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Mary, the Mother of Washington.

One OF the most interesting art;oIos
IN the Century Magazine and nv man
1t Will be regarded as the most mo. 49,
GEs'Ilng E' OF all, IS the story told by Mrs
Ina Ina DaSsett Washington, widow of
the late Col. Lewis W. Washington Of
the Dlrth' parentage and life of Marv
S4e IN mother of Washington. WHO ss
Mary Ball, daughter of Col. Josenb
DALI OF Epping Forest, Lancaster
county, va, was married to AuUns.
tine t4n Washington on the 9th of MaScb
1I0O-'3l. -Four sons and three dan@b
ters were born to them, as the famiiv
record still extant, shows. Two of tb9
GpaughTers p1 died in infancy; the third
petty Washington, born on the 0Otb af
June' 1888, died on the 3lst of March
I'9"' On her marriage Mary Ball re-
moved to her husbands home IN
WestmOreland county, and here on
the Ilth day of February. 1871 20 w@os @
porn the eldest of the family Georoo
Washington. Atthe end of nina 80 %
OF welded life, Augustine WaebiIoto,7 '|'
az Cne age OF ~, leaving the care of the |
estate 10 the widow, until the four
sons respectively attain the age of 81
III case my said wife continues unmarI
Tled;" iic She remained through ali her
NE loyal to the memory of her hrs.
oand and his trust, and devoted her
SeIi so long as she lived, to her own
ana the estates held in trust and to
tne care and personal training of her
i. Her life thenseforth became the
lie OF Virginia planter. boldin0 tho
ieius IN her own hands, looking after
everything, neglecting nothing. and :
admitting no one to share in the re-
sPonslbllities she had assumed Tn
| |oO her only surviving dauohter !
[5etty, was married to Col. Fieldin,,
I%oM1S' .%' OF Gloucester county, who
~ ouiIV Tor her an elegant house at
leueIIcksburg, that she might be +
'ear per mother" In her old age a
vary Washington herself removed to t
Ieueflcks refusing, with char. o
eterlstic 8 independence the invitation
! Solohel Lewis and her daughter 10 i'
laAe her nome with them. All the D
1cCS stated IN this charming memoir 81
re drawn from absolutely authentic r
Durces, and from data in the nossess- >
% OF the writer's family. some of G.
'hich nave never been nuhIisba6 r
hey snow the same firm and seIEre. g
ant character, and the same care in II
le management of her property that vi
'e marked traits in the life of her W
sIlhguIshed son, and the influence of
81 training and the respect in which th
le was held, not only by the immed- vi
te members of the family but bv all in
"hom she was known. Is
her patriotism was of the purest i
pc. She gave up her son at the cali WI
uuty, and throughout the whole of e9' Uc
t war OF independence watched and ~ ~
ayed for him, and with calm de. W. Tu
sahor received the reports alike of 80 -
'tory and defeat. To her daughter S'o
lGlng her for undue excitement She
a. the daughter of the commanding
neral should be an examnle of forti. zet
le ana faith" When the war was mol
or. she met the congratulations of val
french officers, who called on her Boz
pay Their respects, in the same calm the
rlG. TO the praise of LAFAYETTE She phy
ply SAID, Il am not surprised at he
at George has done, for he was I'll
,ays a good boy" And thew loved the
u other well, this mother and SON gen
sne was privileged to live until he it i
oAoseu by the almost unanimous thir
&c OF the people, President of the Chi
v Republic. '10 beft