For those who didn’t know, John Tyler was so old when he had his children and in turn his children were also so old when they had children that despite being born in the 18th century, he still has living grandchildren in the 21 century!

@emilyrebeccacobb9773

Жыл бұрын

This has blown my mind

@RavenLunacy44

Жыл бұрын

I think his last living grandson is now 92

@rina123456

Жыл бұрын

@@RavenLunacy44 His name is Harrison! He will be 94 in November

@teal_panda_8434

Жыл бұрын

One of his grandsons lives near me in Williamsburg va I believe

@miaryes

Жыл бұрын

I know! I remember being blown away by this!

when you said "they had a happy marriage and 8 children," my first response was "THEY ATE CHILDREN??!!"

John Tyler has a living grandson, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, aged 93. John fathered Harrison’s father Lyon when he was 66 and Lyon fathered Harrison when he was 75. Harrison’s brother Lyon (born when his father was 72) died in 2020 aged 95. The two men were born 138 years apart

@salicylicacid9945

2 жыл бұрын

wow

@nicolerogers2208

2 жыл бұрын

So interesting thanks for sharing

@natesnana4955

2 жыл бұрын

Those Tyler men are certainly vigorous lol!

@bez26

Жыл бұрын

I remember hearing that one of his grandsons passed away but couldn't remember how far back. Thank you!

John and Julia Tyler still have a living grandson, Harrison Tyler.

@jackiegillyard758

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, very true. If I'm not mistaken his father was married twice, the second time to a much younger woman. He also had a brother who died within the last 2 years if I'm not mistaken. I used to do Harrison's wife's hair at the retirement home where they lived. She was truly a southern lady.

@eleanorallen7846

2 жыл бұрын

True

@jamellfoster6029

2 жыл бұрын

Yes they do. He's around the age my grandmother would have been- close to 100.

@jamellfoster6029

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackiegillyard758 this is true.

@emilybarclay8831

2 жыл бұрын

John fathered Harrison’s father Lyon when he was 66 and Lyon fathered Harrison when he was 75. Harrison’s brother Lyon (born when his father was 72) died in 2020 aged 95

My heart broke for Jane Pierce. All of these women are interesting in their own right. Thank you for making this wonderful series.

Didn't know Harriett Lane was such an avid social reformer. I admire her work to assist Native Americans & kids (the Children's Hospital at Johns Hopkins Hospital)...

Poor Julia Gardiner - creeped on by an old dude that won't stop proposing and then her family dies in a freak accident and she ends up in his grasp.. sounds like she was a bad person based on her slavery stance, but I can't help feeling sorry for young her.

@etanaedelman9011

2 жыл бұрын

Not even the creepiest marriage in the history of presidents. The relationship between Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom is even more disturbing.

@jamellfoster6029

2 жыл бұрын

@@etanaedelman9011 yeah Frances was Grover's ward & possibly goddaughter...

@kokopoppers

2 жыл бұрын

I was so mad for her but I swooped back that sympathy after the essay was brought up.

@twilight-princess240

Жыл бұрын

I don't like Julia's views on slavery, I'd never agree with them at any time even if my life depended on it, but yeah, she married someone approximately three decades her senior, someone she previously turned down how many times...I guess things were different back then but modern views wouldn't agree with it. Well, at least we know why "Hail to the Chief" is used for the president, Julia set a precedent for future presidents as part of her legacy.

@kenyastewart22

Жыл бұрын

The comments showing sympathy for someone how had no empathy for people were enslaved is wild. Not to mention she supported the confederacy which in other country would see that movement as an antigovernment that was unsuccessful. and turned around to ask for a pension from the same government she supported to overthrow.

When I tell you I LIVE FOR HTT!!! I love how Lindsay casually lays out the most drama in the sweetest way and the quiet love for the dramatic makes my day I love these videos!!!

I feel sorry for some of these women who weren’t ready to be thrust into the spotlight. It’s hard being a First Lady.

@klatie256

2 жыл бұрын

All Melania wanted was a sugar daddy she never asked for this mess T_T

@MusicandDancing4Ever

2 жыл бұрын

@@klatie256 right, she never wanted to be classy.

@MusicandDancing4Ever

2 жыл бұрын

What’s hard about being a First Lady? Dressing in expensive, beautiful clothes, which someone helps them with, live in the lap of luxury. Your pampered. Your treated like a celebrity. Meet important people, who admire you, they are looking to impress you. Feel bad for women who have to work a real 9 to 5..

