Eliza Hendricks

Who was Eliza Hendricks?

Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks was the wife of Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks who was in office for the first eight months of the first administration of Grover Cleveland until his death on November 25, 1885. They were married on September 26, 1845 after a two-year courtship and had one son Morgan who died at age three. Mrs. Hendricks was a native of North Bend, Ohio, having been born there in 1823.

Mrs. Hendricks was described as "generous, wise and discreet". She died in 1903 at Indianapolis after being paralyzed for three weeks.