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The statue was placed by the Rome Area Council for the Art and is designed by Arizona artist Stephanie Hunter. The statue illustrates Wilson’s love of the arts as she stands at her easel, painting a scene while overlooking the river. Learn more about Ellen Axson Wilson. Learn more about Historic Markers in Rome.
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Oct 21, 2019 · Ellen Axson Wilson was the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson. She was a former resident of Rome, and she is buried in the family plot in Myrtle Hill Cemetery. The statue captures her love of art and nature. It's a significant memorial to an important person. When you are in Rome, take a few minutes to walk in front of the Forum to the Town ...
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Sep 18, 2015 · A statue of former first lady Ellen Axson Wilson was unveiled on Thursday at Rome’s Town Green. The bronze statue, which cost close to $60,000 and was paid for…
Lilburn, GA577 contributions. Wonderfu statue of Ellen Axson Wilson. Nov 2018. Ellen Axson Wilson was the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson. She was a former resident of Rome, and she is buried in the family plot in Myrtle Hill Cemetery. The statue captures her love of art and nature.
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Born on May 15, 1860, at the manse of the Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, the home of her paternal grandparents, Ellen Louise Axson was the eldest of four children born to the Reverend Samuel Edward Axson and Margaret Jane Hoyt. Her father and both of her grandfathers were Presbyterian ministers. Her paternal grandfather, the Reverend ...
Ellen Axson enrolled at Rome Female College in 1871. She excelled as a student, especially in art, and later studied foreign languages and art as a postgraduate student. She drew crayon portraits from photographs, which she sold, and shared her love of literature and poetry with her friends in lengthy correspondence. Her youngest sibling was born i...
In April 1883 Woodrow Wilson, then a twenty-six-year-old lawyer living in Atlanta, visited his uncle in Rome. He attended Rome’s First Presbyterian Church, where he saw Ellen Axson in the congregation. Her mourning clothes led him to assume that she was a young widow, but he soon learned that she was the pastor’s eldest daughter and that the little...
The Wilsons’ first home together was in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where he served on Bryn Mawr College’s inaugural faculty. In 1888 they moved to Middletown, Connecticut, where he became a faculty member at Wesleyan University. In 1890 he was named professor of jurisprudence at his alma mater, Princeton University, and the ...
Woodrow Wilson won the 1912 presidential election, and in March 1913 the family moved into the White House in Washington, D.C. As First Lady, Wilson became concerned by the abysmal conditions of the alleys and back streets of Washington, and she campaigned for the passage of a bill to clean up the streets. The effort is credited as an early attempt...
By 1914 Wilson was gravely ill. After several months of decline due to Bright’s disease, she died in the White House on August 6, 1914. Her dying wish was that the Washington clean-up bill be enacted, and Congress quickly obliged. A special train returned her remains to Rome for the funeral at First Presbyterian Church on August 11. She was buried ...
Ellen Axson Wilson. Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (May 15, 1860 – August 6, 1914) [1] was the first lady of the United States from 1913 until her death in 1914, as the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson. Like her husband, she was a Southerner, as well as the daughter of a clergyman. She was born in Savannah, Georgia, but raised in Rome, Georgia.
Ellen Axson Wilson is pictured in 1912, one year before her husband, Woodrow Wilson, became the president of the United States. After her death in 1914, her body was returned by train to her native Georgia, and her remains were buried in Rome's Myrtle Hill Cemetery.
