermitage more than 100 pieces of Jackson silver that she received as a wedding gift from her husband, and many documents and small personal possessions of Andrew Jackson. Colonel Andrew and Amy (Rich) Jackson I are buried in the garden at the Hermitage, near the President and Rachel Jackson.
Published: Kinfolk Spring 1994, page 6.
The story was selected from the Kinfolk by Robert Greene and featured at the 2024 Rich Family Reunion
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