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
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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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