James Monroe was born on April 28, 1758, in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He entered the College of William & Mary at 16, but cut his studies short in 1776 to join the Continental Army to fight for ...
Eliza Monroe Hay, daughter of President James Monroe, will be reburied in Virginia nearly 200 years after her death in France, reuniting her with her family at last.
Barbara VornDick pulled the yellowed letter out of a gray archival box and felt a shock at what she saw. It was as if the writer had been bottled up for 180 years and was suddenly reaching out to her, ...
The remains of Eliza Monroe Hay, daughter of President James Monroe, will be reinterred in Richmond, Virginia. Her remains were brought to the United States from an unmarked grave in France after ...
The daughter of former President James Monroe will be buried in the same Virginia cemetery as her father on Thursday, finally reuniting the pair two centuries after she was stranded in France and left ...