Eliza Bowen Jumel rose from poverty in Rhode Island to become a wealthy New York property owner. Eliza managed real estate transactions and her husband’s affairs. In her last significant travels, Jumel accompanied her two adopted grandchildren on a Grand Tour of Europe in 1856, during which time a large, life-size oil portrait of the three was executed by Alcide Ercole. Jumel remained at her Manhattan mansion for the last six years of her life, dying there at age 90 in 1865. The available biographical record identifies Eliza Jumel with work or public activity as a hostess. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them. Eliza Jumel died on Jul 16, 1865, in Manhattan, New York. The main event and its setting are better documented than the precise final moments. Exact last words and private exchanges are not consistently preserved, so those details remain uncertain.