...Dec. 14, 1799, the nation was called upon to mourn his death, after an illness of about twenty-four hours. His last words were, It is well. The mother of Washington, Mary Ball, was the daughter of Col. W. Ball , to whom his father was married in March, 1730. George was their first-born of six children. With these she was left a widow when her eldest child was little more than ten years of age. In the la...