the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. His remains were later moved to the Gardiner family plot at the South End Cemetery in East Hampton, New York. President Tyler proposed marriage several more times before being accepted. He and Julia Gardiner wed on June 26, 1844. They named their first child David Gardiner Tyler in honor of his maternal grandfather. Personal life In 1815, he married Juliana McLachlan (1799–1864), the daughter of Michael McLachlan, who was born and raised in Jamaica, West Indies. His father had been a Scottish warrior in the Battle of Culloden in 1746, between the Jacobites and the military forces in the service of King of England, who was beheaded. They family moved from Jamaica to New York and established a successful brewery in lower Manhattan that led to their purchase of some thirteen pieces of commercial and residential Manhattan real estate, which Juliana inherited, making her one of the wealthiest women in New York. They lived for several years on Gardiners Island in East Hampton, New York, though he did not belong to the branch of the Gardiner family that owned that eponymous island. Together, they were the parents of: David Lion Gardiner (1816–1892), Princeton College graduate and lawyer and Gold Rush investor who owned Sagtikos Manor, and who married a distant cousin, Sarah Gardiner Thompson. Alexander Gardiner (1818–1851), who was the Clerk of the U.S. Circuit Court and an unofficial aide to President Tyler. Julia Gardiner (1820–1889), who married the 10th U.S. President John Tyler (1790–1862), shortly after Gardiner's death aboard the USS Princeton Margaret Gardiner (1822–1857), who married John H. Beeckman (d. 1850) on January 8, 1848. He was a New York merchant and the cousin of Henry Beeckman Livingston who both set up a mercantile operating during the Gold Rush. Descendants His grandchildren include: David Gardiner Tyler (1846–1927), a lawyer and public official, John Alexander Tyler (1848–1883), an engineer who was appointed U.S. surveyor of the Interior Department in 1879, and Dr. Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853–1935), an author and legislator. References Sources Other sources Gardiner, Curtiss C. Lion Gardiner, and his descendants with Illustrations 1599-1890. St. Louis, Missouri : A.Whipple, Publisher 1784 births 1844 deaths Accidental deaths in Virginia Burials at the Congressional Cemetery Deaths by explosive device New York (state) state senators People from East Hampton (town), New York Yale University alumni Gardiner family 19th-century American politicians