PBA Galleries

Approximately 91 items. Housed together in plastic sleeves in two three-ring binders.

Interesting group of material relating to the descendants of President John Tyler through his eldest son Robert Tyler, who married Priscilla Cooper, and whose daughter Priscilla C. Tyler married Albert T. Goodwyn. The Tylers and the Goodwyns were old Southern families, from South Carolina, Virginia, and Alabama, long involved in the political, economic and social life of the South, and were owners of slaves and plantations. Provenance: Descended in the family.

Includes:

• Twenty-one letters between members of the Tyler-Goodwyn extended family. 1834-1945.
• Thirty-two items relating to the genealogy of the Tyler-Goodwyn extended family, including family trees, memoirs, obituaries, newspaper articles, two books, etc. 1884-1988.
• Twelve photographic images, some from paintings, mostly portraits of family members.
• Thirteen wills and related testaments of members of the Tyler-Goodwyn extended family. 1900-1951.
• Thirteen items of miscellaneous nature, including several relating to the 1918 military service of Robert Tyler Goodwyn, Jr. 1891-1962.
• Two books, on the daughter-in-law and grandaughter of President John Tyler: Priscilla Cooper Tyler by Elizabeth Tyler Colement; and Priscilla Cooper Tyler Goodwyn, by William James Mahoney, Jr.