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MRS. AMELIA C. WAITE. 
 President National Mary Washington Memorial Association 
 
THE 
 
 BUILDING OF ft MONUMENT 
 
 A HISTORY OF THE 
 
 MARY WASHINGTON ASSOCIATIONS 
 
 AND THEIR WORK. 
 
 SUSAN RIVIHRE HETZEL, 
 
 Secretary N. M. VV. M. A. 
 
 Lancaster, Pa.: 
 
 Press of Wickersham Company, 
 
 1903. 
 
THE LIBRARY OF 
 CONGRESS, 
 
 Two Copies 
 
 Received 
 
 APR r 
 
 1903 
 
 Copyright 
 
 cuss a- 
 
 Entry 
 XXc No. 
 
 COPY B. ' 1 
 
 
 Copyright, 190J 
 
 BY 
 
 SUSAN R. HETZEL. 
 
^ Cooing illcmorial 
 
 TO 
 
 AMELIA C. WAITE AND MARGARETTA J. HETZEL 
 AiND ALL WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE, 
 
 AND TO THE 
 
 LIVING VICE-PRESIDENTS AND OTHER WORKERS 
 
 WHOSE UNBOUNDED ENTHUSIASM, ENERGY AND INDUSTRY 
 
 HAVE AIDED IN 
 
 ACCOMPLISHING THIS BUILDING, 
 
 THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED 
 
 BY THEIR FRIEND AND CO-WORKER 
 
 S. R. H. 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE DEATH OF MARY WASHINGTON. 
 
 General Washington had been President 
 four months when his mother died in Fred- 
 ericksburg, on August 25th, 1789. 
 
 Robert Lewis, the nephew and private 
 secretary of the General, tells us in his jour- 
 nal that the President did not receive the 
 news of his mother's death until September 
 I St. A letter from Colonel Burges Ball, 
 containing the sad news, arrived while he 
 was seated at dinner, enjoying the bright and 
 witty conversation of Baron von Steuben and 
 Governor St. Clair. Robert Lewis further 
 states, that when he opened the letter, " My 
 uncle immediately retired to his room and 
 remained there some time alone." 
 
 Alone with the past, with the fond mem- 
 ories of the devoted mother. Did he recall 
 his infancy at Wakefield, his childhood at 
 Pine Grove, and the stern but loving rule 
 of his widowed parent ? the inflexible regard 
 for truth and right which she had so firmly 
 (I) 
 
2 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 implanted in his character? her toils and 
 sacrifices to secure to her children their un- 
 impaired patrimony ? her protest against his 
 entering the Royal Navy ? — simply the fears 
 and anxieties of a fond mother, but of what 
 immeasurable advantage to the Colonies and 
 the world. Who could forget her hatred 
 of shams, of flattery, of anything false, even 
 to avoidance of any allusion to his glory, lest 
 his head should be turned by too much 
 praise ? — though she loved him all the more 
 tenderly ; and when old and broken in health, 
 she consented to appear at the Peace Ball at 
 Fredericksburg. 
 
 Her death was not unexpected. His last 
 act, before his departure for New York to 
 assume the duties of President, was to visit 
 his mother at Fredericksburg, A few days 
 after receiving the sad intelligence he wrote 
 the following touching letter to his sister, 
 Mrs. Betty Lewis : 
 
 " My dear Sister : 
 
 " Colonel Ball's letter gave me the first account 
 of my mother's death. Since that I have received 
 Mrs. Carter's letter, written at your request; and 
 previous to both I was prepared for the event by 
 advices of her illness coming to your son Robert. 
 
DEATH OF MARY WASHINGTON. 3 
 
 " Awful and affecting as the death of a parent is, 
 there is consolation in knowing that Heaven has 
 spared ours to an age beyond which few attain, and 
 favoured her with the full enjoyment of her mental 
 faculties and as much bodily strength as usually 
 falls to fourscore. Under these circumstances, and 
 in the hope that she is translated to a happier place, 
 it is the duty of her relatives to yield submission to 
 the decree of the Creator. 
 
 " When I was last in Fredericksburg I took a 
 final leave of my mother, never expecting to see 
 her more. 
 
 " Your affectionate brother, 
 
 " George Washington." 
 
 On August 28, 1789, Mary Ball Wash- 
 ington was laid to rest. Business was sus- 
 pended in the city of Fredericksburg ; crape 
 hung from the houses. The church was 
 thronged with her friends and neighbors, 
 who followed her loving daughter and grand- 
 children to the place chosen by herself for 
 her last resting-place, near the granite boulder 
 now called "Oratory Rock," where she loved 
 to retire and pray for her beloved son during 
 the troublous days of the Revolution. The 
 coffin was carried from the church on men's 
 shoulders ; the knoll was covered by the 
 
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 4 BUILDING OF A MONUMEI^T. 
 
 concourse of mourners and spectators, tor 
 they had lost not onh" the mother of the 
 President, but an old and beloved friend. 
 
 The mournino- was creneral all over the 
 country ; press and pulpit made note of the 
 event. Members of Congress wore crape for 
 thirt)' days as for a distinguished official. 
 Congress passed a resolution to erect a monu- 
 ment to the mother of Washington, and to 
 that resolution General Washino-ton re- 
 sponded in a note of thanks, adding : 'T at- 
 tribute all my success in life to the moral, 
 intellectual and physical education which I 
 received from my mother." 
 
 How well the Government fulfilled this 
 resolution, any one can see who reads these 
 pages and recalls the hundred years that in- 
 tervened between the passage of this resolu- 
 tion and the buildincr of the monument. In 
 truth the work of forming a new Republic was 
 no lioht task. Washinorton's administrations 
 were hampered b}^ the Indian Wars, the 
 Whiskey Insurrection and Shay's rebellion. 
 Adams's term was taken up with the French 
 troubles, and the threatened war with the 
 Directory. Jefferson's was filled with the wars 
 
DEATH OF MARY WASHINGTON. 5 
 
 with the pirates of Tripoli , Lewis and Clarke's 
 marvelous march to the Pacific, the Louisiana 
 purchase and Aaron Burr's conspiracy ; dur- 
 ing Madison's administration Congress could 
 of course think of nothing but the second war 
 with England. It took a long time for the 
 country to recover from that war, and so it 
 happened that nothing but a little headstone 
 marked the grave of Mary Washington when 
 Lafayette revisited this country in 1825. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 THE FIRST CORNER STONE. 
 
 In 1826 a strong appeal for a monument 
 to Mary Washington was written by George 
 Washington Parke Custis, the grandson of 
 Martha Washington, the adopted child of his 
 grandmother and her renowned spouse. Mr. 
 Custis wrote the life of Mary Washington as 
 he had heard it from his grandmother and his 
 adopted grandfather, and when one reads this 
 account, one realizes how great was Wash- 
 ington's love and veneration for his mother. 
 This life is to be found in Mr. Custis' Remin- 
 iscences. Lossing the historian, Captain 
 George Washington Ball in his " Monograph," 
 Marion Harland, and other biographers of 
 Mary Washington have quoted freely from 
 this eulogy of the noble matron. This appeal 
 awoke great interest all over the country. 
 
 In 1830, the people of Fredericksburg en- 
 deavored to raise by subscription, sufficient 
 money to build a monument over the grave 
 of Mary Washington. They succeeded in 
 (6) 
 
THE FIRST CORNER STONE. 7 
 
 accumulating about two thousand dollars, 
 when Silas E. Burrows, a rich New Yorker, 
 became so interested in this endeavor to honor 
 the mother of Washington, that on April 19th, 
 1 83 1, he wrote a letter to the Mayor of Fred- 
 ericksburg, Thomas Goodwin, of which the 
 following is an extract : 
 
 " I have seen with the greatest interest, the efforts 
 made by the citizens of Fredericksburg to erect a 
 monument over the remains, and to rescue from ob- 
 livion, the sacred spot where reposes the great 
 American mother : Mary the Mother of Washington. 
 I have also seen an article published in the Com- 
 mercial Advertiser of this city, proposing to remove 
 the remains of Mrs. Washington from the spot se- 
 lected by herself, where they now rest, and to place 
 them within the walls of a Presbyterian Church to 
 be erected for that purpose. 
 
 I feel a great interest that the ashes of this good 
 American mother should remain where they are, 
 and I wish to be allowed the honor of individually 
 erecting the monument, which I assure you sir, shall 
 be in the style and execution to please the family of 
 Washington and the citizens of the United States. 
 Let her sleep upon the bosom of her own mother 
 earth where she selected her pillow, and let the 
 willow of Mount Vernon, from the tomb of her son, 
 be transplanted to wave through time over the 
 mother's grave. 
 
8 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Be pleased sir, to make this communication known 
 to the Washington family and all interested." * * * 
 
 Mr. Burrows' generous offer was accepted, 
 and he proceeded with the work he had vol- 
 untarily accepted. On May 7th, 1833, the 
 corner stone of the monument was laid by 
 President Andrew Jackson. 
 
 A full report of the ceremony of laying the 
 corner stone was published in Fredericksburg 
 at the time. A reprint of this account is now 
 before me and I will give my readers the 
 benefit of a part : 
 
 " The President, Andrew Jackson, not only at- 
 tended, but three days were consumed by him in 
 doing honor to Washington's mother — one day in 
 coming here, one day in the exercises, and one day 
 in returning. Captain Kinsey's company of Rifle- 
 men from the District of Columbia came here, as 
 did also the Marine Band from the Navy Yard, 
 Captain Brockett's Light Infantry from Alexandria, 
 and a Troop of Light Horse from Fauquier under 
 Colonel Fauntleroy. 
 
 The President was attended by Hon. Lewis Cass, 
 Secretary of War, Hon. Roger B. Taney, Attorney 
 General, and Major Donelson, Private Secretary. 
 
 The ceremonies were followed, according to the 
 Fredericksburg Arena, with "a barbecue in the old 
 
THE FIRST CORNER STONE. 9 
 
 Virginia style, prepared under an ample awning in 
 the beautiful grove of Hazel Hill, which was par- 
 taken of by about 5000 persons. Among the invited 
 guests present, were the President and heads of de- 
 partments, the military companies from a distance, 
 and all strangers of distinction. At 4 o'clock danc- 
 ing commenced and was kept up with considerable 
 spirit until near sunset. The arrangements were 
 excellent and the entertainment did great credit to 
 the contractors, Messrs. Blackburn and Curtis. 
 
 At about 9 o'clock the President was escorted 
 from his lodgings to the town hall, where Jie was 
 introduced to a number of citizens and strangers, 
 who called to pay their respects to the chief magis- 
 trate of the nation. The day was fine, and the occa- 
 sion attracted a large concourse of persons from the 
 adjoining counties. The procession set out from 
 the town hall at half past ten o'clock, and moved 
 according to the arrangements of the committee, in 
 the order and through the several streets previously 
 designated, to the site of the monument." 
 
 THE ORDER OF PROCESSION AND ITS MOVEMENTS, 
 
 1. Architect and his Assistants. 
 
 2. Silas H. Burrows. 
 
 3. Monumental Committee. 
 
 4. President of the United States and Cabinet. 
 
 5. Clergy and relatives of Mrs. Washington. 
 
 6. Mayor and Corporate Authorities. 
 
lO BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 7. Naval and Military Oflficers, 
 
 8. Masonic Societies. 
 
 9. Band of Music. 
 
 10. Military, 
 
 11. Teachers and their Pupils. 
 
 12. Citizens and Strangers. 
 
 There was one chief Marshal, Colonel 
 Bankhead, and twelve Assistants on the oc- 
 casion. 
 
 The Masonic Societies, Band and Military 
 formed at the Court House and marched to 
 the Town Hall, where they joined the rest of 
 the procession. 
 
 Fredericksburg had then three military 
 companies : The Fredericksburg Guards, the 
 Rifle Company and the Fredericksburg Blues, 
 Junior. The Junior Blues was a company of 
 " youths " (small boys in full uniform with 
 wooden guns). 
 
