The Jackson Family Household
Throughout the decades, the Jackson household can be viewed through the Census Records for Mount Vernon district.
Each census found has a questionable piece of information, further highlighting the work this project intends to do: find and communicate the unwritten and silenced history of these people.
As of the holding of the 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Andrew Jackson was married to a woman named Maria and had two children, Robert and Samuel. [10]
The unfortunate fire that burned the succeeding decades’ census records prevent finding any information of the family at that time other than a School Census held that detailed Robert, Samuel, and another child that will be mentioned in the next subsection. [8]
In the 1900 U.S. Federal Census, the children of Andrew and Maria were not included with Andrew, nor did they have their own census entry. This would mean that the children of the couple do not live with their parents anymore, nor did they have their own census entry. We find in the final deed for the land [4] that Robert Jackson was still unmarried by May 1919 and that at that same time, Samuel Jackson was married to Estelle Jackson for an unknown amount of time. Within this 1900 census, it appears that Andrew has remarried for some unknown reason and his new partner’s name is Louisa. We also find out that a man by the name of David Duckett was boarding residence on their land. [11]
Finally, in the 1910 Census (the last we see of Andrew) Duckett is no longer boarding and Andrew and his wife live alone on their land. [12]
Following Andrew’s death on July 31st, 1913, Louisa stays on the land and pays taxes under her passed husband’s name, eventually selling the property to the U.S. government, with the rest of the immediate family included in the deed. Louisa gets remarried and moves away after this and the Jackson family no longer has any residence in Mount Vernon. [2, 4]
By Caleb Hughston