 1873 - 1960 (86 years) Submit Photo / Document
Has 2 ancestors and 3 descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Carrie Fulton |
| Birth |
22 Sep 1873 |
Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, United States  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
COMPLETED |
| FamilySearch ID |
MTJD-MRN |
| Death |
3 Feb 1960 |
Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States |
| Burial |
Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I93148 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Matthew Henry Fulton, b. 22 May 1840, Brighton Township, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States d. 1 Dec 1906, Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, United States (Age 66 years) |
| Mother |
Kate Nessie Swingly, b. 31 Mar 1851, Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, United States d. 26 Sep 1944, Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States (Age 93 years) |
| Marriage |
30 Nov 1871 |
Crawford, Ohio, United States |
| Family ID |
F30453 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
James Eaton Phillips, b. 1866, Ohio, United States d. 3 Jul 1939 (Age 73 years) |
| Marriage |
10 Jun 1896 |
Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States |
| Children |
| + | 1. Isabelle Phillips, b. 25 Mar 1897, Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States d. 1968 (Age 70 years) |
| | 2. James Fulton Phillips, b. 1899, Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States d. 1901, Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States (Age 2 years) |
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| Family ID |
F30452 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
20 May 2024 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 22 Sep 1873 - Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, United States |
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 | Marriage - 10 Jun 1896 - Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States |
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| Death - 3 Feb 1960 - Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States |
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| Burial - - Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States |
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| Notes |
- Once the affair came to light, Florence Harding was furious and felt bet r ayed. This was not the first time that her husband had entered into a n af fair with a woman who she considered a friend. Phillips, too, was di splea sed with his wife’s conduct. To separate the two and to allow tim e for th e marriages to be reconciled, Phillips took his family and retur ned to Eu rope, leaving the Hardings to tough it out in Marion. While i n Germany, C arrie became immersed in German culture, and refused to retu rn to the Uni ted States at the tour's end, insisting she and their daugh ter stay behin d. James Phillips returned to the United States alone.
While Carrie was still in Europe, Harding ran for the United States Sena t e. As Europe moved closer to the brink of war, Carrie begrudgingly retu rn ed to the States. Her passion for Germany was very well known. At ever y o pportunity, she pled Germany’s case. Once she returned to Marion, he r aff air with Harding reignited. Phillips threatened to expose the affai r if H arding voted in favor of war with Germany, but did not follow thro ugh o n this threat.
In the summer of 1920, immediately following acceptance of the Republic a n nomination, Harding disclosed his affair with Mrs. Phillips to the pa rt y bosses, and also disclosed that Mrs. Phillips was in the possessio n o f hundreds of love letters he had written to her, many on Senate stat ione ry. Afraid of a scandal involving both an affair as well as Mrs. Phi llips ' government files for supporting Germany in the recent war, the pa rty bo sses impressed upon Mr. and Mrs. Phillips the importance that thei r trave l abroad could keep the matter quiet. Carrie refused, and immedia tely dic tated the terms under which she would consider the party's wishe s. In ret urn for Mrs. Phillips' silence on the matter, the Republican Pa rty woul d pay for an extended tour of Asia and the Pacific Islands, as w ell as a n annual stipend to Mrs. Phillips for the remainder of her life.
In June 1923, Warren Harding embarked on a western tour of the country , d espite a decline in his health, and died in San Francisco, Californi a o n August 2, 1923. The cause of his death has been a matter of specula tion : that he was poisoned by his wife, was accidentally and inappropria tel y prescribed stimulating medicines by an incompetent yet trusted doct or , suffered food poisoning, or simply had a severe heart attack. His wi fe , Florence, died 15 months later on November 22, 1924 in Marion, Ohio.
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