Undated portrait of Bones, created between 1910 and 1920
Born
(1874-10-31)October 31, 1874
Rome, Georgia, U.S.
Died
June 4, 1951(1951-06-04) (aged 76)
Rome, Georgia, U.S.
Resting place
Myrtle Hill Cemetery
Occupation(s)
Book editor, personal secretary
Known for
Surrogate First Lady to her cousin Woodrow Wilson between the death of his first wife and his second marriage
Helen Woodrow Bones (October 31, 1874 – June 4, 1951)[1] was Woodrow Wilson's first cousin and also, from her childhood, a friend of Wilson's first wife, Ellen. Bones moved to the White House as Ellen Wilson's private secretary after Wilson's 1912 election as US President. After Ellen Wilson's death in 1914, Bones served as a "surrogate First Lady" in the Wilson White House until his second marriage sixteen months later.[2][3][4]
^Thomas Woodrow Wilson: family ties and southern perspectives, by Erick Montgomery, published 2006 by Historic Augusta, OCLC Number: 83747417, page 119.
^"First Lady Biography: Ellen Wilson". National First Ladies’ Library. Archived from the original on October 9, 2018. Retrieved August 21, 2018. In the sixteen month period between the death of his first wife and his remarriage to his second wife, the efforts of the President's cousin on his behalf were publicly more obscure than that of his daughter. This interim period nevertheless underlines the usually multiple roles assumed by a First Lady who is the president's wife. Helen Bones assumed the more private roles of confidante and caretaker for her widowed cousin, while Margaret Wilson took on the public ones of hostess and civic leader.
^Lewis L. Gould (February 4, 2014). American First Ladies: Their Lives and Their Legacy. Taylor & Francis. pp. 234–. ISBN 978-1-135-31155-1.
^Lekach, Sasha (November 2, 2016). "He's with her: How to address Bill Clinton if Hillary wins". Mashable. Retrieved September 12, 2018. For example, during the Woodrow Wilson administration in 1914 there was a gap between his wife Ellen Wilson's death and the president's marriage to his second wife Edith Wilson in 1915. Wilson's cousin, Helen Woodrow Bones, served as the White House hostess during that time.
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