Stockley D. Hays
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Stockley Donelson Hays was a 19th-century American lawyer, military officer, and nephew of U.S. president Andrew Jackson. Hays was involved in historically significant events from an early age. As a t
Old Haysborough, on the Cumberland River (Nashville Banner, 1912)
Route of Aaron Burr, 1806–1807 (The American Nation, 1907)
Conjectural image of Burr's expedition (Scribner's Popular History of the United States, 1896)
During the 1828 presidential election, opponents of Andrew Jackson published a document said to have been found in the papers of Harman Blennerhassett, showing "Aaron Burr in account with Andrew Jackson"; W. P. Anderson was Jackson's aide-de-camp, Donelson Caffery was a first cousin of Stockley D. Hays, and W. & J. Jackson were brothers Washington Jackson and James Jackson, merchants of Nashville and Natchez (Republican Banner, Nashville, October 11, 1828)
The Robards–Donelson–Jackson relationship controversy was a long-running frontier sex scandal that began in the 1790s in what was then the far west of the newly established United States of America. T
Miniatures of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
Marriage bond of Andrew Jackson and Rachel Donelson Robards, signed by Andrew Jackson, his bondsmen Robert Hays and John Overton, witnessed by Andrew Ewing, January 17, 1794
1785 marriage bond filed in state of Virginia for Lewis Robards and Rachel Donaldson (Rachel Donelson), signed by John Donelson with Willis Green clerk of court; Rachel was about 18, Robards was about 27
Silhouettes of Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson and Andrew Jackson, made about 1828, from The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume VI