The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-06
COMMUNAL KNOTS
That Have Been Tied in the
White House.
The Noted Nuptial Entertainments in the
Federal Executive Mansion.

VIII cFcT COOk Il DrlQc OF his own there.
Tyler had q daughter married while he
was President, lost a wife and married
another nearly nine months before his
term of office concluded.
The first marriage which ever took
place in the Executive Mansion was
that of Miss Todd, of Philadelphia, a
relative of President Madison's wife, and
was solcmnizcd in the East Room in
1911. The bridegroom was Edward B.
Jackson, a Representative in Congress
from Virginia, and a great uncle of
Stonewall Jackson. This Mr.. Jackson,
while in Congress, fought a duel with
Mr.. Eppes, another Virginia Congress
man. A child born of this first White
House marriage was named James Madison
Jackson, and a few years ago there were
many old people who remembered him.
The next marriage within the same
building was that of President Monroc's
daughter Maria, the bridegroom being
her first cousin on her mothers side, Mr..
Samuel L. Gouverncur, at one time Post
master of New York. This wedding &C.
CURED in March, 1920, and was a very
handsome entertainment, though but q
limited number of guests were invited to
it, including only the attendants, rela-
lions md a few old friends. After the
ceremony the bridesmaids were dismissed
until a week later, when the bride re-
ceivcd company at the White House, and
her mother gave up to her the place of
hostess and herself mingled with the cit
liens present.
The late Mr.. Samuel Gouverncur of
Washington was born in the White
House of the marriage above noticed.
He died in Washington a few years ago,
and his widow and daughters still live
there.
AS above mentioned, Mr.. Gouvcrncur
who married Miss Monroe i'm the Exccu-
tive Mansion, was her cousin, and the
next couple welded there were also cou-
sins. This marriage occurred in the
Blue Parlor in 1926, John Quincy Adams
being President, and the couple united
were his son and private secretary, John
Adams, an elder brothc. of Charles
Francis Adams, and Miss Helen, a niece
of Mrs. Adams. The wedding occurred
in the evening in the Blue Parlor, in the
presence of a very distinguished CON-
pany.
Two weddings occurred in the Execu-
tive Mansion while jackson was Presi-
dent. First was that of Miss Mary Lew
is, daughter of Major Lewis, General
Jackson's intimate friend and companion
in arms. Miss Lewis married NJ. A.
phonse Joseph Yoer Pagcot, a native of
Martinique, who was secretary of the
French Legation at Washington in 1885
and 1910, and was minister from France
to this country from 1912 to 1s4s. The
other marriage was that of Miss Eastcn
of Tennessee, his niece, aud Mr.. Polk of
Polk. Old residents recall that this lady
was to have married Lieutenant Bolton
Finch, of the navy, an Englishman by
birth, who in 1888 had his name changed
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as Commodore William Compton Bolton,
A wedding reception took place in the
White House also in Jackson's admins
t~ration, when his adopted son, Andrew
Jackson, Jr., brought his bride, who
was Miss Yorke of Philadelphia, daugh-
tor of Peter Yorke of that city, whom he
had married in her fathers house there,
to visit President jackson in Washing
ton.
The next wedding which occurred
there was IN January 81, 1912, when
President Tyler's daughter, Elizabeth,
was married to Mr.. William Waller, of
Williamsburg, Va. 1t was a grand we'd
ding in the East Room, and Mrs. Robert
Tyler wrote of it:-"Lizzie looked sur
passingly lovely in her wedding dress
and long blonde lace veil, her face liter
ally covered with bushes and dimples."
President Tyler was married at Ascen-
sion Church in New York, but had his
wedding reception in the East Room at
the White House the latter part of June,
1914 having begun his courtship of Miss
Julia Gardiner, a beautiful young girl not
over twenty years Old, in that room the
preceding February at an evening recep-
ton on Washington's Birthday. His
wife had died in the White House soon
after their daughter was married in 1912.
At the wedding reception, when all their