On Nov. 3, 1813, after the Battle of Tallasehatchee, then known as Talluschatches, during the Creek Indian War, Gen. Andrew Jackson found a dead Creek Indian woman embracing her living infant son. After hearing that other Creek Indian women planned to kill the infant, as was their custom when all relations were dead, Jackson became the child's protector and guardian. He took the infant to Fort Struther, in present day Ohatchee, and nursed him back to health, then brought him to his family home, the Hermitage, in Nashville, Tenn., where he and his wife Rachel named him Lincoyer and adopted, raised, loved and educated him as their son. Lincoyer later fell ill and died of tuberculosis at home with his family at age 16, and Jackson and his wife mourned the loss of their son for the rest of their lives.