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Wilson Funeral Procession. U.S. president Woodrow Wilson's carriage proceeds down Broad Street in Rome during the funeral of his wife, Ellen Axson Wilson, on August 11, 1914. A native of Rome, the first lady died in the White House on August 6. Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # flo128.
6 de ago. de 2015 · 6 Aug 1914 (aged 54) Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA. Burial. Myrtle Hill Cemetery. Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, USA Show Map. Plot. Section OR, Lot 325. Memorial ID. 2459. · View Source. Suggest Edits. Memorial. Photos 6. Flowers 623. Memorials. Region. North America. USA. Georgia. Floyd County. Rome.
“Funeral Procession for First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson,” Martha Berry Digital Archive , accessed May 7, 2024, https://mbda.berry.edu/items/show/13451.
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Born on May 15, 1860, at the manse of the Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, the home of her paternal grandparents, Ellen Louise Axson was the eldest of four children born to the Reverend Samuel Edward Axson and Margaret Jane Hoyt. Her father and both of her grandfathers were Presbyterian ministers. Her paternal grandfather, the Reverend ...
Ellen Axson enrolled at Rome Female College in 1871. She excelled as a student, especially in art, and later studied foreign languages and art as a postgraduate student. She drew crayon portraits from photographs, which she sold, and shared her love of literature and poetry with her friends in lengthy correspondence. Her youngest sibling was born i...
In April 1883 Woodrow Wilson, then a twenty-six-year-old lawyer living in Atlanta, visited his uncle in Rome. He attended Rome’s First Presbyterian Church, where he saw Ellen Axson in the congregation. Her mourning clothes led him to assume that she was a young widow, but he soon learned that she was the pastor’s eldest daughter and that the little...
The Wilsons’ first home together was in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where he served on Bryn Mawr College’s inaugural faculty. In 1888 they moved to Middletown, Connecticut, where he became a faculty member at Wesleyan University. In 1890 he was named professor of jurisprudence at his alma mater, Princeton University, and the ...
Woodrow Wilson won the 1912 presidential election, and in March 1913 the family moved into the White House in Washington, D.C. As First Lady, Wilson became concerned by the abysmal conditions of the alleys and back streets of Washington, and she campaigned for the passage of a bill to clean up the streets. The effort is credited as an early attempt...
By 1914 Wilson was gravely ill. After several months of decline due to Bright’s disease, she died in the White House on August 6, 1914. Her dying wish was that the Washington clean-up bill be enacted, and Congress quickly obliged. A special train returned her remains to Rome for the funeral at First Presbyterian Church on August 11. She was buried ...
12 de ago. de 2014 · Several people gathered Monday evening at the grave of First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson after a memorial service at First Presbyterian Church. Monday was the 100th anniversary of Wilson's...
- Alan Riquelmy
Ellen Axson Wilson. Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (May 15, 1860 – August 6, 1914) [1] was the first lady of the United States from 1913 until her death in 1914, as the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson. Like her husband, she was a Southerner, as well as the daughter of a clergyman. She was born in Savannah, Georgia, but raised in Rome, Georgia.
Ellen Louise Axson Willson ( Savannah, Georgia, 15 de mayo de 1860 — Washington D. C., 6 de agosto de 1914) fue la primera esposa de Woodrow Wilson y la madre de sus tres hijas. Como su esposo (que nació en Virginia ), era sureña. Nació en Savannah, Georgia y se crio en Rome, Georgia. Antes de su matrimonio, estudió en la Liga de ...
