Happy birthday to former First Lady Bess Truman! She would have been 127 years old today, February 13th.
Harry S Truman claimed that he fell in love with Bess at age 5 or 6, when they met at Sunday School in Independence, Missouri. Here ’s a tintype portrait of the girl he first laid eyes on, Bess Wallace at about 7 years old.
-from the Truman Library
Source: trumanlibrary.org
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