Thomas H. Benton was descended from this family. and passed across the Appalachian Range from North Carolina. where his father had settled. to cast his destinies with the frontiersmen of Tennessee. Bentos father. unlike e fathers of the ScotchIrish immigrants. was not an extremely poor man. The Benton family was entirely different in its circmstances from that of Andrew Jackson. Jacksons other was a widow in very indigent circumstances. unable at times to procure the necessaries of life. and one of the most pathetic pictures of all our early history is that of Jacksons mother walking more than 40 miles to see her two boys. prisoners to the British. begging her way as she went. without even an animal to ride.
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