 One of the Fredericksburg journals thus 
 describes the effect: "As the procession 
 moved up Main street, the extended line, the 
 various uniforms of the military, the gittering 
 arms, the music, the dense mass that thronged 
 the sidewalks, the crowded windows over- 
 looking the scene, altogether presented a view 
 grand and imposing." 
 
THE FIRST CORNER STONE. II 
 
 The ceremonies opened with a prayer by 
 Rev. E. C. McGuire, followed by an address 
 from Mr. Bassett, Chairman of the Monument 
 Committee. Both Mr. McGuire and Mr. Bas- 
 sett were sons-in-law of Robert Lewis, the son 
 of Betty Washington and Fielding Lewis, 
 mentioned on pages i and 2 of this volume. 
 Mr. Bassett was also a grand-nephew of Mrs. 
 Martha Washington. 
 
 Mr. Bassett said: 
 
 " In the name of the Monumental Committee, I 
 present you. General, the plate which is intended to 
 distinguish that stone just adjusted by the Master 
 of the Lodge as the corner stone of this pile. * * * 
 In looking upon this monument, (raised chiefly by 
 the munificence of a patriotic individual) the citizens 
 of the States will remember that they are brothers. 
 They will remember that here lie the ashes of the 
 mother of the "Father of his Country." They will 
 acknowledge to this just tribute to the merits of her 
 who early deprived of the support of her consort, 
 encouraged and fostered by precept and example, 
 the dawning virtues of her illustrious son, and mus- 
 tered into maturing those faculties which were the 
 ornament and glory of her waning years. They 
 will acknowledge the hallowed character of this ro- 
 mantic spot, ever to be remembered as the place 
 chosen for her private deuotions — the spot to which 
 
12 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT, 
 
 she often led her offspring, and pointing to the order 
 and beauty of the works of nature, here so eminently 
 displayed, she guided their youthful minds to con- 
 template the power and benevolence of the great 
 author of their being. Here she taught the attri- 
 butes of God — that to him as their Creator all praise 
 belonged — that to glorify him was the object of their 
 creation, and to this end every energy should be 
 devoted. Here, she asked as a dying request that 
 her mortal remains might rest. Hallowed be this 
 wish, sacred this spot. * * * Let us carry with us 
 hence, engraved on our hearts, the memory of her 
 who is here interred. Her fortitude, her piety, her 
 every grace of life, her sweet peace in death through 
 her sure hope of blessed immoriality," 
 
 General Jackson replied in an eloquent ad- 
 dress. Marion Harland, in her beautiful 
 "Story of Mary Washington," says: "The 
 President dwelt at length upon the character- 
 istics of her they had met to honor, a eulogy 
 which hundreds of his auditors could have 
 verified, or challenged from their own mem- 
 ories. As the speaker gained his information 
 from Madame Washington's contemporaries, 
 his verdict is of distinct value." 
 
 After an acknowledgment of the courte- 
 sies of the Monumental Committee and a fine 
 eulogy of Washington, the President said : 
 
THE FIRST CORNER STONE. 1 3 
 
 " The mother and son are beyond the reach of 
 human applause : but the bright examples of parental 
 and filial excellence which their conduct furnishes, 
 cannot but produce the most salutary effects on our 
 countrymen. Let their examples be before us, from 
 the first lesson which is taught the child, 'till the 
 mother's duties yield to the course of preparation 
 and action which nature prescribes for him. * * * 
 
 Tradition says that the character of Washington 
 was aided and strengthened, if not formed, by the 
 care and precepts of his mother. She was remark- 
 able for the vigor of her intellect and the firmness of 
 her resolution. Left in early life the sole parent of 
 a young and numerous family, she devoted herself 
 with exemplary fidelity to the task of guiding and 
 educating them. With limited resources she was 
 able by care and economy to provide for them, and 
 to ensure them a respectable entrance upon the 
 duties of life. A firm believer in the sacred truths 
 of religion, she taught its principles to her children, 
 and inculcated an early obedience to its injunctions. 
 It is said by those who knev/ her intimately, that 
 she acquired a wonderful ascendency over those 
 around her. This true characteristic of genius at- 
 tended her through life, and even into its decline, 
 after her son had led his country to independence, 
 and had been called to preside over her counsels, he 
 approached her with the same reverence she had 
 taught him to exhibit in early youth. This course 
 
14 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 of maternal discipline no doubt restrained the nat- 
 ural ardour of his temperament, and conferred upon 
 him that power of self command, which was one of 
 the most remarkable traits of his character. 
 
 On tracing the few recollections which can be 
 gathered of her principles and conduct, it is impos- 
 sible to avoid the conviction that they are closely- 
 interwoven with the destiny of her son. The great 
 points of his character are before the world. He 
 who runs may read them in his whole career as a 
 citizen, a soldier, and a magistrate. * * * Look 
 back at the life and conduct of his mother, and at 
 her domestic government, as they have been this 
 day delineated by the Chairman of the Monumental 
 Committee, and as they were known to her contem- 
 poraries and described by them, and they will be 
 found admirably adapted to form and develop the 
 elements of such a character. The power of great- 
 ness was there, but had it not been guided by ma- 
 ternal solicitude and judgment, its possessor, instead 
 of presenting to the world examples of virtue, patri- 
 otism and wisdom, which will be precious in all 
 succeeding ages, might have added to the number 
 of those master spirits whose fame rests upon the 
 faculties they have abused and the injuries they have 
 committed. 
 
 How important to the females of this country are 
 these reminiscences of the early life of Washington, 
 and the maternal care of her upon whom its future 
 
THE FIRST CORNER STONE. 1 5 
 
 course depended. Affection less regulated by dis- 
 cretion might have changed the character of the son, 
 and with it the destinies of the nation. We have 
 reason to be proud of the virtue and intelligence of 
 our females. As mothers and sisters, as wives and 
 daughters, their duties are performed with exemp- 
 lary fidelity. They no doubt realize the great im- 
 portance of the maternal character and the powerful 
 influence it must exert upon the American youth. 
 Happy it is for them and our country that they have 
 before them this illustrious example of maternal 
 devotion, and the bright reward of filial success." 
 
 sK ***** * 
 
 Could the chivalrous old hero have knowr 
 what would devolve upon the "females" of a 
 later generation, I do not know whether he. 
 would be most gratified or mortified. Yet 
 who shall say that that corner stone was laid 
 in vain, when such testimonials to the worth 
 of Mary Washington, uttered in the presence 
 of those who knew and loved her, still exist? 
 Testimonials not only from her family, but 
 from the warrior, statesman and President, 
 who had spared no pains in learning her 
 character from those who had remembered 
 her in life. 
 
 Though the monument was never com- 
 
1 6 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 / pleted, though the stones crumbled and fell, 
 
 i the truth is stronger than monuments and 
 
 \ these words should never die; they should 
 
 labide in the memory of all true patriots and 
 
 forever confront and confound the baseless 
 
 slanders of latter-day scoffers. 
 
 Nor were the " females " of the day silent, 
 
 for the ceremonies closed with the reading of 
 
 the following poem : 
 
 THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON. 
 
 BY LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY, 
 Of Hart'ord, Connecticut. 
 
 " Long hast thou slept unnoted. Nature stole 
 In her soft minstrelsy around thy bed, 
 Spreading her vernal tissue violet-gemmed 
 And pearled with dew. 
 
 She bade bright summer bring 
 
 Gifts of frankincense, w^ith sweet song of birds, 
 And Autumn cast his reaper's coronet 
 
 Down at thy feet ; the stormy Winter spake 
 Sternly of man's neglect ; but now we come 
 
 To do thee homage, mother of our chief; 
 Fit homage, such as honoreth him who pays. 
 
 Methinks we see thee as in olden time, 
 
 Simple in garb, majestic and serene. 
 Unmoved by pomp or circumstance, in truth 
 
 Inflexible, and with a Spartan zeal 
 Repressing vice and making folly grave. 
 
THE FIRST CORNER STONE. 1 7 
 
 Thou didst not deem it woman's part to waste 
 
 Life in inglorious sloth, to sport awhile 
 Amid the flowers, or. on the summer's wave. 
 
 Then fleet like the ephemeron away, 
 Building no temple in her children's heart 
 
 Save to the vanity and pride of life 
 Which she had worshipped. 
 
 For the might that clothed 
 
 The » Pater Patria," for the glorious deeds 
 That made Mount Vernon's tomb a Mecca shrine 
 
 For all on earth ; what thanks to thee are due 
 Who 'mid his elements of being wrought. 
 
 We know not ; Heaven can tell. 
 
 Rise sculptured pile, 
 
 And show a race unborn who sleeps below ; 
 And say to mothers that a holy charge 
 
 Is theirs ; with what a kingly power their love 
 Might rule the fountains of the unborn mind. 
 
 Warn them to work at early dawn and sow 
 Good seeds before the world hath sown her tares, 
 
 Nor in their toil decline, that angel hands 
 May put their sickle in and reap for God. 
 
 And gather to his garner, ye, who stand 
 With thrilling breast to view her trophied praise. 
 
 Who nobly reared Virginia's godlike chief. 
 
 Ye, whose last thought upon your nightly couch, 
 
 Whose first at waking is your cradled son, 
 What though no high ambition prompts to rea,r 
 
 A second Washington, or leave your name 
 Wrought out in marble, with a nation's tears 
 
 Of deathless gratitude, yet you may raise 
 A monument above the stars — a soul 
 
 Led by your teachings and your prayers to God." 
 
 2 
 
1 8 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Sixty-one years later this Poem was sent to 
 the Washington Post, by Mrs. Claudia B. 
 Money of Mississippi, Vice-President of the 
 National Mary Washington Association, who 
 presented it with these appropriate words: 
 
 " It is a touching coincidence — the utter destruc- 
 tion of the first tomb, and the complete forgetfulness 
 of this poet, who was at this time very popular ; but 
 her writings are to be found now only in old Hbraries, 
 embalmed in cream and gold. So do all pass from 
 the minds of men. So had the memory of Mary 
 Washington become dim in the recollections of the 
 people until some sudden patriotic thought struck 
 the noble women who rescued her from oblivion. 
 We seem to be looking abroad in the land for the 
 names of our illustrious dead, and all great deeds, 
 to commemorate in bronze and marble. It is well 
 to raise these landmarks to perpetuate the history 
 of those who have made America first among the 
 nations of the earth — that those who come after may 
 emulate and follow them," 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE FIRST MONUMENT. 
 
 During the first four years that succeeded 
 the laying of the corner stone, the monument 
 was built, the base with the little Doric col- 
 umns in place — the obelisk was brought to 
 the spot, ready to be elevated, when the work 
 was suddenly abandoned. Various reasons 
 have been given for its non-completion. 
 
 There is a Frederickburg tradition to the 
 effect that Mr. Burrows commenced the 
 monument to please a Virginia girl, a de- 
 scendant of Mary Washington, with whom he 
 was in love, and that he ceased the work 
 when she jilted him. This story is too ob- 
 viously mythical to deserve comment, further 
 than to say that there is no subject which 
 romantic youth is not prone to gild with the 
 glamour of the "old, old, story." 
 
