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Letitia Christian Tyler (née Christian; November 12, 1790 – September 10, 1842) was the first lady of the United States from 1841 to 1842 as the first wife of President John Tyler. After meeting in 1808, the two married in 1813.
Letitia Christian Tyler, first wife of President John Tyler, served as First Lady of the United States from 1841 until her death at 51. She was the youngest First Lady to...
Letitia Tyler, American first lady (1841–42), the first wife of John Tyler, 10th president of the United States. Due to a paralytic stroke, she was unable to perform the duties of first lady, and she became the first president’s wife to die in the White House.
Nov 9, 2009 · Letitia Tyler (1790-1842) was an American first lady (1841-1842) and the first wife of John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States. Two years before her husband assumed the...
The first president’s wife to die in the White House, Letitia passed away from a stroke on September 10, 1842. She was taken to Virginia for burial at the plantation of her birth, deeply mourned by her family. Click here to learn more about the enslaved households of the Tyler family.
Letitia Tyler (1790–1842) Born Cedar Grove, Virginia. Letitia Christian Tyler spent most of her married life raising seven children and managing a busy plantation household east of Richmond, Virginia. In 1839, a stroke left her partially paralyzed, requiring the use of a “rolling chair.”
Letitia Christian Tyler, first wife of President John Tyler, served as First Lady of the United States from 1841 until her death at 51. She was the youngest First Lady to pass away and one of only three to have passed away in the White House.
Letitia Tyler. By 1841, Letitia Christian Tyler, victim of a paralytic stroke, was an invalid. Yet her poor physical health, which she had endured for two years, did not prevent her from overseeing the finances of her family's successful Virginia plantation.
Letitia is the youngest first lady to die and one of the only three first ladies to pass away in the White House (along with Caroline Harrison and Ellen Wilson). Amid a myriad of health struggles and especially following Letitia Tyler’s stroke in 1839, her daughter-in-law, Priscilla Cooper Tyler , took over her duties as steward of the White ...
On 7 February 1842, Letitia Christian Tyler made what is believed to be her only intentionally public appearance in the state rooms of the White House as First Lady at the marriage of her daughter Elizabeth to William N. Waller.
