Letitia Tyler

Friday, January 5, 2007

Letitia Tyler was born on a Tidewater Virginia Plantation in the 18th century. Formal education was no part of this pattern of life, but Letitia learned all the skills of managing a plantation, rearing a family, and presiding over a home that would be John Tyler’s refuge during an active political life. In her free time, she enjoyed reading her bible and her prayer book, and knitting. Her husband , John Tyler was in service as president from 1841 to 1843. As first lady, she avoided public life. She only went to Washington once when her husband was senator. Another time she came out of her bedroom in the White House was when she attended a wedding there for her daughter and her husband William Walter in 1842. While she was first lady, she also couldn’t be involved in any charity because she was paralyzed from a previous stroke. But one thing that really stood out about her was even though she was first lady, she was very shy and religious