Dorothea Spotswood Henry
(1778-1854)
BIRTH
August 2, 1778
PLACE
DEATH
June 17, 1854
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Patrick Henry
(1736-1799)
MOTHER
Dorothea Dandridge Henry
(1757-1831)
BROTHER
Patrick Henry
(1736-1799)
BROTHER
John Henry
(1750-1798)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Dorothea Spotswood “Dolly” Henry Winston (1778–1854) was Patrick Henry and Dorothea Dandridge’s eldest child together, born at Williamsburg’s Governor’s Palace. She married George Dabney Winston at Red Hill in 1795 and had nine children. After his death she lived with family in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, dying at her son-in-law’s Memphis home. She is buried in Elmwood Cemetery. Sources disagree on her precise birth date, giving August or October.
EARLY LIFE
Dorothea Spotswood Henry was born on Aug 2, 1778. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Dorothea Spotswood Henry is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Dorothea Spotswood Henry died on Jun 17, 1854. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Dorothea Spotswood Henry died on Jun 17, 1854. Dorothea Spotswood “Dolly” Henry Winston was Patrick Henry and Dorothea Dandridge’s eldest child together, born at Williamsburg’s Governor’s Palace. She married George Dabney Winston at Red Hill in 1795 and had nine children. After his death she lived with family in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, dying at her son-in-law’s Memphis home. She is buried in Elmwood Cemetery. Sources disagree on her precise birth date, giving August or October. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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