| Show deaths eat hs in tuo the white if vua two presidents bud and wives of two presidents have died in the whito house the first time that death invaded that mansion was when the grandfather ot of the present president the rugged soldier and farmer used to plain fare far e out of door life and cally hours succumbed to the nervous strain the persecution of office seekers the worry and the physical exhaustion ha of official life president wil liam henry harrison died one month offer after his inauguration atio n the wife 0 of f vice president tyler who succeeded general harrison arrison II as president died in the white house the following year when the change was nade made and the tylers eylers moved into tho the white house bli mis s T aler ler took the room of the dead president pies ident tor for her own occupancy 1 I 1 have no superstitious f feeling eel ii ig on char thoeub erub eject site she wrote in une of her h er charming ming letters to a friend and it is as pleasant as possible the oher death of a president in the white house was that of general zachary taylor iu in 1850 lincoln it will be ba remembered died in a house on tenth street to which he was taken from fords theater and garfield died at elberon N J of the twenty six presidents of the tha united states four have died in washington the elder harrison taylor and lincoln and john quincy adams adama when a representative doston boston commonwealth |
