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Lewis Robards (December 5, 1758 – April 15, 1814) was an American Revolutionary War veteran and Kentucky pioneer who is best remembered as the first husband of Rachel Jackson, who was later married to Andrew Jackson, elected U.S. president in 1828.
Lewis C. Robards (fl. 1848–1855) was a 19th-century American slave trader of Lexington, Kentucky. He had an unscrupulous reputation as a dealer, and he was widely known for his "special" offerings: fancy girls, meaning young, light-skinned enslaved women and girls offered for sexual exploitation.
“Lewis was a suspicious and jealous husband and accused his wife of having affairs with the men boarders in his mother’s home, and there were reports of wrongdoing on his part,” including, Owsley...
Rachel Jackson was married at first to Lewis Robards in Nashville. In about 1791, she eloped with Andrew Jackson, believing that Robards had secured the couple a divorce. It was later revealed that he had not, meaning that her marriage to Jackson was inadvertently bigamous.
Lewis C. Robards was a prominent slave trader in Lexington, Kentucky, in the 1840s and 1850s and featured prominently in the abduction of Henrietta Wood.
At 17, while living in Kentucky, she married Lewis Robards, of a prominent Mercer County family. His unreasoning jealousy made it impossible for her to live with him; in 1790 they...
At 18, Rachel married Lewis Robards on March 1, 1785, in Lincoln County, Kentucky. The marriage was troubled, and Rachel returned to her mother’s home in Nashville several times due to Robards’ abusive behavior.