 The reason given by Mrs. Ella Bassett 
 
 Washington is that Mr. Burrows was unable 
 
 to finish the work owing to "a sudden reverse 
 
 of fortune." Marion Harland gives the same 
 
 (19) 
 
20 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 reason and so does the Appeal of the Fred- 
 erickburg Association issued by Mrs. James 
 Power Smith in 1889; but a contributor to 
 the Washington Post, on Friday, May 1 1 th, 
 1894, after a diHgent inquiry among the old- 
 est inhabitants of the ancient city of Fred- 
 ericksburg, gives what appears to me the 
 most probable reason for its non-completion. 
 He states that it was owing to the death of 
 the contractor, Rufus Hill, adding: 
 
 " It has been for many years a matter of 
 tradition that Mr. Burrows started the monu- 
 ment but did not complete it because he lost 
 his fortune. This is not the case. Mr. Bur- 
 rows furnished all the money required for the 
 completion of the work before his departure 
 for China, where he died in the belief that his 
 wishes and instructions were carried out. 
 To Mrs. Catherine Nossett of this city, who 
 was then a girl in her teens, history is now in- 
 debted for a true statement of the facts. The 
 contractor, Mr. Hill, was a stone mason, and 
 working in the hot sun, was stricken with 
 brain fever and died. His death ended the 
 contract, none of his relatives thinking it in- 
 cumbent upon them to go on with the work," 
 
THE FIRST MONUMENT. 21 
 
 Probably they were not competent; it is 
 said that the funds were lost by the failure of 
 the bank in which they were deposited. So 
 nothing was done, and year after year the un- 
 completed monument stood, the shaft lying 
 prone on the ground beside it. In full range 
 from the well known Marye's Heights, the 
 monument was riddled by bullets during the 
 Civil War ; the base was battered by cannon- 
 ading. One of the stones was broken and 
 removed from its place, subjecting the found- 
 ation to the destruction of water and frost. 
 The ravages of war were succeeded by the 
 depredations of the relic-hunter; the Vandals 
 following as the Goth of old. 
 
 Thomas Scott in the New York Times thus 
 describes it: 
 
 " The monument was commenced long before the 
 great war but never finished. For four years it was 
 between two armies and battle surged around it. 
 The marbles are pock-marked with bullets, fired in 
 that sad time. Strewn about are the blocks of 
 marble and the main shaft which was never put in 
 place. It was within sight of this monument that 
 occurred the terrible slaughter of our troops on that 
 awful December day of 1862. But ten miles away, 
 in the following May, the rout of Chancellorsville 
 
2 2 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT, 
 
 took place; and in May 1864, within fifteen miles, 
 was the bloody Wilderness in whose tangles so 
 many went down in battle, or were burned in the 
 forest fires then kindled. Within ten miles was the 
 two weeks slaughter of Spottsylvania Court House. 
 * * * So it may be said that within sound of 
 that spot died over fifty thousand brave men." 
 
 In 1874 while the whole country was occu- 
 pied by the approaching Centennial of the 
 Declaration of Independence, a resolution 
 was offered in the House of Representatives 
 by Hon. Charles Pelham, "to consider the 
 practicability of finishing the Washington Mon- 
 ument by the approaching Centennial," and 
 " to enquire and report as to the practicability 
 of completing the unfinished monument to 
 the memory of Mary the Mother of Washing- 
 ton, at Fredericksburg." 
 
 Lieutenant W. L. Marshall of the Engineer 
 Corps, U. S. Army, was directed by the 
 Secretary of War to examine the Monument 
 and report an its condition. 
 
 After a thorough examination, Lieutenant 
 Marshall pronounced the monument "an irre- 
 parable ruin " and recommended " that the 
 base be rebuilt entirely of cut stone, that 
 
THE FIRST MONUMENT. 23 
 
 the present facing be used for filling or else 
 be erected in another spot as a memento." 
 Mr. Pelham brought up a bill for the neces- 
 sary sum to restore the monument, but it 
 failed to pass. 
 
 In 1878, Captin George Washington Ball, 
 a descendant of Mary Washington, as well as 
 of her cousin Buries Ball of the Revolution- 
 ary Army, originated, "The Mary Washing- 
 ton Association of America," which was in- 
 corporated by the Legislature of Virginia in 
 1878. The Constitution aimed to preserve 
 and protect the birthplace of Washington, the 
 home and grave of his mother, and all places 
 sacred from their connection with his life and 
 history, not falling within the province of 
 Mount Vernon Ladies' Association or the 
 Monumental Association in Washington City. 
 
 Captain Ball is an eminent genealogist and 
 antiquarian; he entered into this movement 
 with great energy and interest. In 1885 he 
 wrote an interesting Monograph of the Ball 
 family, full of many valuable memories of 
 Mary Washington and telling of the incor- 
 poration of the Mary Washington Association 
 seven years previously. While Captain Ball's 
 
24 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 interest and energy continued unabated, that 
 of his correspondents and coadjutors seemed 
 to flag, probably because they believed the 
 Government would make the needed appro- 
 priation. 
 
 In 1886, Senator Daniel of Virginia, with 
 all the force of his matchless eloquence, suc- 
 ceeded in getting a bill appropriating sufficient 
 funds to complete the monument, through the 
 Senate of the 49th Congress. It failed to 
 reach the House of Representatives. Again, 
 the bill passed the Senate of the 50th Con- 
 gress and again .it failed to reach the House. 
 
 It was during that year, 1889, while the 50th 
 Congress was still in session, on the 2nd ot 
 March, when every one was occupied with the 
 coming inauguration of President Harrison 
 at Washington, as well as the Centennial of 
 the inauguration of Washington at New York, 
 that the following advertisement appeared in 
 the daily press : 
 
 The Grave of Mary the Mother of General 
 George Washington to be Sold 
 at Public Auction. 
 To the ladies attending the inauguration of Presi- 
 dent Elect Harrison. On Tuesday, the 5th of 
 
TlUmiAS DOWLING. AUCTIONEER. 
 
 graveFmary, 
 
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 Book of Mr. F. B. McGuire, of Washington, D. C. 
 
THE FIRST MONUMENT. 25 
 
 March 1889, at 4 o'clock P. M., we will offer for sale 
 at public outcry, at the Capital of the United States 
 of America, twelve acres, of land, embracing the 
 grave, the material of the unfinished monument 
 of Mary, the Mother of General George Washington. 
 
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 Real Estate Agents. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE TERRIBLE ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 Mrs. Fielding Lewis, nee Betty Washing- 
 ton — left herbeautiful home in Fredericksburg 
 soon after her mother's death, and spent her 
 remaining days with her only daughter, Mrs. 
 Carter, at her home in Lancaster County. 
 After her death in 1 797, her children sold the 
 estate to the Gordon family, who established 
 their family burying ground close by the 
 grave of Mary Washington. 
 
 Many years after, the Gordons sold the 
 house, to which they gave the name of "Ken- 
 more ", to William Key Howard, and in 1888 
 Mr. Herndon, the son-in-law of William K. 
 Gordon, sold the ground surrounding the 
 monument to Geo. W. Shepherd, an aged 
 and esteemed citizen of Fredericksburg, with 
 the express stipulation that the family burying 
 ground and the Mary Washington monument 
 were not included in the grant. 
 
 A year later, on February 27, 1889, a firm 
 of Real Estate Agents who proposed to pub- 
 (26) 
 
THE TERRIBLE ADVERTISEMENT. 2/ 
 
 lish a catalogue of lands for sale in Fredericks- 
 burg and vicinity, asked Mr. Shepherd for an 
 option on his lots. Mr, Shepherd gave the 
 papers describing his lots and designating the 
 Mary Washington monument as a landmark. 
 On the next day, the 28th of February, the 
 agents announced their intention of selling 
 the grave of Mary Washington. In an inter- 
 view published by the Fredericksburg Free 
 Lance, they said : 
 
 " Yes sir, we have the property in hand for sale, 
 and will offer it at public outcry in the city of 
 Washington on the 5th of March. There being no 
 disposition on the part of either Congress or people 
 to finish the monument, or to care for the grave of 
 Mrs. Washington, and feeling the general depression 
 of all kinds of business and to enliven up things we 
 have determined to sell graves, if by so doing we 
 can attract the attention of the country to this local- 
 ity and bring money here from other sections." 
 
 Though warned by a citizen of Fredericks- 
 burg that the grave and monument could not 
 be sold, the"terrible advertisement" appeared, 
 in the Washington Post of March 2nd, and 
 there were also issued, what Judge Fauntleroy 
 justly calls, " 2000 atrocious handbills," as 
 follows : 
 
28 building of a monument. 
 
 General George Washington 
 
 THE Tomb and Unfinished Monument of 
 
 Mary, His Sainted Mother. 
 
 On Tuesday, the 5th instant at 4 o'clock P. M. 
 at the Capital of the United States of America, 
 under authority vested in us by the real owners of 
 the property, we will offer for sale, at public outcry, 
 about twelve acres of land situated within the cor- 
 poration of Fredericksburg, embracing the grave of 
 Mary, the mother of General George Washington 
 and also the materials of her unfinished monument. 
 At the same time, we will offer to the highest 
 bidder, the house in which she lived and died, and 
 within eight squares of her tomb. 
 
 & 
 
 Real Estate Agents, Fredericksburg, Va. 
 
 The record shows the outburst of indio-na- 
 tion and reprobation v^ith which the citizens of 
 Fredericksburg, in public meeting denounced 
 this outrage upon public sensibility. 
 
 As soon as Mr. Shepherd learned of this 
 "shocking advertisement," he sent protests 
 to the agents, stating that he never claimed 
 to own the monument, and their advertising 
 it for sale was wholly unauthorized. 
 
 Whereupon the firm entered suit against 
 Mr. Shepherd for breach of contract and 
 
THE TERRIBLE ADVERTISEMENT. 29 
 
 damages, thereby making their unheard of 
 course a matter of record. The Fredericks- 
 burg Court decided against them, March 28, 
 
 '""^hey carried it to the Court of Appeals of 
 the state of Virginia and the former decision -^ 
 was affirmed, November i8th, 1862; It is 
 from the opinion of Judge Fauntleroy, of the 
 Court of Appeals of Virginia, that I cite the 
 facts mentioned in this chapter. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 THE woman's movement. 
 
 On April 30th, 1889, the city of New York 
 and the whole United States were occupied 
 with the celebration of the Centennial of Gen- 
 eral Washington's Inaugural. Every journal 
 and magazine was filled with reminiscences of 
 Washington, his family, his career and his 
 every act. The incongruity of the aforemen- 
 tioned advertisement caused outbursts of pro- 
 test all over the land. One article in the 
 Washington Post so aroused the indignant 
 sympathy of Mrs. Margaret Hetzel, in her 
 country home in Fairfax county, Virginia, that 
 she was inspired to write the following letter 
 to the Post on May 6th, 1889. 
 
 " Mr. Editor : The Post of this morning quotes 
 the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph as saying: 
 * Every patriotic man, woman and child in the United 
 States ought to sympathize with and encourage the 
 movement to rescue from neglect and obHvion the 
 grave of the mother of Washington.' 
 
 And so doubtless they do ' sympathize,' but how 
 (30) 
 
MRS. MARGARETTA HETZEL. 
 
 Secretary. 
 
THE WOMAN S MOVEMENT. 3 1 
 
 * encourage the movement to rescue from neglect 
 and oblivion ? ' How bring about the desired re- 
 sult ? 
 
 The writer of this would suggest that the Post 
 announce that every woman, as far as able, shall 
 give one dollar to the proposed monnment, and that 
 The Washington Post act as Treasurer for the 
 fund and acknowledge in its columns daily, any con- 
 tributions thereto received, with the names of the 
 donors. 
 
 How better can the mothers and daughters of 
 this country, in this Centennial year, honor the 
 memory of our Washington, who said: 'AH that I 
 am I owe to my mother,' than by rescuing that 
 mother's grave from oblivion and raising the mon- 
 ument to her hallowed memory? One dollar is 
 herewith enclosed as a beginning for the woman's 
 fund. M. H. 
 
 Clifton, Fairfax county, Va." 
 
 To which the following response was 
 promptly sent : 
 
 " Dear Madam : Your suggestion in regard to 
 raising money by popular subscription for a Mary 
 Washington Monument Fund is a good one, and I 
 thank you for sending it to me. Before commenc- 
 ing any active work, the Post will send a represent- 
 ative to Fredericksburg and ascertain just what is 
 
32 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 necessary to be done and the amount of money re- 
 quired. ******* 
 
 Your letter and the mouey enclosed (^i) will be 
 held until such report is made. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 Frank Hatton." 
 
