Donelson family

{{Short description|Pioneer Americans}}

File:John Donelson.jpg, this portrait was painted by Ralph Earl and actually depicts his son, John Donelson III (1755–1830)]]

John Donelson was an early pioneer of the middle Tennessee area of the United States. Rachel Stockley Donelson was delivered of 11 children who survived to adulthood.{{Cite journal |last=Jackson |first=Andrew |date=1980-01-01 |title=The Papers of Andrew Jackson: Volume I, 1770-1803 |url=https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_jackson/1/ |journal=The Papers of Andrew Jackson |pages=417 |archive-date=2024-06-05 |access-date=2025-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605132404/https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_jackson/1/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite book |last=Remini |first=Robert Vincent |title=Andrew Jackson and the course of American empire, 1767–1821 |date=1977 |publisher=Harper & Row |isbn=978-0-06-013574-4 |location=New York}}{{Cite web |title=Notable Southern families v.2. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044098881485&seq=93 |access-date=2024-08-25 |website=HathiTrust |page=89 |language=en |archive-date=2024-08-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240826031128/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044098881485&seq=93 |url-status=live }} Seven of the Donelson siblings married and started families, producing an average of nine children per family.{{Sfnp|Gismondi|2017|p=55}} Their daughter Rachel Donelson's second husband was Andrew Jackson, who became the seventh president of the United States in 1828. The family originated in the Thirteen Colonies but over time established branches in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and beyond.

As per the editors of The Papers of Andrew Jackson, "The marriages of Rachel Jackson's brothers and sisters produced more than 50 adult children and innumerable grandchildren." The descendants of John Donelson are collectively notable because in marrying into the family, Andrew Jackson "gained an army of brothers, literally, and together these members of the kinship network created an efficient system that provided profits for all. Few other frontier families would employ family networking quite so effectively, but while their strategies were exceptionally efficient, they were also representative of the types of networking that was going on, usually on a smaller scale."{{sfnp|Inman|2017|p=77}} Jackson and his Donelson kinsmen, and friends, engaged in what has been described as vertically integrated family-business imperialism: "They fought the native peoples, negotiated the treaties to end the fighting and demanded native lands as the price of war, surveyed the newly available lands, bought those lands, litigated over disputed boundaries, adjudicated the cases, and made and kept laws within the region that had been carved out of Indian lands."{{Sfnp|Inman|2017|p=87}} The lands that the Donelsons examined and collected were intended for use by "free, white, propertied citizens," including slave owners, not for the Indigenous people who already lived there.{{Cite book |last=Rothman |first=Adam |title=Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-674-04291-9 |pages=44–45 |language=en-us |doi=10.4159/9780674042919 |lccn=2004057658 |oclc=56191767}}

Andrew Jackson, who had no biological children of his own but served as patriarch of the clan, supplemented the "literal army" designation by obtaining appointments to the U.S. Military Academy for his nephews Andrew Jackson Donelson, Daniel Smith Donelson, and Samuel Jackson Hays; his grand-nephews Earl Van Dorn, Richard Hays, and Andrew Jackson Coffee; and his ward Edward G. W. Butler. Intriguingly, Congressman Davy Crockett, who started out as a Tennessee militiaman in Jackson's Creek War, wanted to abolish West Point on the grounds that "only the sons of the rich and influential could get into the Academy, and that the bounty of the government should go to the poor rather than the rich."David Crockett: Congressman - By Stanley J. Folmsbee and Anna Grace Catron - No. 29 (1957) - East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications - p. 62

Many members of the earliest iteration of the clan settled in "the Hermitage neighborhood [that] was regarded as the best section of Davidson County, the soil being better adapted for cotton than any other part of the country, and was settled by wealthy men and cotton-planters; among them were Gen. Jackson, Col. Edward Ward (who was speaker of the Senate in 1817, a man of talent and fine personal appear-ance, was a candidate for Governor, and beaten for that office by Gen. William Carroll), Maj. William Ward, Capt. John Donelson, the brother of Mrs. Jackson and the father of Mrs. Gen. Coffee, Mrs. McLemore, Mrs. William Easton, Mrs. James Martin, and Mrs. Andrew J. Donelson. Capt. Donelson was a wealthy man in lands and slaves, and a successful planter. Sevan [Leven?] and Severn Donelson were also brothers of Mrs. Jackson. Gen. Thomas Overton, the friend of Gen. Jackson in the duel with Charles Dickinson, Dr. Hadley, Capt. Moseley, the step-father of John L. Brown, of Nashville, and others, all lived in this neighborhood. There also lived here John Anthony Winston and brother, two very prominent men, who emigrated to Alabama and settled near Tuscumbia. They are the ancestors of the numerous Winstons in that State, among whom was Governor John A. Winston."{{Cite web |title=History of Davidson County, Tennessee, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers. By Prof. W. W. Clayton |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t47p9rm6f&seq=89&q1=Balch |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=HathiTrust |page=73 |language=en}}

As an 1859 history told it, "Taking Colonel Donelson as the radix, and tracing out the descendants and connections for the last fifty years, we find, especially in the South and Southwest, the alliance to be extensive and influential in political and military position...The ramifications down to the present day are too numerous and widespread to be inserted in this work."{{Cite web |title=History of middle Tennessee : or, Life and times of Gen. James Robertson / by A.W. Putnam |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044018960443&seq=658&q1=Hays&start=1 |access-date=2025-02-26 |website=HathiTrust |page=638 |language=en}} An 1880 history of Tennessee concurred that the legacy of the family was substantial: "[John Donelson's] descendants and connections for nearly three-fourths of a century in the South and Southwest have been extensive and influential both in civil and military affairs."{{Cite web |title=History of Davidson County, Tennessee, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers. By Prof. W. W. Clayton c.1. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.21030993&seq=185&q1=Hays |access-date=2025-02-26 |website=HathiTrust |page=134 |language=en}}

{{small|Note 1: Numbering of John Donelsons gets messy. The father of the first generation of children listed here was technically John Donelson II since his father was a John Donelson. Rachel's brother is often listed as John Donelson II (simply because his less famous grandfather has not been a major figure in histories), but he is here deemed John Donelson III for clarity, and his son is thus John Donelson IV.}}

{{small|Note 2: For purposes of this list, the children of cousins who married cousins are listed under the male partner.}}

