... Following the death of his first wife, Letcher married Charlotte Robertson, sister of George Robertson, a congressman and future chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.[2] Historian Jennie Morton records that Letcher referred to his second wife as "the queen".[8] No children were born as a result of this marriage, but the couple raised one of their nieces from childhood.[9] Charlotte Letcher survived her husband, and died October 29, 1879.[9] ...