St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-03-05

L.
Ton and other Virginia relics It is 81 NIB
and cared for by the Society Preservation
hsina ANTIQUITIES The superintendent is c. Beale
VINO Win MS wife, occupies the house,
- Ihe big living on the ground floor and to the
eit OF the entrance is that in which Washington
aaed; AS nearly as possible it is preserved as Mrs.
washington Kept It, A old mahogany tester bed
stands on that part Of the floor stood Mrs Wash
ingtons bed.
The walls are lined with steel engravngs which be-
ionged 70 Mrs Washington and these were her
property when she Mary Ball before her marriage
10 Augustine Washington. and came from her grhood
home Epping Forest" in Lancaster county. about 80
mies from Fredericksburg The room in the Of
this living and sleeping the dining room and
the same table around which the Washingtons ate
stands in the middle of the floor The dining is
bare OF carpets or rugs and in Mrs. Washingtons
time. The furnishings plain and simple.
II was four months before the death of Mary Wash
ington that George Washington took his final leave Of
his mother This directly before his departure
New York for inauguration the first president News
OF his mothers death to him in letter from Col
Burgess Ball. The president at dinner with Baron
Steuben and Gov. st. Clair The letter handed
the president by his nephew and private secretary Rob-
ert Lewis After slowly reading it, Washington retired
to his private and remained there for time
He then wrote this letter to his sister, Betty Washing
ton Lewis, at Fredericksburg:
"AIy Dear Sister: Col Balls letter gave the
account Of my mothers death. Since that l have
ceived Mrs Carriers letter. written your request and
previous both prepared for the event by advces
of her illness coming from your son Robert I'd
awful and affecting as the death of parent is
there is consolation in knowing that heaven has spared
ours to an age which few attain and favored her with
the full enjoyment of mental faculties and much
bodily strength usually falls to fourscore Under
these circumstances and in the hope that she is trans
lated to happier place. it the duty of her relatives
to yield submission to the decree of the Creator
when was last in Fredericksburg took final leave
Of my mother. expecting to see her more
"Your afectionate brother
GEORGE WASHINGTON"
Three days after her death Mrs. Washington was
buried The grave dug in the grounds of her daugh
ter Betty The site Of the grave was near group OF
rocks utting out Of hillside overlooking tranquil
little valley between Fredericksburg and Marye's
Ie;gbts one of the bloodest battle ridges of the civil
war This little group OF gray rocks was IaVor1e spot
with Mrs. Washington.
she retired there fair weather to knit pray and
road her Bible Because of this association with Mrs
washington these now called the "Oratory rocks
srhev are shaded by heavy oak trees II was shaoy
IN the DAYS of Mrs Washington and the trees that
shielded her from the survived till 1852 when they
torn death by the storm OF snot tnat roeo over
~. 10 ~ the mother of George Washington in the
st.,e between the Army of Northern Virginia and the
Army of the Potomac ,, NO.,
- a.soc;atinn writes Of Mrs. Washingtons funeral
= .agusness was suspended in the city OF fredercks
t,rg. Grape hung from the houses. The church was
with her friends and neghbors Her body was
snod by her loving daughter and grandchdren TO
- chosen by herself to be her resting place near the
n;to howlders now called the oraory rocRs' where
~ loved to retire and pray or ner peoseu syn
sne s,asoma DAYS OF the American revolution The
oofn was carried from the church on mems snouoers,
49, kno where the grave was dug was eevefeu ny tne
tne ~ mourners and spectators, for they had lost
concou ,nother Of the president but an old and be
loved friend a. o,,.r pr.
ins n.o note If the event. Members Of con-
ana pulp ra crane for 80 days for distinguished Off
s Congress resolution to erect monument
-. ths mother of Washington ana 10 1hae lesoiuloh
TO Tue ne washington responded in note of thanks
adding: !, ,,e - +h MORA, in
and physical education which received from
my mother -. 49,. ,,on,mon+ ca,,ed
Inc -. a,utton Washingtons administrations were
for IN I NV the Indian wars the whisky insurrection
hanpSle, robellion: Adams term was taken up with
and Snay .hloe and the threatened with the
the 1eersons administration was filed with the