@faijja_a_

2 жыл бұрын

@@MusicandDancing4Ever not to mention a good portion of the early First Ladies were enslavers residing in huge plantations with tons of enslaved people at their disposal. can’t say i have a whole lot of sympathy for these women

@ardenalexa94

7 ай бұрын

@@MusicandDancing4EverI feel bad for both. Both have their own stresses. I certainly wouldn’t want to be First Lady or royalty with all the pressures that offers. But it is also hard for women who are “normal”. With having social anxiety myself, being First Lady doesn’t sound fun to me.

Wait, the woman’s dad died and John was like: “This is the perfect time to propose.” This guy was president?!?

@mykoniichistorychannel

2 жыл бұрын

Nailed it.

Fun fact: the painting of the gentlemen and ladies at 2:30 was painted by Chilean artist Pedro Subercaseaux Errazuriz and is depicting the first time the Argentine National Hymn was sung at a party in the house of one of the country's first patriots, aristocrat Maria Sanchez de Thompson.

23:00 descriptions of this death are truly heartbreaking. "Benny" was, by all accounts, a sweet and loveable child, and both parents doted on him, especially as he was their only surviving child. His childhood has been pointed to by biographers as the happiest time in the lives of both his parents. Jane thought it was sinfully presumptuous to run for President, and absolutely did not want to be first lady, with her fragile physical and mental health, nor move to Washington DC, a place she strongly disliked. The family was traveling all together when the accident occured very suddenly, and though both parents survived without any serious injuries, their young son was instantly killed, the only fatality, from an extremely severe injury. They found his body in the wreckage. Pierce saw this first and quickly tried to throw his coat over the poor boy's body, but Jane saw before he could complete the action. This triggered a lengthy and crushing depression in them both. Even as we criticize Pierce as a president, it's impossible not to sympathize with such tragedy.

Lindsay, I really enjoy your videos. I'm an interpreter part of the research staff for the President James K. Polk Home & Museum in Columbia Tennessee, Polk's primary presidential site. Our museum has the largest collection of the Polk's personal possessions in the country. If you're ever in the area sometime, I'd love to give you a tour. We currently have some of Sarah's jewelry on display in our permanent museum gallery. I also want to recommend Amy Greenberg's biography If you haven't read it, Sarah is a little known/underappreciated First Lady.

The general impression we are given is that most people died very young back then but many people did live until old age. I wish K-12 history classes taught more of info like this as it shows how our country developed socially. But then I wish history was taught more comprehensively rather than the brief memorization of spoon fed dates, names & events which are rapidly forgotten.

TWO LINDSAY VIDEOS IN ONE WEEK! 😆😆😆😆I almost had a heart attack of excitement when I saw the upload

@SallyTheWolf

2 жыл бұрын

I think at this point its expected with these series

@jamellfoster6029

2 жыл бұрын

Ok

Abigail and Louisa are known to some local folklore here in Quincy Ma! It was said they caused alarm failures at the church the presidents were buried at until they were moved next to their husbands. Abigail and Louisa were known to be close

@TheMeloettaful

2 жыл бұрын

Is this like a ghost story of sorts? If so that's spooky and also kind of sweet 😁.

I love having early access but also don't like it because I binge all of the videos immediately and then have no new content for a while 😂😂

@brettlarch8050

2 жыл бұрын

But it is fun to read the comments after.

@Middyrose

2 жыл бұрын

TRUUUE

13:23 Not only did Julia almost die that day, but so did President Tyler. If I remember correctly she was going outside to see the canon fire (this was a new ship showing off its fighting prowess, as the US was struggling to establish itself as a naval power) but Tyler stopped her to talk. If they had both left with everyone else there would likely have been TWO presidents dying within a few years of each other, and since Tyler had been vice president there was no one in that office to take his place.

@ButtonsCasey

2 жыл бұрын

Quick history fact, the Constitution says the Speaker of the house gets next shot. So had, Tyler died while in office, the Speaker of the house would had become president. The forefathers were pretty thorough.

How hard these women’s lives must have been, even the upper crust suffered sickness and death that even all the money in the world could not save them from.

I so love your female centered posts!!! So inspirational!

I attended Salem College, thanks for highlighting that for First Lady Polk! I wonder if you could do a video on women’s colleges? There’s only a few left!

Harriet Lane was a badass and an awesome person. I wrote about her a while ago and she was a fun topic!

