The Ladies of the White House; Or, in the Home of the Presidents: Being a Complete History of the Social and Domestic Lives of the Presidents from Washington to the Present Time—1789–1881Holloway, Laura C. (Laura Carter)
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The Ladies of the White House; Or, in the Home of the Presidents: Being a Complete History of the Social and Domestic Lives of the Presidents from Washington to the Present Time—1789–1881
Holloway, Laura C. (Laura Carter)
Presidents -- United States -- Biography; Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography
Tyler shortly afterward, in a letter addressed to her relatives near
Philadelphia:
Footnote 18:
Mary, the first child and oldest daughter of Mrs. Letitia Tyler, in
her features bore a marked but refined and delicate likeness to her
father, and strikingly blended in her character the admirable
attributes of both father and mother. She was a lady of the most
exalted worth and lovely mould. She married, at an early age, Mr.
Henry Lightfoot Jones, of Charles City county, Virginia, and died
after her mother, leaving an infant daughter that soon followed her
spirit, and three sons, two of whom only survive, Henry and Robert,
who fought in the ranks in Lee’s army, both being mentioned in orders,
and the latter of whom, born in the “White House,” was promoted for a
feat of daring gallantry and three wounds received at Gettysburg, to a
first-lieutenancy.
Footnote 19:
Alice, fourth and last daughter of Mrs. Letitia Tyler, resembled her
mother in features more than any other child. She married, years after
her mother’s death, the Rev. Henry M. Denison, of Wyoming,
Pennsylvania, a clergyman of marked ability, eloquence, and
conscientiousness, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and Rector, at
the time, of old Bruton Parish Church, at Williamsburg, Virginia. She
died while he was assistant to the Bishop of Kentucky, at Louisville,
and he died while Rector at Charleston, South Carolina, a victim to
his high sense of duty to his congregation during the prevalence of
the yellow fever in that city before the war. They left an infant
daughter named Elizabeth, who has been reared and educated by her
aunt, Mrs. Letitia Tyler Semple.
Footnote 20:
Mrs. Robert Tyler, wife of the second child and oldest son of Mrs.
Letitia Tyler, is the daughter of Thomas Abthorpe Cooper, the
distinguished tragedian, an English gentleman, ward and nephew of
Goodwin, the political economist, pupil of Holcroft, and friend and
relative of Shelley, the poet. Her mother was the daughter of Major
Fairlee, of New York, an officer of the Revolutionary war of
Independence, and of the Governor Yates and Vanness family. Her eldest
daughter, named after her grandmother, Letitia Christian, was born in
the White House.
“WASHINGTON, _February, 1842_.
* * * “Lizzie[21] has had quite a grand wedding, although the intention
was that it should be quiet and private. This, under the circumstances,
though, was found impossible. The guests consisted of Mrs. Madison, the
members of the cabinet, with their wives and daughters, the foreign
ministers near the government, and some few personal friends, outside of
the family and their relatives.
Footnote 21:
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