 Upon reading this letter, Mrs. Hetzel 
 thought that she must lose no time in seeing 
 the Editor, to thank him for his ready response 
 and consult with him in some way to bring it 
 before the people. She went at once to Wash- 
 ington, where he received her with great cor- 
 diality, saying however, that he was about to 
 leave for Chicag-o and would not return before 
 the 31st, when he would be glad to see Mrs. 
 Hetzel and talk over the matter. 
 
 On June 2d, Mrs. Hetzel was in Washing- 
 ton, spending a few days with her friend and 
 cousin, Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, the widow of 
 the Chief Justice. She called at the office of 
 the Post and asked for Mr. Hatton. She was 
 told that Mr. Hatton had not returned from 
 the West, though he had been expected the 
 day before. There seemed to be great anx- 
 iety among the gentlemen at the office, and 
 Mrs. Hetzel surmised that Mr. Hatton was 
 
THE WOMAN S MOVEMENT. 33 
 
 detained by the flood at Johnstown. She was 
 herself unable to return to Virginia, as the 
 floods had made the railroads impassable. 
 All travel was suspended. 
 
 Storm-bound as she was, Mrs. Hetzel told 
 her hostess of her suggestion to the Wash- 
 ington Post to solicit small contributions from 
 the women of the United States for a monu- 
 ment to the mother of Washington. Mrs. 
 Waite warmly favored the idea as a good 
 method of bringing it before the public, but 
 she added; "It cannot be built that way; a 
 few thousand dollars might be raised no douT5t, 
 but never a sum sufficient for that purpose. 
 That can be done only by an organized move- 
 ment; an association with agents in all the 
 States." This idea was discussed with other 
 ladies, among whom v/ere Mrs. Orange Ferris 
 and Miss Louise Swan ; the plan was enlarged 
 upon and adopted, and while the Johnstown 
 flood still raged the National Mary Washing- 
 ton Association was organized. Mrs. Waite 
 was elected President, and Mrs. Hetzel, Sec- 
 retary. Both ladies with characteristic mod- 
 esty objected to taking these offices on the 
 ground of their advancing years and failing 
 3 
 
34 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 health, but the other ladies present insisted 
 that no others could so well fulfill the duties, 
 and they consented to act as President and 
 Secretary pro tern. 
 
 When Mr. Hatton returned fi-om Johnstown 
 where he had been detained by the flood, and 
 whence he wrote one of the most graphic and 
 thrilling descriptions of that terrible disaster 
 ever published, he was informed by Mrs. 
 Hetzel of the organization of the Mary Wash- 
 ington Association. He was much pleased, 
 but he thought it best to solicit no funds at 
 that time, as the Johnstown disaster was en- 
 grossing public attention and sympathy; 
 absorbing the funds of the patriotic and 
 humane to the exclusion of everything else. 
 
 Before leaving Washington, Mrs. Hetzel 
 told an old friend, a leading member of the 
 District bar, of the Mary Washington Asso- 
 ciation, He took a great interest in the sub- 
 ject and offered to draw up the Act of Incor- 
 poration and By-Laws; "If you will give me 
 time, for I am very busy at present," and the 
 Secretary returned to her Virginia home and 
 went to work to enlist Vice Presidents for the 
 forty-five States, as Mr. Blair said: "To write 
 
THE WOMAN S MOVEMENT. 35 
 
 the hundreds and thousands of letters for the 
 object so dear to her." In spite of many dis- 
 couragements, refusals, reproaches and unan- 
 swered letters, she secured several Vice 
 Presidents ready for work before the autumn. 
 
 Meantime attempts were made in other 
 quarters. The Old South Meeting House in 
 Boston, while preparing to celebrate the Cen- 
 tennial of General Washington's visit to that 
 historic place of worship, wished to inaugurate 
 a movement to complete the monument to 
 the Mother of Washington at that celebration. 
 A committee was appointed to inquire into 
 the actual condition of the monument and 
 Mayor Rowe of Fredericksburg sent them all 
 the facts. The meeting was held on October 
 26th and money collected, but when they 
 found how far Congress had already gone in 
 the matter they decided to postpone any 
 further action. The amount collected was 
 afterwards sent to the National Mary Wash- 
 ington Memorial Association. 
 
 Mr. C. Burrows Greene, a broker of New 
 York City and a grandson of Silas Burrows, 
 the generous donor of the old monument, was 
 very anxious to have it restored. With the 
 
36 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 co-operation of another eminent New Yorker 
 he was ready to make a movement for that 
 object, but when they learned that Congress 
 was attempting the work they withdrew, 
 thinking it would be a national disgrace for 
 the government not to complete the unfinished 
 work. 
 
 Among the many discouraging responses 
 received by Mrs. Hetzel was a letter from the 
 daughter of a Senator, declining the position 
 of Vice-President on the ground that the 
 money was going to be appropriated by Con- 
 gress for the purpose, adding that though 
 the bill had failed in 1889 it would certainly 
 pass in 1890. The Secretary said when she 
 read this letter : " If Congress should pass 
 the bill for the monument, we still can erect 
 a memorial to Mary Washington from the 
 Women of the United States," consequently 
 the title given to the Society was the National 
 Mary Washington Memorial Association. 
 
 The ladies of Fredericksburg, alike deter- 
 mined to wait no longer on the dilatory action 
 of Congress, held a meeting at a private 
 residence on October 13th and founded the 
 Fredericksburg Mary Washington Monument 
 
THE WOMAN S MOVEMENT. 37 
 
 Association. On October 15th, an eloquent 
 appeal was written by Mrs. Frances B, Gool- 
 rick and published in the Washington Post of 
 October 31st. Her plan proposed the same 
 method of organization outlined by Mrs. 
 Waite in June and already put in operation 
 by Mrs. Hetzel during the summer. 
 
 An Appeal in Behalf of the Mary 
 Washington Monument. 
 
 " Amidst great pomp and ceremony the corner- 
 stone of the monument to the memory of Mary 
 Washington, the mother of " the father of this Re- 
 public," was laid in 1833. The erection of the 
 monument over the grave of this most illustrious of 
 American women was voluntarily undertaken by a 
 philanthropic and patriotic citizen, Silas Burrows of 
 New York. Mr. Burrows died before its comple- 
 tion. It is now in an unfinished and dilapidated 
 condition. 
 
 " Congress has been again and again appealed to 
 and importuned. Favourable legislation has been 
 promised, but this incomplete monument crumbles 
 and decays. Shall the memory of the mother of 
 the great Washington longer be neglected? In 
 every State of this Union monuments mark with 
 emphasis the veneration with which George Wash- 
 ington is held by a graetful republic, and at the 
 
38 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Capitol of the Nation there is one that towers above 
 all the rest, but nowhere is there recognition made 
 of the mother. Her very grave at this place is 
 marked only by an unsightly pile of marble. Shall 
 this neglect continue? 
 
 " Mrs. Washington was an uncommon woman. 
 It is recorded of her that ' she was of strong will, 
 splendid judgment, untiring energy and without 
 pretension,' and from these elements she molded 
 her great son, taught him to become great, equipped 
 him with attributes essential to greatness. She 
 lived during the Revolutionary War in Fredericks- 
 burg, died and was buried here at the spot she had 
 herself selected for that purpose. Shall the grave 
 of Mary Washington be allowed to remain longer 
 in a condition which is the reminder of forgetful- 
 ness, rather than the gratitude of our people? Re- 
 member that the grave of Washington himself is 
 held as a very Mecca, to which all liberty-loving 
 people can make their pilgrimage, the work of the 
 faithful and devoted women of this land? And it is 
 proposed that an organization shall at once be 
 formed, having for its object the erection of a mon- 
 ument over the grave of George Washington's 
 mother at this place. 
 
 I " Will the women of this Republic respond to 
 this appeal ? Are they not willing to undertake 
 this patriotic work ? 
 
 " To the end that steps may be immediately taken, 
 
THE WOMAN S MOVEMENT. 39 
 
 it is intended to obtain a charter of incorporation of 
 the Mary Washington Memorial Association, to 
 have a president, one vice-president in each State, 
 and other usual and necessary officers, all women. 
 It is also suggested that the ladies of America on 
 February 22, 1890, shall in every State make some 
 organized effort to raise the necessary fundsf] The 
 writer of this requests the paper to give circulation 
 to this appeal, and will be glad to hear from any 
 ladies who desire to take an active interest in this 
 patriotic purpose. 
 
 Mrs. John T. Goolrick, 
 Fredericksburg, Va., Oct. 15, 1889." 
 
 This appeal was published by the Wash- 
 ington Post on October 31st. The same 
 issue had a very eloquent editorial on the 
 subject. Mr. Hatton then opened the col- 
 umns of the Post to subscriptions and con- 
 tributions; a Mary Washington column in 
 each number was devoted to the subject 
 with editorial and contributed matter and 
 accounts of money contributed, beginning 
 with ^200 from the Washington Post, followed 
 by the dollar sent by Mrs. Hetzel in May; 
 $10 from Mrs. Clarkson of Iowa, a donation 
 from Mrs. S. V. White of Brooklyn and con- 
 tributions from many sources ; collections 
 
40 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 were made by friends in die Government 
 offices, and in die private schools, notably by 
 Miss Ellis of the McDonald Ellis School, who 
 so inspired her pupils that they sent a beautiful 
 contribution. The children individually re- 
 sponded, even the newsboys adding their 
 mites. For four months the Mary Washing- 
 ton column headed with her portait appeared 
 in the post, and upwards of a thousand 
 dollars were collected in this manner through 
 Mr. Hatton's energy and generosity. 
 
 On November 8th, the Fredericksburg 
 Mary Washington Monument Association re- 
 ceived its charter. Mrs. James Power Smith 
 was elected President and Mrs. Goolrick first 
 Vice President. On November 25th, a beau- 
 tiful appeal was issued by that Association 
 from the pen of Rev. James Power Smith. 
 
 The National Association did not receive 
 its charter until February 2 2d, 1890, partly 
 because they wished to have the work well 
 started, enough Vice Presidents secured from 
 the States to ensure success, and also because 
 they felt that the 2 2d of February was the 
 best date for the charter. 
 
 A meeting of the National Association was 
 
THE WOMAN S MOVEMENT. 4 1 
 
 held in December at the residence of Mrs. 
 Admiral Lee, the Second Vice President. 
 The meeting was presided over by the Presi- 
 dent, Mrs. Waite. The members present 
 Were, the two Vice Presidents, Mrs. Emory 
 and Mrs. Lee, Mrs, Hetzel, the Secretary, 
 Mrs. Col. Royall of the Executive Committee 
 and three of the Vice Presidents of the States : 
 Mrs. Stewart of Nevada, Mrs. Vance of North 
 Carolina and Mrs. Clifton R. Breckenridge, 
 of Arkansas. 
 
 The Secretary announced the acceptance 
 of several other Vice Presidents, among them 
 Mrs. B. S. Story of Louisiana, Mrs. Governor 
 Dillingham of Vermont, Mrs. Hearst, of Cal- 
 ifornia, Mrs. Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, and 
 Mrs. Grover Cleveland of New York City. 
 The next meeting was held in January, at the 
 residence of Mrs. Waite, and Mrs. Hetzel was 
 instructed to go to Fredericksburg to examine 
 the old monument, ascertain who held the title 
 and obtain an option with a view to purchase. 
 