1. Alexander "Sandy" Donelson (unmarried, no issue)

{{Anchor|Mary Donelson Caffery}}{{anchor|John Caffery}}

2. Mary "Mattie" Donelson m. John Caffery; Caffrey was part of Donelson's expedition on the Adventure.{{sfnp|Donelson|1779|p=4}} In October 1800, Caffrey advertised that he would soon "descend the river to New Orleans" in boats that were being constructed at Lancaster's saw-mill at the confluence of Caney Fork and the Cumberland River near present-day Carthage, Tennessee.{{Cite news |date=1800-10-22 |title=The subscriber intends to descend the river |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tennessee-gazette-the-subscriber-int/163943558/ |access-date=2025-01-26 |work=The Tennessee Gazette |pages=4}}{{Cite news |date=1803-08-03 |title=Lancaster Sawmill and Lancaster Grist Mill, Smith County, Tennessee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tennessee-gazette-and-metro-district/163956896/ |access-date=2025-01-26 |work=The Tennessee Gazette and Metro-District Advertiser |pages=5}} In 1936 a descendant wrote, "Their home was in Natchez, Miss., where John Caffery was engaged in the mercantile business, in the employ of Andrew Jackson."{{Cite news |date=1936-11-29 |title=Dropped Stitches in Southern History |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-commercial-appeal-dropped-stitches-i/163951103/ |access-date=2025-01-26 |work=The Commercial Appeal |pages=60}} An 1807 journal of the Natchez Trace suggests that she may have lived northeast of the Grindstone Ford.{{Cite book |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/maj.06158_0265_0271/ |title=Stockley Donelson Hays, June 20, 1807 |date=1807-06-20 |language=english}}

2.1. John Caffery Jr. m. Catherine Smith; Caffrey served in the Creek War and "killed an Indian" at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend{{Cite web |last=Kanon |first=Tom |date=November 20, 2007 |title=Regimental Histories of Tennessee Units During the War of 1812 |url=https://sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com/tsla/history/military/1812reg.htm |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=Tennessee Department of State: Tennessee State Library and Archives (sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com)}}

2.2. Rachel Caffery m. George Walker{{Efn|The Walker brothers who married the Caffrey sisters had a sister, Helen Walker Call, who was the mother of Richard Keith Call. Call was an officer in the Creek War and the War of 1812 under General Jackson, and was appointed governor of Florida Territory by President Andrew Jackson. Another Walker brother, David Walker, was the father of Florida governor David S. Walker.}}

2.3. Sarah Caffery m. John Walker

2.3.?. John George Walker

2.4. Eliza Caffery m. Abraham Green{{Efn|Son of Thomas M. Green Sr., brother of Thomas M. Green Jr. and Abner Green, brother-in-law of Thomas Hinds and Cato West }}

2.5. Mary "Patsy" Caffery m. John Knox{{Efn|Reportedly a cousin of James K. Polk}}

2.5.1. Sarah Knox m. (a) Benjamin Newton, (b) Dr. Arva Wilson, (c) George Washington Sevier Jr.;{{Efn|George Washington Sevier Jr. was a grandson of John Sevier}} many descendants of Knox's third marriage in Madison Parish, Louisiana{{Cite web |title=The Sevier Family of Madison Parish |url=https://sites.rootsweb.com/~lamadiso/articles/sevierfamily/sevierfamily.htm |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=sites.rootsweb.com |archive-date=2025-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250127070346/https://sites.rootsweb.com/~lamadiso/articles/sevierfamily/sevierfamily.htm |url-status=live }}

2.5.1c.1. Mary Catherine Sevier

2.5.1c.2. George Washington Sevier III

2.5.1c.3. Andrew Jackson Sevier

2.5.1c.4. Jennie Vertner Sevier

2.5.1c.5. Eliza Donelson Sevier

2.5.3. William Lucky Knox

2.6. Nancy Caffery m. John Jenkins

2.6.? Donelson Jenkins

2.7. Sophia Caffery m. Peter Aaron Van Dorn

2.7.1. Mary Van Dorn m. John Overton Lacey{{Cite web |title=Van Dorn, Peter |url=https://www.msgw.org/claiborne/firstfamilies/vandornpeter.html |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=www.msgw.org |archive-date=2023-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603210151/https://www.msgw.org/claiborne/firstfamilies/vandornpeter.html |url-status=live }}

2.7.2. Jane Van Dorn m. John David Vertner{{Cite web |date=July 1993 |editor-last=Crisler |editor-first=Edgar |others=Murray J. Smith Collection in the U.S. Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pa. |title=Letter from Octavia Van Dorn Sulivane to her sister, Jane Van Dorn Vertner, February 5, 1863 |url=https://milleralbum.com/wp-content/uploads/tmm-docs/Octavia-Letter.pdf |website=milleralbum.com}}

2.7.2.1. Daniel Vertner

2.7.2.2. Margaret Dunlop Vertner

2.7.2.3. Aaron Van Dorn Vertner, lieutenant, Confederate States Army; aide to his uncle Gen. Van Dorn and then to General Thomas C. Hindman;{{Cite news |date=1862-04-08 |title=Lieut. Vertner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-delta-lieut-vertner/164201455/ |access-date=2025-01-29 |work=The Daily Delta |pages=1}} killed at Shiloh

2.7.2.4. J. D. Vertner, Mississippi State Senator{{Cite news |date=1886-02-18 |title=Senator J. D. Vertner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/clarion-ledger-senator-j-d-vertner/164202642/ |access-date=2025-01-29 |work=Clarion-Ledger |pages=2}}

2.7.3. Octavia Van Dorn m. (a) Alison Ross, (b) Vance Murray Sulivane

2.6.3a.1. Isaac Allison Ross m. Eugenia Calhoun

2.7.3b.1. Clement Sulivane

2.7.3b.2. Octavia Sulivane{{Cite news |date=1851-07-18 |title=Probate Court |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-port-gibson-herald-and-corresponden/171318087/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |work=The Port Gibson Herald, and Correspondent |pages=2}}

2.7.4. Earl Van Dorn m. Caroline Godblod; he was awarded a West Point commission by intervention of Andrew Jackson

2.7.4.1. Olivia Van Dorn, married w four children

2.7.4.2. Earl Van Dorn Jr.

2.7.5. Aaron Van Dorn, an important early cartographer of Death Valley

2.7.6. Mabella Van Dorn; died in childhood; her sister Octavia survived the same illness

2.7.7. Sarah Ross Van Dorn, died as a child

2.7.8. Emily Donelson Van Dorn m. William Trigg Miller; Emily Van Dorn Miller is believed to have written A Soldier's Honor (1902) about her brother Earl Van Dorn's military career{{Cite web |title=A soldier's honor with reminiscences of Major-General Earl Van Dorn |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/262843748?oclcNum=262843748 |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=search.worldcat.org |language=en}}{{efn|W. T. Miller was from a Whig-aligned family with roots in Virginia and Kentucky; the father, Anderson Miller, was appointed to be the U.S. marshal for the Southern District of Mississippi in 1841, a brother Horace H. Miller was named charges des affaires for Bolivia in 1852.}}

