The marriage of Nellie Grant Sartoris and Algernon started as a novel on board and ended in misfortune. Considered a bit of a cad, Algernon was known as a gambler, womanizer and alcoholic.
Here is information on Nellie and Algernon White House wedding, marriage, children, and more.
Born:
Ellen "Nellie" Wrenshall Grant July 4, 1855 to wish Your wish, near St. Louis, MissouriAlgernon Charles Frederick Sartoris :. August 1,. 1851 in London, England
Mort:
Nellie August 30, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois. Nellie was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, IllinoisAlgernon :. February 3, 1893 in Capri, Italy pneumonia
How Nellie and Algernon Met :.
They met on the ship "Russia" during a return trip from England to New York. Nellie had just turned 17, and Algernon was aged almost 22 yearsDate and wedding information: ..
Nellie and Algernon were married May 21, 1874 in the East Room of the White House "Although less than two hundred guests attended the wedding of Nellie Grant and her British husband, he was a distinguished company that gathered at the white house in the morning May there nearly thirty-two years, and marriage was an event of international importance ... "
Source:" Roosevelt Nuptials wedding Reminder Grant ", NYTimes.com, February 5, 106.
"during the ceremony, the bride and groom stood under a huge floral bell with filler flowers background of a window behind them. there were six bridesmaids, and General Grant betrayed his daughter with ill-concealed emotion. the room is, they say, was adorned for the marriage with genuine South orange flowers. only the lace on the wedding dress cost $ 1,500. The young couple has advanced to the embrace of the great eastern window (which hung a huge floral bell), along a corridor formed by officers of the army and navy in glittering uniform. There were six pairs present. The friend of the bride, Miss Annie Barnes, daughter of the then Surgeon General, was bridesmaid "
Source:". Romance of Nellie Grant "OldandSold.com, 108.
children
Nellie and Algernon had four children- Grenville Edward Grant Sartoris :. . Born July 11, 1875 at Elbernon, NJ Grant died of convulsions on 21 May. 1876 in England
- Edward Algernon Sartoris :. Born March 17, 1877. Served as a captain in the US army and as Consul in Guatemala in 104 Algernon married Cecile Noufflard in Paris. France in 107. He died
- Vivien May Sartoris :. Born April 7, 1879 in London, England Vivien married Frederick Scovel Roosevelt in 103 in Ontario, Canada in 1933. She died
- Rosemary Alice Sartoris. born on November 30, 1880 in London, England. Rosemary married George H. Woolston October 29, 106 in New York City. Rosemary died in 1914.
Occupations
Algernon :. Own Diplomat and propertyResidences
Nellie and Algernon had homes in England, Ontario. Canada, Washington, DC, and WisconsinQuotes on Marriage Nellie Grant and Algernon Sartoris:
Walt Whitman, 1874 to Nellie Grant "O bonnie bride returns your red cheeks aujourd 'hui to the loving kiss of a nation "Source:".. ", Time.com, 08.12.1966
Sheboygan City News " an unusual ceremony Algernon Sartoris, is very close to its end, somewhere in France, delirium tremens, know commonly as serpents also jim-jams. It has a lot of land in that particular state about Green Bay and others in this town ... Why Genl. then President Grant, never allowed, it is a mystery. Shortly before the wedding, Sartoris stopped at the Beekman house here for a few weeks. the writers sitting as his left at the table . him while taking all, he was the black sheep we ever met ... the family home was one of the most beautiful in England, it is said. Algernon proved anything but a good husband, but the family did everything they could to Nellie and two or three children. For several years, he was at home very little. "
Source: Sheboygan City News " points of interest "CrystalLakeWi.org 29/01/1891
[ about Algernon: " It [Algernon] it [Nellie] established a place of beautiful countryside Cadogan, England, but their marriage proved unhappy. Mr. Sartoris died after she had borne him three children "
Source:, NYTimes.com, June 22, 1912.
Margaret" Mrs. NG Sartoris to Wed FH Jones. " Truman: "Sartoris was rich, handsome and well educated, but despite these recommendations, subsidies were less happy with the match they would have preferred Nellie marry an American Moreover, she was only seventeen.. years, and she and Algernon had not known for long enough to be sure they made the right choice. as usual Nellie got his way, although his parents got a sort of victory by the couple agree to wait a year before announcing their commitment "
Source :. Margaret Truman, The house of the President: 1800 to the Present, and the secret history of the most famous home in the world , 03, page 177.
Christopher Gordon: "in a few years of marriage, the relationship of Nelly and Algernon Sartoris had badly deteriorated and solidarity was rare ... on both sides of the Atlantic, there were rumors about the marriage ... in Sartoris 1880 two children were born Algy and Nelly, but we were spending a lot of time away from home ... the arrangement broke into the scandal in 1883 when, shortly after arriving at the [Wisconsin] farm he was seen in the company of another woman "
Source: Christopher Gordon," a marriage of the white House. the history of Nelly Grant "was MoHistory.org 05. 18.
Second marriage :.
After announcing their engagement June 21, 1912, Nellie married Frank Hatch Jones July 4, 1912 in Coburg, Ontario. She suffered a stroke several months after their marriage and lived as an invalid until his deathSource :. "Ms. NG Sartoris to Wed FH Jones", NYTimes.com, June 22, 1912.