Evening star. [volume], December 25, 1956, Page B-10, Image 37

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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C.
TUESDAY. DECEMBER *5, me
THROUGH THE AGES
Many Children Share
White House Yuletide
By VYLLA POE WILSON
The Christmas joy and the
largess of good old St. Nich
olas animating the four grand
children of President and Mrs.
Eisenhower, is in keeping today
with the traditional Yuletide
merriment of children of the
families of Presidents.
The grandchildren of Presi
dent Thomas Jefferson were
pioneers in the role of White
House children.
The typical American boy of
today, David Elsenhower (son
of Maj. and Mrs. John Eisen
hower) and 13-year-old Jef
ferson Randolph (son of
Thomas Jefferson’s daughter
Martha and her husband
Thomas Mann Randolph) are
good examples of grandsons
who became favorite compan
ions to Presidents in the lat
ters’ leisure moments.
No doubt Jefferson Ran
dolph’s three sisters. 11-year
old Cornelia and tiny tots Ellen
and Mary had Christmas
dreams fulfilled very like those
of Barbara Anne, Susan Elaine
and tiny Mary Jean Eisen
hower.
First Born
Mary Jean Elsenhower, who
was born in a hospital, com
mands much the same prestige
in the realm of babyland in
the White House as James
Madison Randolph, the first
child born in the White House.
The latter “was monarch of
all he surveyed” in grand
father Jefferson’s home.
Jefferson Randolph treas
ured the memories of long
walks and talks with his
grandfather, Thomas Jefferson.
One day Jeff was so en
grossed in his conversation
with his grandfather that he
did not notice a slave who
bowed and took off his hat and
inquired into the state of
health of the Young Master.
“Jefferson, why do you per
mit a slave to be more of a
gentleman than yourself?” the
author of the phrase "all men
are created equal,” asked
sternly.
Sang Carols
Jefferson invited every mem
ber of his household to sing
carols with his grandchildren
at candlelight time Christmas
eve.
“Old Hickory,” President
Andrew Jackson, directed the
important function of filling
the stockings hung by the
White House chimney Christ
mas eve for the children of
his secretary and nephew Maj.
Andrew Jackson Donelson and
Mrs. Donelson Mary Ellen,
Jackson John and Rachel.
Billy Blair, the son of friends
(and sometimes recorded as
Jackson's adopted son). always
hung his stocking at the White
House.
His home across the park
was damp and cold in winter
and Billy was subject to colds.
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So he spent each winter at the
White House.
The boys were given the im
portant task of cutting off a
lock of Mary Ellen’s golden
hair, so that President Jack
son could place it in the
cornerstone of the United
States Treasury Building as a
precious article.
When Rachel, who was born
in the White House, was teeth
ing she was soothed and
walked by the President of
the United States.
The first daughter of a
President to be married in the
White House, Maria Hester
Monroe (daughter of Presi
dent and Mrs. James Monroe),
should be listed among White
House children, for she was
only 14 years old when her
father was Inaugurated.
The first girl born in the
White House was Mary Louise
Adams, granddaughter of
President and Mrs. John
Quincy Adams. „
President William Henry
Harrison’s two grandsons, Wil
liam and James (sons of Har-,
rison's late son and his White
House hostess, Mrs. Jane Har
rison), enjoyed the opportu
nities during their month-long
regime as White House boys
before the death of their
grandfather.
John Tyler was playing
horseshoes with his boys when
he was informed of the death
of William Henry Harrison
and that he had become Presi
dent of the United States. He
finished his game and won.
Alice Tyler was 13 and her
youngest brother, Tazewell,
was 11, when they celebrated
their first Christmas in the
White House.
Elizabeth Tyler, who was to
become a Washington belle
and a White House bride, was
in her early ’teens at the be
ginning of the Tyler admin
istration.
Children born in the White
House during the Tyler ad
ministration included Robert
Tyler Jones and Henry Tyler
Jones, sons of Mary Tyler and
Henry Lightfoot Jones of Vir
ginia; and Letitia Christian
Tyler, daughter of the Presi
dent’s son Robert and his
beautiful wife Priscilla.
The small White House
granddaughter was the guest
of honor at a Christmas party
when she was three years old.
She stood, dressed as a fairy,
on a dais.
The east room was trans
formed into fairy land. The
young guests were dressed as
flower girls, gypsies and boys
and girls of other nations.
Even in Civil War days Pres
ident Abraham Lincoln planned
the Christmas festivities for
his young man, son Robert
Todd Lincoln, and the two
boys, Tad and Willie Lincoln.
The sudden death of Little
Willie in 1862 cast a shadow
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