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Mary Ball Washington the Mother of George Washington 1912 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap George Washington 1893 — aMary Ball Washington the Mother of George Washington 1912 a commemorative portrait issued in the long afterglow of Founding era reverence, when the matriarch of Ferry Farm was rediscovered by a republic intent on giving its first president a lineage as carefully composed as his myth. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,