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Mary Ball Washington House, 1200 Charles Street, Fredericksburg, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1927.The house was originally built in 1761 and has later additions. Mary Ball was born sometime between 1707 and 1709 at either Epping Forest, her family's plantation in Lancaster County, Virginia, [1] or at a plantation near the village of Simonson, Virginia. [2]
The Mary Washington House, at 1200 Charles Street in Fredericksburg, Virginia, is the house in which George Washington's mother, Mary Ball Washington, resided towards the end of her life. It is now operated as an 18th-century period historic house museum, one of several museums in Fredericksburg operated by Washington Heritage Museums. Today it ...
National Mary Washington Memorial Association (NMWMA) is a hereditary American woman's organization created in Washington, D.C. in 1889, to support in perpetuity the monument to Mary Ball Washington located at Fredericksburg, Virginia. It is the second chartered historical and patriotic society among women in the United States. [1]
Four of the buildings make up the Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library, founded in 1958, whose purpose is to preserve and interpret the history of Lancaster County, Virginia. [3] [4] The Lancaster Court House Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
It opened in 1958 and was named in honor of George Washington's mother, Mary Ball, a Lancaster County, Virginia native and granddaughter of the ca 1653 emigrant, William Ball I. Past curators of the Mary Ball Washington Museum include Thomas M. Thacker II, Cathy Currey, Sarah J. Walker, and Sonja Headley.
Joseph and Mary's daughter Mary Ball, the mother of George Washington. Rogers died in the early 1700s. After her death, Ball married Mary Johnson (1672–1721). Johnson was a widow who had two children from a prior marriage. Ball and Johnson had one child, Mary Ball, in 1708. Joseph Ball died on July 11, 1711, and is buried in Saint Mary's ...
Elizabeth's mother Mary Ball Washington was buried on the grounds, which she had liked to visit. Lewis descendants sold the house and property in 1797 after Elizabeth Washington Lewis' death. A memorial was erected in 1894 at the Mary Ball Washington gravesite. The Samuel Gordon family purchased the property in 1819.
Mary Ball may refer to Mary Ball (naturalist) (1812–1898), Irish naturalist and entomologist; Mary Ball (poisoner) (1818–1849), English housewife who poisoned her husband; Mary Ball Washington (c.1707–1789), mother of U.S. president George Washington SS Mary Ball, Liberty ship named after Mary Ball Washington