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MARTHA WASHINGTON was born in the county of New Kent, Virginia, in May, 1732. Her maiden name was Martha Dandridge, and, at the age of seventeen, she married Col. Daniel Parke Curtis, of the White House, county of New Kent. By this union she had four children : a daughter who died in infancy, a son named Daniel, whose early death is supposed to have hastened his father's ; Martha, who arrived at womanhood, and died in 1770 ; and John, who perished in the service of his country, at the siege of Yorktown, aged twenty-seven. Mrs. Curtis was left a young and very wealthy widow, and managed the extensive landed and pecuniary interests of the estate with surprising ability. In 1759 she was married to George Washington, then a colonel in the colonial service, and soon after they removed permanently to Mount Vernon, on the Potomac. When her husband became commander-in-chief of the colonial armies, Mrs. Washington, accompanied him to Boston, and witnessed its siege and evacuation. After General Washington's election to the presidency of the United States, in 1787, Mrs. Washington performed the duties belonging to the wife of a man in that high station, with dignity and ease. On the retirement of President Washington, she still continued her unbounded hospitality. The death of her venerated husband, which occurred December 14, 1799, was a shock from which she never recovered, though she bore the heavy sorrow with the most exemplary resignation. She survived her husband a little over two years, dying at Mount Vernon. In person Mrs. Washington was well formed, though somewhat below middle height. A portrait, made previous to her marriage, shows that she must have been very handsome in her youth ; which comeliness of countenance, as well as a dignified and graceful manner, she retained during life In the home she was the presiding genius that kept action and order in perfect harmony — a wife in whom the heart of her husband could safely trust,Source: Copied from . . . . WOMAN: Her Position, Influence, And Achievement Throughout The Civilized World, edited by William C. King (page 295) as digitized by Google Books at => http://books.google.com/books?id=__nB3wLsj7QC&pg=PA295#v=onepage&q=&f=false * * *
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