Maria Monroe Gouverneur (1802-1850), Monroe’s youngest child, was born on April 8, 1802. She attended Madame Grelaud’s School in Philadelphia from 1816-1819, and married her cousin Samuel L. Gouverneur (1798–1865) in a ceremony at the White House in 1820. They resided in New York until 1844, when they returned to Washington, D. C., to allow Samuel to take a position in the U.S. State Department. They had three surviving children, James Monroe Gouverneur (born 19 August 1822), Elizabeth Kortright Gouverneur and Samuel Lawrence Gouverneur, Jr. Their first child, a daughter, died on 4 September 1821. Maria died on June 20, 1850, at Oak Hill in Leesburg, Virginia (Daily National Intelligencer, 24 June 1850).
Maria Monroe Gouverneur
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