Lucinda (Jackson) Pirtle (1808 - 1867)

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Biography

Excerpt from Romance of Sarah J Kinnick and John W. Pirtle: The Pirtle Family

By Mrs. E. Nelle Pirtle Meier, Des Moines, Iowa

[John Pirtle's] mother was LUCINDA JACKSON who married, his father, Pirtle.

She was related to President Andrew Jackson, being his great-niece, therefore John W. Pirtle's great-great uncle. When about two years of age or so, he remembered sitting on the President's lap. His mother [Lucinda] placed him there and stressed it so, "that he was sitting on the President's lap" that he always remembered it.

Although he was raised by southern parents, they migrated to Iowa and when the Civil War came he became a northern soldier in the Second Iowa Infantry and was wounded at Fort Donelson by being shot in the hip.

He was a very strong Republican. The Pirtle family was in Iowa when John Kinnick and Sarah Ellen Mock arrived with their large family in a covered wagon.

The romance in E. Nelle Pirtle Meier's own words follows:

"Father met mother and her people as they passed his father's farm on the way to his daughter Margaret's home, who married Joshua Eastburn. Father had been plowing and was resting his team (no doubt oxen). Grandfather Kinnick stopped and told him who they were and where they were going, 'twasn't far from father's people to Josh Eastburn's farm.

My mother and Aunt Caroline were walking back of the wagon carrying their shoes, very tired from their journey. Mother was only fourteen, and my father fell in love with her, and they were married when she was seventeen; father was nine years older than mother. Mother was very beautiful, dark burly hair, big brown eyes and a beautiful complexion.

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140848225/lucinda-pirtle