Mary Washington (née Ball; November 30, 1708 – August 26, 1789), was the second wife of Augustine Washington, a planter in Virginia, the mother-in-law of Martha Washington, the paternal grandmother of Bushrod Washington, and the mother of George Washington, the first president of the United States, and five other children. Washington lived a large part of her life in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where many monuments were erected in her honor and a university plus other public buildings bear her name.
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1708 Lively, Virginia
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26 August 1789 (aged 81) Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S.
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