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Medora Charlotte Cheatham Thayer

Birth: 16 Jan 1819
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
Death: 3 Feb 1880 (aged 61)
USA
Burial: Mount Olivet Cemetery

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Memorial ID: 74716755 View Source

Parents: Leonard Pope and Elizabeth Davis (Robertson) Cheatham. She was an older sister of Confederate General Benjamin Franklin Cheatham.

Wife of: Samuel James Riggs, and 2. James Smith Thayer.

Interesting note: James Smith Thayer married Medora Charlotte Cheatham. Their daughter Ada Thayer married Charles M. Addison and it was THEIR daughter Julia Morris Addison who married George Emlen Roosevelt, who was the second cousin of Eleanor Roosevelt (wife of FDR), and first cousin once removed of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Parents: Leonard Pope and Elizabeth Davis (Robertson) Cheatham. She was an older sister of Confederate General Benjamin Franklin Cheatham.

Wife of: Samuel James Riggs, and 2. James Smith Thayer.

Interesting note: James Smith Thayer married Medora Charlotte Cheatham. Their daughter Ada Thayer married Charles M. Addison and it was THEIR daughter Julia Morris Addison who married George Emlen Roosevelt, who was the second cousin of Eleanor Roosevelt (wife of FDR), and first cousin once removed of President Theodore Roosevelt.

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Created by: Marc Thayer, III
Added: Aug 10, 2011
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