Friends to my peers

I have personally met all 12 of the first Presidents except James Polk, whose grandfather, father, and himself were nonetheless ardent Jeffersonians. The Tylers were especially close. John Tyler, Sr., and I were classmates and close friends. I later met his son and future President John Tyler, Jr., as a teenager in 1809 at their house. In 1782, after Mrs. Jefferson passed away, John Tyler, Sr., named his newborn daughter Martha Jefferson Tyler. So President Tyler has a sister named after me. When I myself passed away in 1826, John Tyler, Jr., gave a lengthy 4548-word eulogy for me on July 11, 1826.

You can read John Tyler, Jr.'s eulogy in the link below (the only place that his eulogy is available on the entire Web): https://www.thomasjefferson.com/influence#tyler