Place of Origin

United States ➔ Massachusetts

Date of Composition

likely ca. 1840s-ca. 1860s

Description

Mary Channing Eustis (1818-1891) was the wife of Frederic Augustus Eustis (1816-1871). The couple had four children born between 1844 and 1858, all of whom lived into their 80s and 90s. Following  his graduation from Harvard, in 1835, and Harvard Divinity School, in 1839, Frederic Eustis briefly served as a minister in Philadelphia, He soon returned to Milton, Massachusetts, where he operated a boarding school until 1862. He then took charge of his stepmother's plantation on Lady's Island, in South Carolina, which had been abandoned following his stepmother's death, leaving over 100 slaves in desperate circumstances. He continued to work the plantation after Emancipation until his death in 1871.