ELIZABETH MONROE .....FIRST LADIES

ELIZABETH MONROE...FIRST LADIES


. Wife of President James Monroe

. Very private person ; kept out of the public eye

. Other people who spoke of her spoke of a beautiful woman who had learned to appriciate
elegant clothing and furniture during her years of her husbands office.

. James and her had 2 daughters ; Eliza and Maria and one son who died at infancy.

. She helped in the release of Madame de Lafayette from prison.

. She preferred not to attend many of the formal functions because of ill health; thus many
of the other ladies did not get to attend with their husbands.

. They painted the outside of the mansion in which her and her husband lived thus calling
it the White House.

. They had the first daughter married in the White House ; Maria.

. They retired in 1825 to Oak Hill, Virginia but grew frail.

. She did at 67 in Oak Hill.

. Her husband went to live with one of their daughters because he was so shaken. He died a year
later.