Ms. BRADY: Uh huh. NEARY: And something else that I read that interested me about Martha Washington. I don't know exactly when this was in her life but, she read the Bible but she also read Gothic ...

Though the world generally knows the stories of George Washington crossing the Delaware and Martha Washington's social extravaganzas, many things about the country's First Couple remain relatively ...

Martha Washington (1731-1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States.

On this day in 1802, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died of a severe fever at age 70. When she married George Washington in 1759, she was 27 years old and a widowed mother of two. She was also ...