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Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
01-05-2025, 08:19 AM,
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Nope, it was not Eleanor Roosevelt.
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01-05-2025, 02:40 PM,
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Dolley Madison?
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01-05-2025, 03:13 PM,
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Lucretia Garfield? I just saw something about her wearing widows weeds for the rest of her life after President Garfield passed.
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01-05-2025, 04:18 PM,
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
You both are in the right century, but it's not Dolley Madison or Lucretia Garfield.
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01-06-2025, 05:11 PM,
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
This was a tough one, so I think I'll just post the answer. It's Sarah Polk. Sarah Polk made her comment about aging to Reverend Peschau. Reverend Peschau had been a former pastor of the German Lutheran Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
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01-06-2025, 11:05 PM,
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Yep, I never would have guessed that one.

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