^"First Lady Biography: Ellen Wilson". National First Ladies’ Library. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2019-06-12. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2018-08-21. In the sixteen month period between the death of his first wife and his remarriage to his second wife, the efforts of the President's cousin on his behalf were publicly more obscure than that of his daughter. This interim period nevertheless underlines the usually multiple roles assumed by a First Lady who is the president's wife. Helen Bones assumed the more private roles of confidante and caretaker for her widowed cousin, while Margaret Wilson took on the public ones of hostess and civic leader.
