Brigadier General Daniel Smith Donelson

1801 - 1863  (61 years)

• Name	Daniel Smith Donelson  [1]
  Title	Brigadier General
  Birth	23 Jun 1801	Hendersonville, Sumner, Tennessee, USA
  Gender	Male
  Adopted	1806	Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, USA
  	After his father died, and his mother remarried, he and his brothers were sent to the Hermitage to be adopted by Rachel and President Andrew Jackson
  _ELEC	1841
  	Tennessee House of Representatives
  _MILT	Abt 1861
  	US Army (Second Lieutenant ), Tennessee Militia (Brigadier General), and Confederate Army - War between the States (Major General)
  Death	17 Apr 1863	Tennessee, USA
  Burial	Hendersonville Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Hendersonville, Sumner, Tennessee, USA
  		Cemetery-Hendersonville Presbyterian Church (TN)
  Person ID	I13861	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Samuel Donelson,   b. 1760, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA d. 1803, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA (Age 43 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary Ann Michie 'Polly' Smith,   b. 26 Apr 1781, Hendersonville, Sumner, Tennessee, USA d. 29 Dec 1857, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA (Age 76 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	20 Jun 1796	Davidson County, Tennessee, USA   [2, 3]
  Family ID	F10515	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	General President Andrew Jackson,   b. 15 Mar 1767, Waxhaw, Union, North Carolina, USA d. 8 Jun 1845, Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, USA (Age 78 years)
  Relationship	Adopted
  Mother	Rachel Donelson,   b. 17 Jun 1767, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA d. 22 Dec 1828, Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, USA (Age 61 years)
  Relationship	Adopted
  Marriage	Aug 1791	Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA   [4, 5, 6]
  	As Rachel's divorce had never been completed, their marriage was technically bigamous and therefore invalid
  Married	17 Jan 1794	Davidson County, Tennessee, USA   [6, 7]
  	Remarriage
  Marriage End	1828	Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, USA   [6]
  	Rachel died just days after his election and before Jackson's inauguration — therefore she was never First Lady
  Family ID	F7511	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret donelson
  Family ID	F4813	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 23 Jun 1801 - Hendersonville, Sumner, Tennessee, USA Adopted - After his father died, and his mother remarried, he and his brothers were sent to the Hermitage to be adopted by Rachel and President Andrew Jackson - 1806 - Hermitage, Davidson, Tennessee, USA Death - 17 Apr 1863 - Tennessee, USA Burial - - Hendersonville Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Hendersonville, Sumner, Tennessee, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Daniel S Donelson

  
  

  Headstones

  Cemetery-Hendersonville Presbyterian Church (TN)

  
  

• Sources

  [S550] Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Book Title: Historic Sumner County, Tennessee : with genealogies of the Bledsoe, Cage and Douglass families and. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [S223] Ancestry.com, Tennessee, State Marriages, 1780-2002, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2008;). [S223] Ancestry.com, Tennessee, State Marriages, 1780-2002, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2008;). Tennessee, State Marriages, 1780-2002 [S110] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Source number: 15184.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: WAY. [S874] Heritage Consulting, Millennium File, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003;). [S1850] Wikipedia: Andrew Jackson, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson. Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). He was born near the end of the colonial era, somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina, into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family of relatively modest means. During the American Revolutionary War Jackson, whose family supported the revolutionary cause, acted as a courier. He was captured, at age 13, and mistreated by his British captors. He later became a lawyer. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and then to the U.S. Senate. In 1801, Jackson was appointed colonel in the Tennessee militia, which became his political as well as military base. Jackson owned hundreds of slaves who worked on the Hermitage plantation which he acquired in 1804. He killed a man in a duel in 1806, over a matter of honor regarding his wife Rachel. Jackson gained national fame through his role in the War of 1812, most famously where he won a decisive victory over the main British invasion army at the Battle of New Orleans. Jackson's army was then sent to Florida where he deposed the small Spanish garrison. This led directly to the treaty which formally transferred Florida from Spain to the United States. Nominated for president in 1824, Jackson narrowly lost to John Quincy Adams. Jackson's supporters then founded what became the Democratic Party. Nominated again in 1828, Jackson crusaded against Adams and the "corrupt bargain" between Adams and Henry Clay he said cost him the 1824 election. Building on his base in the West and new support from Virginia and New York, he won by a landslide. The Adams campaigners called him and his wife Rachel Jackson "bigamists"; she died just after the election and he called the slanderers "murderers," swearing never to forgive them. His struggles with Congress were personified in his personal rivalry with Clay, whom Jackson deeply disliked, and who led the opposition (the emerging Whig Party). As president, he faced a threat of secession from South Carolina over the "Tariff of Abominations" which Congress had enacted under Adams. In contrast to several of his immediate successors, he denied the right of a state to secede from the union, or to nullify federal law. The Nullification Crisis was defused when the tariff was amended and Jackson threatened the use of military force if South Carolina (or any other state) attempted to secede. Congress attempted to reauthorize the Second Bank of the United States several years before the expiration of its charter, which he opposed. He vetoed the renewal of its charter in 1832, and dismantled it by the time its charter expired in 1836. Jackson's presidency marked the beginning of the ascendancy of the "spoils system" in American politics. Also, he supported, signed, and enforced the Indian Removal Act, which relocated a number of native tribes to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). He faced and defeated Henry Clay in the 1832 Presidential Election, and opposed Clay generally. Jackson supported his vice president Martin Van Buren, who was elected president in 1836. He worked to bolster the Democratic Party and helped his friend James K. Polk win the 1844 presidential election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson [S46] Ancestry.com, Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2008;). Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002