Death Information
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There are 13 people that may have died at this address. We found:
Name:
Margaret Doe
Birth Date:
08/04/1862
Death Date:
12/05/1952
Cause of Death:
Natural
Additional Info:
Margaret Wallace died in 1952 in the White House, during her son-in-law's term as President. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSvcid=49799&GRid=6791755&
Name:
Charles G. Doe
Birth Date:
Not Available
Death Date:
12/05/1950
Cause of Death:
Additional Info:
December 5, 1950 - Charles G. Ross, White House Press Secretary. https://www.whitehousehistory.org/questions/who-has-died-in-the-white-house
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Charles Ross, the press secretary for President Harry Truman, died of a coronary occlusion at his desk in the White House in 1950.
https://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-facts-how-many-people-have-died-2018-2#ellen-wilson-first-lady-august-6-1914-8
Name:
Rebecca Doe
Birth Date:
1840
Death Date:
1840
Cause of Death:
Unknown
Additional Info:
Folk figure. Granddaughter of US President Martin Van Buren, she was the first person to die inside the White House. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSvcid=49799&GRid=25159570&
Name:
Zachary Doe
Birth Date:
11/24/1794
Death Date:
07/09/1850
Cause of Death:
illness
Additional Info:
12th US President
7/9/1850 (Died in office)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Taylor
Name:
John Doe
Birth Date:
01/22/1800
Death Date:
11/29/1892
Cause of Death:
Unknown
Additional Info:
Father-in-law of US President Benjamin Harrison. Died in the White House
Scott lived with the President and Mrs. Harrison in the White House during their term. Both his daughter and he died there in 1892, he died a month after her. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Witherspoon_Scott
Name:
Caroline Doe
Birth Date:
10/01/1832
Death Date:
10/25/1892
Cause of Death:
Tuberculosis
Additional Info:
After her condition became terminal, she returned to the White House, where she died on October 25, 1892. Preliminary services were held in the East Room, and her body was returned to Indianapolis for the final funeral at her church. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Harrison
Name:
Elisha Doe
Birth Date:
01/28/1804
Death Date:
1883
Cause of Death:
Natural
Additional Info:
Shortly before his seventy-ninth birthday, he died while attending a New Year's Day diplomatic reception January 1, 1883 given by President Chester Arthur at the White House. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Hunt_Allen
Name:
William Doe
Birth Date:
12/21/1850
Death Date:
02/20/1862
Cause of Death:
Illness
Additional Info:
The third son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. He died at the age of 11 due to illness in the White House on Feb 20, 1862. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Lincoln
In an elegant White House guest room, the 11-year-old son of Abraham and Mary Lincoln lay ill in a huge carved rosewood bed, now known as the Lincoln Bed. At five p.m. on February 20, 1862, William Wallace Lincoln died. Elizabeth Keckly, the former slave who designed Mrs. Lincoln's beautiful wardrobe, washed and dressed him. When the president gazed at him, he mourned, "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth. God has called him home. I know that he is much better off in heaven, but then we loved him so. It is hard, hard to have him die!"
She watched him bury his head in his hands, "his tall frame convulsed with emotion." At the foot of the bed she stood "in silent, awe-stricken wonder," marveling that so rugged a man could be so moved. "I shall never forget those solemn moments -- genius and greatness weeping over love's idol lost." President Lincoln then walked down the hall to his secretary's office. He startled the half-dozing secretary with the news: "Well, Nicolay, my boy is gone -- he is actually gone!" John Nicolay recalled seeing his boss burst into tears before entering his own office.
Mary Lincoln was inconsolable in the loss of her favorite son. To add to the anguish, Tad, her youngest son, lay seriously ill in another room. Both children apparently suffered from typhoid fever, a common illness in disease-ridden Washington, D.C. Willie was the third son born to the Lincolns in Illinois, arriving on December 21, 1850, the same year their second son died. Now with Willie's death, the family circle grew smaller yet. Robert, a student at Harvard College, was the eldest son, the only one who would outlive his parents.
In the words of a government official's wife, "The White House is sad and still, for its joy and light have fled with little Willie. He was a very bright child, remarkably precocious for his age, and had endeared himself to every one who knew him." Mary Lincoln's cousin said he was "noble, beautiful ... a counterpart of his father, save that he was handsome." Mary herself called him the "idolized child, of the household."
Willie's body was taken downstairs to the Green Room where it remained until burial. Drs. Brown and Alexander handled the embalming, a procedure they would perform three years later after the president's assassination. Willie lay in a flower-covered metallic coffin designed to resemble rosewood, with his name and date of birth and death inscribed on a silver plate. Friends came to pay their respects on February 24, the morning of the funeral.
Just before the service the Lincoln family gathered around the coffin for a private farewell. Benjamin French, who supervised the arrangements, wrote, "While they were thus engaged there came one of the heaviest storms of rain & wind that has visited this city for years, and the terrible storm without seemed almost in unison with the storm of grief within, for Mrs. Lincoln, I am told, was terribly affected by her loss and almost refused to be comforted." Mary Lincoln grieved in her bedroom upstairs during the funeral and burial.
