Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-05-23
HISTORIC WEDDINGS
BRIDES OF THE WHITE HOUSE,
SINCE THE YEAR 1900.
Interesting Record Of Matrimonial
Alliances Among the First
People of the United
States.

Alice Roosevelt's wedding at thu
White House was the twelfth which
has taken place In that historic ma
tional edifice. The first president whit
occupied the original structure wal
President Adams, IN 1900, Washington
never occupying It; but 1t was not un
til President Madison was In Office, IL
1871, that wedding occurred in it
that OF Mrs. Lucy Payne Washington
the youngest sister of Mrs. Madison
and the widow Of George Steptol
Washington, a nephew of the frs
president. The marriage of Mrs
Washington to Justice Todd, Of the SUI
preme court, took place on March IL
1911.
Just after President Madison hA(
begun his second term another relativ,
OF Mrs. Madison, Miss Anna Todd, o.
Philadelphia, was married in the
White House to John G. Jackson, I
representative in congress from Vir
ginfa,,S whose granddaughter wa
"StonelEall Jackson" of civil war fame
The present structure of the White
House, rebuilt ON the lines OF the frs
edffce, which the British burned wheE
TIL occupied Washington in 1914, IL
tho war of 1872, was first occupied, BY
Pre- sident E.mes Monroe in 1918. Hi
daughter, Miss Maria Hester Monroe
was the first child of president Il
be welded within its walls. Her mar
riage to Samuel Lawrence Gouver
neur, of New York. acting secretary t.
the president, took place on March 3
1920.
The next president, John Quincy
Adams, had son who was married TX
the White House. His bride was Miss
Mary HELEN, niece of Mrs. Adams
and sister to the secretary Of the presi.
dent. She became Mrs. John Adam
on February 10, 1928
In the eight years that Andrew Jack,
son was presiden n course of which
there was 50 much social disturbance
caused by Mrs. Peggy" Eaton ONeilI
who broke UP the cabinet, three wed.
dings took place in the White House
The first was that OF Miss Della Lewia
the daughter Of one of the presidenti
close friends at Nashville, Tenn, te
Alphonse Joseph Yver Pageot, OF Mar
Unique, the secretary of the French
legation at Washington. Another
Nashville girl. MISS Mary Easton. 3
niece Of Mrs. Jackson, was married IN
the White House to Lucien b. Polk
The wedding of Miss Emily Martin
. relative Of President Jackson, to
Lewis Randolph, grandson OF Presi.
dent Jefferson, also took place In the
presidents home.
In the administration Of President
Van. Buren,, his son, Maj. Abraham
Van Buren,. was married in the White
House to Miss Angelica Singleton. 8
South Carolina belle, IN November,
1888. She was cousin to Mrs. Mad.
ison and became mistress of the White
House upon her marriage.
On January 81. 1912, Miss Elizabeth
Tyler, third daughter of President Ty.
Ter, was married in the White House
to William Waller, Jr., of Williams.
burg, Va.
It was not until 1874 that another
presidents daughter became a White
House bride On May II, Of that year,
Miss Nellie Grant was married to AL.
gernon &. F. Sartoris,. while Gen
Grant was serving his second term az
president. af
Int the administration OF President
Hayes. his niece, Miss Emily Platt, be.
came the bride of Gen. Russell Hast
ings on June 10, 1873.
The first and only president to b.
married in the White House was
Grover Cleveland, whose wedding with
Miss Frances Folsom took place on
June 2, 1885. Ons other president tool
q bride while In ofhce, John Tyler, but
he was married ia the home Of Miss
Julia Gardiner, in this city, in 1874
his first wife having died at the White
House after his term as president had