President Andrew Johnson

President Andrew Johnson, Don and I traveled to the Great Smoky Mountains in Oct 2015. We took a side trip on the way home to visit Greenville, Tennessee. The home town of Andrew & Eliza McCardle Johnson. https://www.nps.gov/anjo/index.htm. We thought we would be there 2 hours, we enjoyed it enough we spent the day. We knew nothing about the former president but learned a lot while there. The National park service has done an amazing job at preservation.
 Andrew born 29 Dec 1808 in Raleigh, N.C. was the son of Jacob & Mary Polly McDonough. He was self-educated and was apprenticed as a tailor. Starting from humble beginnings he becomes the 17^th president of the United States upon the death of Abraham Lincoln 15 Apr. 1865.  He married 16 year old Eliza McCardle (1810-1876). The Johnsons were married for almost 50 years and had five children: Martha (1828), Charles (1830), Mary (1832), Robert (1834), and Andrew Jr. (1852). She supported her husband in his political career, but avoided public appearances. During the American Civil War, Confederate authorities ordered her to evacuate her home in Greeneville; she took refuge in Nashville.A few months later after her husband became president, she joined him in the White House, but she was not able to serve as First Lady due to her poor health from tuberculosis. She remained confined to her bedroom there, leaving the social chores to her daughter Martha Johnson Patterson.

Andrew died on 31 July 1875, he and Eliza and their family are buried at Monument Hill Cemetery or Andrew Jackson National Cemetery, Greenville Tnn. The land the cemetery is on was owned by the Johnsons.leanr more about the cemetery; https://www.nps.gov/anjo/cemeteryhist.htm

see photos here https://photos.app.goo.gl/w3MHCETpveBQBL8m6