fbpx

KidsKonnect

Lucy Hayes Facts & Worksheets

Lucy Webb Hayes was the wife of the nineteenth President of America, Rutherford B. Hayes.

Search for Worksheets

Worksheets /People /Presidents /First Lady of the US /Lucy Hayes Facts & Worksheets
Premium
Lucy Hayes Worksheets
Not ready to purchase a subscription? Click to download the free sample version   Download sample

Lucy Webb Hayes was the wife of the nineteenth President of America, Rutherford B. Hayes. She was widely known as the very first first lady to have graduated from college, having her term from 1877 to 1881.

See the fact file below for more information on the Lucy Hayes or alternatively, you can download our 23-page Lucy Hayes worksheet pack to utilise within the classroom or home environment.

Key Facts & Information

EARLY LIFE

  • Lucy Ware Webb was born on the 28th of August, 1831, on Chillicothe, Ohio to Maria Cook Webb. Her father, Dr. James Webb, was a physician and abolitionist before dying in 1833, leaving her mother to raise her and her two older brothers, namely Joseph Thompson and James Dewees, all by herself.
  • Her parents gave importance to their education. Thus, she was enrolled in a good school and studied, without needing to stop and work. At her 18th, she had finished college in a known school in Cincinnati, Ohio, called Wesleyan Female College. There, she was described as a “diligent” student.
  • Lucy was able to take astronomy, drawing, geology, geometry, mental and moral science, music, painting, rhetoric, and trigonometry. She also debated and wrote essays.
  • She spent many years living in advocacy of temperance, but refused to join such organizations.
  • Likewise, despite firmly believing in the progressive abolitionism of her ancestors, Lucy Webb was uneasy about public involvement in the name of a social-political movement.
  • However, influenced by John B. Gough, a temperance activist, she wrote to family members about her dislike of serving wine at parties.
  • As a Methodist educated in the directors of John Wesley that Christian responsibility needed her to support others, she assisted one poor family with household needs and medicine.

LIFE IN A MARRIAGE

  • The mother of the two, Lucy and Hayes, had been waiting for the two of them to make a match, and Hayes’ mother had been attracted to the morals of Lucy.
  • After being formally courted and engaged for a year, Webb and Hayes got married in 1852, on December 30, at her mother’s home.
  • While nurturing their marriage for around twenty years, Lucy Hayes was able to give birth to seven sons and a daughter, namely Birchard Austin, Webb Cook, Rutherford Platt, Joseph Thompson, George Crook, Fanny (the only daughter), Scott Russell and Manning Force.
  • During the American Civil War, Lucy accepted the choice of her son, Rutherford, as a volunteer for the Union Army. She then went to the camp and left her young children to take care of him while he was injured.
  • Since Rutherford joined the Congress in 1865, she attended congressional hearings, and during his governorship of Ohio (1868–76) carried out numerous charitable and social-service activities that would later become routine for first-time women, such as visiting colleges, hospitals, and mentally ill facilities, and campaigning to support orphanages and veterans’ families. In doing so she became extremely popular with voters in Ohio.

LIFE AS A FIRST LADY

  • While family heirlooms made her rich, she maintained her modest style and frugal ways, a fact that made her dear to all who were tired of the lavish lifestyle preferred by her predecessor, Julia Grant.
  • First Lady Hayes was nicknamed “Lemonade Lucy” for extending her dislike of serving wine at parties in the White House. She did not object to other people’s intoxication and was much more interested in education and health care than in the national ban of alcohol.
  • In 1880, Lucy joined her husband on a rail trip to the west coast, the first such tour by the sitting president, and her attendance gathered a huge audience. Partly as a result of her success, the title of the first lady, previously scarcely used, became more prominent during her period.
  • Rutherford declined to be elected for a second term, and the Hayes’ moved to Spiegel Grove, their residence in Fremont.
  • As the first lady, Lucy was universally acclaimed for her simplicity and common sense.

DEATH

  • The notable “Lemonade Lucy” and the very first First Lady who had finished college, died of a stroke in her 57th year (on June 25, 1889), at Fremont, Ohio.
  • Her last photo was of her enjoying her retirement and feeding birds.
  • She was buried in Fremont City Cemetery.

Lucy Hayes Worksheets

This is a fantastic bundle which includes everything you need to know about the Lucy Hayes across 23 in-depth pages. These are ready-to-use Lucy Hayes worksheets that are perfect for teaching students about Lucy Webb Hayes who was the wife of the nineteenth President of America, Rutherford B. Hayes. She was widely known as the very first first lady to have graduated from college, having her term from 1877 to 1881.

Complete List Of Included Worksheets

  • Lucy Hayes Facts
  • Sequencing Events
  • Lucy Says
  • Related to Her
  • Modest Lucy
  • Guess the Word
  • Essay Making
  • Name the Pic
  • Search and Fill
  • A Part of Her Life
  • Think of It

Link/cite this page

If you reference any of the content on this page on your own website, please use the code below to cite this page as the original source.

Link will appear as Lucy Hayes Facts & Worksheets: https://kidskonnect.com - KidsKonnect, January 2, 2021

Use With Any Curriculum

These worksheets have been specifically designed for use with any international curriculum. You can use these worksheets as-is, or edit them using Google Slides to make them more specific to your own student ability levels and curriculum standards.

Related Resources