President John Tyler, buried in the Hollywood Cemetery, passed away today.

This Day in History 1862 Julia Gardiner's husband, former President John Tyler dies. She had a premonition and had ridden all night up on horseback from his plantation, Sherwood Forest, in tidewater Virginia, where they had danced the "Virginia Reel" and arrived in Richmond, VA to his great consternation. He was in charge of Richmond, VA in the American Civil War, and collapsed on the steps of the headquarters, the Richmond Hotel, I think Mr. Robert Gardiner said. In 1639, Lion Gardiner, a British royal fortress architect, here appraising the Dutch and their loose sales of arms and fortifications (or lack thereof), acquired Gardiners Island, after leaving the hostilities in Old Saybrook, CT. It's said that the 17,000 acres granted them on the larger Long Island, were given them after they negotiated a return of a Montaukett princess, then about to be married, who had been kidnapped by the Naragansett, who reside in Rhode Island, for which 100,000 fathoms of "wampum" had been demanded. Recently, the studios of Pinewood West, a British film making studio with the tallest soundstage in New York State (40' high, "A room or studio that is usually soundproof, used for the production of movies"), had its premises blessed by one of the natives, Princess Thunderbird. Mr. Gardiner also once had the "Gardiner Manor Mall" in Bayshore, where a friend, Mindy Washington, was once his book-keeper. She went on to work for the Peconic Land Trust, which attempts to negotiate for the preservation of environmentally sensitive habitats on the eastern end of Long Island.