The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-30
EUGENIA WASHINGTON DEAD
A Great-grandniece Of the First
President.
Founder of the society of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revelation.
To BE Buried in Virginia.

Miss Eugenia Washington. great-grand-
niece of George Washington, one of the
| founders of the Society OF the Daughters
of the American Revolution, and presi-
dent of the Society Of Founders
and Patriots, died this morning
shortly after O'Clock, at her
residence, S13 Thirteenth Street north
west Miss Washington had been
ailing for q considerable time, and on that
account had to give up her work as a
clerk in the Postofice Department about
week ago. At her bedside, when Miss
Washington died. was Dr. jackson and
her faithful coIored landlsdy, with whom
she had been living for over twenty years,
Mrs. Thomas Conway. whose husband had
dropped dead about four hours before
Miss washington died But of this Mrs.
Conway was not aware at the time when
Miss Washington breathed her last.
Miss Washington had been employed IN
the Postofice for many years. She was
according to Mrs. Conway, devout Cath
Ollie, attending ST. Matthews and St Pat
rick's churches
Her body was taken 10 the house of one
of her relatives. Thomas Moncure, 305 B
Street northeast Her remains VIII be Ia
ken to fredericksburg, Va, where they
VIII be inferred III the family burial plot
The funeral train win leave the Penn
sy1vania depot at 10 o'clock tomorrow
of the Daughters Of the American RevoIu-
ton to be largely represented when the
train leaves the depot
ginia. She was the daughter of William
Temple Washington and Margaret Cal
houn Fletcher, his wife; granddaughter
OF George Steptoe washington and Lucy
Payne, and eat-granddaughter of Col.
Samuel Washington and Annie Steptoe,
his wife. Samuel Washington was a cclo-
mel in the Virginia line of the Revoiu-
tionaTy army. Miss Washington was a de-
scendant, on her maternal side from Col.
Charles Francois Joseph, Count de
Flechir, who was born in France in 1T55,
died in New York in 1915 and who served
in the war of the Revolution. She was
granddaughter of Gen. Thomas Fletcher
and Nancy McIlhenney. his wife.
Gen. Thomas Fletcher served in the War
Of 1872 on the staff of Gen. William Henry
Harrison. He was a grandson Of Colonel
Fletcher, who came 10 Virginia with his
friend and maternal kinsman Marquis &c
Lafayette, and entered the service as a
private He was soon elected Captain Of
Company H, Independent Washington
Guards" reporting to the Commander
in-Chief, he was ordered to Canada Miss
Washington was a great granddaughter
of Samuel Fletcher and Abigail West
Colonel Fleehir's name was Americanized
and spelled Fletcher"
Elizabeth Bryant Johnston, in speaking
Of Eusenia Washington as one OF the
founders of the Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, said on the
occasion of the presentation of a medal to
Miss Washington OF February q, 1880:
Miss Eugenia Washington next stood be-
fore the audience She unfortunately was
suffering from q severe cold, which pre-
vented her from speaking, SO she was
compelled to avan herself of the kind
Offices of her friend, Mrs. Walworth, to
express her thanks and appreciation. She
Was received with cheers, both for the
founder and for the name Of Washington.
She is the at-granddaughter Of
Colonel Samuel Washington, the brother
of the General. She has National Ne. /,
which is in harmony with the eternal it-
ness Of things. Miss Washington wished
it known that she would at an early date
deposit her valuable medal with the rel
les belonging to the society at the Ma
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