Identifier: presidentssoldie02hard (find matches)
Title: Presidents, soldiers, statesmen... with a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hardesty, Hiram H., 1834-1898, pub. 2n
Subjects: United States
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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sentatives. For fifteen years following they lived in a house on Istreet which Mr Adams owned, Mrs. Adams occasionally entertain in gvery quietlv, but going into society scarcely at all, She was ill and ingreat pain when, on the afternoon of Monday, February 21, 1848, athe messenger came hurriedly to the door to tell her that her husband,stricken with paralysis, was lying at the capitol. She was bending oyerhim when consciousness returned, nor could she be drawn from his sidein the Speakers room until he died on the evening of the 23d. >he ac-companied the remains to Quincy, and thenceforth made her home there,surrounded by children and relatives, until her death. She died on May14, 1852, ami was laid to rest in the family burial ground at Quincy, be-side the husband to whom she had been iu every way so true a companionhalf a century. RACHEL JACKSON. Rachel, wife of Andrew Jackson, was the daughter of Col. John Douelson, born in Pittsvlvauia county, Virginia, where her father owned
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JACKSON SQUARE, NEW OKI.KANS. 404 Yt PRESIDENTS, SOLDIERS, STATESMEN. and his wife from the retirement of private lift*. The wife is spoken ofas having beeu a woman of modest, even timid manners, of gentle dispo-sition, and a devoted wife and mother. An incident connected with herdeath, preserved and made public by her niece, Miss Cantine, gives aglimpse of Mrs. Van Burens character from which we may judge her tohave been worthy of all esteem. It was customary in that day, writesMiss Cantine, at least it was the custom in the city of Albany, for thebearers to wear scarfs which were provided by the family of the deceased.Aunt requested that this might be omitted at her burial, and that theamount of such cost should be given to the poor. Mr. Van Bureo didnot marry again, his sons wife presiding at the White Hou=ein 1839-40. A^NA SYMMES HARRISON, Wife of the ninth president of the United States, was born near Morris-town, New Jersey, on July 2~>, 1775, a daughter of Hon. John ClevesSv

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