The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-23
PASTOR GIVES UP LITTLE GIRL
CHILD OF TEN HE WAS TO WE'D
TO GO BACK TO HER PARENTS.
The Rev. George y. I%1tzhugh's Son and
Daughter Believe His Mind Has been
Affected by Work and Have Induced
Him to Forego Making Child His Heir.

Daughter Believe His Mind Hal Been
Affected by Work and Have Induced
Him to Forego Making child His Heir.
BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. 22.-The Rev.
George S. Fitzhugh, the venerable pastor
Of st. .Barnabas's Protestant Episcopal
Church at Curtis Bay, has yielded to the
opportunities of his family and will not
marry Lulu Virginia Frazier. the ten-year-
old girl from the Virginia mountains.
The child will he taken back to her home
In Mission, Va. on Monday by Mrs. Mary
Padgett. Mr.. Fitzhugh's daughter.
DR.. Thomas B, Horton and Or. Frederick
Robinson we're called to the Fitzhugh resi-
denoe this morning by the clergyman's
son to examine Fitzhugh as to his mental
condition. George H. Fitzhugh believes
his father is demented. Il nm sure that
father has broken down." he said. Father
has worked very hard the last two or three
years. and especially during the winters.
His church raised a fun that he might
spend upon the poor of his vicinity and he
has had 80 many applicants that he has
been greatly worried because he could not
supply the apeeds Of all
Bishop Paret says that he will make an
investigation. The Rev. Mr.. Fitzhugh
wa quite i'll to-day and suffered severely,
The little girl. Virginia FRAZIER, whom
the minister intended to make his wife
is playing about the streets. She does not
, appreciate the seriousness Of the conditions
surrounding her and does not thoroughly
understand that the aged minister wanted
to marry her. The child, romping with
children near the house where the minister
10 lying, seems unconscious of what matri-
mony means.
Did you know you were going to be-
come Mr.. Fitzhugh's wife when you went
away with him2" she was asked.
AL l know is that l went with him and.
had q good time. l want to 60 again be-
cause 1t Is 80 nice riding on the street cars so
far out In the country. He treated me 30
nice, too, and l would love to 60 with him
again. A stranger was seen coming up
the road n with q jump she ran away
and would not come back.
When a storm of protest arose after
DR.. Fitzhugh inside it known that he wanted
in this statement:
The reason l wanted to marry little
Virginia was because l thought 1t would
be the best way 1 could adopt her. She
is such q sweet child and have loved her
since the moment first set eyes upon her
in the.h little home way. of In the mountains
Of Virginia. Even from la first / thought
Of bringing her to my home here and max
ing her my heiress. Her mother gave her
to me and now l intend to see that she
crows up with everything she wants.
Il wanted TO send her to school for six
years and at the end of that time she could
come home and take charge OF my house
hold. ] wanted to make sure OF her by
making her my wife, and I do not see any
reason why l should not under the oircum-
stances. Now that | am click and feel that
my end ID fast drawing near / beg of YOU
to take care Of her Inc see that she never
ant for anything"
Miss %Fitzhugn and her brother are much
concerned over their fathers illness and
the sensation he has created. The whole
thing came as a surprise to them. MIR.
Ftzhugh believes that his fathers mind
10 slightly unbalanced OF the subject Of
children.
DR.. Fitzhugh Is a man of culture and
has had some prominent charges in the
thirty-seven years he has been a minister.
He was born in Port Royal. Caroline county,
Va, and Is a son Of George Ntzhugh, who
was a well known writer. In his youth he
was a brilliant scholar. After finishing
at the Episcopal Seminary at Alexandria,
Va, he took a three year course at the
Hartford Theological Seminary. He had
several prominent charges in southern
Florida. where he owns a large planta-
ton. He is 81 years old