Letitia Tyler Semple
(1821-1907)
BIRTH
May 11, 1821
PLACE
NAME
Letitia Tyler
DEATH
1907
PLACE
FAMILY
MOTHER
Letitia Christian Tyler
(1790-1842)
BROTHER
Robert Tyler
(1816-1877)
SISTER
Alice Tyler Denison
(1827-1854)
BROTHER
Robert Fitzwalter Tyler
(1856-1927)
CHILDREN
John Tyler
(1790-1862)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Letty
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Letitia “Letty” Tyler Semple (1821–1907), daughter of President John Tyler and Letitia Christian Tyler, married James Semple in 1839. After her mother’s death she joined the presidential household and took over White House social duties from Priscilla Cooper Tyler in 1844. Her father’s remarriage to Julia Gardiner ended that role. Later she lived at William Corcoran’s Louise Home in Washington. Family correspondence and portraits preserve her long, often difficult life.
EARLY LIFE
Letitia Tyler Semple was born on May 11, 1821. 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 Letitia Tyler Semple 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
Letitia Tyler Semple died in 1907. Letitia “Letty” Tyler Semple, daughter of President John Tyler and Letitia Christian Tyler, married James Semple in 1839. After her mother’s death she joined the presidential household and took over White House social duties from Priscilla Cooper Tyler in 1844. Her father’s remarriage to Julia Gardiner ended that role. Later she lived at William Corcoran’s Louise Home in Washington. Family correspondence and portraits preserve her long, often difficult life. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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