The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew JacksonDorris, Mary C. (Mary C. Currey)
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The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew Jackson
Dorris, Mary C. (Mary C. Currey)
Hermitage (Hermitage, Tenn.); Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 -- Homes and haunts -- Tennessee -- Hermitage
15. Sewing box inlaid with mother-of-pearl belonged to Mrs. Andrew
Jackson; Mrs. Jackson presented it to Mrs. Emily Donelson;
Mrs. Donelson gave it to Mrs. Wilcox (her daughter); Mrs.
Wilcox gave it to Mrs. Andrew Price; through Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Plater it was presented to the Ladies’ Hermitage
Association.
16. Portrait of General Coffee.
17. Portrait of General Bronaugh.
18. Portrait of Colonel Gadsden.
19. Portrait of Lieutenant Eastland.
(These four constituted the Staff Officers generally called “General
Jackson’s military family.”)
20. Clock, one of the oldest relics, in the Hermitage before the
death of Mrs. Rachel Jackson. The hands are set at the hour
Jackson died.
22. Jackson piano presented by Colonel Andrew Jackson, grandson of
Andrew Jackson.
23. Music book belonging to Mrs. Emily Donelson, First Lady of the
White House. Presented by Mrs. Bettie M. Donelson.
24. Two gilt wall brackets bought by Andrew Jackson, Jr.
25. Flower jar presented by Andrew Jackson, IV, and Albert Marble
Jackson (on wall bracket). Duplicate in front parlor.
26. Mirror willed to the Association by Mrs. Alice Watkins Shields
of Knoxville in 1934, originally at the Hermitage.
27. Nut bowls, and compote (on pier table).
28. Guitar of Mrs. Jackson, loaned by the Rev. Walton Lawrence
Smith, a descendant.
29. Mahogany center table. The only piece remaining of the set
presented to General and Mrs. Jackson when on a visit to New
Orleans after the battle. The gold spectacles on the table
were worn by Mrs. Jackson and the volume of Robert Burns’
poems is inscribed, “Rachel Jackson from her beloved husband,
Andrew Jackson.”
30. Mahogany sofa bought by Mrs. Hoffstetter at the sale of the
adopted son’s effects in 1866. Presented to the Association in
1897 by Miss Bettie Hoffstetter of Nashville.
31. Pair of silver lustre vases sent to General Jackson from the
Czar of Russia.
_General Jackson’s Bedroom_
This room is as it was the day he died, with the same furniture he
used, the bed he died upon, the chair he sat in, etc. The furnishings
consist of bedstead, bureau, wardrobe, washstand with china pieces,
table, chair, settee or sofa, wallpaper, bedspread, andirons and fender,
mirror, brass candlestick, etc. The same pictures are on the wall. The
bedspread is a replica of the original, handmade with the initials R. J.
embroidered on it. The original is in the Museum. The bed and window
draperies are exact reproductions of those used in the winter during
Jackson’s lifetime, having been made by Scalamandre Silks, Inc., in New
York, N. Y. Part of the original fabric is in the Museum.
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