Anna Harrison

Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison ( * July 25, 1775 near Morristown, New Jersey, † February 25, 1864 in North Bend, Ohio) was the wife of the ninth U.S. President William H. Harrison and grandmother of President Benjamin Harrison. During the month-long tenure of her husband in 1841, she was the First Lady of the United States.

Her parents were John Cleves Symmes and Anna Tuthill Symmes, who died in 1776.

Anna and William Harrison were married on 25 November 1795 in North Bend. The couple had ten children: Elizabeth (* 1795), John Cleves (* 1798), Lucy (* 1800), William Henry Jr. (* 1802), John Scott ( * 1804), Benjamin (* 1806), Mary ( * 1809), Cater (* 1811), Anna ( * 1813) and James ( died as a child).

William H. Harrison died exactly one month after his appointment as President. Due to a serious illness she could never make its way to Washington during his short tenure and was the only reigning First Lady, who has never set foot in the White House, her daughter Jane Irwin Harrison functioned during this time as hostess in the White House. A one time payment of $ 25,000 Anna Harrison was the first president 's widow, who received a pension from Congress.

After her husband's death she lived with her son, John Scott Harrison, in North Bend.

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