Sure Was Nice to Get Together With Civil War Folk Again-- Part 4: Stephen Douglas' Connection to Rose O'Neal Greenhow

Stephen Douglas' first wife, Martha,  died in 1853.  In 1856, he remarried, this time to 20-year-old Adele Cutts who was 23 years younger than him.  She was a Southern woman from Washington, D.C. and daughter of James Madison Cutts, a nephew of former president James Madison. and Ellen O'Neal, , a nice of Rose O'Neil Greenhow, who went on to fame during the Civil War.

Adele had been raised as a Catholic and with Stephen's permission, had his two sons from his first marriage baptized Catholic and raised in that faith.

--Old Secesh