Letitia Christian Tyler
(1790-1842)
BIRTH
November 12, 1790
PLACE
New Kent County, Virginia
NAME
Letitia Christian
DEATH
September 10, 1842
PLACE
White House, District of Columbia
FAMILY
HUSBAND
John Tyler
(1790-1862)
CHILDREN
Mary Tyler Jones
(1815–1847)
CHILDREN
Robert Tyler
(1816-1877)
CHILDREN
Letitia Tyler Semple
(1821-1907)
CHILDREN
Elizabeth Tyler Waller
(1823-1850)
CHILDREN
Ann Contesse Tyler
(1825-1825)
CHILDREN
Alice Tyler Denison
(1827-1854)
CHILDREN
Tazewell Tyler
(1830-1874)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
EPISCOPALIAN
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Letitia Christian Tyler (1790-1842) was a social hostess and later first lady and the spouse of John Tyler. She was born Nov 12, 1790 in New Kent County, Virginia. Born in New Kent County, Virginia and later dying in White House, District of Columbia, the course of this life reflects the movement of Revolutionary-era families across colonial, national, and sometimes Atlantic settings. She died on Sep 10, 1842 in White House, District of Columbia.
EARLY LIFE
Letitia Christian Tyler was born on Nov 12, 1790 in New Kent County, Virginia. 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.
The available biographical record identifies Letitia Christian Tyler with work or public activity as a first lady, hostess. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Letitia Christian Tyler died on Sep 10, 1842 in White House, District of Columbia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Letitia Christian Tyler was a social hostess and later first lady and the spouse of John Tyler. She had a stroke in 1839 that left her permanently disabled. Tyler's physical and mental health deteriorated throughout 1842. Letitia Christian Tyler died on Sep 10, 1842 in White House, District of Columbia. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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