Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1905-05-03
GEN. FITzHUGH LEE
Stricken With ApOplexy While on
Board a Train to Washington
DISTINGUISHED MAN PASSES AWAY

Had Been a Confederate Major-GeneraI
Governor of His State, and Consul
General at HAVANA, and also a Re-
tired Brigadier-Generai in the v. S.
Army.
Washington. Special.-General Fitz-
augh Lee, United States army. retired,
md one of Virginia's foremost sons,
lied at the Providence Hospital here
Friday from an attack of appopleXy.
which he suffered ON a train while en-
;oute from Boston to Washington.
In the room when he died were DR..
Montgomery, one of the physicians at
and n nurse two of the attending ply
sicians, Drs. Edie and Kean. having
:etired temporarily. A pathetic feature
of the case is that although General
Lee had u family consisting of a wife
and five children. not one of them was
With him at the time of his death. The
general was 6S years of age.
Arrangements for General Lees fun
sral. together with tire selection OF the
place for interment o. 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
Oglethropc Ga. Meanwhile the body
will be prepared for burial and will re-
main at the hospital. ii is possible
hat the body may be laid To rest at
he national cemetery at Arlington, al
though it is expected that General
Lees friends may make an effort to-
nave a site chosen somewhere else in
Virginia. the State in which he lived SO
many years and with whose interests
ne 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.
]. c. Rae. wife of Lieutenant Rae, now
At Fort Oglethorpe; Lieutenant F'itZ-
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-
popeXy the entire left side being af
while on 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
Ior Kcan, United States Army, of the
Surgeon Generals Office, the patient
was removed to Providence Hospital.
4 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 few
| days in Boston and was returning to
Washington. on his way to join Mrs.
Lee.
His Distinguished Career.
General Lee long has been 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
sior in the United States army Gen
eral lee saw considerable frontier duty
in moving against the Indians. He
was an eS-cavalry officer.
His services in the Confederate ar
my as major general are well known,
and during the interval between this
war and his active work in the Span
ish- American war General Lee filed u
number of important positions. includ-
ing governorship of Virginia, the presi-
dency of the Pittsburg q Virginia rail
road, the collectorship of internal rev.
enue for the Lynchburg district, and
the consul generalship at Havana.
Following his honorable discharges
from the volunteer army on March 2.
| 1901, General Lee was appointed to- the
regular army with the rank of brig
adler general. and with this rank he
was retired in the March following