The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
dElV lVIllZIl
Stricken With ApopIex
Board a Train to VA
DISTINGUISHED MAN PAsS
Had Been a Confederate MaIo
Governor Of His State, and
General at Havana, and aIsd
\ tired Brisadier-eeneral In the

General at Havana, and aIsd
tired erisadier-eenerai In the
'Ssry.
Wilmington, Special.-General 4
hughNNe, United States army, retir'
and on Virginia's foremost sod
lied at Providence Hospital s.re}
Friday fh an attack Of appopA
which he sSyed on a train whileN ~
route from ANp to Washington. N<
In the roo& en- he died were DR..
Montgomery, ohS the physicians at
the hospital, Mia Fsey, a relative,
and nurse, two o. attending phy-y.
sicians, Drs. Edie and Kean, having
retired temporarily. A PATHETIC feature
of the case is that although General
Lee had family consisting of q wife
and FIVE children, not one Of bem> was
with him at the time Of his des4. CHE
general was 6S years Of age. "
Arrangements for General Lee\funA
eral, together with the selection oAhsf
place for interment Of the remains, ~
not be made until after the arrival II
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 viii 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 Generai
Lees friends may make an ehort 10
have a site chosen somewhere else In
Virginia, the State in which he lived so
MANY wears and with whose interests
he was so strongly identlneo.
A widow and five children survive
General Lee. Two OF the boys are ar
nv officers and two OF the girls are
wives of army officers, while the re,
naming child Is a young woman SUN
in her teens. The children are MIS-.
]. C.. Rae, wife Of Lieutenant Rae, now
at Fort Oglethorpe; Lieutenant F1tz-
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, wile
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 az
| fected. at 8 o'clock Friday morning,
while on q train en- route from Boston
to Washington. The train had Just ieit
the Harlem river when the stroke
came. The train bearing the general
arrived in Washington shortly aiter
10 o'clock. Under the direction OF Ma
TOR Kean, United States Army, OF tAe>
Surgeon Generals office, the patient
was removed to Providence Hospitai:
physician was taken aboard tne
train at Jersey City. At Philadelphia
he gave place to another, who accom-
panied the general to Baltimore, wnere
still another was taken aboard ana
made the trip to Washington.
General Lee had been spending Few
days in Boston and was returning 10
Washington, on his way to join MRS.
Lee.
General Lee long has been promln-
ent figure in Washington, and ne al
ways was given hearty reception
wherever he went.
Prior to the civil war at the begin
ming of which he resigned his commls-
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 az
nv as a major general are well known,
end during the interval between THIS
war and his active work in the Span
ish-American war, General Lee hlled
number of important positions, inciud-
ing governorship Of Virginia, the presl'
dency of the .Pittsburg & Virginia rail-
road, the collectorship Of internal rev,
enue for the Lynchburg district ana
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 prig-
adler general, and with this rank ne
was retired in the March following.