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Eleanor Delamere Ball Laurens (April 10, 1731 - May 22, 1770). She was the daughter of wealthy rice plantation owner Elias Ball (1675 - 1751) and Mary Delamare (1700-1751). On June 25th, 1751 she married Henry Laurens and birthed 12 children with only four surviving:
Daughter of Mary Delamare. Her headstone was destroyed by the British during the Revolution. She was buried in the Western Cemetery in the Northwest corner. She had a flat stone upon a brick foundations.
2 mar 2021 · Shortly after the birth of daughter Mary Eleanor, tragedy struck the Laurens home, his wife Eleanor Ball died on May 22, 1770. Laurens remained close to home until 1771 when he sailed to England on September 9th with his sons.
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Henry's wife, Eleanor, died in the Spring of 1770, four weeks after the birth of their daughter (Mary Eleanor). Henry dealt with his grief by taking his sons to England to complete their education leaving the girls with his brother James in Charles Town.
To explain what I mean by this, we’ll have to travel back to the second half of the eighteenth century and take a brief tour of the life and times of John Laurens. John Laurens was born in Charleston in October 1754 to twenty-three-year-old Eleanor Ball Laurens.
7 mar 2024 · He courted Eleanor Ball, the daughter of a wealthy South Carolinian rice planter, whom he married on 25 July 1750. The couple would, ultimately, have twelve children, although only four survived to adulthood: John Laurens (b. 1754), Martha "Patsy" Laurens (b. 1759), Henry "Harry" Laurens, Jr., (b. 1763), and Mary Eleanor "Polly" Laurens (b. 1770).
