Life of Andrew Jackson Set Author:James Parton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: farm, she removed, with her second son and the new-born infant, to the residence of another brother-in-law, Mr. Crawford, with whom she had crossed the ocean, an... more »d who then lived two miles distant. Mrs. Crawford.was an invalid, and Mrs. Jackson was permanently established in the family as housekeeper and poor relation. CHAPTER IV MISCHIEVOUS ANDY. To the old people in the Carolinas who are descended from the sisters of Mrs. Jackson, Andrew Jackson is not so much the famous President and the victorious General, as he is little Andy, the mischief-loving son of good aunt Betty. Andy did this ; and Andy went there ; when Andy was at New Orleans, and when Andy was President—they say in familiar talk about him by the huge fire-places of their old farm-houses. He is well remembered in that part of the country, as there are twenty people living there who were in the habit for many years of hearing their parents tell stories of him ; simple, honest, hospitable people, whom to hear is to believe. So changeless is the South, so secluded do the farmers there live from the world of men and books, that these kind people are evidently just what their grandfathers were before the Revolution, and their great-grandfathers in Carrickfergus. In the family of his uncle Crawford, Andy spent the first ten or twelve years of his life. Mr. Crawford was a man of considerable substance for a new country, and his family was large. Pie lived in South Carolina, just over the boundary line, near the Waxhaw Creek, and six miles from the Ca- tawba River. The land there lies well for farming ; level, but not flat; undulating, but without hills of inconvenient height. The soil is a stiff, red clay, the stiffest of the stiff,and the reddest of the red ; the kind of soil which bears hard usage, and makes t...« less