2.7.8.?. Thomas Marshall Miller, attorney general of Mississippi{{Cite book |last=Fortier |first=Alcée |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_AxAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22william+t.+miller%22+van+dorn&pg=PA783 |title=Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form |date=1914 |publisher=Century historical association |pages=783 |language=en}}

2.7.9. Jacob Van Dorn, died as a child

2.8. Donelson Caffery m. Lydia Murphy, "wages and expenses" for him listed on a bill of "Aaron Burr in account with Andrew Jackson";{{Cite news |date=1828-09-09 |title=Jackson and Burr |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/pennsylvania-intelligencer-jackson-and-b/165195425/ |access-date=2025-02-11 |work=Pennsylvania Intelligencer |pages=2}} lived in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana in the 1810s;{{Cite news |date=1828-08-30 |title=To the Editor |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/republican-banner-to-the-editor/165194798/ |access-date=2025-02-11 |work=Republican Banner |pages=1}} appointed during the Jackson administration and served briefly in 1831 as collector of customs for the district of Teche and inspector of the revenue for the port of Franklin, Louisiana{{Cite news |date=1831-04-23 |title=Appointments by the President |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/niles-weekly-register-appointments-by-t/165195826/ |access-date=2025-02-11 |work=Niles' Weekly Register |pages=3}}{{Cite news |date=1831-10-07 |title=Appointments by the President |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/united-states-telegraph-appointments-by/165195882/ |access-date=2025-02-11 |work=United States' Telegraph |pages=3}}

2.9.1. Donelson Caffery II m. Bethia Richardson;{{Cite web |title=Dictionary of Louisiana Biography - C |url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-c/ |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Louisiana Historical Association |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531105740/https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-c/ |url-status=live }} family archive held in special collections at University of North CarolinaCollection Number: 02227 — Collection Title: Caffery Family Papers, 1838-1925 –

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/02227/

2.9.1.1. Donelson Caffrey III

2.9.1.2. Francis "Frank" Caffery

2.9.1.3. Ralph Earl Caffery

2.9.1.3.10. Patrick T. Caffery

2.9.1.4. Gertrude Caffery

2.9.1.5. John Murphy Caffery m. Mary Temperance Free; U.S. Naval Academy, businessman, Louisiana State Senator, lived Franklin, Louisiana{{Cite web |title=Caffery, John M. (1877–1958). Papers, 1817–1960 |url=https://archives.louisiana.edu/repositories/2/resources/50 |access-date=2025-04-20 |website=archives.louisiana.edu}}

2.9.1.6. St. John Liddell "Liddell" Caffrey

2.9.1.7. Bethia Richardson Caffery

2.9.1.8. Charles Smith Caffery, U.S. Army colonel, author of the Caffery family history/genealogy

2.9.1.9. Edward Webster Caffery

2.9.2. Emma Caffery m. Patrick Hardiman Thomson

2.10. Jane Caffery m. Ralph E. W. Earl

2.11. Jefferson Caffery m. Marie Alix Demarest{{Cite journal |last=Russell |first=Sarah |date=2005 |title=Intermarriage and Intermingling: Constructing the Planter Class in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1803-1850 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4234137 |journal=Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association |volume=46 |issue=4 |pages=407–434 |jstor=4234137 |issn=0024-6816}}{{Rp|page=419}}

2.11.3. Jefferson Jackson Caffery m. Anna Maria Crow

2.11.3.3. Charles Duval Caffery m. Mary Catherine Parkerson; mayor of Lafayette, Louisiana

2.11.3.3.1. Jefferson Caffery{{Cite journal |last=Dur |first=Philip F. |date=1974 |title=Jefferson Caffery of Louisiana: Highlights of His Career |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4231367 |journal=Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=5–34 |jstor=4231367 |issn=0024-6816}}

{{Anchor|Catherine Donelson Hutchings}}

3. Catherine Donelson m. Thomas Hutchings; Catherine was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia; like three of the Donelson brothers and Robert Hays, Hutchings worked as a land surveyor;{{sfnp|Inman|2017|p=81}}{{Cite web |title=Hutchings Family Papers |url=https://sos-tn-gov-files.tnsosfiles.com/forms/HUTCHINGS_FAMILY_PAPERS_1804-1970.pdf |website=TSLA}} Hutchings was part of Donelson's expedition on the Adventure{{sfnp|Donelson|1779|p=4}}

3.1. John Hutchings m. Mary "Polly" Smith;{{efn|Polly Smith was a niece of William Smith, U.S. Senator from South Carolina{{Cite journal |last=DeWitt |first=John H. |date=1931 |title=ANDREW JACKSON AND HIS WARD, ANDREW JACKSON HUTCHINGS: A History Hitherto Unpublished |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42638062 |journal=Tennessee Historical Magazine |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=83–106 |jstor=42638062 |issn=2333-9012}}}} served in the War of 1812/Creek War with Andrew Jackson

3.1.1. Andrew Jackson Hutchings m. Mary Coffee [6.7.1]

3.2. Lemuel Hutchings m. [unknown] Owen

3.2.1. Alexander Hutchings

3.2.2. Arthur Hutchings

3.2.3. Stokely Donelson Hutchings

3.2.?. Two other daughters

3.3. Christopher Hutchings m. Louisa Ann Edwards; served in the War of 1812/Creek War with Andrew Jackson; seemingly settled in Huntsville, Alabama

3.3.1. Mary Hutchings m. John H. Cross, owned plantation in Poinsett County, Arkansas

3.3.2. Elizabeth Cooke Hutchings

3.3.3. John Hutchings, seemingly died young

3.3.4. Frank Hutchings

3.3.5. Jackson Hutchings

3.3.6. Fannie A. Hutchings

3.3.7. John Hutchings

3.3.8. Stockley D. Hutchings, settled in Madison County, Alabama and was appointed postmaster of Huntsville, Alabama;Jackson's Victorious Return to Huntsville: One Fine Day

By Nancy Rohr

From The Huntsville Historical Review, Summer-Fall 2000, Volume 27, No. 2.

https://huntsvillehistorycollection.org/hhc/showhpg.php?id=328&a=article owned plantation in Holmes County, Mississippi

