Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-05-03
FITzHUGH LEE
Stricken With ApopIexy While on
Board a Train to Washington
DISTINGUISHED MAN PASSES AWAY

Had Been a Confederate Major-General
Governor of His State, and Consul
General at Havana, and also a Re-
tired Brigadier-GeneraI in the U. S.
Army.
WASHINGTON, straightforward Fftz-
hugh Lee, United States army, retired,
End one of Virginia's foremost sons,
| died at the Providence Hospital here
Friday from an attack of appoplexy,
! which he suffered on a train while en-
| route from Boston to Washington.
In the room when he died. were DR..
Montgomery, one of the physicians at
the hospital, Miss Dorsey, a relative,
and a nurse, two of the attending ply
sicians, Drs. Edie and Kean, having
retired temporarily. A pathetic feature
of the case is that although General
Lee had a family consisting of a wife
and five children, not me of them was
with him at the time of his death. The
general was 6S years of age.
Arrangements for General Lees fun
eral, together with the selection OF he
place for interment of the remains, Will
not be made until after the arrival in
Washington of Mrs. Lee, who is now
on her way to Washington from Fort
Oglethrope, Ga. Meanwhile the body
will be prepared for burial and will re-
main at the hospital. 1t is possible
that the body may be laid to rest at
the national cemetery at Arlington, al
though it is expected that General
Lees friends may make an effort to
have a site chosen somewhere else IN
Virginia, the State in which he lived SO
many years and with whose interests
he was so strongly identified.
A widow and five children survive
General Lee. Two of the boys are ar
my officers and two of the girls are
wives of army officers, while the re-
naming child is a young woman still
in her teens. The children are Mrs.
J. C. Rae, wife of Lieutenant Rae, now
at Fort O%glethorpe; Lieutenant Fitz-
hugh Lee, of the calvary branch, now
in Manila; Lieutenant Mason Lee, OF
the Seventh Cavalry, who is now in
San Francisco; Mrs. Anne Brown, wife
of Lieutenant Brown of the Seventh
Cavalry, who is now at San Francisco,
and Miss Virginia Lee.
General Lee was stricken with ap-
poplexy, the entire left side being at.
fected, at 3 o'clock Friday morning,
while on a train en- route from Boston
to Washington. The train had just left
the Harlem river when the stroke
came. The train bearing the general
arrived in Washington shortly after
10 o'clock. Under the direction of Ma
Tor Kean, United States Army, of the
Surgeon Generals Office, the patient
was removed to Providence Hospital.
A physician was taken aboard the
train at Jersey City. At Philadelphia
he gave place to another, who accom-
panied the general to Baltimore, where
still another was taken aboard and
made the trip to Washington.
General Lee had been spending a few
days in Boston and was returning to
Washington, on his way to join Mrs.
Lee.
His Distinguished Career.
General Lee long has been q promin-
ent figure in Washington, and he al
ways was given a hearty reception
wherever he went.
Prior to the civil war at the begin
ming of which he resigned his commits
sion in the United States army, Cen
eral Lee saw considerable frontier duty
in moving against the Indians. He
was an ex-cavalry officer.
His services in the Confederate ar
my as a major general are well known,
and during the interval between this
war and his active work in the Span
ish-American war, General Lee filled a
number Of important positions, includ-
ing governorship of Virginia, the presi-
dency of the Pittsburg & Virginia rail
road, the collectorship of internal rev.
enue for the Lynchburg district, and
the consul generalship at Havana.
Following his honorable discharge
from the volunteer army on March 2,
1901, General Lee was appointed to the
regular army with the ran OF brig
adler general, and with this rank he
was retired in the March following.