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Grover Cleveland's sister served as his First Lady for a short time, until he married Frances Folsom. James Buchanan, however, remained a bachelor his entire life. His niece, Harriet Lane, originally came to live with him in his home in Pennsylvania and acted as his hostess for years before he went to Washington.
''His mother was Venus. Venus was the daughter of Jenny who was the servant to Hannah Washington, George Washington's sister-in-law.''. Oral traditions like this have won a new respect in light of the Jefferson-Hemings liaison, which until the DNA tests was for years dismissed by most historians of Jefferson.'We're the heirs of George Washington on the slave side,'' Ms. Allen said, ''and we can't get a Washington to come forward.''. Ms. Bryant and Ms. Allen have a distant cousin, Judith S. Burton, a retired teacher in Alexandria, Va. Ms. Burton is a great-granddaughter of John Bell Ford, Major Ford's brother.