Stonewall Jackson's Death

[L Verge]

I had forgotten that Jackson's daughter was just an infant when her father died. She was born in 1862. She married William E. Christian and produced Julia Jackson Christian (married a Preston) in 1887 and Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian in 1888. She died the following year in Charlotte, NC of typhoid fever and was brought back to be buried by her father in Lexington, Virginia (Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery).

Her daughter lived until 1991 and her son until 1952. I found this on FindAGrave, so there was no further information about grandchildren.

[LincolnMan]

Nice sleuthing Laurie. Thanks!

[L Verge]

Found a further note that the granddaughter who lived until 1991 had several children and that the grandson married three times. There are lots of descendants according to that source (which was a speech written by the granddaughter in 1953).

[Craig Hipkins]

Many thanks, Joe. During my teaching career I taught that Taylor died from a bad reaction to eating too many cherries. However, I guess the actual cause of death cannot really be known.

Roger, Here is a little article I wrote about Taylor last year in case you might be interested.

http://crhipkins.blogspot.com/2012/07/za...nyone.html

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I have always been fascinated with Jackson. Probably the best bio that I ever read on him was by Burke Davis. Has anyone else ever read this. It reads like a novel.

Craig

[RJNorton]

Thanks, Craig. Your articles are always informative and well-written. The photo of Taylor with his Cabinet is fascinating!

[L Verge]

Just a sidebar on Taylor's ailment. One of the people who died in the old Huntt home in T.B. was a young man of about eleven. The story is that he climbed the cherry tree and ate his fill. The next day, he died of a ruptured appendix. This would have been in the 1880s.

[JMadonna]

Just a sidebar on Taylor's ailment. One of the people who died in the old Huntt home in T.B. was a young man of about eleven. The story is that he climbed the cherry tree and ate his fill. The next day, he died of a ruptured appendix. This would have been in the 1880s.

Must have fallen out of the tree.

[L Verge]

No, I think it was a case of his eyes being larger than his stomach.

[JMadonna]

Many thanks, Joe. During my teaching career I taught that Taylor died from a bad reaction to eating too many cherries. However, I guess the actual cause of death cannot really be known.

Nobody dies from eating cherries and drinking milk. All the signs point to a classic arsenic poisoning but no one will admit to that even today. Who'd want to be in the middle of that controversy?
I was just about to toss my Clara Rissing book that triggered the exhumation. If anyone is interested let me know. I'm moving to Ga and my library has to be thinned down

[L Verge]

Roger,

Here's an interesting CSpan video from 1999 to back up your guess that the actual cause of death cannot really be known -- but, there was no sign of arsenic... http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/124351-1.

P.S. Love the coroner's color combinations.

Jerry - Welcome to Dixie and how is the grandson?

[JMadonna]

Yes there was arsenic but it was determined not to be of sufficient strength. Taylor was sick for only four days and rather than using the root of the hair that would have represented 3 - 4 days growth, the med examiner used the whole strands of Taylor's hair which diluted the result.

The med examiner did not publish his procedure until long after the result had been announced. By then Taylor was back in his grave and the media was not interested in 'old news'.


The grandson is a joy. He loves the Mickey Mouse Club.