The funeral began at 2 p.m. in the East Room, where the huge gilt mirrors were draped in mourning, with black fabric covering the frames and white covering the glass. Dr. Phineas D. Gurley, pastor of the nearby New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, conducted the service. The Lincoln family attended Dr. Gurley's church, where Willie recently told his Sunday School teacher he wanted to become a teacher or preacher of the gospel.
President Lincoln, his son Robert, and members of the Cabinet sat in a circle, surrounded by a crowd which included representatives from Congress and foreign countries. The writer Nathaniel Parker Willis recalled the service as "very touching." He saw "[General] McClellan, with a moist eye when he bowed in prayer ... and senators, and ambassadors, and soldiers, all struggling with their tears -- great hearts sorrowing with the president as a stricken man and a brother."
Following Dr. Gurley's sermon, Dr. John C. Smith of the Fourth Presbyterian Church concluded the service in prayer. Most of the mourners accompanied the body to Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown, creating a long procession. Two white horses drew the hearse, while two black horses pulled President Lincoln's carriage down Washington's unpaved streets and up the hill to the cemetery. When the procession arrived at the cemetery, Willie's body was placed in the small chapel for a brief service of Scripture and prayer. He later was transferred to the Carroll family vault on the cemetery's northwest end (Lot 292). This vault, purchased by William and Sallie Carroll in 1857, contained the bodies of their three sons. Orville H. Browning, a political friend of the Lincolns from Illinois, inspected the vault the day before the funeral with William Carroll, clerk of the Supreme Court. Carroll offered this space temporarily to the Lincoln family until they returned to Illinois. After President Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, Willie's coffin was removed and placed on the funeral train. Both father and son are permanently buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois.
Willie's death left deep marks on the Lincoln family. Elizabeth Keckly said Mary "was an altered woman .... she never crossed the threshhold of the Guest's Room in which he died, or the Green Room in which he was embalmed."
The artist Alban Jasper Conant noticed something different about President Lincoln following Willie's death, saying, "ever after there was a new quality in his demeanor -- something approaching awe. I sat in the fifth pew behind him every Sunday in Dr. Gurley's church, and I saw him on many occasions, marking the change in him."
John Hay, another White House secretary, wrote that the president "was profoundly moved by his death, though he gave no outward sign of his trouble, but kept about his work the same as ever. His bereaved heart seemed afterwards to pour out its fulness on his youngest child." On the day President Lincoln was assassinated, he told Mary, "We must both be more cheerful in the future. Between the war and the loss of our darling Willie we have been very miserable." http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/education/williedeath.htm
Name:
Letitia Doe
Birth Date:
11/12/1790
Death Date:
09/10/1842
Cause of Death:
Stroke
Additional Info:
The first President's wife to die in the White House, Letitia Tyler died peacefully in the evening of September 10, 1842. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia_Tyler
Name:
Ellen Doe
Birth Date:
05/15/1860
Death Date:
08/06/1914
Cause of Death:
Bright's Disease
Additional Info:
Her health failing slowly from Bright's disease, she died in the White House on August 6, 1914. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Axson_Wilson
Name:
William Henry Doe
Birth Date:
02/09/1773
Death Date:
04/04/1841
Cause of Death:
Illness
Additional Info:
The 9th US President. He was the first United States president to die in office. His last words were to his doctor, but assumed to be directed at John Tyler, "Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more." Harrison served the shortest term of any American president: March 4 – April 4, 1841, 30 days, 12 hours, and 30 minutes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison
Name:
Frederick Doe
Birth Date:
Not Available
Death Date:
12/15/1873
Cause of Death:
Additional Info:
George Dent's son, Frederick, was the first nonnative child born in the settlement. "Frederick's daughter, Julia Dent, married Ulysses S. Grant and Frederick Dent died in the White House while visiting his daughter and her husband." SOURCE: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form AL-IV-A-164 - 11-14-2005
Name:
Frank Doe
Birth Date:
Not Available
Death Date:
09/12/1994
Cause of Death:
Plane Crash
Additional Info:
1994 White House plane crash was a significant security breach involving a small aircraft.
Incident Details
Date: September 12, 1994
Location: South Lawn of the White House
Aircraft: Cessna 150
Pilot: Frank Eugene Corder, a 38-year-old truck driver from Maryland.
Fatalities: 1 (Corder, the pilot)
What Happened?
Frank Eugene Corder, reportedly under the influence of alcohol and possibly struggling with personal issues, stole a Cessna 150 from an airport in Maryland.
He flew it towards the White House in the early morning hours.
Around 2:00 AM, the plane crashed into the South Lawn, just short of the White House itself.
The impact killed Corder on impact but caused minimal damage to the grounds.
President Bill Clinton and his family were not in the White House at the time, as they were staying at Blair House.
Security Impact
The crash exposed serious vulnerabilities in White House airspace security.
It led to stricter airspace restrictions and improved security measures around Washington, D.C.
Possible Motive
There was speculation that Corder wanted to commit suicide or make a political statement, but no clear motive was ever confirmed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Eugene_Corder
