Presidents and First Ladies Trivia

[Linda Anderson]

Good guess, Eva, but Joe got it right. I guess Mary Lincoln knew what she was talking about when she accused Julia Grant of wanting to be First Lady.

My source is "The Two Julias" from the New York Times, 2/14/2013. It's a fascinating article. I had no idea that Julia Grant owned a slave during the war.

"She couldn’t have managed without her slave. Though the slave’s real name was Julia, she was often called Jule or Black Julia. In Julia Grant’s memoirs, she described Jule as “my nurse and maid, a slave born in my old Missouri home.” Home was a plantation near St. Louis, called White Haven, where her father, Frederick Dent, and more than a dozen slaves lived a life more commonly associated with the Deep South. Jule was a small, 'ginger colored”'woman, according to one recollection."

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/201...lias/?_r=0