Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-05-03
GEN. FlTzHUGH LEE
stricken With Apoplexy While Oh
Board a Train to Washington
DISTINGUISHED MAN PASSES AWAY
Had Been Confederate Major-Genera]
Governor of His State, and Consul
General at Havana, and also Re-
tired Rrisadier-General in the U. S.

Governor of His State, and Consul
General at Havana, and also a Re-
tired Rrigadier-GeneraI in the U. S.
Army.
washington, special.-General Fitz-
lush Lee, United States army, retired,
md one of Virginia's foremost sons,
lied at the Providence Hospital here
friday from an. attack of sppopleXy,
which he suffered on train while en-
quite from Boston to Washington.
In the room when he died were DR..
Montgomery, one of the physicians at
he hospital, Miss Dorsey, relative,
ind a nurse, two of the attending ply
,icians, Drs. Edie and Kean, having
'etired temporarily. A pathetic feature
II the case is that although General
lee had a family consisting of wife
md 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
,ral, together with the selection OF the
,lace!for interment Of the remains, Will
LOT be made until after the arrival IN
washington of Mrs. Lee, who is now
81 her way to Washington from Fort
oglethrope, Ga. Meanwhile the pody
Hill1be. prepared for burial and Will re,
main at the hospital. 1t is posslple
hat the body may be laid to rest at
lie national cemetery at Arlington, al
.hough 1t is expected that General
Lees friends may make an efort TO
have site chosen somewhere else IN
Virginia, the State in which be lived SO
many years and with whose interests
ae was so strongly identified.
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 stlll
in her teens. The children are Mrs.
j. C. Rae, wife of Lieutenant Rae, now
1t Fort Oglethorpe; Lieutenant Fltz-
|'iugh Lee, of the calvary branch, now
in Manila; Lieutenant Mason Lee, OF
the Seventh Cavalry, who is now IN
San Francisco; Mrs. Anne Brown, wlIe
If 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 al
iected. at 3 o'clock Friday morning,
while on train en- route from Boston
n Washington. The train had just lett
The Harlem river when the stroke
,ame. The train bearing the general
arrived in Washington shortly altef
ll0 o'clock. Under the direction OF Ma
ior. Kean, United States Army, OF the
Surgeon Generals Office, the patient
was removed to Providence Hospital:
a physician was taken ABOARD tne
train at Jersey City. At Phllade!phla
he gave place to another, who accom-
panied the general to Baltimore, whefe
still another was taken aboard anu
made the trip to Washington.
General Lee had been spending a teW
days in Boston and was returning 10
washington, on his way to join MIS-.
Lee.
His Distinguished Career.
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, Gen
eral Lee saw considerable frontier duty
in moving against the Indians. He
was an ex-cavalry officer.
His services in the Confederate ar
nv as a major general are well known,
md during the interval between TINS
var and his active work in the Span
ish.American war, General Lee filed a
number of important positions, inciud-
Ing ing governorship of Virginia, the presl'
dency Of the Pittsburg & Virginia rall'
road the collectorship of internal rev,
enue for the Lynchburg district, ana
the the consul generalship at Havana.
Following his honorable dlseharge :
from the volunteer army on Marcn .
1901 General Lee was appointed to tne
regular army with the rank OF prig.
adler general, and with this rank ne
was retired in the March following.