The bedroom at Mount Vernon used by Martha Washington as a widow.

While it is the same bed previously seen which she shared with her husband (and which her son and his wife Louisa later shared apparently) this bed at the Adams National Historic Site is significant in that it was the one Abigail Adams died in.

Martha Jefferson Randolph’s bedroom in the famous Monticello, home of her father Thomas Jefferson. She briefly served as his White House hostess for two winter social seasons of his eight-year presidency.

Dolley Madison’s bedroom at Montpelier.

The bedroom of Sarah York Jackson, one of two First Ladies during her father-in-law’s presidency.

Angelica Van Buren’s bedroom at the Hudson River Valley home of her widowed father-in-law, for whom she served as First Lady.

The bed Sarah Polk slept in as a widow for several decades. (ggsreflections.blogspot.com)

Harriet Lane’s bedroom at the Wheatland estate of her bachelor uncle, for whom she served as First Lady.

Mary Todd Lincoln’s bedroom at her family’s Lexington, Kentucky home, which she visited and used after her marriage as well as during her childhood

Invalid Eliza Johnson’s bedroom in the family’s Tennessee home.

The widowed Lucretia Garfield used the bedroom in the summers she continued to spend at the family farmhouse, Lawnfield.

The widowed Ida McKinley’s bedroom, recreated in the Saxton-McKinley House in Canton, Ohio.

Edith Wilson’s bedroom where she lived most of her life. (leonids.us)

In this collection of artifacts from a Herbert Hoover Presidential Library display is the headboard and footboard of Lou Hoover’s bed used in her Palo Alto, California home.

Eleanor Roosevelt permitted her New York City bedroom to be photographed for a paid Simmons advertisement, calling it “The most marvelous mattress in the world.”

Eleanor Roosevelt’s bedroom at Val Kill, the Hudson River Valley home she built for herself, apart from the Springwood estate where her husband and mother-in-law continued to live.

Bess Truman shared this bedroom with her daughter Margaret at the presidential retreat in Key West, Florida.

Mamie Eisenhower’s legendary pink bed, in the Eisenhower farmhouse at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. To preserve her uncertain health, she often conducted meetings and handled her correspondence from her bed.

Mamie Eisenhower’s bedroom at her Palm Springs home.

Jackie Kennedy’s bedroom at the Newport, Rhode Island estate of her stepfather Hugh Auchincloss, which she used in the summers before her marriage. Once a museum, the property is now private.

The bedroom of Ari and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on his yacht.

Jackie Onassis’s private bedroom in the Pink House on the Onassis island of Skorpios, with the wrought-iron canopy, made in Greece.

The bedroom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in her Martha’s Vineyard home.

Pat Nixon’s bedroom at the family’s San Clemente estate, La Casa Pacifica.

Nancy Reagan in her bedroom of the famous General Electric house where she and her family lived from the 1950s to 1980, in a screen capture from one of the GE commercials.