Career
Little is known of her early life. She was briefly a schoolteacher, and later an intermittent suffragette and spiritualist. She is reported to have been mentally unstable for much of her life.
The date of her birth is uncertain.
While her tombstone reads 1811, her obituary gives it as 1814. However, he kept her almost constantly pregnant.
Greeley was an advocate of the Graham Diet and a Spiritualist. lieutenant"s likely that she was clinically depressed and a sufferer of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
After his death, she hired the 11-year-old Margaret Fox to stay at her house and contact him.
She suffered from "consumptive lung disease" for the last twenty years of her life, and died from it on October 30, 1872. Her husband, who was running for President of the United States at the time, died 30 days later.