The Mysterious Monument in Cougar Mall

Interesting fact I learned today! 

The mysterious monument in Cougar Mall belongs to the mother of a United States President.

Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson is the mother of President Andrew Jackson, our seventh President, and she has a memorial marker on the College of Charleston campus. 

According to The Post and Courier, she is not buried in this spot but some wanted to move the marker from its original location to "rescue" it from "unkempt roadside surroundings". It was moved in 1967 to the Cougar Mall thanks to Ted Stern, College of Charleston President at the time.

This is the monument in Cougar Mall

This is not the only memorial for her, in 1954 the Daughters of the American Revolution donated a monument which stands in Washington Park located near Charleston City Hall.

According to Women History blog, Elizabeth Jackson immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1765 with her husband, Andrew Jackson, and their two oldest children. In 1767 her husband died unexpectedly just three weeks before Andrew Jackson II was born.

When Andrew Jackson II was 14 years old both of his brothers had died and his mother went to Charleston to find and help her two nephews being held prisoners on ships in the Charleston Harbor while doing that she helped tend to soldiers also being held prisoners. Through all the hard work she got sick and died due to cholera in November 1781.

The epitaph on Elizabeth Jackson's memorial in Cougar Mall are the last words she said to Andrew Jackson.

It talks about how he needs to treasure the things she has already told him, be a good and honest friend to others and to face any problems with a calm mind set.
It can be found, in detail, on the Women History blog.

This monument is in Lancaster, SC 

The photo to the left is from RoadsideAmerica.com, this is located in Lancaster, South Carolina. This is not a statue of Elizabeth Jackson but what the Daughters of the American Revolution best guessed she may have looked like.











According to Women History blog, Andrew Jackson knew his mother died in the Charleston area, however was never able to find where she was actually buried.