3.3.9. William E. Hutchings

3.4. Rachel Donelson Hutchings m. James Smith Rawlings; Rawlings admitted to practice as a lawyer in Mississippi Territory in 1806?;{{Cite web |title=Courts, judges, and lawyers of Mississippy, 1798-1935 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015069756123?urlappend=%3Bseq=16 |access-date=2025-06-07 |website=HathiTrust |page=4 |language=en}} Rawlings ran a tavern in Huntsville, Alabama circa 1819 that was later known as the Planter's Hotel{{Cite web |title=1819 Huntsville Map by Sarah Huff Fisk |url=https://huntsvillehistorycollection.org/hhc/showhpg.php?id=256&a=article |access-date=2025-05-30 |website=huntsvillehistorycollection.org}}

3.4.1. John Hutchings Rawlings m. Sarah Jane Hays [5.1.1.]

3.4.2. Eliza C. Rawlings

3.4.3. Edwin Rawlings

3.4.4. Jackson C. Rawlings

3.5. Mary Hutchings m. Daniel Small

3.6. Jennie Hutchings

3.7. Elizabeth Hutchings m. Bryant

3.8. Thomas Hutchings II, settled in Huntsville, Alabama

3.9. Stockley Donelson Hutchings m. Elizabeth Atwood; Stockley D. Hutchings was quartermaster sergeant in Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Volunteers in 1812{{Cite news |date=1812-12-16 |title=Tennessee Volunteers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-nashville-whig-tennessee-volunteers/166476316/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |work=The Nashville Whig |page=2 |volume=I |issue=17}} & {{Cite news |date=1812-12-16 |title=Tennessee Volunteers (cont'd) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-nashville-whig-tennessee-militia-co/161153159/ |page=3}}

3.9.1. Mary Catherine Hutchings m. James Murdack

3.9.2. Elizabeth A. Hutchings m. Andrew J. Coffee [6.7.4.]

3.10. William E. Hutchings

{{anchor|Stockley Donelson}}4. Stockley Donelson m. Elizabeth Glasgow, no issue;{{Efn|Daughter of James Glasgow, center of a North Carolina land speculation scandal; she remarried after Donelson's death}} described as "among the most prominent land speculators in the region;"{{Sfnp|Inman|2017|p=79}} he was appointed surveyor of the breakaway state of Franklin in 1784;{{Sfnp|Whitaker|1926|p=371}} implicated in the Glasgow land frauds and described by NCpedia as "the most active, charming, accommodating, cunning, and indefatigable practitioner of fraud and deceit to be found in the state service";Holloman, Charles R. 1986 "Glasgow, James." NCpedia. Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press. Accessed on April 26th, 2025.https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/glasgow-james. served in North Carolina state and Southwest territorial legislatures;{{Cite web |title=Collection: State of North Carolina Land Grant to Stockley Donelson {{!}} SCOUT |url=https://scout.lib.utk.edu/repositories/2/resources/532 |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=scout.lib.utk.edu}} in January 1805 he was a signatory to a petition protesting the court-martial of Thomas Butler, probably produced at the behest of Andrew Jackson;{{Cite web |title=American state papers : Documents, legislative and executive, of the Congress of the United States / Selected and edited under the authority of Congress ... Military affairs v. 1 1832. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35112103325876&seq=185 |access-date=2025-03-13 |website=HathiTrust |pages=173–174 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Hickey |first=Donald R. |date=1976 |title=Andrew Jackson and the Army Haircut: Individual Rights vs. Military Discipline |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42623606 |journal=Tennessee Historical Quarterly |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=365–375 |jstor=42623606 |issn=0040-3261}} died September 1805

{{Anchor|Jane Donelson Hays}}

5. Jane Donelson m. Robert Hays; Hays founded a settlement called Haysborough;{{Cite news |last=Everett |first=Grace |date=1944-02-14 |others=Madison County (Tennessee) Historical Society |title=The Hays Family, Part II |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-jackson-sun-the-hays-family-part-ii/162030076/ |access-date=2025-01-01 |work=The Jackson Sun |pages=3}} Jane outlived all but one of her siblings{{Cite news |date=1834-02-13 |title=DIED: Mrs. Jane Hays |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/national-banner-and-daily-advertiser-die/165155014/ |access-date=2025-02-17 |work=National Banner and Daily Advertiser |pages=3}}

5.1. Rachel Hays m. Robert Butler

5.1.1. Andrew Jackson Butler{{Cite journal |last=Jackson |first=Andrew |date=2013 |title=The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume IX, 1831 |url=https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_jackson/8/ |journal=The Papers of Andrew Jackson |pages=xxxiv–xxxv}}

5.1.2. Mary Lucinda Butler

5.2 Stockley Donelson Hays m. Lydia Butler

5.2.1. Sarah Jane Hays m. John Hutchings Rawlings [3.4.1.]

5.2.2. Richard Jackson "Hickory" "Dick" Hays; admitted to West Point in 1838, where he was in the same class as Henry Eustis, William S. Rosecrans, John Pope, Abner Doubleday, James Longstreet, Cave Johnson Couts, and his cousin Earl Van Dorn, but he was ranked 85 out of 86 students his first year ("remarks: deficient"){{Cite web |title=v1839 18 |url=https://usmalibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16919coll3/id/824/rec/1 |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=usmalibrary.contentdm.oclc.org |language=en}} and did not graduate;{{Cite news |date=1899-02-14 |title=One of the Pioneers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tennessean-one-of-the-pioneers/172042372/ |access-date=2025-05-09 |work=The Tennessean |pages=7}} first mayor of Jackson, Tennessee, prominent judge and lawyer{{Cite news |date=1913-09-27 |title=Dead Towns of Tennessee, No. 4: Kingsport, Montezuma, Haysborough by J. G. Cisco |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/nashville-banner-dead-towns-of-tennessee/166689009/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |work=Nashville Banner |pages=26}}{{Cite news |date=1944-02-20 |title=The Hays Family, Vol. VII |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-jackson-sun-the-hays-family-vol-vi/166699502/ |access-date=2025-02-26 |work=The Jackson Sun |pages=3}}

5.2.2.1. Stokley D. Hays, lawyer

5.2.2.2. [daughter] m. Ross Witherspoon

5.3. Martha Thompson Hays, called Patsy, m. Dr. William E. Butler{{Cite web |date=2003-03-25 |title=Riverside Cemetery, Jackson, Tennessee |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/177ef9c7-070e-41d0-94fd-90ff138fe1a6 |work=National Register of Historic Places Applications |via=nps.gov}}

