Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, mother of Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, was born about 1737 in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland, the daughter of Francis Cyrus Hobart Hutchinson and Margaret Lisle Hutchinson, linen weavers and drapers. About 1760 she married fellow Ulster Scot Andrew Jackson, and in 1765 they immigrated to America and settled in the North Carolina Waxhaws region. After her husband's unexpected death and burial at Waxhaw Meeting House in February 1767, she moved her family to the South Carolina home of her brother-in-law James Crawford, where on March 15, 1767, she gave birth to Andrew Jackson, Jr., who became a military hero of the War of 1812, a prominent lawyer, judge, and politician in Tennessee, and a twice-elected President of the United States who served from 1829 to 1837. During the American Revolution she lost her son Hugh in battle in 1779 and her son Robert to smallpox in 1781, but nursed Andrew back to health from smallpox and wounds inflicted by a British officer after he refused to clean the officer's boots. After learning that her Crawford nephews were ill aboard a prison ship in Charleston harbor, she traveled there to aid them, but while visiting William and Agnes Barton just north of the city gates she became ill with cholera, or ship fever, and died in November 1781, and was buried in a nearby unmarked grave. A devout Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, she devoted her life to faith, family, hard and honest work, and the care of those suffering illness, and was regarded as a true heroine of the American Revolution.