PRESIDENTIAL CHILDREN: TYLER'S 15, STILL A RECORD
Elizabeth Tyler, 1823-1850. She married William Waller in 1842 in a White House wedding, the one event for which her mother came downstairs. She died as a result of complications of childbirth at the age of 27.
Anne Contesse Tyler, April-July 1825.
Alice Tyler, 1827-1854. She was married in 1850 to the Reverend Henry Denison, an Episcopal rector in Williamsburg. She died suddenly of colic at the age of 27.
Tazewell Tyler, 1830-1874. He served as a surgeon in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. After the war, he moved to California. He had five sons and two daughters by his second wife.
David Gardiner "Gardie" Tyler, 1846-1927. During the Civil War, the 16-year-old Gardie dropped out of Washington College to enlist in the Confederate Army. After the war, he studied in Germany and became a lawyer. He settled in Charles City County, Virginia. He served in the Virginia state senate (1891-1892 and 1899-1904) and in the U.S. House of Representatives (1893-1897). He was a circuit court judge in Virginia from 1904 until his death in 1927.
John Alexander "Alex" Tyler, 1848-1883. Like his older brother Gardie, Alex dropped out of Washington College. He enlisted in the Confederate Army while barely in his teens. He also studied in Germany after the war, becoming a mining engineer. While in Germany, he served in the Saxon army during the Franco-Prussian War. The Prussian government decorated him for his service during the war. He returned to the United States and was appointed U.S. surveyor of the Interior Department in 1879. He was working in this capacity when he died in New Mexico after drinking contaminated water at the age of 35.
Julia Gardiner Tyler, 1849-1871. In 1869, she married William Spencer, a farmer from Tuscarora, New York, who was deeply in debt. She died from complications after childbirth at the age of 22.
Lachlan Tyler, 1851-1902. He was a doctor who practiced in Jersey City, New Jersey. In 1879, he became surgeon in the U.S. Navy. In 1887, he moved to Elkhorn, West Virginia, where he practiced medicine until his death.
Lyon Gardiner Tyler, 1853-1935. He began his career as a lawyer, but only practiced law for a few years. He earned a reputation as a writer and educator. In 1885, he published a two-volume work, "The Letter and Times of the Tylers." In this and other books, he worked to vindicate his father's presidency and career as well as the
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