Aaron Burr

:Alternate meaning: Rev. Aaron Burr, Sr.

Marriage

That same year, Burr married Theodosia Bartow Prevost, the widow of a British army officer who had died in the West Indies during the Revolutionary War. They had two daughters. While their younger daughter, Sarah, died at age three, their older daughter Theodosia Burr, born in 1783, became widely known for her beauty and accomplishments. She married Joseph Alston of South Carolina in 1801, and died either due to piracy or in a shipwreck off the Carolinas in the winter of 1812 or early 1813. Aaron Burr and his first wife were married for twelve years, until her death from cancer.

Related Topics:
Theodosia Bartow Prevost - West Indies - Theodosia Burr - 1783 - Joseph Alston - South Carolina - 1801 - Piracy - Shipwreck - Carolinas - 1812 - 1813 - Cancer

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In 1833, at age 77, Burr married again, this time to Eliza Bowen Jumel, the extremely wealthy widow of Stephen Jumel. When she realized her fortune was dwindling from her husband's land speculation, they separated after only four months. During the month of their first anniversary, she sued for divorce, citing infidelity, and it was granted on the day of his death. Those papers were served to Burr on his deathbed by Alexander Hamilton's elder son, whose father Burr killed in a famous duel, an irony which was surely not lost on the younger Hamilton.

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1833 - Eliza Bowen Jumel - Stephen Jumel - Land speculation - Divorce - Alexander Hamilton

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