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Bio Info:
- Born in Port Tobacco, Montgomery County, Maryland in 1817.
- As a teen she moved into her aunt's bording house in Washington DC and
was immediately swept up into the social scene.
- Married wealthy Virginian Dr. Robert Greenhow and had four daughters.
- She was a well know hostess of Washington DC
- In 1850, the Greenhows moved to Mexico, then to San Francisco where
Dr. Greenhow died of an injury, leaving Rose widowed.
- She moved back to Washington and resumed her societal role
- Died in a blockade runner, Condor, when it passed a Union
ship and ran aground on a sand bar at the mouth of the Cape Fear River in 1864
- Burried with full military honors.
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