Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America

In May 1894, President Grover Cleveland gave a speech thanking those who gathered "e;to worship at this national shrine."e; He was not referring to the battlefields at Gettysburg or Antietam, nor to Mount Vernon, but to the gravesite of Mary Ball Washington, mother of George. While dedicating the new monument that marked it in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Cleveland honored "e;the woman who gave our N...