Lyncoya Jackson (also known as Lincoyer, c. 1811 – July 1, 1828) was a Creek Indian child adopted and raised by U.S. President

Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, he gained fame as ...

and his wife,

Rachel Jackson Rachel Jackson ( ''née'' Donelson; June 15, 1767 – December 22, 1828) was the wife of Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the United States.

. Born to Creek (

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) parents, he was orphaned during the

Creek War The Creek War (1813–1814), also known as the Red Stick War and the Creek Civil War, was a regional war between opposing Indigenous American Creek factions, European empires and the United States, taking place largely in modern-day Alabama ...

after the

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. Lyncoya was brought to Jackson after the surviving women in the village refused to care for him because they were severely injured. Jackson took pity on the orphan and wrote that he felt an "unusual sympathy" for the child, perhaps because of Jackson's own past as an orphan. Deciding to protect him, Jackson sent him along to be raised by his wife while he continued to lead his army. Lyncoya was brought to the Jackson home, The Hermitage, in 1813. He was educated along with Andrew Jackson's first adopted son, Andrew Jackson Jr.,http://www.american-presidents.org/2008/05/lyncoya-jacksons-native-son.html and Jackson even had aspirations to send him to the

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, but that proved impossible. Instead, Lyncoya was apprenticed to be a saddle maker until he died of

tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in ...

in 1828.

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