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 104 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS Washington when he returned with his victorious army. She saw her husband twice inaugurated president of the United States, and was his com panion in his journey around the world. She her self has said: &quot;Having learned a lesson from her predecessor, Penelope, she accompanied her Ulysses in his wanderings around the world.&quot; After Gen. Grant s death a bill was passed by congress giving his widow a pension of $5,000 a year. She is the fourth to whom such a pension has been granted, the others being Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Lin coln, Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. McKinley. Four children were born to her three sons, Frederick Dent, Ulysses, Jr., and Jesse, and one daughter, Nellie, who, in 1874, married Algernon Sartoris, and went with him to live in his English home near Southampton. After his death Mrs. Sartoris, with her three children, returned to her native land. Mrs. Grant resided for several years in Washington, D. C., where she died December 14, 1902, and was placed by the side of her husband in the Grant Tomb in Riverside Park. Their eldest son, FREDERICK DENT,, born in St. Louis, Mo., May 30, 1850, accompanied his father during the Vicksburg campaign, and was in several battles before he was thirteen years of age. In 1867 he entered the U. S. military academy, where he was graduated in 1871, and was assigned to the 4th cavalry. Late in 1871 he visited Europe with