bess truman

     

Show me! I was nicknamed "The Independent Lady from Independence":

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  • This Missourian known for her "independence" referred to the White House as "The Great White Jail"
  • The first first lady to live past the age of 90, she was 97 when she died in 1982
  • In 1890 at age 5, she met her future husband in an Independence, Missouri Sunday school class
  • Her father was David W, Wallace, a public official in Independence, Missouri
  • The first lady who lived the longest, this native Missourian died in 1982 at age 97
  • After meeting her future husband in Sunday school, she enrolled in a Kansas City, Missouri finishing school
  • Jackie Kennedy especially admired this First Lady for the way she raised Margaret in the White House glare
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Truman Library in Independence, MO.) This is the actual champagne bottle that gave this woman so much trouble when she was christening a plane with it in '45
  • Known under this name as First Lady, she was born Elizabeth Wallace

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