 On January 15th, 1890, Mrs. Hetzel went 
 to Fredericksburg with W. D. Davidge, Jr. 
 She thus describes the monument; 
 
 " We were met on arriving, by Mrs. Goolrick and 
 
42 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 with her drove immediately to the monument; found 
 it the ruined structure now so familiar to us — by the 
 wood-cuts freely published — standing ten feet square 
 at its base, sixteen in height, on a commanding em- 
 inence in a field of stunted briars; a melancholy 
 spectacle, wholly without protection, the decayed, 
 half fallen 'worm fence' near affording none. The 
 design was an elaborate one, but defaced by time, 
 riddled by bullets, chipped by vandals, weather 
 beaten, broken and incomplete. What is left of the 
 monument appeals overwhelmingly to every senti- 
 ment of patriotism." 
 
 Thence they drove to the Court House to 
 see the w^ill of the noble mother; then called 
 upon the Judge of the highest Court of the 
 district, to v^^hom Mrs. Hetzel presented her 
 credentials and instructions. He gave assur- 
 ance that a perfect legal title could be given 
 to the land, although that the situation v^as 
 such — a public avenue having been opened 
 by the city out to, and including the monu- 
 ment — that no one could then give an option 
 on it. The legal adviser of the Fredericks- 
 burg Association being called upon, gave the 
 same assurance and information. He prom- 
 ised to prepare an abstract of title and forward 
 it to Washington immediately, and also to see 
 
THE WOMAN S MOVEMENT. 43 
 
 the Mayor of the city — who was out of town 
 — on his return, and take steps to have the 
 desire of the National Association to purchase 
 the property laid before the city government. 
 Mrs. Hetzel, grateful for the kind reception 
 and facilities afforded her, returned to Wash- 
 ington to present her report. A meeting was 
 called for January 25th to receive the report; 
 the President of the Fredericksburg Associa- 
 tion and the other officers were invited to 
 attend. 
 
 The meeting was held at the residence of 
 Mrs. Lee, 1625 Pennsylvania Avenue. Mrs. 
 Lee opened the meeting and the Secretary 
 read the report of her mission to Fredericks- 
 burg ; this report was being discussed when 
 Mrs. James Power Smith, the President of the 
 Fredericksburg Association, having just ar- 
 rived in Washington, entered and was intro- 
 duced by Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Hetzel. 
 
 After being warmly welcomed, Mrs. Smith 
 produced a deed from the Mayor of Freder- 
 icksburg of the monnment lot and the land 
 upon which it stood, to the Fredericksburg 
 Mary Washington Association, also the deed 
 of the adjoining lot from G. W. Shepherd, to 
 
44 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 the same Society, both executed the day 
 previous. 
 
 Objections were made by the Vice Presi- 
 dents of States, and others present, to the 
 National Association undertaking to erect a 
 monument upon land which did not belong to 
 them and which they could not control. Mrs. 
 Stewart — Mrs. Clifton R. Brecken ridge and 
 Mrs. Vance, all saying that they could make 
 no collections in their States for any but a 
 National object. A proposition was made 
 that the land should be conveyed to the 
 National Association on conditions. Mrs. 
 Smith had no authority to accept without con- 
 sultation, and the meeting adjourned. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 THE INCORPORATION. 
 
 On February 22nd, 1890, the National Mary 
 Washington Memorial Association received 
 its charter. An article in the Washington 
 Post thus describes the meeting : 
 
 " Washington's Birthday was celebrated by an 
 important meeting of that band of patriotic women 
 who, about six months ago, organized themselves 
 into an association for the purpose of erecting a 
 monument to Washington's mother, and maintain- 
 ing and preserving the same in good order. The 
 meeting was presided over by the President of the 
 Association, Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, the widow of 
 the late Chief Justice of the United States, and Mrs. 
 Margaret Hetzel of Virginia acted as Secretary. 
 
 " The meeting was for the purpose of formally 
 adopting the charter prepared by Walter D. Davidge 
 of this city, making the association a perpetual one, 
 and availing itself of the privileges which the gen- 
 eral incorporation laws of the District of Columbia 
 give. 
 
 " The certificate of incorporation was approved, 
 executed and acknowledged by the Executive Com- 
 (45) 
 
46 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 mittee of the old Association and given the name of 
 the corporation as : ' The National Mary Washing- 
 ton Memorial Association.' It states that the cor- 
 poration is organized for the term of looo years 
 from February 22nd, 1890, and that the particular 
 objects of the society are the erection of a suitable 
 monument to Mary, the Mother of Washington, in- 
 cluding the acquisition of such ground as may be 
 proper and the improvement thereof, and the main- 
 tainenance and preservation in good order of said 
 monument with the improvements; and that the 
 number of managers for the first year is ten. 
 
 " The names of the Executive Committee who 
 executed the charter are: Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee, Mrs. Matilda W. Emory, 
 Mrs. Margaretta Hetzel and Miss Maude Lee 
 Davidge. 
 
 " The incorporators also adopted a device for a 
 seal, containing in the center the head of Mary 
 Washington and around the circle the name of the 
 society and the date of organization. They also 
 adopted a membership badge of blue satin with the 
 head of Mary Washington in silver and the initial 
 letters of the society, N. M. W. M. A. 
 
 ".The officers of the old organization were elected 
 to the corresponding positions in the new one, 
 namely: Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, President, Mrs. 
 Margaret Hetzel, Secretary, and Mr. E. Francis 
 Riggs, Treasurer. 
 
THE INCORPORATION. 47 
 
 " By-laws were adopted, and by one of them the 
 title to the real estate of the corporation is to be held 
 in trust for its use by a board of trustees, consisting o 
 the President of the United States for the time be- 
 ing, the Chief Justice of the United States for the 
 time being and the Governor of the State of 
 Virginia, for the time being. 
 
 " A Board of Managers for the first year was 
 then elected, consisting of the five ladies of the 
 Executive Commitee, the|;President of the Uuited 
 States, [ex-officio], the Chief Justice of the United 
 States [ex-officio], the Governor of Virginia [ex- 
 officio], and Messrs. E. Francis Riggs and Blair Lee. 
 
 " It is designed to appoint a Vice-President for 
 each and every State, to raise and take charge of 
 collections and the enrollment of members; twenty- 
 five of whom have been already heard from and 
 will accept the duty. Among them are Mrs, 
 Grover Cleveland, Mrs, Senator Blair, Mrs. Senator 
 McPherson, Mrs. Senator Stewart, Mrs. Senator 
 Hearst, Mrs. Senator Faulkner and Mrs. Thomas 
 F. Bayard." 
 
 Mrs, Cleveland, greatly to the regret of 
 the Board, resigned her office of Vice-Presi- 
 dent for New York City in the spring, and 
 Mrs, Bayard also wrote that she was unable 
 to serve and recommended Mrs. Senator 
 Gray as Vice-President for Delaware, 
 
48 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 After devoting the morning of February 
 22, 1890, to the Act of Incorporation, the 
 Board attended that evening a beautifnl re- 
 ception, for the benefit of the Mary Washing- 
 ton Monument, given by the Washington 
 Press Association, in Miss Ransom's Studio, 
 which she kindly lent for the occasion. It 
 was a brilliant affair and was of great service 
 in calling attention to the subject 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 THE INCORPORATORS. 
 
 A SLIGHT sketch of the women who founded 
 this movement would not be out of place here. 
 All but one were aged women, but with the 
 energy and enthusiasm of youth they aroused 
 themselves to honor the memory of one of 
 their sisterhood. 
 
 Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, the President, was 
 a Miss Warner of Connecticut, a descendant 
 of many historic families of the old Connecti- 
 cut River stock ; both she and her distin- 
 tinguished husband being great-grandchildren 
 of Colonel Samuel Selden of the Revolution. 
 
 Her early years were spent in Essex and 
 Lynn, Conn. She married the future Chief 
 Justice whrn he was a rising young lawyer, 
 and went with him to Ohio, where he soon 
 achieved distinction in his profession. She 
 came to Washington when her husband was 
 made Chief Justice and she resided there until 
 her death in 1896. 
 
 In Ohio as well as in Washington, she de- 
 4 (49) 
 
50 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 voted much of her time to patriotic and char- 
 itable work. She was active in raising money 
 for the Mount Vernon Association in i860; 
 later, when in Washington, she was one of 
 the managers of the Epiphany Church Home 
 and acting President of that noble Society, 
 known as the Blue Anchor, the Woman's 
 Auxiliary of the Life Saving Service. Her 
 experience in the Mount Vernon Association 
 gave her the idea of organization, and her 
 work in the Blue Anchor Society brought her 
 in correspondence and association with gifted 
 and philanthropic women all over the country, 
 from the Atlantic seaboard to the Gulf and 
 the distant Pacific, 
 
 When the idea of the Woman's Movement 
 to restore the tomb of Mary Washington was 
 first suggested to her, she showed such knowl- 
 edge of the best methods that she was at once 
 elected President pro tem., and six months 
 after, when the charter was issued. President. 
 
 How well she fulfiled the duties of her of- 
 fice will be told in these pages. 
 
 Mrs. Matilda W. Emory, long noted as one 
 of the most brilliant and intellectual of the 
 leaders of Washington Society, was a daugh- 
 
THE INCORPORATORS. 5 1 
 
 ter of Richard Bache and Sophia Dallas. 
 Her father, Richard Bache, was the son of 
 Sally Franklin Bache and the grandson ot 
 Benjamin Franklin ; her mother, Sophia Dal- 
 las, was the daughter of Alexander Dallas, 
 Cabinet Minister under Jefferson, and sister 
 of George M. Dallas, Vice-President, States- 
 man, Diplomatist. Mrs. Emory inherited the 
 strong mental and moral force of the Franklins 
 and the Dallases. The talent of the Baches 
 was proverbial in Washington. Her eldest 
 brother. Professor A. Dallas Bache, was for 
 many years Superintendent nf the Coast Snr- 
 vey ; her eldest sister was the wife of Robert 
 J, Walker, lawyer, statesman, and Secretary 
 of the Treasury; her husband. General Emory, 
 was an officer of distinction, as were many 
 others, brothers and brothers-in-law. The 
 sons were all distinguished and the daughters 
 were the wives of distinguished men. 
 
 Mrs. Emory was an active member of St. 
 John's Church and one of the Board of Man- 
 agers of St. John's Orphanage. Her clear 
 intellect, ready wit and experience made her 
 advice and counsel of the greatest value to 
 the Incorporators and Directors, 
 
52 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee, the wife of 
 Admiral S. Phillips Lee, was the daughter of 
 Francis P. Blair and the sister of Montgomery 
 Blair and Francis P. Blair, Jr. She has been 
 surrounded all her life by great minds. She 
 remembers General Jackson as the intimate 
 friend of her father, whose beautiful home, 
 "Silver Spring" near Washington was a 
 favorite retreat and resting place for the 
 statesmen and literati, Mrs. Lee served with 
 Mrs. Dolly Madison on the Board of the 
 Washington City Orphan Asylum, of which 
 institution she has been President for many 
 years. 
 
 She took hold of the Mary Washington 
 cause with great enthusiasm, always ready 
 with^assistance and advice, always eminently 
 practical and clear headed. She is now 
 President of the Society. 
 
 Miss Maude Lee Davidge is the daughter 
 of one of the most eloquent and noted mem- 
 bers of the Washington Bar, Mr. Walter D. 
 Davidge. Her mother was the beautiful Miss 
 Anna Washington, a descendant of Colonel 
 Bailey Washington, the father of the re- 
 nowned Colonel William Washington, the 
 
THE INCORPORATORS. 53 
 
 hero of the Cowpens. She Is also a de- 
 scendant of Richard Bland Lee, the brother 
 of Light Horse Harry and a cousin of Richard 
 Henry Lee, the Signer, from whom Admiral 
 Lee is descended. 
 
