The Resume

(November 30, 1708-August 26, 1789)
Born in Lively, Lancaster County, Virginia
Birth name was Mary Ball
Second wife to planter, Augustine Washington
Mother of George Washington, the first President of the United States, the eldest of five
Subject of the Mary Washington Monument on Washington Avenue in Fredericksburg, Virginia
Namesake for University of Mary Washington (formerly Mary Washington College)

Why she might be annoying:

She owned slaves.
She was described as headstrong and extremely stubborn.
Her nicknames include 'the First Mother,' 'the Grandmother of America,' and 'the Belle of Epping Forest.'
She is revered as 'George Washington's mother,' but she openly opposed her son's revolutionary activities/politics and was an avowed loyalist.
She petitioned the Virginia government claiming to be destitute, but she was far from poor, mainly due to her son's success in the Continental Army.
Her memorial at Meditation Rock in Fredericksburg remained unfinished for over a century, until a local women's group pushed for its completion.
Wilford Woodruff claimed that she was one of the 'Eminent Women' spirits who allegedly visited him in a vision at the Saint George Temple (1877).

Why she might not be annoying:

She was a widowed single-mother of five who refused to remarry during a time when that was virtually unheard of.
She evidently did alright by her kids as a single parent, as her eldest son became President.
She managed a 600-acre farm more or less by herself (until her sons came of age).
She refused to allow George to join the Royal British Navy (turned out to be a good call).
She lived to be an octogenarian when the life expectancy for women was the age of forty.
Marquis de Lafayette was a frequent visitor of hers, at the Fredericksburg estate her son purchased for her.
Her neighbors described her as down-to-earth and unpretentious.
There is no historical record of her ever feuding with her daughter-in-law (quite the specimen, here).
Her house was almost sold to the Chicago Columbia Exposition but was saved by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, at the last minute, and was made a historical landmark (marking one of the first victories for historical preservationists).

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• A Hospital is Named in My Honor
• Ant Eaters/Pinocchios [Big Noses]
• BoyWiththeGreenHair’s Profiles [Series 02]
• Breeders [Have 5 or More Kids] (Ranked: 5)
• Brothers and Sisters, I Have None
• City Namesakes
• Colonial America
• Country Bumpkins
• Dalmatian Owners
• First Moms (Mothers of US Presidents)
• I am an Episcopalian
• I Died in the City I Was Born In
• I Married Young
• I Outlived My Child
• I was Estranged From My Child
• I was Home Schooled
• Look at Me, My Picture Is Art
• Man's World
• My Corpse was Exhumed
• Names that are States
• Nobody Told Me I'm Old
• Old Moms
• People Claim, I Returned From the Grave
• People with John or Mary in their Names
• Pissed off Chicks
• Presidential Names
• Profiles 36251-36500 (Ranked: 36285)
• Served in the American Revolution [1775-89]
• Slave Owners
• Socialites
• Sploshers [Overweight Women]
• Toy Names
• Young Widows

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 26 Votes: 23.08% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 102 Votes: 53.92% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 16 Votes: 43.75% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 26 Votes: 50.0% Annoying