Eugenia Washington

Eugenia Scholay Washington was an American historian, civil servant, and a founder of the lineage societies, Daughters of the American Revolution and Daughters of the Founders and Patriots of America.

Washington was born in 1838 near Charles Town, Virginia, in presentday West Virginia. She was the daughter of William Temple Washington, through whom she was a greatgrandniece of George Washington, first President of the United States, and a grandniece of Dolley Payne Todd Madison. Following her familys relocation to Stafford County, she and her family witnessed the Battle of Fredericksburg first hand during the American Civil War.

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