Julia Boggs Dent Grant
Julia Boggs Dent Grant (1826-1902) was born 26 Jan. 1826 in St. Louis, St. Louis Co., Missouri. She was the daughter of Frederick Dent and Ellen Bray Wrenshall. She married Ulysses S. Grant on 10 Sep. 1848 in St. Louis, and they had four children. She met Wilford Woodruff in Oct. 1875 when she and her family visited Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory. She died 14 Dec. 1902 in Washington, D.C.
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