 Mrs. Margaretta Hetzel, Secretary of the 
 Association, was a cousin of Mrs. Waite, the 
 President. She was born on the plantation 
 of Teviotdale, on the island of St. Vincent, 
 West Indies, in 1815. Her father, Captain 
 Morrison Jack, was a West India planter of 
 Scottish family; he married Roxanna Selden 
 of Lyme, Connecticut. Before her daughter 
 Margaretta was a year old, Mrs. Jack returned 
 with her two little girls to her old home on 
 the Connecticut River, on account of the 
 troubled state of the islands. Captain Jack 
 died soon after and Margaretta's early days 
 were spent at the home of her grandfather, 
 Calvin Selden, on the banks of the Connecti- 
 cut. When still quite a child she was sent to 
 school at New Haven. She was present at 
 a reception to Lafayette and always remem- 
 bered how the hero took her by the hand. 
 
 At the age of twelve Margaretta went to 
 Rochester, N. Y., with her uncle and adopted 
 
54 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 father, Judge Samuel Lee Selden. There 
 she grew to womanhood and married Lieu- 
 tenant A. Riviere Hetzel of the United States 
 Army. The early part of her married lite 
 was spent in Lewes, Delaware, where Lieu- 
 tenant Hetzel was engaged in constructing 
 the Delaware Breakwater. In 1836, Cap- 
 tain Hetzel was ordered to Tennessee to 
 assist General Scott in enforcing- President 
 Jackson's treaty with the Cherokees. Mrs. 
 Hetzel, with her infant son, joined him in 
 1837, ^^^ spent several months in the Indian 
 Country. In 1838, Captain Hetzel was ap- 
 pointed Assistant Quartermaster General to 
 General Jesup, the hero of 181 2. For many 
 years she was stationed in Washington, D. C, 
 and there her daughters were born. Mrs. 
 Hetzel's reminiscences of her early days in 
 Washington were very interesting. She 
 would tell of General Jackson's parties, of 
 Mr. Van Buren's levees and Mr. Tyler's re- 
 ceptions. She was on the steamer Princeton 
 when the fearful accident occured which 
 hurried so many of the Nation's chosen into 
 eternity. 
 
 During the Mexican War General Scott 
 
THE INCORPORATORS. 55 
 
 appointed Captain Hetzel his Quartermaster 
 General, He went with the army to Mexico. 
 The Louisville Journal thus tells of his service: 
 " He ororanized the means at Vera Cruz which 
 enabled General Scott to achieve a series of 
 splendid victories. It was in Mexico that he 
 contracted the disease which deprived him of 
 life and the army of the most valuable ser- 
 vice." He died on July 20th, 1847, at Louis- 
 ville, on his way home. 
 
 After her husband's death Mrs. Hetzel 
 went with her children to Judge Selden's 
 home in Rochester, but after a few years they 
 returned to Washington. In 1852 Mrs. 
 Hetzel was the means of securing a per- 
 manent pension to the widows of Army 
 officers. Her kind friend Senator George 
 W. Jones of Iowa sent her a list of the Army 
 widows; Mrs. Hetzel wrote a letter to every 
 one, which caused each widow to interest her 
 Representative in Congress and the bill was 
 passed, aided by the active work of General 
 Jones, Hon John P. Hale and other dis- 
 tinguished Senators and Congressmen. 
 
 It was thirty years after that, that Mrs. 
 Hetzel saw the advertisement that impelled 
 
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 her to propose that the women of the United 
 States should restore the tomb of Mary 
 Washington and to send the dollar to Mr. 
 Hatton to start the fund. 
 
MRS. M. V. TERHUNE.I 
 
 ^MARION HaRLAND) 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 MARION HARLAND AND THE HOME-MAKER. 
 
 The February number of the Home- Maker 
 for 1890 contains an eloquent appeal from 
 Marion Harland, then editor. For more 
 than a year she had been striving to effect 
 some plan of restoration of the Monument. 
 While visiting Fredericksburg in the autumn 
 of 1887 she had been distressed and indig- 
 nant at the condition of the old monument, 
 which she thus describes: 
 
 " To-day the tourist to the battle fields of Freder- 
 icksburg strayed upon a neglected enclosure, without 
 the gray walls of which is the unfinished memorial 
 sketched for this paper. Cattle graze around the 
 base : it is discolored by time and weather; the 
 relic-hunter's hammer has been busy with the 
 chiseled edges ; the stately shaft that should bear 
 aloft the bust of the sleeper's august son and the 
 national emblem, lies prone and half buried in the 
 earth. * * * * 
 
 " The sun shines upon no sadder ruin in the 
 length and breadth of our land ; winter snows can- 
 (57) 
 
58 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 not cloak this disgrace to our nation, the ghastly 
 satire upon the ingratitude of repubhcs." 
 
 In October 1889, in anticipation of this ap- 
 peal, the Home- Maker published a biograph- 
 ical sketch of Mary, the mother of Washing- 
 ton^ by the Reverned James Smith Power of 
 Fredericksburg, Virginia. 
 
 Books were opened at the office of the 
 Home-Maker for the registration of contribu- 
 tions to the cause. For six months after date, 
 seventy-five cents out of every annual sub- 
 scription of Two Dollars to the Home-Maker, 
 accompanied by the words " For Mary Wash- 
 ington Monument" were pledged to go 
 directly to the object. 
 
 Mrs. Terhune quoted Dr. Smith in saying: 
 " We will take up the scattered, moss covered 
 stones that lie around the broken column, 
 and build some modest, yet enduring memo- 
 rial on the banks of her beloved Rappa- 
 hannock, to tell of a nation's gratitude and 
 to perpetuate the virtue of Mary, the mother 
 of Washington." 
 
 In March 1890, Mr. Jack and Mr. Wood- 
 ard, two Western members of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic, wrote the Fredericks- 
 
THE HOME-MAKER. 59 
 
 burg Association proposing to furnish a stone 
 for the base of the monument, — a soHd base, 
 ten feet square, with a shaft fifteen hands 
 high, the completed monument to cost ^looo. 
 
 Mrs, James Power Smith, then President 
 of the Fredericksburg Association, favored 
 this proposition because of the soHd character 
 of the design, saying that "the old monu- 
 ment was composed of too many small stones 
 which had led largely to its present condition." 
 
 The litde monument was opposed by 
 Mayor Rowe and was finally declined. The 
 Fredericksburo- Free Lance sustained the 
 Mayor in an editorial saying that the Nation 
 should be represented in the fund applied. 
 an urged their Representatives to induce 
 Congress to make a sufficient appropriation. 
 
 In April of the same year, a bazaar was 
 given by the ladies of the Fredericksburg 
 Monument Association. A series of enter- 
 tainments, a little play, a minuet, netted $450, 
 which enabled the Association to purchase 
 additional land extending the proposed park 
 to five acres. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 
 
 The first meetino- of the Board of Directors 
 of the National Mar)- Washington Memorial 
 Association, after the Incorporation, was held 
 in the Green Room of the White House, 
 May 13th, 1 89 1, the anniversary of the settle- 
 ment of Jamestown — though the members 
 thought little of Jamestown, or of anything 
 else but Mary Washington and her proposed 
 monument. 
 
 The Board was cordially welcomed by^vlrs. 
 Harrison, who expressed great interest in the 
 object. Mrs. Waite. jNIrs. Emor)', Mrs. 
 Hetzel and Miss Davidae. with Messrs. 
 Reginald Fendall and Blair Lee, represented 
 the Board of Directors. The Vice-Presi- 
 dents of States present were the wives ol 
 Senators Blair, Vance. Cockrell, Dolph and 
 Squire ; Mrs. Clifton R. Breckenridge of 
 Arkansas, Mrs. Reyburn of Penns3lvania, 
 Mrs. Hernando D. Money of .Mississippi, 
 Mrs. Mar)- Washington Keyser of Mar}-- 
 (60) 
 
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 6 1 
 
 land and Miss Pendleton of Philadelphia. 
 A few minutes after four, President Harri- 
 son called the meeting to order saying: "I 
 desire to express the interest I feel in the 
 work and my willingness to co-operate in 
 every way possible. I have no doubt you 
 will all prove efficient in carrying out the 
 work." 
 
 Owing to press of business the President 
 was compelled to leave the meeting before 
 the close and Chief Justice Fuller was called 
 to the chair. 
 
 Mr. Reginald Fendall presented to the 
 meeting the certificate of Incorporation and 
 the by-laws of the association. The election 
 of three officers, a Vice-President, a Secretary, 
 and a Treasurer was then held and resulted 
 in the election of Mrs. Waite as Vice-Presi- 
 dent, of Mrs. Hetzel as Secretary and of Mr. 
 E. Francis Riggs as Treasurer. 
 
 Mrs. Waite read a letter which she had 
 received from Mrs. James Power Smith, 
 the President of the Fredericksburg Mary 
 Washington association, congratulating the 
 National association on the good work it 
 was doing. The presiding officer, Chief 
 
62 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Justice Fuller, appointed Mr. Reginald Fen- 
 dall, Mrs. Amelia C. Waite and Mrs. Henry 
 S. Blair a committee to confer with the 
 Fredericksburg Association and to report at 
 the next meeting of the Board. 
 
 On June 17th Mrs. James Power Smith, 
 Mrs. V. M. Fleming, Mrs. Thompson and 
 Hon. William A. Litde Jr., of Fredericksburg 
 came to Washington to confer with the Board. 
 
 The meetinor was held at the house of 
 Mrs. Emory. Neither Mrs. Waite nor Mrs. 
 Hetzel was present ; Mrs. Waite having 
 left Washington for a European tour and 
 Mrs. Hetzel being dangerously ill at her 
 home in Virginia. 
 
 Mrs. Emory, always a charming hostess, 
 welcomed the Fredericksburg delegation, 
 assisted by Mrs. Blair, Mrs. Norton, Miss 
 Davidge and Mr. Blair Lee. 
 
 The Fredericksburg Committee submitted a 
 proposition to convey the monument and land 
 to the National Association on condition that 
 a suitable monument should be built thereon, 
 to begin not later than February 22nd, 1894. 
 
 The meeting adjourned, the conditions to 
 be laid before the National Association. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 FIRST APPEAL OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. 
 
 The Secretary of the National Mary Wash- 
 ington Memorial Association was confined to 
 her bed with a severe and dangerous illness 
 during the months of June and July 1890. 
 As soon as she was able to sit up and the 
 trained nurse and physician had taken leave, 
 she prepared to issue an appeal to the 
 women of the United States. She was 
 assisted in writing it by Mrs. Claudia B. 
 Money, Vice-President for Mississippi, wife 
 of Hon. Hernando D. Money, then Repre- 
 sentative, now United States Senator. 
 
 It was not until August that Mrs. Hetzel 
 was well enough to take the appeal to Wash- 
 ington to receive the approval of the Board 
 and place it in the hands of the printer. One 
 member objected to issuing it at that time 
 because a deed had not been granted to the 
 National Association ; Mrs. Hetzel considered 
 the proposition of the Fredericksburg Associ- 
 ation a sufficient guarantee; the deed could 
 (63) 
 
64 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 not be conveyed at the time, as Mrs. Waite 
 was absent in Europe, and Mrs. Hetzel 
 thought that no time should be lost in bring- 
 ing the matter before the country. The 
 appeal was approved by a majority of the 
 Board. Mrs. Lee lett her country home. 
 Silver Spring; and met the other members in 
 Washington. Fifty thousand copies were 
 printed and several thousand were issued in 
 September. 
 
 To THE Women of the United States this 
 Appeal is Addressed. 
 
 June, 1890, 
 
 The grave of Mary, the Mother of Washing- 
 ton, lies neglected and desolate ; a monument begun 
 there, but never completed, stands blackened and 
 dilapidated. We would rescue from totnl oblivion 
 the name of a woman whose memory should be hal- 
 lowed in every American home, and pay a national 
 tribute to her noble motherhaod by erecting a mon- 
 ument in her honor. 
 
 This is a "woman's movement," says the first cir- 
 cular issued, " national in its character, for raising 
 the needed sum by such small contributions that no 
 woman in the land need be deprived of the privilege 
 of aiding a cause that must appeal to the heart of 
 every mother and daughter in America." 
 
