Mary Ball Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Tacoma, WA

Mary Ball

Born in 1706, Mary was the child of widower Joseph Ball and widow Mary Johnson. She was attractive and well educated for her time. She married widower Augustine Washington at age 25 and became mistress of his home "Wakefield," and step-mother to his three children. Her first child (of five) was George, born on 22 February 1732, (in later life the hero of the American Revolution and our country's first President). Widowed at 38, she never remarried. Her death occurred on 25 August 1789 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where she is entombed. The monument marking her grave was the first  erected by the infant DAR in 1891. It reads simply: "MARY, MOTHER OF WASHINGTON."

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