Dolley Payne Todd Madison
20 May 1768 - 12 Jul 1849
Dolley Payne Todd Madison (1768-1849) was born 20 May 1768 in the North Carolina, British Colonial America. She was the daughter of John Payne and Mary Coles. She married John Todd on 7 Jan. 1790 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania, and they had two children; widowed before 2 Oct. 1793. She married James Madison on 15 Sep. 1794 in Berkeley Co., Virginia. She died 12 Jul. 1849 in Washington, D.C.. She was one of the eminent women for whom Wilford Woodruff initiated proxy temple ordinance work in Aug. 1877.
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