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Catherine Daingerfield Willis Gray Murat (August 17, 1803 – August 6, 1867) was an American socialite and preservationist. In 1858, she was appointed the first vice regent for Florida by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.
Nov 14, 2019 · Catherine Daingerfield Willis Gray Murat (August 17, 1803 – August 6, 1867) was an American socialite. She was married to Prince Achille Murat, an exiled Napoleonic prince living in America, from 1826 to 1847. She was born near Fredericksburg, Va. and died in Tallahassee, Fla.
Bellevue Plantation was the U.S. home of Catherine Willis Gray Murat, located in Tallahassee, Florida. It was purchased in 1854 after Catherine's second husband Prince Achille Murat (son of Joachim Murat, Napoleon 's brother-in-law and King of Naples from 1808 to 1815) died in 1847.
The great grand niece of George Washington, she was the widowed wife of Prince Charles Lewis Archille Murat, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte thus making her Princess Catherine Murat.
Portrait #721. Description: Seated three-quarters left profile of a woman in a cream-colored dress with a tight bodice and short puff sleeves. A drape falls over her right shoulder, covering her right arm. Her hair is brown, and swept up. A dramatic sky is visible over her right shoulder.
Aug 10, 2020 · CatherineDaingerfield Murat formerly Willis aka Gray. Born 17 Aug 1803 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States. Ancestors. Daughter of Byrd Charles Willis and Mary (Lewis) Willis. Sister of Lewis Byrd Willis, Ann Carter (Willis) Botts and Mary Byrd (Willis) Dallas.
It became the home of Princess Catherine Willis Gray Murat who lived here after the death of her husband, Charles Louis Napoleon Achille Murat in 1847. The name "Bellevue" was derived from a residence in Brussels where Prince and Princess Murat had spent a very happy period of their lives.
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