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Painted "mat" on glass. (Tennessee State Museum Collection, 1.886) Born on October 4, 1810 in East Tennessee, Eliza McCardle was the daughter of Sarah Phillips and John McCardle. John was a shoemaker and tavern owner before his early death. Despite this tragedy, the two women persevered and sold quilts to earn an income.
Eliza was the daughter of Sarah Phillips and John McCardle, a shoemaker. Fortunately she had received a good basic education that she was delighted to share with her new husband. He already knew his letters and could read a bit, so she taught him writing and arithmetic. With their limited means, her skill at keeping a house and bringing up a ...
Eliza Johnson (født: McCardle; 4. oktober 1810 – 15. januar 1876) var USAs førstedame fra 1865 til 1869 og ektefellen til Andrew Johnson, den 17. Presidenten i USA. Eliza ble født i Telford i Tennessee, USA. Hun var eneste barn av John McCardle, en skomaker, og Sarah Phillips. Hennes far døde da Eliza fortsatt var i tenårene.
Eliza McCardle Johnson. Eliza McCardle Johnson was the wife of the 17th President, Andrew Johnson. She served as First Lady of the United States from 1865 to 1869. “I knew he’d be acquitted; I knew it,” declared Eliza McCardle Johnson, told how the Senate had voted in her husband’s impeachment trial. Her faith in him had never wavered ...
When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency following President Lincoln’s assassination, his 54-year-old wife Eliza Johnson had been weakened by tuberculosis and was too sickly to perform the social duties required of a first lady. The Johnson’s married daughter, Martha Johnson Patterson, stepped up to the role required of a first lady and ...
8 de out. de 2017 · After her father’s death, Eliza McCardle helped her mother make quilts to support the family. She met Andrew Johnson soon after he arrived in Greeneville in September 1826. Their wedding, performed by a justice of the peace, took place in Warrensburg on May 17, 1827, when she was sixteen and he was eighteen.
Eliza McCardle, the daughter of a shoemaker, was born on Oct. 4, 1810, in Greeneville, Tenn. She was educated at home and at the Rhea Academy in Greeneville, but after her father died she assisted her mother with sewing projects to help make ends meet. In 1826 Eliza met Johnson, an aspiring tailor. According to local folklore, when she first ...
