18 Facts About Eliza Jumel

Eliza Jumel, known as Eliza Burr, was a wealthy American socialite.

Eliza Jumel was married to Aaron Burr and their divorce was finalized on the day of his death.

Eliza Jumel's mother remarried in 1790 to an itinerant cobbler named Jonathan Clark, and they moved from town to town in New England, and then finally to Williamston, North Carolina.

Eliza Jumel met and, on April 9,1804, married the wealthy French-Haitian merchant Stephen Eliza Jumel, 10 years her senior.

In 1807, Eliza Jumel became an Episcopalian and was baptized at Trinity Church in Manhattan, even though Stephen was a lifelong Catholic.

In 1810, Stephen and Eliza Jumel moved to what became known as the Morris-Eliza Jumel Mansion in northern Manhattan, turning the home into their summer villa.

Eliza Jumel owned several relics from Josephine Bonaparte's extended family and claimed a close relationship with Bonaparte.

Eliza Jumel had taken lessons with a French tutor during her courtship with Stephen, and she and Stephen easily conversed in both French and English.

Either illness or controversial political opinions led to Eliza Jumel leaving France in 1816.

Eliza Jumel returned to her home in New York, while Stephen Jumel remained in France.

Eliza Jumel managed their American estate and holdings with a good business acumen, and proved an astute investor.

Eliza Jumel made herself unpopular as a businesswoman in New York, however.

Stephen Eliza Jumel died in 1832 when he accidentally fell off a hay wagon onto his pitchfork.

Fourteen months after his death, the 58-year-old Eliza Jumel married the 76-year-old former United States Vice President Aaron Burr.

Eliza Jumel continued to travel throughout Europe and to the summer retreats of New York for twenty years.

Apocryphal stories from the 1880s suggests that Eliza Jumel may have become a regular target of mockery in Saratoga Springs.

Eliza Jumel remained at her Manhattan mansion for the last six years of her life, dying there at age 90 in 1865.

Eliza Jumel was buried in Manhattan at the Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum.