Eliza Monroe Hay
(d. 1840)
BIRTH
December 1786
PLACE
Fredericksburg
NAME
Eliza Kortright Monroe
DEATH
January 27, 1840
PLACE
Paris
FAMILY
BROTHER
James Spence Monroe
(1799-1800)
SISTER
Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur
(1802-1850)
CHILDREN
James Monroe
(1758-1831)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
CATHOLIC, CATHOLIC CONVERT
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1786–1840) was James and Elizabeth Monroe’s eldest daughter. She married Virginia lawyer George Hay in 1808 and had a daughter, Hortensia. Educated in France during his diplomatic service, she later helped her mother host at the White House during Monroe’s second term. After her parents and husband died within a year, she returned to Paris for her final years. She is buried at Père Lachaise; family letters and Bible records preserve her life.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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 Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay 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. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay was James and Elizabeth Monroe’s eldest daughter. Educated in France during his diplomatic service, she later helped her mother host at the White House during Monroe’s second term. Hay died in Paris on January 27, 1840, and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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