European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday March 16, 1987 the stars and stripes Page s postman Lancaster. . Up the . Postal service completed inc Tricky Lask saturday of cancel ing the special Andrew Jackson commemorative amp on 4,000 letter without liking sides in the feud Over the actual Birthplace or the nation s seventh president the commemorative series issued last year Hon or . Presidents from George Washington through Lyndon b. Johnson. The special Cancella Tion Tor Jackson s Blue and beige stamp shows old Hickory s profile and i presidential Birthplace station As Waxhaw n.c.-s.c., said Lancaster Post master Jiro Little ,. The cancellations Bear the Date March 15, Jack son s birthday Little said the postal Agency offered collectors a special cancellation on its Andrew Jackson com Memora ivc stamp i Don t know if anybody can my definitely what his Birthplace la said Little who received about 4,000 cancellation requests from no sides in Jackson feud philatelists around inc s still in dispute but we re doing inc cancellations Here orc rally he studies and biographies differ markedly on Jackson s roots. In the presidents a reference history Richard r Launcr says the feisty states Man was born in the Waxhaw settlement a Frontier order area Between North and South Carolina and in facts about the presidents Joseph Nathan Kane reports Jackson s Birthplace simply As Wax Haw , Waxhaw is in North Carolina just across the stale line from Lancaster. But Many in Lancaster Point to Helen Kohn Hennig s great South carolinians in which the author cites a Teller from Jack son to architect Robert Mills thanking him Tor a map of the District of Lancaster in which i was born we know where he was bom said Tom while vice president of the. Lancaster county chamber of of inc Border local Wisdom holds thai Jack ton was born about eight Miles North of the sout Carolina town of Lancaster where a Roadside Marker on us. 521 commemorates inc county s native son while Taid. And inc county also boasts Andrew Jackson state Park and Andrew Jackson High school. But the ,400 residents of Waxhaw n.c., Don take Loo kindly to their neighbors claims we All claim Andrew Jackson was born in Nort Carolina said Waxhaw town clerk Bonnie mama Nus. We had a Man who came in Here one Day an said Andrew Jackson Vas born in South Carolina. We told him if he Ever wanted to come in town Hal again he d never say that the town s logo features a likeness of Jackson standing in front of a log Cabin where he supposedly was born about seven Miles South of the Union county town 1985 letter purportedly links Bush to Contra Aid network run by North Washington
