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Gallatin's First Wife
Albert Gallatin met Sophia Allegre while staying at her mother's boarding house in Richmond, Virginia, during the mid-1780s. Against her mother's wishes, Sophia married Albert on May 14, 1789.
As the newlyweds travelled to their wilderness home at Friendship Hill, Sophia wrote to her mother, "...forgive dear mother, and generously accept again your poor Sophia,...Could you then form a wish to destroy the future peace of your child: and prevent her from being united to the man of her choice? He is perhaps not a very handsome man, but he is possessed of more essential qualities, which I shall not pretend to enumerate,..."
Tragically, Sophia fell ill five months later and died at Friendship Hill. At her request, Albert buried Sophia in an unmarked grave atop a hill overlooking the Monongahela River.
Within a wooded glen 100 yards down this trail lies a low stone wall which, according to local tradition, encloses Sophia's final grave.
Beyond Sophia's grave the trail winds through an old-growth, mixed-oak forest, a remnant of Pennsylvania's wilderness.
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| HM Number | HM2KS6 |
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| Placed By | National Park Service |
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| Date Added | Friday, September 13th, 2019 at 8:02pm PDT -07:00 |
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| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 17S E 591519 N 4403336 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 39.77505000, -79.93135000 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 39° 46.503', W 79° 55.881' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 39° 46' 30.18" N, 79° 55' 52.86" W |
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