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Mary Johnson Stover (May 8, 1832 – April 19, 1883) was a daughter of 17th U.S. President Andrew Johnson and his wife Eliza McCardle. Stover and her three children lived at the White House during the Johnson administration, as Stover's husband, a soldier in the Union Army, had died during the American Civil War and their East Tennessee ...
Mary Johnson Stover . NPS Image. Mary Johnson (Stover) Mary Johnson was born May 8, 1832. More lighthearted than her older sister Martha, Mary attended the Oddfellow's School in Rogersville, TN. On April 7, 1852, she married Daniel Stover from Carter County and moved to his farm there.
Stover, Mary Johnson (1832–1883)American first daughter. Name variations: Mary Johnson Brown. Born Mary Johnson in 1832; died 1883; dau. of Eliza McCardle Johnson (1810–1876) and Andrew Johnson (1808–1875, 17th president of US, 1865–69); sister of Martha Johnson Patterson (1828–1901); m. Daniel Stover (1826–1864, colonel killed in ...
Mary Johnson Stover was laid to rest in the family in 1883. She and her first husband, Daniel Stover, had three children, Sarah, Lillie, and Andrew Johnson Stover. They lived in Carter County, TN. Daniel died during the Civil War, and the widowed Mary moved to the White House with her parents.
Nov 22, 2022 · Daughter of Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the USA; Andrew Johnson and Eliza Johnson, First Lady Wife of Col. Daniel Stover; William Ramsey Brown and Col. Daniel Stover, USA Mother of Andrew Johnson Stover; Lilly Mae Maloney; Eliza Johnson Stover and Sarah Drake Bachman Sister of Martha Patterson; Charles Johnson, MD, USA; Brig. Gen. Robert ...
- "stover", "brown"
- Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, USA
- circa May 08, 1832
Biography. Born in Carter County, Tennessee, Stover married Andrew Johnson's younger daughter Mary Johnson in 1852. Stover had a "fine plantation" in the Watauga Valley. [1] In 1860, on the cusp of the Civil War, the family was living together in Carter County.
Mary Johnson Stover Holding Down the Homefront Mary Stover and her husband supported Union efforts in Confederate Tennessee. He burned bridges to halt Confederate advance and in 1861 retreated to the wintery mountains to avoid capture. Meanwhile, Mary tended to their three children, their farm, and provided refuge for her mother and brother.
