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Martha Ellen Young Truman (November 25, 1852 – July 26, 1947) was the mother of U.S. president Harry Truman, the paternal grandmother of Margaret Truman, and the mother-in-law of Bess Truman.
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Wallace, a resident of Palm Springs, California, returned to Independence recently to observe the 135thanniversary of the Feb. 13, 1885 birthday of his aunt, Bess Truman. Wallace spoke at the Midwest Genealogy Center, an event hosted by the Mid-Continent Public Library, the Truman Library and the Independence Pioneers Chapter of the Daughters of th...
Wallace’s father, Fred, married Christine Meyer in 1933. Two months after David’s birth in October, 1934, all three also moved into the large Victorian home. After Wallace’s younger sister Marian arrived in 1937, eight people shared the square footage. On the first floor Madge Gates Wallace had her own bedroom and adjacent bathroom. On the second f...
Wallace does have an explanation for the family suppression of his grandfather’s suicide. Margaret didn’t learn of it until 1944, when she was 20 years old, when an aunt told her. Margaret, who soon asked her father about it, was stunned when he “seized my arm in a grip that he must have learned when he was wrestling calves and hogs around the farm...
When Martha Ellen Young was born on 25 November 1852, in Grandview, Jackson, Missouri, United States, her father, Solomon Young, was 37 and her mother, Harriet Louisa Gregg, was 34. She married John Anderson Truman on 28 December 1881, in Grandview, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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- John Anderson Truman
Martha Ellen Truman was the mother of U.S. President Harry S. Truman. She died in 1947 and is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.
Wife of John Anderson Truman — married 28 Dec 1881 in Grandview, Jackson County, Missouri. Descendants. Mother of Harry S Truman, John Vivian Truman and Mary Jane Truman. Died 26 Jul 1947 at age 94 in Grandview, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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- November 25, 1852
- John Anderson Truman
- July 26, 1947
Portrait of Martha Ellen Young Truman, mother of President Harry S. Truman. Same as 62-462 and 84-66.
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