5.3.1. William Ormonde Butler m. Martha Ann Hale; officer Mexican–American War{{Cite news |last=C.W.C. |date=1904-11-27 |title=Ormonde–Duboyne–Butler |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-ormondeduboynebutler/171989810/ |work=The Baltimore Sun |location=Baltimore, Maryland |page=8 |volume=CXXXVI |issue=11 |issn=1930-8965 |oclc=244481759}}

5.3.1.1. Mary Ormonde Butler m. Thomas Henderson (CSA)

5.3.1.2. Martha A. Butler m. C. W. Chancellor (CSA, consul at Havre, France)

5.3.1.3. William Edward Butler Jr. m. Susan P. Henderson; Confederate officer

5.3.?. Mary Jane Butler

5.4. Samuel Jackson Hays m. Frances Middleton

5.4.1. Andrew Jackson Hays m. Elizabeth McLemore Walker{{Cite book |last=Mooney |first=Charles Patrick Joseph |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S7-tadQyW1gC&dq=%22samuel+j.+hays%22&pg=PA700 |title=The Mid-South and Its Builders: Being the Story of the Development and a Forecast of the Future of the Richest Agricultural Region in the World |date=1920 |publisher=T.W. Briggs Company |pages=700–701 |language=en}}{{efn|Elizabeth McLemore Walker > James Monroe Walker > Mary McLemore > John C. McLemore.}}

5.4.1.?. James Walker Hays, business manager Memphis Commercial Appeal

5.4.?. Robert B. Hays{{Cite news |date=1907-02-23 |title=Leading Citizen of Arlington Dies of Pneumonia |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-commercial-appeal-leading-citizen-of/166688701/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |work=The Commercial Appeal |pages=4}}

5.4.?. John Middleton Hays; dropped out of UNC to join Confederate Army, wounded at Shiloh, "rode with Forrest,"{{Cite news |date=1926-05-16 |title=John Middleton Hays Dies in Jackson Home |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-commercial-appeal-john-middleton-hay/172056703/ |access-date=2025-05-09 |work=The Commercial Appeal |pages=5}} cofounded local chapter of Ku Klux Klan{{Cite news |date=1944-02-20 |title=The Hays Family - Chapter VII |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-jackson-sun-the-hays-family-chapte/166699502/ |access-date=2025-05-09 |work=The Jackson Sun |pages=3}}

5.5. Narcissa Hays (unmarried, no issue); as "Aunt Nar," raised her grandnephew Chester George Bond, later a judge; Aunt Nar was said to be a great fisherwoman{{Cite news |last=Stegall |first=Eleanor Hays |date=1926-09-19 |title=Judge Chester G. Bond, the Portrait of an Early Settler of Madison County |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-jackson-sun-judge-chester-g-bond-t/166690230/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |work=The Jackson Sun |pages=4}}

5.6 Elizabeth Hays m. Robert I. Chester;{{efn|Chester's second wife was Jane Roysler Donelson, widow of 10.6. Samuel Rucker Donelson.{{cite web |work=Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790–1959 |publisher=FamilySearch |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKH9-J69X |title=Entry for Robert I Chester and Jane P Donelson, 22 Jan 1855}}{{Cite web |title=Tennessee cousins; a history of Tennessee people |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015002678640&seq=582&q1=Hays |access-date=2025-02-15 |website=HathiTrust |page=556 |language=en}}}} R. I. Chester is the namesake of Chester County, Tennessee

{{Anchor|John Donelson II}}

{{Anchor|John Donelson III}}

6. John Donelson III m. Mary Purnell; Mary was a 16-year-old pregnant newlywed at the time of the Adventure journey;{{Cite news |date=1848-12-04 |title=From the Presbyterian Record |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/republican-banner-from-the-presbyterian/164045459/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |work=Republican Banner |pages=2}} Andrew Jackson called her "Sister Mary"{{Cite news |date=1982-12-19 |title=Christmas at Cleveland Hall Remembered |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tennessean-christmas-at-cleveland-ha/164052046/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |work=The Tennessean |pages=104}} John III reportedly served in the American Revolutionary War,{{Cite news |date=1930-06-22 |title=Donelson Homes of Jackson Period Still Standing Near Nashville |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/nashville-banner-donelson-homes-of-jacks/166688436/ |access-date=2025-02-26 |work=Nashville Banner |pages=77}} and was one of several brothers and brothers-in-law who was trained as a surveyor;{{Sfnp|Inman|2017|p=81}} resident in the Cole's Creek neighborhood of the Spanish Natchez District in the 1790s{{cite web |last=Gillis |first=Norman |title=Early Inhabitants of the Natchez District |url=https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/38702-early-inhabitants-of-the-natchez-district |page=16 |id=FHL 153410}}

6.1. Chesed Donelson (died in infancy){{Cite news |date=1982-12-19 |title=Christmas at Cleveland Hall |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tennessean-christmas-at-cleveland-ha/164043052/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |work=The Tennessean |pages=103}}

6.2. Tabitha Donelson m. George Smith{{Efn|Son of U.S. Senator Daniel Smith}}

6.3. Alexander Donelson, called "Sandy,"{{Cite journal |last=DeWitt |first=John H. |date=1916 |title=Letters of General John Coffee to His Wife, 1813–1815 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44698718 |journal=Tennessee Historical Magazine |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=264–295 |jstor=44698718 |issn=2333-9012}} scouted lands on the Tombigbee in 1811, participated in the fight with the Benton brothers in Nashville in September 1813;{{Cite web |title="Now Defend Yourself, You Damned Rascal!" |url=https://www.americanheritage.com/now-defend-yourself-you-damned-rascal |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=AMERICAN HERITAGE |language=en}} aide-de-camp to brother-in-law John Coffee;{{Cite news |date=1848-12-02 |title=DIED - Mary Purnell Donelson |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/nashville-union-and-american-died-mary/165155504/ |access-date=2025-02-10 |work=Nashville Union and American |pages=2}} shot in the head and killed at the Battle of Emuckfaw in January 1814{{Cite news |date=1848-12-04 |title=Mary Purnell Donelson obituary (continued) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/republican-banner-mary-purnell-donelson/164045733/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |work=Republican Banner |pages=3}}

6.4. John Donelson IV m. Eliza Eleanor Butler;{{Efn|Eliza Eleanor Butler was one of four siblings who were made wards of Andrew Jackson; Edward Butler was her father, Edward G. W. Butler was her brother}} "after engaging in several Indian battles, was appointed Captain of U. S. Rangers by President Madison. He fought under General Jackson in the battle around New Orleans, and at the storming of Pensacola." Jesse Benton alleged that Donelson and John Gordon aided Jackson in a predatory land speculation in Pensacola in 1817–18 in conjunction with Jackson's invasion of Florida.{{Cite web |title=Feb 24, 1825, page 5 - Lancaster Intelligencer at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/558823773/ |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}} May have been known as Captain Jack Donelson.{{Cite news |date=1924-09-12 |title=Huge Lake Overflows Scenes of Happy Days |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-florence-herald-huge-lake-overflows/170884839/ |access-date=2025-04-22 |work=The Florence Herald |pages=15}}

