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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 5081

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From FindaGrave:

Mother of Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War Union General and 18th President of the United States. She married Jesse Root Grant on June 25, 1821 in Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio, and died of old age at her home on No. 582 Pavonia Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey. Considered to be distant and lacking in motherly affection towards her son Ulysses, she is seldom mentioned in his papers. She is buried near her husband.

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The Weekly Pantagraph, May 18,1883.
Grant's Mother Dead.

Jersey City, May 11-Mrs. Hannah S. Grant, mother of the ex-president, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Corbin, on Pavonia avenue, Jersey City heights, this afternoon. Mrs. Grant rose this morning in apparently good health, but was seized with severe pains in the region of the heart shortly before noon. A physician was at once summoned, but she expired before his arrival. Mrs. Grant was born in Berks county, Pa., November 23, and was married to Jessie R. Grant at Clermont, Ohio. She was the mother of six children, three of whom are now living, Mrs. Corbin, U. S. Grant and Mrs. Kramer, wife of the present United States minister to Switzerland. The funeral services will be held to-morrow afternoon at her late residence. The interment will take place in the family plot at Spring Grove cemetery. Cincinnati, O.

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5081

Hannah married Jesse Root Grant on 25 Jun 1821 in Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio. Jesse (son of Noah Grant, III and Rachel Kelley) was born on 23 Jan 1794 in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died on 29 Jun 1873 in Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky; was buried after 29 Jun 1873 in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Hiram Simpson Grant
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 411
• Group: Descendant of Mayflower Passenger
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Famous Historical Figure
• Group: Mayflower - Richard Warren

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From FindaGrave:

18th United States President, Civil War Union Lieutenant General.

Born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, his birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant.

At age seventeen he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where they misnamed him Ulysses Simpson Grant, a name he kept. After graduation, his first assignment was service in the Mexican War. After eleven years he resigned his commission and pursued a number of failed civilian endeavors.

He answered the call for service during the Civil War, quickly rising to rank of Brigadier General. Victories at Fort Henry, Fort Doneson and Vicksburg earned him a second star. After raising the siege of Chattanooga, Grant was promoted to Lieutenant General and placed in command of all Union armies. The Army of the Potomac under General Grant finally forced Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to withdraw from Richmond the following spring and finally surrender on April 9, 1865. The following year Congress awarded a fourth star, making him the first full General of the Armies in American history.

With his popularity at an all time high, he accepted the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 1868. After serving two terms in the White House, Grant entered business on Wall Street in New York City. He lost all his money. To help support himself, he wrote magazine articles about his military life. He died of throat cancer in 1885.

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/411

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Passenger or Descendant of the Mayflower

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DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

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Famous People

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Descendant of Richard Warren of the Mayflower

Ulysses married First Lady Julia Boggs Dent in 1848. Julia was born on 26 Jan 1826 in Saint Louis, St. Louis (city) County, Missouri; died on 14 Dec 1902 in New York, New York County, New York; was buried after 14 Dec 1902 in General Grant National Memorial, Manhattan, New York County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]