The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-04
eTN= LEES FAMILY
sketches of the Confederate Gs11i
sRS Commanders Children
,crlOss DURING THE WAR.
+be rrivations of the DARK
some OIL youthfuI Confederate's
Oa'' Last Message.

!. The recent opening of the Metro u,
Al w ,r9eum of art saw among the
POlIan liable lab people there Miss Mary
many ths second daughter Of General
Lee In e Lee. sheis plain-looking
I k9Ds ~ Il tbirty-ave, and like her father
i Ia .yI+O Oe unpretentious' She wore
Is al'os' .asbmere wrap, and was in COM
nsl'5 nth lady similarly alfred
P PAN MARY Lee resembles her mother in
hlss 80, more than her father. tits
app 9'aarEable TACT that the only one of
as s1, Lees children who at all resem-
Uei p;1a 10 his Oldest son, General G. w.
C Ols 4,i-' Lee, now the president OF Wash
Gus',T and Lee university at Lexington,
Va. Ioo ob;ldron
cons and two daughters. They
----0s I'll bornat Arlington, the old Gusts
% %o Washington, where Mrs.
Toa continued toll live after her marriage.
NJ daughter, Mildred, has travel
nv r-oot deal since the war, spending
Gu - ber time in Europe. but when
i nut I' y, her home with her brother
mere Ln 10 lexington. Miss Mary, the
SUSIE sister a. also lives with him. Agnes,
ne HeA ro olIr sister died during the war
eH' health resort in North Carolina.
Nona of the daughters are married and
T 1,U lee is also single, but Runey Lee
and Roberto. Jr.. are both married and
a GU botb Virginia farmers. One of them
o or has children, and the probabilities
are that it is through him alone that the
Lee family and the Gusts family are to
be perpetuated. -,
Mrs. Robert E. Lee was the only child
of George Washington Park Gusts, who
was the only son and heir of Martha
Washington. 1t was from George
Washington and Martha Washington
that Custis obtained Arlington, which,
at the opening of the war, was one of the
finest pieces OF country property in the
south. It was the ideal southern home
stead. The Union forces took possession
of it at the very opening of the hostili-
ties in 1861, and during the war it was
converted into a national cemetery.
According to the proviso of the will of
George Washington Park Gusts the en-,
tire property was to 90 to the eldest son
of Mrs. Lee. That eldest son was the
present General G. W. G. Lee, and he
obtained $125,0O0 from the government
in payment for Arlington last winter,
there having been long contest at law
aboutit. The money represents the
bulk of the property now in possession
of the Lee family. and is but triaing
remnant OF the magnificent estates they
owned in Virginia before the war, not to
speak of the hundreds of slaves that
belonged to these estates. But the family
has Jared better than many others OF the
south that were equally wealthy before
the war
General Gusts Lee, though the legal
posSessor of the $125, 900 he received for
Arlington. has big heart and makes a
mOStliberal provision for his two maiden
sisters. Though, as stated at the open
ing of this paragraph. Mary Lee is
plain-looking lady, with no pretentions
to beauty. she is gifted in intellect, and
is'a most charming person. During the
war she was most of the time in Rich
mond with her mother and sisters, and
with them endured many privations.
| have seen a little accoGnt-book in
which there was Il record of expenditures
made on account OF the little party the
Mrs. Lee and her daughters messed with.
1t was seldom they had meat or coffee,
and the most exOrbitant prices had to
paid for chicken or even green corn.
The bulk OF the diet was made up of
rice, bread and such light articles. Mrs.
Lee was one Of the most patient and
selt-abnegating of women, and though
confirmed invalid during the entire
war in which her husband was such a
prominent actor, never complained, but
was IN the face OF constant mistortunes
ana threatened dangers, always resigned
ana serene. She maintained this charac-
Ter up to the very hour of her death.
a touching story of which Miss Mary
Lee IS the heroine is that after one of the
terrible battles near Richmond. lust
previous to the close of the war. she and
some OF the ladies went on the field to
fehqer whatever assistance they could
IN tne care OF the wounded and diving
soldiers OF her fathers army One
among those to whom she went to offer
rgllef was youth of not over sixteen
VINO mad been fatally shot and was ready
70 expire. She saw the poor fellow was
gong 70 die Immediately, and being
S sa9 ,by his youth and neat attire
asked asked him if he had any message to
leave behind. yes" said he; ny
HSme Is and my mother lives at
tell her, If You please, that 1 have
5usT seen seen our splendid commander, Gen
trai Lee rIde by, and that am content
70 ole, That was all. He never knew
Iva, was his splendid commander