Overview
- On Oct. 23, her remains were laid to rest at Hollywood Cemetery beside her father, President James Monroe, during an afternoon ceremony.
- The Catholic Diocese of Richmond held a mass that morning at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart before the reinterment.
- The Bringing Eliza Home Project led by VornDick spent about six years on research, fundraising, and permissions, with the remains arriving in the United States in May.
- Her grave at Paris’s Père Lachaise had been unmarked and neglected for decades, with French cemetery policies posing a risk of eventual removal.
- Letters preserved at the College of William & Mary show she reported illness and financial distress in 1839 while living in France.