If you haven’t seen The First Lady on Showtime…you must watch. It’s fantastic!!

I don't need teachers, your videos is what I need thank you

These women were hostesses and so much more as well!

I think Angelica Van Buren's portrait is one of my very favorites.

"Mr. Polk believes that..." was a clever way for her to get around being ignored for being a woman. And it was probably true anyway that he would believe it once she explained it to him.

Such a central yet hidden part of my country’s history!

John Quincy & Louisa Adams were very kind people who cared about minorities.

I love, love this series! Learning about these hardworking women makes me want to go do something myself..

Can we talk about how John Tyler named his estate Sherwood Forest?

I'm really enjoying this series.

NEW LINDSAY LET'S GOOOOO!!! DOUBLE POST WEEK WE ARE BLESSED!!! Lindsay I hope you see this I love your work forreal!!!!

This series has been interesting. Thanks.

This was so good. Great series!

I feel so bad for Mary Todd Lincoln. Her KY family had slaves while her husband was fighting in more than one sense to end the practice . Then at the end of the War, etc. she became a widow suddenly.

@kate_cooper

2 жыл бұрын

From what I’ve read, it was worse than that. She suffered from various illnesses all her life, most of her kids died, her husband was murdered in front of her, and then she lost her home and money and had to spend the rest of her life living in relatives’ spare bedrooms. Life was just very unfair to her.

@ChibiProwl

2 жыл бұрын

@@kate_cooper yes. 🥺Poor lady.🥺

@barbarak2836

2 жыл бұрын

@@kate_cooper Even her KY family was split; some were Union and some Confederate. She (and Abraham) took A LOT of flak for her being born into a slave-owning family.

OMG IT CAME OUT ON A THURSDAY!!! 😆😆😆 Lindsay you just 💯 percent made my day!!

Love this ❤️ would love to see a series on the presidents and hopefully other countries! Would love a history lesson on Africa and France

I agree, great series.Some of the first ladies I did have knowledge about, but it is always fun to learn new things.

Thank You Lindsay!🥹💖

They’re Queens. Actual Queens. A True Queen is a servant to her People, nothing is beneath her.

@brettlarch8050

2 жыл бұрын

So, would a first gentleman be like a prince consort?

@Dallasluvsnibbler

2 жыл бұрын

@@brettlarch8050 👍

Great video! Very informative!

Its amazing how many of these presidents and families supported the confederacy in their retirement. I'm sure that fact stung to many in the north at the time.

Thank-you! This was really interesting!

So excited for this series.😁

This is good. Thank you!

thanks again for including the US ladies!!!!

Thanks!

2 TIMES IN ONE WEEK?!!!WE LOVE IT

11:06 I thought you said “The couple had a happy marriage and ate children”😂

@hirahiro2331

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Great video!

Love this!

21:00 Thackeray, Dickens and Irving! That's a soiree worth standing on a bad ankle for

The picture of Abigail is actually of famous 19 century opera singer Jenny Lind

I love htt and want to know what is going to be the release schedule for this series

my personal favorite first ladies on the republican side are Nancy Reagan Barbara Bush and Edith Roosevelt on the Democratic side Jacqueline Kennedy Louisa Adams & Dolly Madison. the Fitzgerald's lived in the Ashmont Hill section of Dorchester when John Honey Fitz Fitzgerald was Mayor of Boston

Millard Filmore (possibly mispelled) has a bunch of stuff named after him here in Buffalo.

So much hosting. I'd be punching the air everyday.

Such cool stories! Such interesting women!

I wish your videos were longer!

Haha I love that picture of the Hermitage. It’s actually made of brick and in real life to save money they only painted the side visitor’s saw first white. It was hilarious to me that the painting was white on the sides, little bit of historical photoshopping🤪

@suzyfarnham3165

5 ай бұрын

The White House wasn't white either until AFTER it burnt down! They rebuilt it but the outer bricks were in good shape but badly discoloured from the fire...so they painted it white. Yet historic paintings show it was all white while burning?

thanks linsey I needed some history to start my evening right

@RandomVidsforthought

2 жыл бұрын

It's lindsay not linsey

@alexhoover2270

2 жыл бұрын

@@RandomVidsforthought it's how we spell it where I live so it's close enough I had a girl in my graduation class who spelled it this way it's American spelling of the name it's can be spelled either way sorry if I offended linsey or anyone else but it's how we spelled it in my elementary and high school

@RandomVidsforthought

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexhoover2270 Ok that's fine

I feel like more could have been said about why Louisa Adams kept silkworms...that was kind of a nonsequitur

@bartho5212

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. It is odd and misplaced.

