Lucretia Garfield took the same approach to restoring the mansion that Mrs. Kennedy would in 1961. She herself was doing research into the history and background of the mansion. Her husband was shot in a train depot in Washington, DC, and his eventual death abruptly ended her term as First Lady in 1881. Ida McKiinley also suffered the tragedy of losing her husband to an assassin's bullet just 20 years later in 1901. However Mrs. McKinley made no changes in the mansion as she was an invalid suffering from seizures.