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Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower (May 1, 1862 – September 11, 1946) was the mother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969), university president Milton S. Eisenhower (1899–1985), Edgar N. Eisenhower (1889–1971), and Earl D. Eisenhower (1898–1968).
Nov 25, 2015 · On 27 August 2015 a Facebook user shared the above-reproduced image, claiming that the mother of President Dwight D. Eisenhower was an "orphaned mulatto woman named Ida Stover."
Jun 5, 2021 · Ida Elizabeth Eisenhower formerly Stover. Born 1 May 1862 in Mount Sidney, Augusta, Virginia, United States. Ancestors. Daughter of Simon P. Stover and Elizabeth Juda (Link) Stover.
Born in Virginia in 1862, Ida Stover's earliest memo- ries included the destructive years of the Civil War. Her mother died when she was four and her father scattered the eleven children among relatives, sending Ida to live with her mother's father.
Ida Stover Eisenhower was born May 1, 1862 in the community of Sidney in Virginia 's Shenandoah Valley with the Civil War raging nearby.
Eisenhower's mother, Ida Elizabeth (Stover) Eisenhower, born in Virginia, of predominantly German Protestant ancestry, moved to Kansas from Virginia. She married David on September 23, 1885, in Lecompton, Kansas , on the campus of their alma mater, Lane University .
Ida Stover Eisenhower was the mother of Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower. She had a tragic upbringing that left her orphaned and forced to strike out on her own. She met David Eisenhower, whose cold and stubborn temper was the opposite of her warm and optimistic one.
