1. Ellen Wrenshall Grant was the third child and only daughter of US President Ulysses S Grant and First Lady Julia Grant.
22 Facts About Nellie Grant
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At the age of 16, Nellie was sent abroad to England by President Grant, and was received by Queen Victoria.
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In 1874, Nellie was one of a few women who married at the White House.
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Nellie Grant remarried to Frank Jones, but within a few months she became ill.
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Nellie Grant was born on July 4,1855, in Wistonwisch, Missouri, near St Louis, on the estate slave plantation of Col.
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Nellie Grant was first named Julia, at the insistence of her father, but was christened Ellen Wrenshall at 18 months to honor her dying grandmother.
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At the age of 13, Nellie Grant moved into the White House, after her father was elected to the Presidency in 1868.
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Nellie Grant was a successful Union War general and Commanding General of the US Army during the Reconstruction Era.
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The situation did not last long after Nellie sent three distressing telegrams to Grant, who relented, and sent an escort to bring Nellie back to the White House.
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Washington society was shocked when Nellie Grant danced through the night at a society ball.
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When Nellie turned 16, President Grant was concerned when there were many young suitors who pursued his only daughter.
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In England, Nellie Grant was received by Queen Victoria and she attended many garden parties.
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Nellie Grant initially opposed Sartoris's courtship and engagement to his daughter, having learned from his parents that he was a "drinker".
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Nellie Grant, himself, had a reputation of drinking and had battled rumors of alcoholism throughout his life.
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Nellie Grant did not want his daughter to live in England.
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When Grant invited Sartoris to the White House to play billiards, Sartoris told Grant he wanted to marry Nellie.
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Nellie Grant finally relented and on July 7,1873, writing to Sartoris's father, he gave his daughter permission to marry Sartoris on condition that they wait at least a year.
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In 1912, Nellie Grant married Frank Hatch Jones, a lawyer originally from Springfield, Illinois, who lived in Chicago.
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Nellie Grant was a Yale University graduate, who was Chairman of the Sangamon County Democratic Committee, President of the State League of Democratic Clubs of Illinois and Secretary of the Illinois State Bar Association.
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Nellie Grant had returned to the United States from England to be with her sick father and American family.
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In 1885, ex-President Nellie Grant was dying of throat cancer while he was writing his memoirs.
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Nellie Grant died in Springfield, Illinois on August 30,1922, at the age of 67.