Mount Hope, 231 North Mill St Lexington, Fayette County, KY
In the spring of 1824 Benjamin Gratz became the owner of Mt. Hope, taking there his young wife, Maria Cecil Gist, daughter of Col. Nathaniel Gist. Three of the six sons of Benjamin Gratz were born there as was also his wife`s illustrious nephew, Banjamin Gratz Brown, governor of Missouri. The Marquis de Lafayette was a guest at Mt. Hope and the children made orphans by the cholera scourge of 1833 were gathered here. Also at Mt. Hope was spent the boyhood of the Confederate General Joseph Orville Shelby. Mrs. Thomas Hart Clay, a daughter by a second marriage, inherited the place in 1892 and about 25 years later Mrs. Jere Rogers Morton, a granddaughter, came back to live in the house in which she was born.
Mount Hope, 231 North Mill St Lexington, Fayette County, KY
In the spring of 1824 Benjamin Gratz became the owner of Mt. Hope, taking there his young wife, Maria Cecil Gist, daughter of Col. Nathaniel Gist. Three of the six sons of Benjamin Gratz were born there as was also his wife`s illustrious nephew, Banjamin Gratz Brown, governor of Missouri. The Marquis de Lafayette was a guest at Mt. Hope and the children made orphans by the cholera scourge of 1833 were gathered here. Also at Mt. Hope was spent the boyhood of the Confederate General Joseph Orville Shelby. Mrs. Thomas Hart Clay, a daughter by a second marriage, inherited the place in 1892 and about 25 years later Mrs. Jere Rogers Morton, a granddaughter, came back to live in the house in which she was born.
Posted Date
Sep 27, 2021
Source Name
Library of Congress