6.5. Lemuel Donelson m. Eliza White{{Efn|Daughter of Judge Hugh Lawson White}}

6.6. Rachel Donelson m. William Eastin{{Cite news |date=1829-09-19 |title=DEATH: William Eastin |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-national-intelligencer-and-washing/163392534/ |access-date=2025-01-19 |work=Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express |pages=3}}

6.6.1 Mary Eastin m. Lucius Junius Polk,{{Efn|Older brother of Leonidas Polk}} eight children

6.6.2. Elizabeth Donelson Eastin m. Samuel Rucker Donelson [10.6.]

6.6.3. John Donelson Eastin

6.6.4. Rachel Jackson Eastin

6.7. Mary Donelson m. John Coffee{{Cite journal |last=DeWitt |first=John H. |date=1916 |title=Letters of General John Coffee to His Wife, 1813-1815 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44698718 |journal=Tennessee Historical Magazine |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=264–295 |jstor=44698718 |issn=2333-9012}}

6.7.1. Mary Donelson Coffee m. Andrew Jackson Hutchings [3.1.1]

6.7.2. John Donelson Coffee m. Mary Narcissa Brahan;{{Efn|Daughter of John Brahan, granddaughter of Robert Weakley}} had granddaughters Mary Percy Coffee Long, and Sarah Donelson Coffee, of Memphis{{Cite journal |last=Milner |first=James W. |date=1931 |title=MEMORIAL TO ROBERT DYAS 1861 to 1928 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42638068 |journal=Tennessee Historical Magazine |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=146–148 |jstor=42638068 |issn=2333-9012}}

6.7.3. Elizabeth Graves Coffee

6.7.4. Andrew Jackson Coffee m. Elizabeth Hutchings [3.9.2.]; West Point appointment during Jackson's presidency;{{Cite web |title=List of cadets admitted into the United States Military academy, West Point, N. Y., from its origin till September 1, 1886 ... Comp. under the direction of ... |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015063758067&seq=24 |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=HathiTrust |language=en}} Andrew Jackson bequeathed him a sword;{{Cite news |date=1861-06-14 |title=The Three Swords |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/carlisle-weekly-herald-the-three-swords/168914379/ |access-date=2025-03-26 |work=Carlisle Weekly Herald |pages=2}} officer in the Mexican-American War, government surveyor in California in the 1850s, settled there and died in Oakland{{Cite news |date=1891-03-13 |title=Andrew J. Coffee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/san-francisco-chronicle-andrew-j-coffee/168916183/ |access-date=2025-03-26 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |pages=8}}

6.7.4.1. Kate Coffee m. Charles J. McDougal; she kept the Mare Island Lighthouse for 35 years and raised four children there{{Cite web |last=Riley |first=Brendan |date=2018-09-13 |title=Brendan Riley's Solano Chronicles: A Tale of Two Lighthouses |url=https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2018/09/12/brendan-rileys-solano-chronicles-a-tale-of-two-lighthouses-3/ |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=Times Herald Online |language=en-US}}

6.7.4.2. Susan Coffee m. Lewis C. Heilner, U.S. Navy

6.7.4.2.1. Katherine Heilner m. Ray Strath MacDonald; Katherine H. MacDonald was an artist{{Cite web |title=Katherine H. MacDonald Biography {{!}} Annex Galleries Fine Prints |url=https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/1466/MacDonald/Katherine |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=www.annexgalleries.com}}

6.7.4.2.1.1. Ray Strath MacDonald II

6.7.4.3. John Coffee

6.7.4.4. Frank L. Coffee

6.7.4.5. Andrew J. Coffee Jr.

6.7.5. Alexander Donelson Coffee m. (a) Ann E. Sloss (b). Mrs. Camilla Madding Jones; Coffee was an Alabama cotton plantation, factory owner, and captain in Confederate States Army{{Cite web |last=Gurner |first=Kayla Scott |date=November 5, 2015 |title=Coffee, Alexander Donelson |url=https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/alexander-donelson-coffee/ |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=Encyclopedia of Alabama |language=en-US}}

6.7.5a.1. Mary Coffee m. (a) Edward A. O'Neal Jr.{{efn|O'Neal was the son of Alabama Governor Edward A. O'Neal}} (b) Campbell

6.7.5a.1.1. Edward O'Neal III

6.7.5b.1. Eliza Coffee

6.7.6. Rachel Jackson Coffee m. A. J. Dyas; the Tennessee State Library and Archives holds the Dyas collection of Coffee family manuscripts{{Cite web|url=https://sos-tn-gov-files.tnsosfiles.com/forms/DYAS_COLLECTION_JOHN_COFFEE_PAPERS_1770-1917.pdf|title=DYAS COLLECTION – JOHN COFFEE PAPERS 1770–1917; Processed by Harriet Chappell Owsley}}

6.7.6.1. Robert Dyas

6.7.6.2. Alex. J. Dyas; lived at Asheville, North Carolina

6.7.6.2.1. Rachel Dyas

6.7.6.2.2. Hammond Dyas

6.7.6.2.3. Alexander J. Dyas

6.7.6.2.4. John Dyas

6.7.7. Katherine Coffee

6.7.8. Emily Coffee, died in childhood{{Cite web |last=Heiskell |first=S. G. |title=Andrew Jackson and early Tennessee history v.2. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hx4lvk&seq=183&q1=%22Andrew+Jackson+Coffee%22 |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=HathiTrust |page=438 |language=en}}

6.7.9. William Coffee m. Virginia Malone; Confederate Army officer; had a grandson, Charles A. Nye of Texas

6.7.10. Joshua Coffee

6.8. William "Billey" Donelson m. (a) Rachel Donelson [10.2],{{Cite web |title=Emily Donelson of Tennessee, by Pauline Wilcox Burke v.1. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b538590&seq=110 |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=HathiTrust |language=en}} (b) Elizabeth Anderson, (c) Martha Anderson

6.9. Elizabeth Donelson m. John Christmas McLemore, surveyor and land speculator{{Cite web |last=Downing |first=Marvin |date=October 8, 2017 |title=McLemore, John Christmas |url=https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/john-christmas-mclemore/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Tennessee Encyclopedia |language=en-US}}

