Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-10-05
CHILDREN M %HS 4 4AH WHITE HOUSE CHEERFUL

His wife dying the next year, he mar
rled again In the last year Of HIS pres
idency and became the father OF seven
more. Elizabeth, his third daughter,
was married in the blue room In 1872,
but Tyler's second marriage ceremony
was performed IN New York OF all the
large family that lived with him In the
White House one daughter alone sur
wives IN the person of Mrs. Letitia Tyler
Semple. refined and beautiful old lady
now residing in the Louise home at
Washington.
President Polk had no children,
Zachary Taylor, thlrty-nine years
married when elected president, select
ed his youngest daughter, Mrs. Bliss.
to preside IN place of his wife, who de-
sired rest and secueion. The lively
"Miss Betty" az she was called by all,
Is stu alive and resides In Winchester,
Va. President Fillmore had one son
and one daughter, both grown up, when
he was called 10 the executive mansion,
President Pierce had had three chill
dren, but all were dead when he re-
celved his highest honors, his last child,
bright boy Of thirteen, having been
killed in a railway accident In January
preceding the inauguration, and II was
In the shadow Of this great aihlclion
that he and his wife took up their res
ldence at Washington. President
Buchanan was a bachelor, and his
niece, the beautiful Harriet Lane-stiil
living IN Washlngton-presided With
grace ana dignity during his official
term.
When Abraham Lincoln entered the
White House, he and his wife had With
them three bright boys but While, the
youngest, died IA 1852, and after this
Mr Lincoln's affections centered IN the
next son. Tad, a loyable, affectionate
child Az Bob was on most Of the time
ut college and later on Grants stan,
Tad and his father were inseparable,
and many stories are related Of the AZ
lection existing between the two. The
White House was very gloomy to Mr.
Lincoln In those years Of stress and par
ticularly 80 after the death of little
Willie. On the afternoon before he was
assassinated the president said while
out FOR ride with his wife, Il feel
happy, Mary, for consider this day
the war has come to a close" And
then after a pause he added: we must
both be more cheerful in the future
Between the war and the loss OF darling
Willie we have been very miserable"
Little Tad was almost his only conso-
latlon in those days previous to the
last terrible happening. The griefs OF
the presidents family as well as the
pleasures are always shared by the
country, and II was with sincere sorrow
that the country later learned OF the
death Of this beloved son OF the war
president
Sorrow in larger measure than Joy
seems TO have fallen to the lot OF many
White House occupants, One OF Pres
ident Johnson's sons died there, and he
himself was burdened with great cares
His children were all grown up when
he assumed the presidential office, but
those OF his two daughters, Martha and
Mary, with their happy young faces,
lightened the gloom that hung over the
White House after the assassination Of
Lincoln, A large family OF children
conduces to happiness even II one be
sad and downcast, and President john
son and his invalid wife derived great
pleasure from the presence Of their
grandchildren. II was said soon after
he left Washington, "No president ever
before had in the White House so many
children or as youthful ones as the five
grandchildren Of President Johnson, nor
viii there ever be a brighter band there
again."