Dolley Madison Estate Sale Catalog
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About this Gallery
Dolley Madison passed away at her house on Lafayette Square on July 12, 1849 at age eighty-one. By that age she was one of the few women of note who remembered the founding fathers personally. After her death the possessions she had cherished went to her niece and great niece and in 1899, a half a century after her passing, they were put up for auction.
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