6.9.1. Mary McLemore

6.9.2. Andrew Jackson McLemore

6.10. Catherine Donelson m. James Glasgow Martin{{Cite web |title=Martin, Catherine Donelson |url=https://tnportraits.org/portrait/martin-catherine-donelson/ |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Tennessee Portrait Project |language=en-US}} (James Glasgow Martin's mother Elizabeth Glasgow was married first to Stockley Donelson, second to John Anderson, third to John Martin); the Maj. John G. Martin plantation was called Clifton{{Cite news |last=Dorris |first=Mary C. |date=1900-08-06 |title=Romantic Period of the Old Hermitage |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tennessean-romantic-period-of-the-ol/162526115/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |work=The Tennessean |pages=7}}

6.10.1. Elizabeth Anderson Martin m. (a) Meriwether Lewis Randolph,{{Efn|Son of Thomas Mann Randolph and Martha Jefferson (daughter of Thomas Jefferson)}} (b) Andrew Jackson Donelson [8.2]; Andrew Jackson appointed Randolph to be secretary of Arkansas Territory{{sfnp|Cheathem|2007|p=144}}

6.10.1a.1. Lewis Jackson Randolph, died in childhood{{sfnp|Cheathem|2007|p=144}}

6.10.2. James Glasgow Martin II m. Mary Donelson [8.3.?. ]

6.10.3. Catherine Donelson Martin

6.10.4. Mary Donelson Martin m. Robert B. Currey

6.10.5. Emily Donelson Martin m. George W. Currey

6.10.6. Rachel Jackson Martin

6.10.7. John Donelson Martin, killed at Shiloh

6.10.7.1. John Donelson Martin

6.10.7.1.1. John Donelson Martin

6.10.8. Andrew Jackson Martin m. Anna Nye

6.11. Chesed Purnell Donelson

6.12. Stockley Donelson m. Phila Ann Lawrence; builders of Cleveland Hall; "family of beautiful daughters"

6.12.1. John Lawrence Donelson

6.12.4. Emily Donelson m. (a) John E. Boddie, (b) William Walton, wrote Autobiography of Emily Donelson Walton

6.13. Emily Tennessee Donelson m. Andrew Jackson Donelson [8.2]

{{anchor|William Donelson}}

7. William Donelson m. Charity Dickerson; remembered as a "very wealthy man," he lived in the vicinity of Dry Creek and Mansker's Creek;{{Cite news |last=Anderson |first=Douglas |date=1927-10-02 |title=Roads and Residents of a Century Gone (Part III) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/nashville-banner-roads-and-residents-of/163803548/ |access-date=2025-01-24 |work=Nashville Banner |pages=48}} was trained as a surveyor;Robert Weakley[./Donelson_family#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInman201781-37 [32]] "Robert Weakley, in later years, told Lyman Draper about a meeting held in 1794 at Colonel William Donelson's...'to concert measures for a campaign against Nickajack'"{{Cite journal |last=Robinson |first=Dan M. |date=1967 |title=Robert Hays, Unsung Pioneer of the Cumberland, Country |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42622953 |journal=Tennessee Historical Quarterly |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=263–278 [269] |jstor=42622953 |issn=0040-3261}}

7.1. Mary Donelson m. Dr. Hamblen

7.2. Severn Donelson

7.3. Jacob Donelson

7.4. Martha H. Donelson m. Robert Minns Burton

7.6. Milberry Donelson m. John McGregor

7.6.4. Donelson McGregor, killed at the Battle of Murfreesboro

7.7. Andrew Jackson Donelson, of Louisiana{{Cite book |last=Clayton |first=W. Woodford |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ipEAQAAMAAJ&q=severn&pg=PA73 |title=History of Davidson County, Tennessee |date=1880 |publisher=J. W. Lewis & Company |isbn=978-0-7222-4833-1 |language=en}}

7.8. Elizabeth Hays Donelson

7.9. Rachel Donelson

7.10. Alexander S. Donelson

7.11. William Donelson II

7.?. I. D. Donelson, of Mississippi

7.?. Others, married Bartons

{{anchor|Samuel Donelson}}

8. Samuel Donelson m. Mary "Polly" Smith{{Efn|Daughter of U.S. Senator Daniel Smith; Andrew Jackson helped the couple elope and father Smith was mad}}; Polly Smith's second husband James Sanders and Andrew Jackson did not get along{{sfnp|Cheathem|2007|pp=11–12}}

8.1. John Samuel Donelson, served with Jackson in Creek War, worked as a surveyor, died of illness 1817{{sfnp|Cheathem|2007|p=16}}

8.2. Andrew Jackson Donelson m. (a) Emily Tennessee Donelson [6.13], (b) Elizabeth Anderson Martin Randolph [6.10.1]; Donelson served with Jackson in First Seminole War; J. F. H. Claiborne was quite scathing about A. J. Donelson, describing him as "a shallow, self-important personage, who was in his native element when engaged in petty intrigue" and a "weak man, inflated with conceit, whose whole importance flowed from his proximity to Jackson."{{Cite web |title=Mississippi, as a province, territory and state, with biographical notices of eminent citizens... V. I. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001707298&seq=474&q1=Donelson&start=1 |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=HathiTrust |language=en}}

8.2a.1. Andrew Jackson Donelson II,{{Cite web |title=Andrew Jackson: Family History |url=https://www.loc.gov/collections/andrew-jackson-papers/articles-and-essays/andrew-jackson-family-history/ |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA |archive-date=2025-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250107230715/https://www.loc.gov/collections/andrew-jackson-papers/articles-and-essays/andrew-jackson-family-history/ |url-status=live }} attended West Point, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, died of illness in Memphis{{sfnp|Cheathem|2007|p=311}}

8.2a.?. Mary Rachel Donelson?{{Cite journal |last=Jackson |first=Andrew |date=2019 |title=The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume XI, 1833 |url=https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_jackson/13/ |journal=The Papers of Andrew Jackson |pages=xxxii–xxxiii}}

8.2a.?. John Samuel Donelson, "commanded Hickory Rifles" in Confederate States Army, killed battle of Chickamauga{{sfnp|Cheathem|2007|p=323}}

8.2a.?. Mary Emily Donelson m. John Alexander Wilcox; Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox wrote about the Donelson–Jackson family in the 1890s;{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZFwgjxwJYg0C&dq=%22rachel+donelson%22+adventure&pg=PA25 |title=American Illustrated Magazine |date=1898 |publisher=Crowell-Collier Publishing Company |language=en}} Wilcox was a Mississippi Congressman;{{sfnp|Cheathem|2007|p=279}} he died of heart trouble during the American Civil War{{sfnp|Cheathem|2007|p=323}}

