Show I i f F 2 THE LAST OF THE JACKSONS J 1 1 4 Faithful Old Uncle A Guardian ro of the tho r g i t I 1 J s w s sl l 1 Special Correspondence I i Nashville Oct UThe last of the Jacksons ban hao ha Just died at nt The Hermit Hermitage 1 d age ose General Andrew Jacksons old t home bome He lie was ft a 1 negro Uncle Alfred AUred AlfredI I Jackson Jackon ninetynine years eora old accord according accord i ing to his own computation Uncle Alfred was Willi a in the thet t negro quarters of ot The Hermitage when the little boy was fas adopted at the big bighouse house heuse hou 1 and named Andrew Jackson Jr He III WAS AS there thero when hen the battle of ot New Xe Orleans Was fought He lie was wall there Z e when Mrs Airs Rachel Jackson died when r y it General l Jackson went to Washington w to be Le Inaugurated president and when hn I I t i the old eld e ld hero breathed his last latt on June JuneE E 6 Betty nett the cook In the Jackson J house houi housek for tor halt half helt a century was a i Undo Alfreds t k mother and he was wa torn burn in one of ot the 1 two cabins still tm standing at nt The Th Her lIer Hermitage I lOUnGe He Ile died In the te wine sumac room roomI I where he first fir saw Baw lh U the light Uncle Alfreds Alt education was all not ad were tore the F f 1 Before the war w were rc not taught as us they the are re now but what i I he lacked In book learning be made mad up in memory and anti aptness s nO Re knew the tile I history of ot the Jackson Jackon family from the thet t beginning to the end and Ind no mn man had hada t a more faithful biographer blo lher than did I General Oen rAI Jackson Alfreds d last i t 11 days at The Hermitage were werl made hap hll happy I k py y I by the visitors to th ha shrine which hf guarded and who tho would listen untie untiringly t i to his hll stories of ot his hla gt t muter master 1 l Grace Gracey mild maid of ot Mrs x t Jackson i When the emancipation pro I wn was Issued most moet of ot the dace Maici Iau s t left Jett The Th Hermitage but Alfred and I Or c y r m ln d with th the 11 family l f I f through all Its vicissitudes Andrew Jackson Jr died In 1865 1565 leaving his wife and her widowed l tl sister later t r tho the only occupants of ot tho the old house haul Ills Isla sons lions had Imd entered the Confederate eer 1 e and only In one on had survived Ills His only I daughter had married and bevel Away Alfred and were wore the theon only on servants but the Ilse little family con Ion continued to the live In the antebellum ways nays wn After the tho death of ot Mrs Jackson Jacklon and her sister Bister Albert and Gracey were fer nil all I that was left of ot the family at The Hermitage nero Her milage When the Ladles Ladies Hermitage association was formed to preserve the house as ne n a monument to the victor Ictor of ot Note New ow Orleans Orlean Alfred 1 was WILl left In sole Bole He lie was loyal loal to his charge Kor Ivor fifth years he never ner spent a night away oa from the tho old cabin In which he hI hIwa was wa born Ills His list lilt nl ht was spent there and his hI relatives and friends frien ls held bald n a prayer meeting In the old The Tho next day the body bod was carried canted to the th house hous and placed In tho the great hall hail where the funeral fu funeral services were held heM under the di II direction of ot The Hermitage Then the faithful Jerky darky dark was burled burl back of ot the house houe within a 1 few tew feet teet of ot the tho grave gravo of ot his hIli beloved matter master |