- Joined
- Dec 3, 2011
- Location
- Laurinburg NC
Mary Anna Morrison was born in Lincoln County, North Carolina. In 1857 this special lady from North Carolina would marry a Virginian, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, during the war he would be known as "Stonewall Jackson." Anna would stay with relatives in Charlotte while the war was raging in Virginia. Although she made several trips back to Virginia to see General Jackson, and was by his side when he died. From the time of Jackson's death until 1873, Anna lived with her father at Cottage Home. She then moved to Charlotte to provide a better education for her daughter Julia; she remained there the rest of her life. She remained active in her life in the Stonewall Jackson Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Mecklenburg Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and of course her church. Jackson's widow was much honored in North Carolina and throughout the former Confederate states. After the death of Mrs. Jefferson Davis in 1906, Mrs. Jackson was recognized nationwide as "The First Lady of the South." The "tiny, brown-eyed lady" was the idol of Confederate veterans, many of whom came from all over the South to pay their respects to her and to her husband's memory. She literally lived her legend in her own day. Anna Jackson died in Charlotte at age eighty-three. She was accorded military honors at her funeral, and her body was taken to Lexington for burial beside her world-renowned husband. In the photo Mary Anna Morrison Jackson receives an honorary degree from Salem College, 1914. Her arm is linked with that of Dr. Henry T. Bahnson. At the left is Dr. Howard Rondthaler, president of Salem College.
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