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Rachel Donaldson Jackson: A being so...

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A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor.

Source: Lines from her epitaph when she was buried 24 Dec 1828 at The Hermitage, her home near Nashville, Tennessee.
-- Rachel Donaldson Jackson, (Jun 15 1767-1828), US first lady; She caused a scandal when she married Andrew Jackson before divorcing her first husband, Lewis Robards.


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