Later Life
After her husband's death in 1908, Cleveland remained in Princeton, New Jersey. On February 10, 1913, at the age of 49, she married Thomas J. Preston, Jr., who has been erroneously identified as a professor of archaeology at Princeton University. He was a professor of archeology, but at Frances' alma mater, Wells College. She was the first presidential widow to remarry. She was vacationing at St. Moritz, Switzerland, when World War I erupted in August 1914. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, she led the Needlework Guild of America in its clothing drive for the poor.
She died on October 29, 1947, in Baltimore. She was buried in Princeton next to President Cleveland, her first husband.
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