Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-08-12
FOCAL NEWS.
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Pry :. McElwcr.
ht,, frnrr,l-Srgyi,.r II, II n M. by Rev.
e. a. Smith.
Sr N,rY'S CnuncU-AIa*> III I and II a. II"
and Nespers 1T T. H.
.,r'n<D PRESBYTERIAN CHuRCH-Scrm"li III
.;,. morning and at night, by Rev. Il. l.. Muir
Wrru. Erls CnuRCI-Sermon i'll the morn
:n,,J II night, bv Rev. Mr.. Hemenway.
Nvru. EpIS CHURCH SoUTH-Scrmon IN the
,,,r,,iner and at night, by Rev. DR.: Hough.
NErm PROT. CHURCH. at II A. H.
~, Kew. Henry Nice, and II p IN. by Rev.
Mr. Benson
BAPTIST CHuRCN-No service.
ynrya MEHs CHRISTIAN Assoc y Prayer
,.,.,.finr in tho I'd preSb'n. Church, at four ,:
49, BetLcl, Prince street dock, ut p. m. jAll
lions NJ - ~ Aims House services lit -
,,r,eck y. III. During the week there will be
JoiIv PRAYER meetings III the rooms OF Assnch1-
held every Thursday nj ght 1T s o clock at ' II,
1--we. Chapel An openar meeting will be held
-, ,h. corner of King and st. Asaph streets,
tomorrow evening, at 6S o clock.
GERMAN LUTuEEAS--Servicc at II H. ~. and
IN, ut the rooms Of the Young Mems CHRIST
-. Association, by Rcv. K. A. Blsch"''.
IIlsroRIc DocUMENr-ThE LAST WILL
an TESTAMENT OF e. ". p. GUSTS. The
i'nuuty Court, which has just closed its session.
rave the nece ssary orders and completed the
r.ccSsary arrangements for the settlement
II the estate Of the late Geo. ". 7. Gus
-. Appraisers were appointed and provision
made for all the details which the law requires
~ such occasions. The house Of MIR. Custls,
sanding in sight of the Capital, upon similar
.uinencc, had from the earliest days, celeb
ritz wide Us the nation, but recent events have
m,lc its history portion of the history OF the
.nuntrv. Especially has Arlington and Its asso-
..i,tions always possessed peculiar attraction
to the people Of Alexandria. That sortc special
interest which Washington manifested IN the
affairs of our fathers. Gusts, his adopted son,
displayed towards their sons, endeavo.ing, not
;!ouc. to dcScant upon his virtues IN our mlust
with eloqucnt words; but by his manner and
I;s drvntinn to our interests to illustrate to one
.,.n.r,tion Of Aexaudrans what had been the
,,uluct of Washington towards its predecessor
He hoped to make the home and family at
Arlington the distinctive social successor Tor
q,I time of the home and family Of Mount En-
hon Mount Y crn0n might become the prop
,.I1. of the world. the representative OF the Il,
hI>irjn,,, bubble life that closed beneath Its root
,,,I i, Scruchred in its shade. bat Arlington
.noui be sacred to the home life Of the great
u,u, with Washington social board for It's
heir loom, and his domestic and social charac-
Ter tor the type of its conduct and the orna-
lucut OF its life.
For this purpose he devised his Arlington
c,tl,r 10 Mrs Lee for tc AMI then to George
Washington Gusts Lee, lie to take the name
Of George W. !. Gusts, and in another clause
ofthe will he gives his daughter the right OF
dividing the family plate, but he adds;
The Mount Vernon Plate altogether and
every article posses, relating to Washington,
l. l. IN rnpl n
with my daughter 1T Arlington House during
>ad daughter life, and ut her death 10 30 to my
eldest grandson, George Washington Gusts Lee,
and |" descend from MA entire L. my latest
!">irrty.'
Few lucn l,ccrcl into the future with u wider
experience or Il more acute philosophy. yet as
he executed his viii that March day OF 1855,
while the interest OF the world gathered around
the Malakof, where Russia dehcd the armies OF
France and England, and the city across the
Potomac was hearing, with scarce attentive
ear. some rumorS OF mobS in Kansas, he could
not SEE how soon the storm of civil war would
scatter all his designs for Arlington, and that
even the Mount Vernon Elatc, the material
emblem OF the social life he wished Arlington
Ia perpctuatc, would be rett away from his
laughter and lcll for some time by title OF
Strong Hand. Still less did he see that his
hopes would find Il lotlicr accomplishment than
he dreamed, and that hc would stand in His
larry between the two great captains OF the age,
the adopted child OF one, and the adopted
father OF the other; that the war winch rett
from the family Of Arlington its material III
hrritancc LETT it by the family of Mount lcrnon
would devclepc kinshp in sphere far higher
than mere material conncXion, the home at
Arlington, not shining with reflected light, but
respondent with the lofty civic virtue and mill.
rary rcuown of its head, Mount Vernon and
Arlington, blending together in the history and
the hearts of the people, safe beyond the acct
dents oftme and the spollings of mortality.
As Il contribution to the history of the times
We give the will OF the illustrious old gentleman :;
In the name of God amen. l, George Wash
inglon Parkc Gusts of Washington House, in
the county OF Alexandria, and State Of Virginia,
being sound in body and mind, do make and or
dain this instrument vi writing rs my last will
and testament revoking all other wills and tes-
tamcnts whatever give and bequeath to my
dearly beloved daughter and only child, Mary
Anna Randolph Lee, my Arlington House cs-
tate, in the county of Alexandria, and State OF
Virginia, containing eleven hundred acres, more
or less, and my mill on the Four Mile Run, in
the county Of Alexandria, and the lands of mine
adjacent to said mill in the counties OF Alexan-
dria and Fairfax, in the State OF Virginia. the
USe and benefit OF all just mentioned during the
term of her natural life. together with my horses
and carriages, furniture, pictures and plate dur
ing the term of natural life.
On the death of my daughter, Mary Anna
Randolph Lee, all the property left to her dur
'"g the term Of her natural life give and be-
Iu"Ath I" my eldest grandson taking my name
and arms.
leave and hcqucath to my four grand lnugh-
tors. Mary, Anna. Agnes and Mildred Lee, To
each ten thousand dollars.
give and bcqueath to ny second grand son,
William Henry Fi,2hugh Lee when he shall be
":ugc, my estate. called the White House, i'll the
county vi New Kent, and State Of Virginia, con-
tanning four thousand acres more "r less, IL him
ard hi, heirs forever.
give and bequeath to my third and Youngest
GEn:i-S2n, Robert Edward Lee, when he is Of
aye, my estate in the equity of King William,
ana STATE Of Virginia, called Romancock, con
tanning four thousand acres, more or less, 10 hlln
;'.t his heirs forever.
My estate of Smiths Island, at the Capcs 81
Virginia. and in the county OF Northampton, |
leave !" be sold to assist in paying my grand
daughters egacics; to he sold in such manner