Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-06-09
BEAUTIFUL ARLINGTON.
Women and Children Who Lie Buried
Among the Veterans,
Eminent Soldiers Who Sleep Under
the Beautiful Oaks - How the
Cemetery Was Established.

Washington. May 30.-Very few peo-
Pile know that about thirty women and
several children lie among the sixteen
thousand veterans whose ashes rest
under ,le beautiful oaks mt Arlington.
nor is he generally known that the law
permits the wife of any officer in the
regular or volunteer army or navy TO
Doe buried there. The same privilege
pertains To- all of the eighty national
cemeteries .n which the veterans of tnv
war are buried with the exception OF
that attached To the Soldiers Home i'm
Washington. The latter belongs TO the
regular army, and it is not maintained
0y Congressional appropriation, but
ly q tax OI thirteen cents month upon
all the officers and soldiers jim the reSu-
lar service. the Paymastcr General be-
ing authorized TO transfer that amount
from the appropriation for The pay of
the army % the credit oil the commits
s.0uers of the Soldiers Home Who are
tine generals OF the army and the heads
of the QuarJlrmastor. and Commits
-aly S. Departments.
DO was originally proposed to bury
Gen. Sheridan at the top of one Of the
shady knobs in the park that sur
rounded the Soldiers Home, but his
widow would not permit il because She
could not Inc there by his side The
same is true of Gen. Logan. Mrs LO-
gan selected O. site for his tomb ON the
grounds of the Soldiers Home, and or
ler5 were issued by the commissioners
Tor the preparation oil vault 10 re-
ceIye his CaskeJ, but when she Wos
confronted with the memorable rule
prohibiting the burial OF q woman
there. She selected q lot in Rock Greek
cemetery which les just across the
highway. where she has since erected
am elaborate mortuary chapel, large
enough 10 contain the bodies OF her
children and grandchildren Tor several
generations.
Gen. Sberidau's body lies on tho
grassy slope i'm front of the old man-
sion at Arlington, with q digniiied and
imposing monument, and his widow
will be buried there ALSO AT the other
end othe lawn, in q responding posi-
u0n lies Admiral Porter OF the navy,
and his widow viii DE given place at
hls side From their t0mbs is offered
one of the most beautiful prospects in
the world. across the Potomac, includ-
ing the whole c.t, of Washington, from
the Naval Observatory 10 the Arsenal,
and with clear open vista TO the
dome. which is considered the most
noble and Impressive example OF mod
eru architecture.
Other women who viii some time
have conspicuous burial places at Ar
lugt0n are the widow of The late Gen.
Ricketts,. who commanded brigade or
division or corps I'm twenty bait
lies. and mdyeOf them WAS wounded so
severely that he had to- DE carried OIL
the field. lie served a year i'm the Lib
bes Prison. and when exchanged Went
down lhe Shenandoah Valley i'm COM
mluI on the Sixth Army Corps and
fought with Sheridan until he received
the wounds which caused his death.
Mrs. Paul. the widow Of "a gallant sold
ler WHO lost his eyes by The explosion
of "a shell. and for many years was
wandering blind about the streets or
washington. viii ind her final home
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