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Mother of Bess Wallace Truman and mother-in-law of Harry S. Truman. The Madge (Margaret) Gates Wallace Papers contain bank statements, cancelled checks, receipts, correspondence, invitations, memorabilia, printed material, and other items relating to her life and family. Size: Less than one linear foot (about 800 pages).
Portrait of Bess W. Truman. Autographed, "To Reathel, With love and best wishes, from, Bess W. Truman." Date(s) ca. 1945. Harry S. Truman Library & Museum. 500 W US Hwy 24 Independence, MO 64050 816-268-8200 | 800-833-1225 Fax: 816-268-8295. Museum Hours. ...
Bess Wallace sits on north porch of her Independence home, circa 1905. Truman Library. Harry Truman often visited his relatives, the Nolands, who lived across the street from the Gates family. One day in 1910, Aunt Ella Noland asked Harry to return a cake plate that Madge Wallace had sent over. Bess answered Harry’s knock at the door and it ...
An elderly Bess Truman, who is sitting in a large yellow chair in her home on Delaware in Independence, Missouri, looks at a small blue gift box. Standing next to her are an unidentified woman (center) and Georgia Neese Clark Gray (right).
Bess Truman Collection. Dates: 1845-2008. The Bess Truman Collection consists of documents related to Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman that were provided by various donors. The collection consists mostly of correspondence between Mrs. Truman and her friends and acquaintances, but also includes documents related to Mrs. Truman’s childhood and family.
Bess Truman and her new husband chose to live in the Gates house, which after the death of Madge Wallace in 1952 became the Truman house by purchase from Bess’s brothers. During the 1920s, while Bess’s husband first conducted a haberdashery in Kansas City (1919–1922) and then was eastern judge of Jackson County (1923–1924) and presiding judge (1927–1934), the Truman family lived at ...
The first, Correspondence from Harry S. Truman to Bess Wallace, contains the letters that Truman wrote to Bess prior to their marriage in 1919. These letters document their lengthy courtship, which began in earnest in 1910, when Truman was living on the family farm near Grandview, Missouri, and Bess was living with her mother in neighboring Independence. During Truman’s military service in ...