@mykoniichistorychannel

2 жыл бұрын

It kind of threw me off.

Great vlog as always! I love history! Thank you! Btw. I am over 50, single but I can not run for the office to become president of the US. Lol! Just as well. I do not like politics. It is sad that it runs your life from cradle to grave. Sigh!

Does anyone else see a pattern, where a lot of these first Ladies died of TB? 🙄🤔

@barbarak2836

2 жыл бұрын

TB was all too common in the 18th and 19th centuries.

@feverspell

2 жыл бұрын

No, not really. As Barbara said, it was a very common cause of death back then, and before the introduction of antibiotics, there was no way to medically (read: with drugs) treat it. People moved to drier climates, thinking less humidity in the air would help, and in some people, it provided relief, but death was inevitable. It was and still is highly contagious, but drugs and a better understanding of how diseases are spread means it doesn't have anywhere near the fatality rate that it once did.

Millard Fillmore was born near me. There is an elementary school and state park (with beautiful trails and waterfalls) named for him. His boyhood home is also preserved.

22.31. - That's a portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne, not Franklin Pierce. It's the picture used in a deck of cards my sister and I used to play with as kids. Very interesting video.

Do a video on pocahontas

wonderful😊❤

Would love to see a film abut James Bucchanan, his niece Harriet reigning as First Lady and the possible relationship with William Rufus King.

almost lost my mind when you mentioned where anna harrison was born because I thought you said moorestown instead of morristown lol.

14:08 I heard from the History Channel's video series about the Presidents that it was Sarah Polk who started the "Hail to the Chief" tradition. 19:05 Margaret "Peggy" Taylor died 2 years, not 2 days, after Zachary's death.

Good morning

Who is your favorite first lady of your life time?

@theasandys

2 жыл бұрын

Michelle Obama

@nanaasare1239

2 жыл бұрын

Melania Trump

@adinace

2 жыл бұрын

@@theasandys same

@msjess07

2 жыл бұрын

Biden , I love that she's so a teacher lol

@ChibiProwl

2 жыл бұрын

Melania Trump.

I'm descended from the same Harrison family that Pres Benjamin Harrison is from. He's my 2nd cousin a bunch of times removed 🇺🇲

This really makes me think of the song Labour by Paris paloma. Like I know these women still lived better lives than most people did back then, but it’s crazy they were just expected to do so much work and all unpaid. And then criticized for not doing enough/ doing it “right”

Jackson is probably my least favorite but his love for Rachel is very sweet

Martin Van Buren was the first person born in the US to become President, and to date the only President who didnt speak English at home.

i thought she said the couple “ate” children, not “eight” at 11:08 bc i wasn’t looking at my phone lol.

24:08 That dress though! 😍 25:38 And that dress though! 🥰

Where'd you get that picture at 24:36?

Sarah Polk is a lot like Queen Victoria

11:10 my brain processed this as “they had a happy marriage and ate children” even though I knew that was wrong

Peggy Taylor died 2 years after her husband NOT 2 days.

Hello ma'am. Can you make a video about the only King John of England? Is there a curse for the bearer of the name John in royal family?

Where's number 3!

Most of the Presidents were significantly older than their wives... I've noticed that... In today's society, it might be considered creepy...

@kate_cooper

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of men who didn’t become president were also significantly older than their wives. The general way of doing things was for men to marry when they were financially established, which usually took some years, and were better able to support a family and for women to marry when they were young, pretty, and fertile. Times change.

I have a question when there is a first man will they be host of the white house or no

The more I learn about John Tyler, the more I hate him.

@etanaedelman9011

2 жыл бұрын

I mean he's the only former president who actually joined up with the CSA. He died a traitor. He's pretty lucky no one remembers him.

@mykoniichistorychannel

2 жыл бұрын

I'd agree with that.

It’s supposed to say 10th not 11th on that one chart

me gusta

Edith Wilson was a direct descendant of Pochahontas

Interesting that only two first ladies ever remarried after their husband's death.

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People certainly died young back then.

They are very smart women

ummmmm,, Mrs. Harrison wasn't the 1st First Lady to never set foot in the White House. What about Martha Washington? No White House existed in her time.

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so royaly fancy.

Mr President... where is your first lady? 10 points for correct answers.