Maria Ewing Fitch

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Maria Ewing Fitch (Sherman)

Also Known As: "Minnie"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, United States
Death: November 22, 1913 (62)
Gulfport, Harrison County, Mississippi, United States
Place of Burial: 5239 West Florissant Avenue, St. Louis, Saint Louis County, Missouri, 63115, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Maj. General William Tecumseh Sherman (USA) and Eleanor Boyle Sherman
Wife of Thomas William Fitch and Gene Reynolds Turner
Ex-wife of Joseph Blumenthal
Mother of Captain Thomas William Fitch, Jr., (USA); Mary Elizabeth Sherman Armistead; William Sherman Fitch; Eleanor Sherman Fitch; Catherine Fitch and 2 others
Sister of Rev. Fr. Thomas Ewing Sherman, S.J.; Rachel Ewing Thorndike; Robert Otho Sherman; Eleanor Mary Thackara; Mary A. Pickering and 3 others

Managed by: Danielle Darling
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About Maria Ewing Fitch

Maria Ewing Fitch (Sherman)

Eldest child of General William T. Sherman & Eleanor Ewing Sherman. Married Thomas William Fitch, 1874, Wash. DC

Though her father was not Catholic her mother raised her in that faith.

She married Thomas Fitch at St. Aloysus Church in Washington D.C. on 1 October 1874. It was a very gala wedding with some 2,000 people in attendance, including President Grant and many of her father's old military comrades.

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Maria Ewing Fitch's Timeline

1851
January 28, 1851
Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, United States
1875
June 24, 1875
Saint Louis, Saint Louis Co., MO
1876
November 13, 1876
St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, United States
1878
June 24, 1878
Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, United States
1879
December 25, 1879
Saint Louis, Saint Louis Co., MO
1881
September 30, 1881
Saint Louis, Saint Louis Co., MO
1883
May 28, 1883
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
1913
November 22, 1913
Age 62
Gulfport, Harrison County, Mississippi, United States
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