Alice Tyler Denison
(1827-1854)
BIRTH
March 23, 1827
PLACE
DEATH
June 8, 1854
PLACE
FAMILY
MOTHER
Letitia Christian Tyler
(1790-1842)
BROTHER
Robert Tyler
(1816-1877)
BROTHER
Robert Fitzwalter Tyler
(1856-1927)
CHILDREN
John Tyler
(1790-1862)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Alice Tyler Denison (1827–1854) was the daughter of President John Tyler and Letitia Christian. She married Henry Mandeville Denison, rector of Bruton Parish, in 1850 and lived in Williamsburg before moving to Louisville by 1853. Her father gave her the enslaved Rosetta, whose freedom later became the subject of an Ohio court case. Alice died the following year and was buried at Roxbury in New Kent County, Virginia. Sources differ on her precise birthplace and death locality.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Alice Tyler’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Alice Tyler is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Alice Tyler died on Jun 8, 1854. Alice Tyler Denison was the daughter of President John Tyler and Letitia Christian. She married Henry Mandeville Denison, rector of Bruton Parish, in 1850 and lived in Williamsburg before moving to Louisville by 1853. Her father gave her the enslaved Rosetta, whose freedom later became the subject of an Ohio court case. Alice died the following year and was buried at Roxbury in New Kent County, Virginia. Sources differ on her precise birthplace and death locality. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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