Statue of Andrew Jackson's Mom
Lancaster, South Carolina
Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson gave birth to future President Andrew Jackson while on a trip back from burying her dead husband. When Andrew was 14, she died from cholera while caring for sick Revolutionary War soldiers aboard a British prison ship. No one knows exactly where she's buried or what she looked like. But that didn't stop the Daughters of the American Revolution from making a best guess at the location of her grave, and then in 1949 erecting a statue in her memory of a woman they imagined she resembled. It serves as a monument to all of the forgotten, long-suffering mothers of Presidents, past, present, and future.