Mary Anna Jackson
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Mary Anna Morrison July 21, 1831 Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | March 24, 1915 (aged 83) Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Resting place | Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, Virginia |
| Residence | Lexington, Virginia |
| Known for | "Widow of the Confederacy" |
| Spouse(s) | Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (1857-1863; his death) |
| Children | 2 |
Mary Anna Morrison Jackson (July 21, 1831–March 24, 1915) was the second wife, and subsequently widow, of Confederate Army general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
Mary Anna Morrison - popularly known by friends and family as "Anna" - was born at Cottage Home, the family plantation near Lincolnton, North Carolina. Her father, Robert Hall Morrison, was a Presbyterian preacher and the first president of Davidson College, and her mother, Mary Graham, was the niece of William Alexander Graham, a Senator and later Governor of North Carolina, as well as a Senator in the Confederate Congress during the Civil War. Anna received her formal education at Salem Academy (now Salem College) from 1847 to 1849.
Anna was introduced to Thomas Jackson by her sister Isabella, the wife of Daniel Harvey Hill, a professor at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia; Jackson had recently accepted a teaching position at the nearby Virginia Military Institute. In 1853, Jackson married Elinor Junkin, the daughter of Washington College's president, Dr. George Junkin; she died in childbirth the following October. Around Christmas 1856, Jackson called on Anna in North Carolina while on furlough from VMI. They married in the front parlor of Cottage Home on July 16, 1857. They purchased a brick house on East Washington Street in Lexington, where they lived from 1858 to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. Their first daughter, Mary Graham Jackson, died in infancy in 1858; their second, Julia Laura, was born in Charlotte on November 23, 1862, just before the Battle of Fredericksburg.
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