THE FIRST APPEAL. 65 
 
 This will be the first monument ever erected by 
 women to a woman. Mary Washington was of a 
 heroic nature, patriotic soul, tender spirit, and un- 
 common mental gifts. She was the finest type of 
 the brave and devoted women who ruled the house- 
 holds of the Colonies in those days when our free- 
 dom trembled in the balance. Do we not stand 
 reproached before the world ? Should we not make 
 ample atonement for the neglect under which has 
 lain for long years the memory of the mother of the 
 greatest hero and patriot " that adorns the annals of 
 history ?" It is a sad spot, that desolated grave where 
 has rested for a hundred years, amid tangled masses 
 of humble weeds and grass, the noble woman so 
 beloved and revered by her noble son, who proudly 
 declared, " I attribute my success in life to the 
 moral, intellectual, and physical education which I 
 received from my mother." Should not this touch 
 the hearts of our women and make them cling 
 tenderly to her memory as a proud heritage ? A 
 precious memorial will be the monument they shall 
 place above her sacred dust, and consecrated the 
 ground where she reposes. 
 
 The women of America should be "heart-moved 
 as by a voice of a trumphet" when this appeal 
 comes to them. To her we are indebted that 
 George Washington became a patriotic American 
 citizen. To her is due that grand character, cast in 
 such heroic mould, that union of gigantic energy, 
 5 
 
66 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 indomitable resolution, and dauntless courage which 
 marked him the first of all his countrymen. It 
 was she who kindled noble principles and purposes 
 in his soul. At her side his genius budded and 
 expanded. But for her wisdom and spirit he 
 would have passed his youth upon the deck of a 
 British man-of-war, trained for English service, and 
 the sword which cleft the way to our victory would 
 have been drawn for our oppressor. 
 
 Women are giving their time and energies to 
 building monuments to men. Their success is 
 phenomenal. But the time has come when there 
 must be commemorated in enduring marble the 
 virtues of a woman, who shall be always to them 
 the paragon of womanly excellence. Nothing is 
 left undone to raise to a higher plane in this and 
 foreign countries the memory of George Washing- 
 ton ; but for years this beloved and faithful-hearted 
 mother, whose protest against the plans of others 
 to give him to England made him ours forever, 
 has but a dilapidated ruin to mark her grave. 
 
 Behind the gleaming marble the artist stands pro- 
 claiming his immortal workmanship. What sculp- 
 tor can point to that of Mary Washington ? It was 
 she who moulded into grand symmetrical proportions 
 this character so nearly perfect — it was she who 
 gave him to his country. 
 
 Women of America, marshal your forces ! Be- 
 gin the work with energies quickened by the 
 thought that she is yours ! 
 
THE FIRST APPEAL. 67 
 
 Let every one of her sex, whatever her condition, 
 come with her contribution. She who commands 
 millions, will she not give thousands? She who by 
 arduous daily toil earns a pittance, may she not 
 cheerfully add her mite. 
 
 We would not that this monument be built by a 
 few generous men and women alone ; we want the 
 pennies of the poor as well as the dollars of the rich. 
 We would have every woman to share in the proud 
 privilege of associating herself by her contribution 
 in the work of erecting an imperishable memorial 
 to that epitome of womanly virtues and graces — 
 Mary, the mother of our beloved Washington. 
 
 This Appeal comes to you from The National 
 Mary Washington Memorial Association, char- 
 tered February 22, 1890, in the District of Colum- 
 bia. 
 
 TRUSTEES. 
 
 Hon. Benjamin Harrison, 
 
 President of the United States {Ex-officio). 
 Hon. Melville W. Fuller, 
 
 Chief-Justice of the United States [Ex officio). 
 Hon. Philip W. McKinney, 
 
 Governor of Virginia {Ex-offido). 
 
 lady managers, 
 
 (and incorporators). 
 
 President. 
 
 Mrs. Amelia C. Waite. 
 
 First Vice-President. 
 
 Mrs. Matilda W. Emory. 
 
68 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Second Vice-President. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee. 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Hetzel. 
 
 Miss Maud Lee Davidge. 
 
 DIRECTORS, 
 The President of the United States [Ex-officio). 
 The Chief-Justice of the United States {Ex-officio). 
 The Governor of the State of Virginia [Ex-officio). 
 
 Vice-President. 
 
 Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, 
 
 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington. 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Hetzel, 
 
 Clifton Station, Va. 
 Treasurer. 
 
 E. Francis Riggs, 
 
 Riggs' Bank, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Mrs. Matilda W. Emory, 
 
 1718 H Street, Washington, D. C. 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee, 
 
 1653 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D. C. 
 
 Miss Maud Lee Davidge, 
 
 1624 H Street, Washington, D. C. 
 Mr. Reginald Fendall, 
 
 344 D Street, Washington, D. C. 
 Mr. Blair Lee, 
 
 344 D Street, Washington, D. C. 
 
 A Vice-President to be appointed in each State, 
 whose duty it shall be to organize branch associa- 
 tions in her State, and adopt such measures as she 
 may deem expedient to procure funds for the erec- 
 tion of this monument, and for its future care and 
 preservation ; also to secure the largest enrollment 
 of members possible and forward the rolls of names 
 
THE FIRST APPEAL. 69 
 
 with the sums contributed to the Secretary of the 
 National Association for permanent record. 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENTS OF STATES. 
 
 Mrs. Senator Blair, New Hampshire. 
 
 Mrs. Governor Dillingham, Vermont. 
 
 Mrs. Roger Wolcott, Massachusetts. 
 
 Mrs. Burrows, Rhode Island. 
 
 Mrs. Nicholas Beach, Connecticut. 
 
 Mrs. Senator McPherson, New Jersey. 
 
 Miss Charlotte Pendleton, Philadelphia. 
 
 Mrs. Senator Gray, . . . Delaware. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Washington Keyser, Maryland. 
 
 Mrs. Senator Faulkner, ..... . . West Virginia. 
 
 Mrs. Judge GooLRiCK, Virginia. 
 
 Mrs. Senator Vance, North Carolina. 
 
 Mrs. John W. Lewis, ... South Carolina. 
 
 Miss Wheeler, Alabama. 
 
 Mrs. Claudia B. Money, Mississippi. 
 
 Mrs. J. Washington Story, , , Louisiana. 
 
 Mrs. Senator Reagan, Texas. 
 
 Mrs. Clifton R. Breckenridge, Arkansas. 
 
 Mrs, Mary B. Washington, Tennessee. 
 
 Mrs. D. Mead Massie, Ohio. 
 
 Mrs. Senator Cockrell, ... Missouri. 
 
 Mrs. James S. Clarkson, Iowa. 
 
 Mrs. Lyman Trumbull, Illinois. 
 
 Mrs. Senator Stewart, . . Nevada. 
 
 Mrs. Senator Hearst , California. 
 
 Mrs. Senator Dolph, Oregon. 
 
 Mrs. Senator Squire, Washington. 
 
 MARGARET HETZEL, Sec'y. N. M. W. M. A. 
 
THE DAUGHTERS. 7 1 
 
 Eugenia Washington, Mrs. Flora Adams 
 Darling, Mrs. Ellen Hardin Walworth, Mrs. 
 M. M. Hallowell, Miss Susan Riviere Hetzel, 
 Mrs. Margaretta Hetzel, Mrs. Mary V. E. 
 Cabell, Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, Mrs. Alice 
 Morrow Clarke, Mrs. Ada P. Kimberly, Miss 
 Mary Desha, Professor G. B, Goode, Pro- 
 fessor W. C. Winlock, Mr. W. O. McDowell, 
 Mr. Wilson L. Gill, Mrs. Aurelia Hadley 
 Mohl, Miss Floride P. Cunningham, Miss 
 Caroline L. Ransom, Mrs. Emily Lee Sher- 
 wood, Mrs. Harriet Lincoln Coolidge, Mrs. 
 Jennie D. Garrison and Pauline McDowell. 
 
 After the Constitution, which had already 
 been considered by the three Founders, had 
 been submitted and approved; after Mrs. 
 Caroline Scott Harrison had been elected 
 President General and other offices had been 
 filled, Miss Desha offered the following reso- 
 lution : 
 
 " That we should initiate that important part of 
 the work, ' the securing and preserving the historical 
 spots of America and the erection thereon of suita- 
 ble monuments to perpetuate the memories of the 
 heroic deeds of the men and women who aided the 
 Revolution and created constitutional government 
 in America ' by undertaking to do what we can to- 
 
72 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 wards completing the monument to the memory of 
 Mary Washington, and we hereby call upon every 
 patriot to send in a contribution large or small for 
 this purpose." 
 
 The resolution was passed unanimously, 
 after which one of the ladies present an- 
 nounced that the Secretary of the Mary 
 Washington Memorial Association, Mrs. 
 Margaretta Hetzel was present. The Secre- 
 tary, who had been taken entirely by surprise 
 could only rise and bow her acknowledge- 
 ments to the welcome and congratulations 
 extended her. 
 
 Mrs. Waite joined the Daughters of the 
 American Revolution on her return from 
 Europe. Her number was 48. Mrs. Emory 
 and Mrs. Lee both joined during the winter 
 of 1892. Mrs. Lee was one of the most 
 efficient of the early members of the infant 
 society, so soon to become a great associa- 
 tion. She was elected Regent of the Mary 
 Washington Chapter at its organization, and 
 still holds the office in 1901. 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING. 
 
 In January 189T the National Mary Wash- 
 ington Memorial Association proposed that 
 the Frederickburg Monument Association 
 should give to the Trustees of the National 
 Association, i. e., the President of the United 
 States, ex-officio, the Chief Justice of the 
 United States, ex-officio, and the Governor of 
 Virginia, ex-officio, a deed of conveyance of 
 the Mary Washington Monument lot condi- 
 tional upon the National Association erecting a 
 suitable monument over the grave of Mary 
 Washington, to be begun not later than the 
 22nd of February, 1894. In case of failure 
 to do so "the title shall revert to the present 
 owners." These conditions were accepted 
 by the Fredericksburg Association. 
 
 The first donation sent in after the Appeal 
 was issued was ^12 from Mississippi, collected 
 by Mrs. Campbell of Jackson, through Mrs. 
 Money. 
 
 On the 2 1 St of February, 1891, ($500) five 
 (73) 
 
74 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 hundred dollars were presented by Mr. 
 George W. Childs through Hon. Frank 
 Hatton. 
 
 On the next day the 22nd, at the first 
 Annual Meeting, Mrs, Waite presented the 
 following report: 
 
 " We, as members and officers of the National 
 Mary Washington Memorial Association, have come 
 together for our annual meeting, and to review the 
 work of the past year. While the actual showing 
 is not great, I feel we have reason to be encouraged. 
 It is much to organize and set in motion the ma- 
 chinery for work and enterprise. There has been 
 an immense amount of correspondence, printing, 
 circulating of pamphlets, &c., as well as innumerable 
 interviews and consultations. 
 
 " We have tried to secure vice-presidents in every 
 State and Territory of the Union. While in some 
 States we have as yet been unsuccessful, in most 
 instances we have representatives, and we hope ere 
 long to have good working agents and favourable 
 reports from every available point. So far, much of 
 the money received has been expended in prelimi- 
 nary work. We have printed and circulated 2,000 
 copies of our by-laws and 30,000 circulars, calling 
 attention to our work and inviting co-operation. 
 The amount of postage which all this required was 
 necessarily large. There has been no charge for 
 
THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING. 75 
 
 time or labour, and the necessary expenses have 
 been cut down as close as possible, consistent with 
 the proper accomplishment of the work. 
 
 " We have received cordial replies from the Vice- 
 Presidents of twenty-seven States, many of whom 
 have commenced work, but have not yet sent in 
 their contributions, wishing doubtless to present 
 their full contributions at one time. 
 
