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Family: Captain Lewis Robarbs / Rachel Donelson (F1152)

• Male Captain Lewis Robarbs

  
  

  Birth	5 Dec 1758	Goochland County, Virginia, USA
  Death	15 Apr 1814	Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA
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  Marriage	1 Mar 1785	Kentucky, USA
  Divorced	Aft 1790  [1]
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  Female Rachel Donelson

  
  

  Birth	17 Jun 1767	Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA
  Death	22 Dec 1828	Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, USA
  Burial		Jackson Family Cemetery, Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, USA
  Other Spouse	General President Andrew Jackson | F7511
  Marriage	Aug 1791	Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA
  Father	Colonel John Donelson | F10573 Group Sheet
  Mother	Rachel Stockley | F10573 Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Divorced: Historians found that a friend of Lewis Robards had planted a fake article in his own newspaper, saying that the couple's divorce had been finalized. Later, Rachel ensured the divorce was completed. Supporters of Adams, accused Rachel of Bigamy

  
  

• Sources

  [S291] Wikipedia: Rachel Jackson, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Jackson. Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson, born Rachel Donelson, (June 15, 1767 – December 22, 1828) was the wife of Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States.[1][2] She lived with him at their home at The Hermitage, where she died just days after his election and before his inauguration in 1829—therefore she was never First Lady, a role assumed by her niece, Emily Donelson. ... Historians found that a friend of Lewis Robards had planted a fake article in his own newspaper, saying that the couple's divorce had been finalized. The Jacksons later found out about Robards' action in planting the article, and that he had never completed the divorce. Later, Rachel ensured the divorce was completed. She and Jackson remarried in 1794. During the presidential election campaign of 1828, supporters of John Quincy Adams, Jackson's opponent, accused his wife of being a bigamist, among other things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Jackson