Mary Tyler Jones
(1815–1847)
BIRTH
1815
PLACE
DEATH
1847
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
John Tyler
(1790-1862)
BROTHER
Robert Tyler
(1816-1877)
SISTER
Letitia Tyler Semple
(1821-1907)
SISTER
Elizabeth Tyler Waller
(1823-1850)
SISTER
Ann Contesse Tyler
(1825-1825)
SISTER
Alice Tyler Denison
(1827-1854)
BROTHER
Lyon Gardiner Tyler
(1853-1935)
BROTHER
Robert Fitzwalter Tyler
(1856-1927)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mary Tyler Jones was President John Tyler and Letitia Christian’s eldest child, born in Virginia in 1815. She married Henry Lightfoot Jones in December 1835 and had sons John Tyler Jones and Robert Tyler Jones. A surviving 1847 family-letter description mentions a dinner hosted by her husband, anchoring the household. Her death year remains unsettled: the master gives 1847, while the peerage source gives 1848. She is distinct from later Mary Tylers.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Mary 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 Mary 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
Mary Tyler died in 1847. Mary Tyler Jones was President John Tyler and Letitia Christian’s eldest child, born in Virginia in 1815. She married Henry Lightfoot Jones in December 1835 and had sons John Tyler Jones and Robert Tyler Jones. A surviving 1847 family-letter description mentions a dinner hosted by her husband, anchoring the household. Her death year remains unsettled: the master gives 1847, while the peerage source gives 1848. She is distinct from later Mary Tylers. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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