Dolley Madison

Dorothea " Dolley " Payne Todd Madison ( born May 20, 1768 in New Garden, Guilford County, North Carolina; † July 12, 1849 in Washington, DC) was the wife of U.S. President James Madison and thus the First Lady of the United States of from 1809 to 1817. Their nickname is often wrong "Dolly" written.

She was the daughter of farmer John Payne and his wife Mary Coles. Your teenage years she spent in Philadelphia and attended the Salem College in Winston -Salem, North Carolina.

On January 7, 1790 married Dolley and John Todd, Jr. ( 1764-1793 ) in Philadelphia. The couple had two sons, John Payne Todd (1792-1852) and William Temple ( infant death 1793). Dolleys husband and her younger son both died by a yellow fever epidemic.

Dolley Todd Madison and James were married on September 14 in 1794. The wedding took place on a plantation in Virginia. They had no children. After her husband's death in 1836, Dolley Madison lived from November 1837 with an interruption 1839-1843 until her death in July 1849 in a house on Madison Square in Washington.