(10a) Letitia Tyler

Letitia Christian Tyler 

Websites 

Summary of Letitia Tyler: First Lady of America

First Ladies National Library Biography of Letitia Tyler

Papers/letters collections

Letitia Christian Tyler Shands Miscellaneous Papers

Historical sites

Letitia Christian Tyler Gravesite

Fascinating details

• Letitia is the youngest first lady to die and one of the only three first ladies to pass away in the White House (along with Caroline Harrison and Ellen Wilson).
• Amid a myriad of health struggles and especially following Letitia Tyler’s stroke in 1839, her daughter-in-law, Priscilla Cooper Tyler, took over her duties as steward of the White House.