Younger sister of Grover Cleveland. She took over the duties of First Lady for the first 15 months of her brothers Presidency until he married Frances Folsom Cleveland in 1886.
After giving the role of First Lady to Frances she went to Indiana to pursue her first love of teaching. She would become the principal of the Collegiate Institute of Lafayette, Indiana, a writer and lecturer and the editor of the Chicago-based magazine Literary Life.
Rose never married and lived for a time in Florida before following her former companion Evangeline Simpson-Whipple, the widow of Rev. Henry Benjamin Whipple, to Bagni di Lucca, Italy in 1910. The two lived there quietly until Rose's death in the Spanish Fever Epidemic in 1918. Evangeline died in 1930 and was buried next to Rose in the English Cemetery in Florence.
After giving the role of First Lady to Frances she went to Indiana to pursue her first love of teaching. She would become the principal of the Collegiate Institute of Lafayette, Indiana, a writer and lecturer and the editor of the Chicago-based magazine Literary Life.
Rose never married and lived for a time in Florida before following her former companion Evangeline Simpson-Whipple, the widow of Rev. Henry Benjamin Whipple, to Bagni di Lucca, Italy in 1910. The two lived there quietly until Rose's death in the Spanish Fever Epidemic in 1918. Evangeline died in 1930 and was buried next to Rose in the English Cemetery in Florence.
Younger sister of Grover Cleveland. She took over the duties of First Lady for the first 15 months of her brothers Presidency until he married Frances Folsom Cleveland in 1886.
After giving the role of First Lady to Frances she went to Indiana to pursue her first love of teaching. She would become the principal of the Collegiate Institute of Lafayette, Indiana, a writer and lecturer and the editor of the Chicago-based magazine Literary Life.
Rose never married and lived for a time in Florida before following her former companion Evangeline Simpson-Whipple, the widow of Rev. Henry Benjamin Whipple, to Bagni di Lucca, Italy in 1910. The two lived there quietly until Rose's death in the Spanish Fever Epidemic in 1918. Evangeline died in 1930 and was buried next to Rose in the English Cemetery in Florence.
After giving the role of First Lady to Frances she went to Indiana to pursue her first love of teaching. She would become the principal of the Collegiate Institute of Lafayette, Indiana, a writer and lecturer and the editor of the Chicago-based magazine Literary Life.
Rose never married and lived for a time in Florida before following her former companion Evangeline Simpson-Whipple, the widow of Rev. Henry Benjamin Whipple, to Bagni di Lucca, Italy in 1910. The two lived there quietly until Rose's death in the Spanish Fever Epidemic in 1918. Evangeline died in 1930 and was buried next to Rose in the English Cemetery in Florence.
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In Sacred and Loving Memory of
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland
Born in New York, USA
Author and Philanthropist
A Loyal Lover of Her Country
And A True Friend of Italy
She Died 22 Nov 1918, at Bagni di Lucca
Stricken By The Epidemic Spanish Fever Which,
With Her Band of Nurses, She Was Nobly
Combatting Among the Refugees Of The Great War
St. John, 13.15.
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