Date:  Thu, 20 Oct 1994 16:54:38 EDT

From:  Michael Montgomery <N270053[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU>

Subject: Naming after Presidents



EArlier today Chuck Coker wrote that it was ironic that Andrew Jackson,

under whose administration the Trail of Tears occurred, had married a

Cherokee woman. Am I misremembering my Tennessee history? Jackson

married Rachel Donelson, but was she part Cherokee? Perhaps Coker is

confusing Jackson with Sam Houston, who did marry a Cherokee woman in

Blount County sometime around 1819; Houston was governor of Tennessee

before going to Texas.



Haven't had time to look this up, though.



Michael MOntgomery, Dept of English, U of South CArolina, Columbia SC 29208