Great-nephew of Rachel Donelson, wife of President Andrew Jackson.
Son of William Lucius Polk Eastin and Rachel Jackson Donelson.
He attended the University of North Carolina (1838)
Plantation owner, Mississippi delegate to the 1857 Southern Commercial Convention (JDB DeBow, President) at Knoxville, Tenn.
Married Sarah Amanda Galloway (1827-1857) at Pecan Grove, Carroll Parish, Louisiana on 23 November 1848, with whom he had four children: Mary Polk, James, Susan Amanda and Rosa Jackson.
After his wife's death, the three daughters were sent to live with Eastin's sister, Rachel Jackson Eastin Currey, and her family in Knoxville - confirmed on the 1860 census. Son James Eastin may have died young or is elsewhere. After the Curreys died in 1865, the daughters went to live in Maury County, as noted in society newspaper notices - and where J.D. Eastin's sister, Mary Polk Littlefield lived.
John D. Eastin was an important man whose comings and goings were sometimes noted in the newspapers of the time.
John D. Eastin is last found on the 1870 census for Bolivar County with future son-in-law Hyder Davie Bedon (Hyder's brother, Dr. William Zadinski Bedon, is buried at Burrus Cemetery, near Benoit in Bolivar County).
Son of William Lucius Polk Eastin and Rachel Jackson Donelson.
He attended the University of North Carolina (1838)
Plantation owner, Mississippi delegate to the 1857 Southern Commercial Convention (JDB DeBow, President) at Knoxville, Tenn.
Married Sarah Amanda Galloway (1827-1857) at Pecan Grove, Carroll Parish, Louisiana on 23 November 1848, with whom he had four children: Mary Polk, James, Susan Amanda and Rosa Jackson.
After his wife's death, the three daughters were sent to live with Eastin's sister, Rachel Jackson Eastin Currey, and her family in Knoxville - confirmed on the 1860 census. Son James Eastin may have died young or is elsewhere. After the Curreys died in 1865, the daughters went to live in Maury County, as noted in society newspaper notices - and where J.D. Eastin's sister, Mary Polk Littlefield lived.
John D. Eastin was an important man whose comings and goings were sometimes noted in the newspapers of the time.
John D. Eastin is last found on the 1870 census for Bolivar County with future son-in-law Hyder Davie Bedon (Hyder's brother, Dr. William Zadinski Bedon, is buried at Burrus Cemetery, near Benoit in Bolivar County).
Great-nephew of Rachel Donelson, wife of President Andrew Jackson.
Son of William Lucius Polk Eastin and Rachel Jackson Donelson.
He attended the University of North Carolina (1838)
Plantation owner, Mississippi delegate to the 1857 Southern Commercial Convention (JDB DeBow, President) at Knoxville, Tenn.
Married Sarah Amanda Galloway (1827-1857) at Pecan Grove, Carroll Parish, Louisiana on 23 November 1848, with whom he had four children: Mary Polk, James, Susan Amanda and Rosa Jackson.
After his wife's death, the three daughters were sent to live with Eastin's sister, Rachel Jackson Eastin Currey, and her family in Knoxville - confirmed on the 1860 census. Son James Eastin may have died young or is elsewhere. After the Curreys died in 1865, the daughters went to live in Maury County, as noted in society newspaper notices - and where J.D. Eastin's sister, Mary Polk Littlefield lived.
John D. Eastin was an important man whose comings and goings were sometimes noted in the newspapers of the time.
John D. Eastin is last found on the 1870 census for Bolivar County with future son-in-law Hyder Davie Bedon (Hyder's brother, Dr. William Zadinski Bedon, is buried at Burrus Cemetery, near Benoit in Bolivar County).
Son of William Lucius Polk Eastin and Rachel Jackson Donelson.
He attended the University of North Carolina (1838)
Plantation owner, Mississippi delegate to the 1857 Southern Commercial Convention (JDB DeBow, President) at Knoxville, Tenn.
Married Sarah Amanda Galloway (1827-1857) at Pecan Grove, Carroll Parish, Louisiana on 23 November 1848, with whom he had four children: Mary Polk, James, Susan Amanda and Rosa Jackson.
After his wife's death, the three daughters were sent to live with Eastin's sister, Rachel Jackson Eastin Currey, and her family in Knoxville - confirmed on the 1860 census. Son James Eastin may have died young or is elsewhere. After the Curreys died in 1865, the daughters went to live in Maury County, as noted in society newspaper notices - and where J.D. Eastin's sister, Mary Polk Littlefield lived.
John D. Eastin was an important man whose comings and goings were sometimes noted in the newspapers of the time.
John D. Eastin is last found on the 1870 census for Bolivar County with future son-in-law Hyder Davie Bedon (Hyder's brother, Dr. William Zadinski Bedon, is buried at Burrus Cemetery, near Benoit in Bolivar County).
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