Editing Stonewall Jackson (section)

===Marriages and family life===
[[File:Stonewall Jackson house.jpg|thumb|House owned by Stonewall Jackson in [[Lexington, Virginia|Lexington]]]]

While an instructor at VMI in 1853, Thomas Jackson married [[Elinor Jackson|Elinor "Ellie" Junkin]], whose father, [[George Junkin]], was president of Washington College (later named [[Washington and Lee University]]) in Lexington. An addition was built onto the president's residence for the Jacksons, and when Robert E. Lee became president of Washington College he lived in the same home, now known as the Lee–Jackson House.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Isbell |first=Sherman |author-link=<!-- Sherman Isbell --> |title=Archibald Alexander Travelogue |url=http://members.aol.com/RSISBELL/va.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050914211643/http://members.aol.com/RSISBELL/va.html |archive-date=September 14, 2005 |access-date=December 17, 2008}}
</ref> Ellie gave birth to a [[Stillbirth|stillborn]] son on October 22, 1854, experiencing a [[Obstetrical hemorrhage|hemorrhage]] an hour later that proved fatal.<ref>Robertson, p. 157.</ref>

After a tour of Europe, Jackson married again, in 1857. [[Mary Anna Jackson|Mary Anna Morrison]] was from North Carolina, where her father was the first president of [[Davidson College]]. Her sister, Isabella Morrison, was married to [[Daniel Harvey Hill]]. Mary Anna had a daughter named Mary Graham on April 30, 1858, but the baby died less than a month later. Another daughter was born in 1862, shortly before her father's death. The Jacksons named her Julia Laura, after his mother and sister.

Jackson purchased [[Stonewall Jackson House|the only house he ever owned]] while in Lexington. Built in 1801, the brick town house at 8 East Washington Street was purchased by Jackson in 1859. He lived in it for two years before being called to serve in the Confederacy. Jackson never returned to his home.