The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-15
MANY HISTORIC. GRAVES
IN BEAUTIFUL ARLINGTON
Those 81 George Washington On
Parke Gusts and His Wife Wife 5 a
Among the Number ,1t'e,1' 855I
MRS. MAR RAN DOL PH's. TOMB y u.
Born at Amptl1ill, Near Rich !.
nond, and Died in Wash VA
ington.
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WASHINGTON, D.. c.. October Ia
There are more objects Of reyercnt il l'i
est IN Arlington National Gene tery t IN, az
i the casual visitor sees. FIRST, there a @T
the graves OF George Washington 1 al
c.ustls and his wife. Mary Lee Fltzhush J.
The ! lie in a densely shaded spot. BY t tlr'
edge OF shndowy rayine. IN me IN i'' ''l :
=, the "privates' section" and southwest fl's H'.
n ira Tomb OF the Unknown. The graves
! q marked by two white marble monu-
v ments, rhe taller is inscribed:
8 H. George washington Parke Gusts, III
5g Born April 80, ISL Kin
Died October TO- 1857. !.
Blessed are the merciful, for they snall
~ obtain mercy. S I. 5a, Isl *, I,
The shorter monument is lnScrlpcu' sEt
# # Mary l.. Gusts.
3s3 Born April %, 1888; FL
Died April 90, 1863.
Blessed are the pure In heart, 1or5 they
i snail see God.
al the In sc OF the !tornbs survive lilies
md myrtle cullcd from the gnruens OF
!! lid Arlington, and no doubt planted ~
these graves by Mary Ann Randolph Gus
StIs their daughter, and the VIE OF zen
q eral Robert =, Lee.
\ THO man whose bones rest under the
Z taller monument was the builder OF At
flington Mansion. His father was JOIN
4Iarke Custis. son OF Daniel Parke Cuu slls'i
( 81 white House, Va, and his mother was
Eleanor Calvert, daughter OF Henedict
Calvert. OF Mount Airy, Prince Georges
county. Maryland. Ills paternal Crane,
mother was Mrs, George washington, .,
Mount Vernon, and he was thc tt ~
son of George Washington,
d Soon after the marriage Of John l'arke
Custis and Eleanor Calvert Mr. Custls
bought from Gerald Alexander Il tract OF
land opposite Georgetown then In Mary
land. now a. part Of Washington clt l!le
u only house on the property was that Q.
tho Aexnnders. No vest!gc OF the oiN
house stands, but Il few bricks found on,
tho site were put In the wall Of q gov
4 eminent building that stands III the
grounds. GUSTS built d big frame mouse
on tho river shore near Four Mile KUN,
Va, which he called Abingdon It was ~
that house that Eliza, Martha and Nellie
Gusts We're born. George washington.
Parke Custls was born at the home OF
his mothers parents, In Maryland
\ John Parke Gusts became an aide on
tHe SlaIL OIL NfdSillllB ION, tlHu Nieu w NY -
near Yorktown, November s, 1871. George
Washington adopted his two younger
children, Nellie and George Washington
Iarke, These children took up their res
idence at Mount Vernon with their grand
mother Mrs. Washington, Nellie lived
there TIL her marrlagefto Lawrence Lewis,
February %, 1898, and George Washing
ton Parle Custs lived there unit the
death Of Mrs: Washington, In 1909 Then
ne chose a hill site on his fathers estate,
Abingdon and erected the great house
which he called Arlington. In memory Of
tho home Of John Custis, the second In
Northampton county, Va, which was
called Arlington In honor of, Henry, Earl
of Arlington. 81 (, f
Many Of the residents of washington.
remember Custis of Arlington, He died
four years, before tho Federal authorities
took possession OF Arlington, which at
the time was the property Of Mrs Rob-
erl y. Lee.
MRS. MARY RANDOLPH, t56
4 on The eastern slope of Arlington, and
4 asr from any other grave, Is one covered