Subject: Re: [SC] Gen. Greene > Henry Lee is going to Mrs Louisa Greene Shaw's home: > from Ancestry > Biography, > There is more about Greene's daughter: Mrs Shaw. The benefit of having > someone famous to look up is you might find out what their view was like. > > > Chapter VIII the Lee Family. > > At the expiration of nearly five years, finding that there was no hope of > his ultimate recovery, he determined to return to his family and friends. In > January, 1818, he took passage in a New England schooner bound from Nassau > to New Providence and Boston. On nearing the cost of the United States he > became so much worse that he requested the captain to direct his course to > Cumberland Island, lying off the coast of Georgia. He knew that his former > trusted friend, General Nathaniel Greene, had an estate there and that there > resided his married daughter, Mrs. James Shaw. Next to dying within the > limits of his native State, he preferred to furl the flag of a celebrated > career under the generous roof and kindly influence of the hospitable > daughter of a beloved brother soldier. He was landed at "Dungenness," known > as the most beautiful and attractive residence on the Georgia coast, and > here he was lovingly received and tenderly cared for. From the window of his > sick room "an extensive view of the Atlantic Ocean, of Cumberland Sound and > the low-lying verdant shores of Georgia could be seen upon the one side, > while upon the other lay attractive gardens and groves of oranges and > olives, while grand live oaks swayed solemnly to and fro, loaded with > pendant moss." > >