Mary Eleanor Garnett
(1774-1837)
BIRTH
October 4, 1774
PLACE
Essex County, Virginia Colony
NAME
Mary Eleanor Dick Mercer
DEATH
April 11, 1837
PLACE
Essex County, Virginia, United States
FAMILY
FATHER
James Mercer
(1736-1793)
BROTHER
Charles F. Mercer
(1778-1858)
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RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Mary Eleanor Dick Mercer Garnett was born in 1774, a daughter of James Mercer and Eleanor Dick. She married James Mercer Garnett, a Virginia planter and congressman, and had nine children, including James Mercer Garnett Jr. Her identity appears in the Garnett-Mercer-Hunter papers and William Garnett Chisolm’s genealogies at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. She died in 1837. The names Mary Eleanor Mercer, Dick and Garnett refer to this same woman.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Mary Eleanor Garnett’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 Mary Eleanor Garnett 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.
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DEATH
Mary Eleanor Garnett died in 1837, in Essex County, Virginia, United States. Mary Eleanor Dick Mercer Garnett was born in 1774, a daughter of James Mercer and Eleanor Dick. She married James Mercer Garnett, a Virginia planter and congressman, and had nine children, including James Mercer Garnett Jr. Her identity appears in the Garnett-Mercer-Hunter papers and William Garnett Chisolm’s genealogies at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. She died in 1837. The names Mary Eleanor Mercer, Dick and Garnett refer to this same woman. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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