Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-11
DEATH OF MRS. JOHN TYLER.
The Widow of a Former President
Passes Away I'm Richmond, Va.

The widow of the late ex-President John w.
Ter died at the Exchange hotel in Richmond.
Va, last evening from q congestive chill. Mrs.
Tyler had only been at the hotel since Sunday
evening, having come from a visit to her son.
Lyon q. Tyler, at Williamsburg. and was to
have left Monday on a visit to another son on
the James river, but feeling unweIl she kept
her room. Tuesday at IL o'clock she was taken
with chill DIR. Edward Mcclure was sent
for, and he was soon joined by DIR. Hunter Nc
Guire, but medical skill proved of no avail,
and she died at quarter-past o'clock yester-
day afternoon
Mrs. Tyler leaves four children-Lyon G. Ty-
Ter, president of William and Mary college,
Va; Gardiner G. Tyler, who lives in Charles
City county, Va; DIR. Lachlan Tyler of WASH
ington city, and Mrs. VIM. Ellis Of Montgom-
cry county. Her children have been tele-
graphed for.
Mrs. Tyler was the second wife Of President
Tyler and was a Miss Julia Gardiner. She was
born on GARDENERS island, near Easthampton,
N u, In 1870, and was the eldest daughter OF
David Gardiner, a descendant of the GARDENERS
OF GARDENERS island She was educated at the
Chegary institute. New York city, spent several
months in Europe, and in the winter of 1874 ac-
companied her father to Washington. A few
weeks afterward he killed by the explo-
sion of gun on the war steamer Princeton,
which occurred during pleasure excursion in
which he and his daughter were of the presi-
DENTAL party. His body was taken to the
White House and Miss Gardiner, being thrown
in the society of the President under these dis
tressing circumstances, became the object OF
his marked attention, which resulted in their
marriage in New York city, June g. 1874. The
circumstances Of their courtship and marriage
were very romantic. President Tyler left
Washington on the plea of looking after a de-
hnquent postmaster in New England and few
persons knew of his marriage until it had oc-
Cured. For the succeeding eight months
Mrs. Tyler presided over the White House
with dignity and grace, her residence there
terminating with a birthnight ball on Feb
ruary ~, 1916. Mrs, Tyler retired with her
husband to their country place, Sherwood
Forest" on the James river, in Virginia. at the
conclusion of his term, and after the civil war,
near the beginning of which her husband died.
resided for several years at her mothers resi-
dence, on Castleton Hill, Staten Island N. Y,
but subsequently removed to Richmond, Va
She became a convert to Catholicism and was
noted for her charities. President Tylers first
wife was Letitia Christian, of New Kent county
Va. She accompanied her husband to WASH
ington when he was elected to the presidency,
but her health was delicate and she died in
September, 1912. Elizabeth. the third daugh-
ter Of President Tyler by his marriage with the
lady, who was the only one OF the Presidents
wives to die in the executive mansion. was
married in her nineteenth year in the east room
Of the White House, January 81, 1912. to Will
ham Waller. of Williamsburg, Va. The'oldest
son Of this marriage welded sister of the Sec
ond Mrs. Jefferson Davis In the executive man.
sion of the confederate states at Richmond. and
her second son was killed in the confederate
army.