8.2a.?.1. Andrew Donelson Wilcox

8.2a.?.1.1. Pauline Wilcox m. Burke, wrote Emily Donelson of Tennessee

8.2a.4. Rachel Jackson Donelson m. William B. Knox{{sfnp|Cheathem|2007|p=316}}

8.2b.1. Daniel S. Donelson, a Confederate Inspector General during Siege of Vicksburg; murdered in Mississippi in 1864, apparently by bushwackwers{{sfnp|Cheathem|2007|p=323}}{{Cite news |date=1864-05-01 |title=The Murder in DeSoto, Miss. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/memphis-bulletin-the-murder-in-desoto-m/166765594/ |access-date=2025-02-26 |work=Memphis Bulletin |pages=3}}

8.2b.2. Martin Donelson

8.2b.3. William Alexander Donelson, murdered in Davidson County in 1900{{Cite news |date=1900-07-23 |title=Steady Aim of the Assassin |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tennessean-steady-aim-of-the-assassi/164052812/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |work=The Tennessean |pages=1}}

8.2b.4. Catherine "Katie" Donelson, died at 18 of "inflammation of the brain"{{sfnp|Cheathem|2007|p=328}}

8.2b.5. Vinet Donelson

8.2b.6. Lewis Randolph Donelson

8.2b.7. Rosa Elizabeth Donelson, died in infancy{{sfnp|Cheathem|2007|p=323}}

8.2b.8. Andrew Jackson Donelson

8.3. Daniel Smith Donelson m. Margaret Branch;{{Efn|Daughter of Secretary of the Navy John Branch}} Major General in Confederate Army

8.3.?. Mary Donelson m. James Glasgow Martin II [6.10.2.]

{{anchor|Rachel Donelson}}

9. Rachel Donelson m. (a) Lewis Robards, (b) Andrew Jackson

9b.1. Andrew Jackson Jr. [born as 10.4.] m. Sarah Yorke Jackson; Sarah Yorke Jackson's widowed sister Marion Yorke Adams and her three children lived at the Hermitage, Adams staying until her death in 1877{{Cite news |date=1878-02-09 |title=The Hermitage: Reminiscences Suggested by Silver Wedding |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tennessean-the-hermitage-reminiscen/164048124/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |work=The Tennessean |pages=3}}

9b.1.1. Rachel Jackson m. Dr. John M. Lawrence, nine children

9b.1.2. Andrew Jackson III m. Amy Rich; Andrew Jackson bequeathed him a sword; colonel in Confederate States Army

9b.1.2.1. Andrew Jackson IV

9b.1.2.2. Albert Marble Jackson

9b.1.3. Thomas Jackson, died in infancy

9b.1.4. Samuel Jackson, lieutenant in Confederate States Army, died from wounds received at Chickamauga

9b.1.5. Robert Jackson, died in infancy

{{anchor|Severn Donelson}}

10. Severn Donelson m. Elizabeth Rucker; Severn Donelson was "severely" wounded by what was likely a "friendly fire" shooting{{Cite news |date=1847-09-17 |title=The Nickajack Campaign |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/nashville-union-and-american-the-nickaja/164048624/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |work=Nashville Union and American |pages=2}} during James Robertson's Nickajack Expedition against the Cherokees;{{Cite book |last1=Witt |first1=John Hibbert De |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xbRYAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22severn+donelson%22&pg=PA280 |title=Tennessee Historical Magazine |last2=Provine |first2=William Alexander |last3=Sloussat |first3=St George Leakin |date=1918 |publisher=The Society |pages=280 |language=en}} he was said to be "fond of a dram and took several every day";{{Cite book |last=Guild |first=Josephus Conn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zmsUAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22severn+donelson%22&pg=PA396 |title=Old Times in Tennessee: With Historical, Personal, and Political Scraps and Sketches |date=1878 |publisher=Tavel, Eastman & Howell |pages=396 |language=en}} according to big sister Rachel Donelson Jackson, he died of "dropsy of the chest" in 1818.{{Cite news |date=1889-06-18 |title=Wife of Andrew Jackson: Characteristic Letter from a Noble Woman |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tennessean-wife-of-andrew-jackson-c/164049194/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |work=The Tennessean |pages=5}}

10.1. Rachel Donelson m. William Donelson [6.8]; Rachel died the day of A.J. Donelson's wedding to Emily Tennessee Donelson{{sfnp|Cheathem|2007|p=37}}

10.2. John Donelson

10.3. James Rucker Donelson

10.4. Andrew Jackson Jr. [adopted as 9b.1.]

10.5. Thomas J. Donelson [twin of 10.4] m. Emma Yorke Farquhar{{Efn|Emma Yorke Farquar was a first cousin of Sarah Yorke, the wife of Andrew Jackson Jr. (who was Thomas J. Donelson's twin); Sarah's parents Peter and Mary (Haines) Yorke died when she was a child, and she and her two sisters was raised by their paternal aunts Elizabeth Yorke (Mrs. George Farquar) and Martha Yorke (Mrs. Mordecai Witherill).}}

10.6. Samuel Rucker Donelson m. (a) Elizabeth Eastin [6.6.2.] (b) Jane Roysler

10.7. Lucinda O. Rucker Donelson m. George Washington Martin; Col. Martin was involved in registering land claims for the General Land Office in the 1830s;{{Cite book |last=United States. |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010407243 |title=Land claims, &c., under 14th article Choctaw treaty. May 11, 1836. Mr. Bell, from the Committee ... made the following report. |date=1836 |publisher=Blair & Rives, printers |series=24th Cong., 1st sess. House. Report; no. 663 |location=Washington}} surveyed the 85-acre land claim of Puck-tish-nubbee, a dowager queen of the Choctaw, who "claimed the land under the provisions of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek;" the claim was later sold to William M. Gwin;{{Cite news |last=Abernathy |first=Harry |date=1981-03-29 |title=Old Delta was once area's main town |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-clarksdale-press-register-old-delta/170627026/ |access-date=2025-04-19 |work=The Clarksdale Press Register |pages=12}} U.S. Senator George Poindexter suggested that Martin (and future Mississippi historian J. F. H. Claiborne) may have been involved in some kind of land scandal in 1835{{Cite news |date=1840-09-11 |title=Gen. Jackson |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/southern-banner-gen-jackson/171159902/ |access-date=2025-04-26 |work=Southern Banner |pages=5}}

10.7.1. Andrew Jackson Martin

10.8. Alexander Donelson m. Kate Roysler

11. Leven Donelson (unmarried, no issue)