Ellen Axson Wilson

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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.

Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

Ellen Axson Wilson

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