What happened to the Presidents three daughters?
A. In the 1930s, Margaret Wilson became intrigued with the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, an Indian teacher who espoused the ideas of world peace and harmony. She visited his community in India and stayed on to transcribe the writings of one of his followers, an elderly woman known as “The Mother.” Margaret died of uremia in 1944 and is buried in the cemetery at Pondicherry, India. Two White House weddings took place during Wilson’s first term. In 1913 his daughter Jessie married Francis B. Sayre, a law professor at Harvard University. One year later, his youngest daughter, Eleanor, married William Gibbs McAdoo, Wilson’s Secretary of the Treasury. Q. Does the President have any descendants? A. Yes. Both Jessie Wilson Sayre and Eleanor Wilson McAdoo gave birth to children bearing the surnames Sayre and McAdoo. President Wilson’s first grandson, Francis B. Sayre, Jr., became the Dean of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., where his grandfather is buried.
