Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur
(1802-1850)
BIRTH
April 8, 1802
PLACE
Virginia, U.S.
NAME
Maria Hester Monroe
DEATH
June 20, 1850
PLACE
Oak Hill, Leesburg, Virginia, U.S.
FAMILY
BROTHER
James Spence Monroe
(1799-1800)
CHILDREN
James Monroe
(1758-1831)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur (1802–1850) was President James Monroe and Elizabeth Kortright Monroe’s younger daughter. Educated in France and Philadelphia, she married her cousin Samuel L. Gouverneur at the White House in March 1820, its first wedding of a president’s child. They later lived in New York, where her widowed father joined their household and died in 1831. She died at Oak Hill in Virginia; her remains were later moved to Richmond.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur’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 Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur 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. Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur died on Jun 20, 1850 in Oak Hill, Leesburg, Virginia, U.S. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur was President James Monroe and Elizabeth Kortright Monroe’s younger daughter. In 1840 the couple returned to Washington. Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur died on June 20, 1850, at the Monroe family Virginia plantation, Oak Hill. Her body was initially interred at Oak Hill but was later moved, along with her mother's remains, to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. 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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