Fonte: New York Post
The daughter of former President James Monroe will be buried in the same Virginia cemetery as her father on Thursday, finally reuniting the pair two centuries after she was stranded in France and left in an unmarked grave. Eliza Monroe Hay died at the age of 53 in 1840, while — unbeknownst to many of her friends and family — she was desperately trying to find a way back to the US. Two letters in the College of William & Mary‘s archives, penned by Hay, revealed her tragic fate nearly 200 years later.
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