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Margaret Eaton (née O'Neill, formerly Timberlake, later Buchignani; December 3, 1799 – November 8, 1879), was the wife of John Henry Eaton, a United States senator from Tennessee and United States Secretary of War, and a confidant of Andrew Jackson.
Petticoat affair. A cigar box exploiting Eaton's fame and beauty, showing President Jackson introduced to Peggy O'Neal (left) and two lovers fighting a duel over her (right) Peggy O'Neill Eaton, in later life.
Margaret O'Neill Eaton, better known as "Peggy O'Neill", was the daughter of the keeper of a popular Washington tavern, and was noted for her beauty, wit and vivacity. About 1823, she married a purser in the United States Navy, John B. Timberlake, who committed suicide while on service in the Mediterranean in 1828.
Not only was Margaret O'Neale Eaton born in Washington, she spent most of her life there, and indeed her personal history is intimately tied to the city's growth. Both she and Washington were infants in 1799, the year Eaton claims, and most historians accept, as her birth year.
Margaret O'Neill (Peggy O'Neill), c.1796–1879, wife of John Henry Eaton, U.S. secretary of war under President Andrew Jackson. She was the daughter of a Washington tavern keeper and married John Timberlake, a purser in the U.S. navy.
MARGARET O'NEILL EATON (1796-1879), better known as Peggy O'Neill, was the daughter of the keeper of a popular Washington tavern, and was noted for her beauty, wit and vivacity.
A few months earlier, Eaton had married Margaret O’Neale Timberlake, the recent widow of a navy officer. She was the daughter of Washington boardinghouse proprietors, and her humble origins and combination of beauty, outspokenness, and familiarity with so many men in the boardinghouse had led to gossip.
