The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-02-17

tE heavily shaded -
EyyrE and is furnished with Washing. /LDLI(LIF.
taD and other virginia relics It is % //-')
Owned and cared for by the Society Preservation OF
Virginia Antiquities The superintendent r. C. Buale
who, with his wife, occupies the house.
III" biz living room the ground floor and TO the
JsT OF 'he entrance is that which Mrs Washington
..'d. As nearly as possible It Is preserved Mrs.
Washngton kept it, A old mahogany tester bed
stands that part Of the floor where Mrs Wash
l-Etons bed
The walls lined with steel cngrayIuFs which be.
,nUged 20 Mrs. Washington and Of these
ErCporty when she Mary Ball before her marriage
20 Augustine Washington. and from her girlhood
Aame, "Epping Forest" In Lancaster county. about 30
tatIcs from Frcdericksbufr The room in the Of
th!s living and sleeping the dining room and
che same table around which the Washugons ate
Stands in the middle Of the floor The dining room Is
51fU o! carpets or rugs and was in Mrs. Washngons
@ni". The furnishings plain and simple
u was four months before the death Of Mary Wash
tuEtou that George Washington took his final leave OF
LIS mother This was directly before his departure for
S"U York for Inauguration the first president News
81 his mothers death him In letter from Col
Burgess Bali The president dinner with Baron
Stcubcn and Gov. st Clair The letter was handed
aa president by his nephew and private secretary Rob
ert lewis After slowly reading IT, Washington retired
IN bis private room and remained there for time
TIE then wrote this letter to his sister, Betty Washing
euu Lewis, at fredericksburg:
My Dear Sister: Cob Balls letter gave me the first
a-oount of my Hothcrs death Since that have re-
-civcd Mrs, Carter letter written your request and
vious to both prepared for the event by adyces
Oc her illness coming from your Robert.
Awful and affecting the death of a parent is.
there is consolation in knowing that heaven has spared
age which few attain and favored her with
she full enjoyment of her mental faculties and much
h7jny strength usually fails to fuurscore. Under
lscse and in the hope that she is
lated happier place It Is the duty OF her relatives
~ yield submission 10 the decree OF tho Creator
When last in Fredericksburg l took final leave
oC my mother, never expecting to see her more.
Your afectionate brother.
GEORGE WASHINGTON"
-rhrcc days after her death Mrs. Washington
The grave dug in the grounds of her daugh
Betty. The site of the grave WIS near group Of
sacks juttng Of a hillside overlooking tranquil
Gtfle valley between Fredericksburg and Maryes
EEcighs. of the boodiest battle ridges of the civn
This little group OF gray rocks favorte spot
with Mrs. Washington.
She retired there in fair weather to knit, pray and
read Bible Because of this association with Mrs
Washington these called the "Oraory rocks"
They shaded by heavy oak trees 1t shady
Eacc the days OF Mrs Washington and the trees that
.g6elded her from the survived till 1862 when they
death by the storm Of shot that rolled
rsr grave of the mother of George Washington in the
between the Army of Northern Virginia and the
Army Of the Potomac.
Susan REVERE Hetzel. a history of the Mary Wash.
fufon association, writes of Mrs Washingons funeral
"a follows;
Business suspended in the city of Fredericks.
H5zrg; Grape hung from the houses The church
tFc,onged with friends and neighbors Her body
tIfsoUed by her loving daughter and grandchildren to
9soe chosen by herself to be her resting place the
granite powders called the Oratory rocks where
loved retire and pray for her beloved during
troublesome days of the American revolution The
r,Cn carried from the church mems shoulders;
etGs knoll where the grave dug covered by the
of and spectators for they had lost
mt only mother OF the president but old and be-
G1ved friend.
The mourning general all over the country. Press
arzH pulpit made of the event. Members OF
ress Grape for 80 days for distinguished off,
@sz Congress passed resolution to erect monument
the mother Of Washington and TO that resolution
President Washington responded in note OF thanks,
x5ding:
I attribute all my in life to the moral. in
eeiiectual physical education which received
ery mother"
The government never erected the monument called
tor the resolution. Washngons administrations
.aSmpered by the Indian wars the whisky instruction
and Shay's rebellion; Adams term was taken up with
the French troubles and the threatened with the
directory Jcnersons administration flied with the