The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-05-04
GEN. FITzHUGH lee
DISTINGUISHED MASPAsses AWAY

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General at havanns. and also . Re-
tired erioadier-Generai in the v. s.
Army.
Washington. Gpecial.-Generai Fi;zr
hugh Lee, United States army. retired.
end one OF virginia's foremost sons.
died at the Providence Hospital here
Friday from an attack of apDopiexy.
which he suffered on a train while en-
route from Boston 10 Washington.
IN the room when he died were DR..
Montgomery. one of the physicians at
| the hospital. Miss Dorsey. a relative.
and 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 family consisting OF wife
and five children. not one of them was
with him at the time OF his death. The
general was 6S years o. age.
Arrangements for General Lees fun
eral, together with the selection OF the
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 1t 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 young woman stu
in her teens. The children are Mrs.
J. c. Rae: wife Of Lieutenant Rae. now
at Fort Oglethorpe; 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.
HCueIdl Lee was olllShCA WANA oP
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 genera
arrived in Washington shortly aftei
10 o'clock. Under the direction of Ma
jor 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 IVES 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
sion in the United States army, Gen
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 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 q
number of important positions, includ.
ing governorship of Virginia, the presi
dency of the Pittsburg & Virginia rail-
rcyd, the collectorship of internal rev
enue for the I.ynchburg 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 rank OF brig
adler general, and with this rank he
was retired in the March following.