This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Xgk.2ACEB/429.3858.5 Message Board Post: I saw this again and decided to qrite again do you have any mention of a Heneritta Jackson born abt 1782 who married a Joshua Short b abt 1775 they were married 4/1/1800 in Lancaster, Garrad Co., Ky and had 13 children Heneritta was suppose to be first cousin to President andrew Jackson, my g aunt Callie Stewart wrote a note about him this is what it says My grandfather, JAMES WILLIAM GRAY, was born 2 Aug 1841, in Warren County, KY. and died 16 April in Benton, Franklin County, Illinois He came to Illinois. as a young man. He enlisted in the Union Army and served all during the Civil War in Company C, 18th Ill. Inf When home on furlough, he married HENRIETTA JACKSON SHORT, 17 May 1864. Henrietta was born in Jackson County, TN., the daughter of JACOB JOSHUA and ROSANNA PLUMLEE SHORT, 30 Nov 1839 and died in Benton, Franklin County, D., 25 Mar 1929. Her paternal grandmother, HENRIETTA JACKSON, was a first cousin to President ANDREW JACKSON.