 ****** 
 
 "While all the officers have worked well and 
 faithfully, it seems but right that we should express 
 our sincere gratitude to our Secretary, who has been 
 so untiringly devoted to the work. She has been 
 unceasing in her efforts, never losing faith, and in- 
 spiring others through her enthusiasm. 
 
 " Amelia C. Waite, President." 
 
 The Secretary followed with a report in 
 which she alluded to her difficulty in securing 
 Vice-Presidents in these words: 
 
 " Our great distance from many of the States and 
 slight acquaintance with their people; the many 
 difficulties when a selection having been made, we 
 find that from ill health or other causes they were 
 unable to undertake the work, made progress slow, 
 and many have been our disappointments owing to 
 ladies accepting and afterwards declining." 
 
 After the meeting however, the contribu- 
 tions began to come in. 
 
RESPONSES FROM THE STATES. 77 
 
 New Orleans in May, 1890, aided by Mrs. 
 Charles Conrad, Mrs. William Preston John- 
 ston, Miss Mildred Lee and others. They 
 resolved to have the Carnival Ball of 1891 a 
 Colonial Ball in honour of Mary Washington. 
 On February loth the ball took place and 
 the New Orleans daily papers thus describe it : 
 
 " The National Mary Washington Memorial Ball, 
 given at Odd Fellows Hall, was one of the most 
 beautifnl entertainments of the kind ever held in 
 New Orleans. The ladies under whose manage- 
 ment the ball was given, were untiring in their 
 efforts, and the result was a financial and brilliant 
 social success. The hall was beautifully decorated 
 with palms, ferns, palmettoes and other potted 
 plants, the windows and chandelliers were draped 
 with the colonial colours, blue and yellow. A fine 
 band was in attendance, and discoursed delightful 
 music before the formal opening of the ball by the 
 minuet. About ten o'clock the door of the dining 
 room opened, and those participating in the grand 
 march and minuet entered as the band played the 
 ' Washington March.' First came a detachment of 
 the Continental Guards in full uniform escorting 
 General Washington, who was impersonated by 
 Mr. Gus. A. Breaux, and Martha Washington in 
 the person of Mrs. Benjamin S. Story, a descendant 
 of the Washington family. They were followed by 
 
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 twenty-four young ladies and gentlemen, each 
 dressed to represent some prominent character of 
 the colonial days. When the march was concluded 
 and the floor cleared the couples went through the 
 figures of the minuet. Miss Gretchen MuUer, as 
 Mrs. Jefferson, her ancestress, led the minuet. 
 Miss Muller was the personification of grace, and 
 her dancing elicited comments of universal admira- 
 tion. Her costume was particularly noticeable, 
 and was a rich cream-coloured satin and gold 
 brocade court train with petticoat of white satin, 
 draped in gorgeous duchesse lace flounces, an heir- 
 loom in the family ; her ornaments were pearls and 
 cameos, also heirlooms. Miss Muller danced with 
 Mr. Davidson Penn. * * * Miss Evelyn Krum- 
 bhaar impersonated Nellie Custis, her ancestress, 
 and was dressed in green satin train with white 
 satin petticoat embroidered in red and green. The 
 handsome lace she wore belonged to Martha Wash- 
 ington and the shoe buckles worn were General 
 Washington's. She danced with Mr. Wilcox. 
 * * * Mrs. Mason Cooke as Mrs. Abigail Adams, 
 wore yellow satin and gold brocade with jewelled 
 girdle. Mrs. Gus. Breaux [Mrs. John Jay] wore a 
 magnificent robe of brocaded satin, cream colour 
 and point lace with jewelled trimmings and hand- 
 some diamond ornaments." 
 
 Among the treasures displayed was a pearl 
 and brocade fan over a hundred years old. 
 
RESPONSES FROM THE STATES. 79 
 
 Mrs. Story was assisted by a fine corps of 
 Managers, among them was Mrs. Charles A. 
 Conrad. Her husband, Judge Conrad, was 
 the orrandson of NeUie Custis and Lawrence 
 Lewis, so that he was a descendant of both 
 Mary and Martha Washington. 
 
 The result of this beautiful carnival was 
 $900, which the Secretary received a few days 
 later. 
 
 On March 17th, the Mary Washington 
 Association had the great pleasure of wel- 
 coming Mrs. Terhune in Washington City. 
 She gave a lecture on Mary Washington, for 
 the benefit of the cause, at the house of Mr. 
 J. W. Thompson on I Street, Miss Ida 
 Thompson having kindly offered her ball 
 room for the lecture. The paper was entitled 
 " Motherhood," and Mary Washington was 
 the central figure. The audience was large 
 and enthusiastic; as one young lady re- 
 marked, " It was worth everything to see 
 Marion Harland." This admirable lecture 
 was one of a series that Mrs. Terhune de- 
 livered for the Mary Washington Association, 
 and which was such an important factor in 
 building the monument. On May 5th she 
 
8o BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 sent the Treasurer ^836.50, and this was only 
 the beginning of her good work. 
 
 During that month of March, 1891, three 
 Vice-Presidents sent in $400, Mrs. McPher- 
 son of New Jersey, Mrs. Vance of North 
 CaroHna, and Mrs. Keyser of Maryland. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Washington Keyser, the 
 daughter of Lewis William Washington of 
 Charles Town, West Virginia, great grand- 
 son ot Mary Washington's son John Augus- 
 tine, and also of her step-son Augustine, felt 
 hampered in her work in Maryland, for it 
 seemed as if she were soliciting for her 
 family and her name; but she went bravely 
 to work and collected dollar contributions 
 from her friends in Baltimore, and when she 
 sent in the amount collected, in March, she 
 invited the National Board of Lady Managers 
 to Baltimore to meet the 400 donors. 
 
 Accordingly, Mrs. Waite, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. 
 Hetzel, Miss Davidge and Miss Hetzel left 
 Washington at 10 o'clock; they were met at 
 the train by Mr. and Mrs. Keyser, taken to 
 see the beauties of the Walters Gallery, 
 whence they returned to Mrs. Keyser's to 
 luncheon. They were hospitably entertained 
 
MRS. H. IRVINE KEYSER. 
 
 Cnee Mary Washington-) 
 
 Vice-President of Maryland. 
 
RESPONSES FROM THE STATES. bl 
 
 by their hostess, assisted by her daughter, 
 Miss Mary Washington Keyser, and her 
 sister-in-law, Mrs. James Barroll Washing- 
 ton. 
 
 The Baltimore members of the Mary 
 Washington Association came in to afternoon 
 tea; the 400 of Baltimore, literally, as their 
 donation testified, each wore the ribbon por- 
 trait badge, the insignia of the dollar mem- 
 bership. Every age was represented, from 
 Miss Harriet Parks Alricks to the orrand- 
 
 o 
 
 children of Mrs. Andrew Reid, the grand- 
 daughter of Betty Washington's youngest 
 son, Howell Lewis. A dear little boy, An- 
 drew Reid Bird, wore his badge with great 
 pride saying: "I am a Mary Washington 
 boy, and she is my grandma's great-grand- 
 mother." Among those present was Mrs. 
 Charles Bonaparte, Mrs. Henrietta Lay and 
 Miss Anna Campbell, the daughters of Jus- 
 tice John A. Campbell of the Supreme Court 
 of the United States, and later of the Con- 
 federacy; Mrs. Carr, daughter of Hon. Rev- 
 erdy Johnson, Mrs. Laurason Riggs, and 
 Miss Virginia Tayloe l>ewis, another descend- 
 ant of Mary Washington, her father. Captain 
 6 
 
82 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Henry Lewis being the grandson of Major 
 George Lewis, son of Betty Washington, a 
 member of the staff of his uncle. General 
 Washington, and heir of one of his swords. 
 A newspaper report of this gathering claimed 
 that " never before was there an assemblage 
 at which so many of the direct and collateral 
 descendants of the distinguished and lovable 
 woman whose memory it is proposed to per- 
 petuate were present. Aside from the de- 
 lightful social amenities of the occasion, it 
 augurs well for the success of the movement 
 which the ladies have at heart." 
 
 On March 31st, 1891, Easter Tuesday, a 
 beautiful ball was given in the Grand Opera 
 House, Charleston, S.C., by the Vice- President 
 for South Carolina, Mrs. Elise Rhett Lewis, 
 who was appointed through Miss Floride 
 Cunningham. 
 
 The Charleston "News and Courier" thus 
 describes it : 
 
 " A magic wand must have swayed over the 
 scene before the curtain rose, for the audience was 
 transported to a grand and spacious ball room with 
 a radiance of brilliant lights and luxurious hangings 
 of ye olden time; gentlemen in fascinating short 
 clothes, diamond knee buckles, powdered wigs and 
 
RESPONSES FROM THE STATES. 83 
 
 beautiful lace ruffles, and colonial dames and 
 demoiselles in brocaded gowns that would ' stand 
 alone ' in the midst of a grand ball given in honour 
 of General Washington and his officers. * * 
 
 " The capacious stage of the Grand Opera House, 
 a ball-room in itself, was thrown into an apartment. 
 On its gaily frescoed walls hung family portraits 
 and rich mirrors. Costly portieres of crimson and 
 buff damask and rare bits of tapestry hung over 
 the doors and windows, while from crystal chande- 
 lliers and silver sconces and candelabra glittered 
 hundreds of wax candles. 
 
 " To the strains of the Star Spangled Banner, 
 General Washington [most faithfully personated on 
 this occasion by Col. Charles Armstrong], attended 
 by his generals [represented by the officers of the 
 4th Brigade], entered the salon and marched to the 
 music of the Union to the footlights. In the rear 
 came the crimson foids of the Eutaw flag of historic 
 memory borne by the sturdy colour sergeant of 
 the Washington Light Infantry, William T. Salas, 
 who thus recalled Jasper amid the plaudits of the 
 audience." 
 
 Colonel Armstrong as General Washing- 
 ton, opened the pageant with a fine speech, 
 concluding with these eloquent words : 
 
 " Paeans have arisen from grateful hearts for the 
 men who so successfully fought our battles. Shall 
 
84 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 the services and sacrifies of our noble women be 
 forgotten ? Their faith it the triumph of our cause 
 remained firm during the darkest days of the 
 Revolution. We read in the Grecian story of the 
 Lacedaemonian mother, who addressing her son 
 going to battle said, ' Return, living with your 
 shield or dead upon it.' Many American mothers 
 not only emulated the heroines of ancient Sparta, 
 but excelled them. They did not adjure their sons 
 to do their duty. They had confidence in the 
 courage and fidelity of their boys, and knew they 
 preferred death to dishonour. When the lament- 
 able tidings of the death of their sons reached them 
 they shed tears of sorrow, but in the sanctuary of 
 home, before the family altar, they humbly knelt 
 and thanked the Creator that with these tears of 
 sorrow there were no tears of shame. The women 
 of America did as much for our cause as the men. 
 Among the names that shine star-like in the firma- 
 ment of the Nation's glory are those of Mrs. Motte, 
 Mrs. Bratton, Mrs. Elliot and Mrs. Brewton." 
 
 The Sir Roger de Coverly followed, danced 
 by fifty couples, then some choice musical 
 selections were succeeded by the "Tempest 
 Dance," more music, and finally, the Minuet, 
 led by Mrs. Edward Simons and Mr. Du 
 Bose Boylston, which gave all a splendid 
 opportunity for the study of heirlooms and 
 
RESPONSES FROM THE STATES. 85 
 
 jewels. The ball then became general, and 
 the stage was soon filled with the modern 
 dresses of the audience, mingled with the 
 colonial costumes of the performers. 
 
 '* Many of those taking part in the entertainment 
 were direct descendants of Colonial dignitaries, 
 representing the famiHes of Washington, Allston, 
 Landgrave, Smith, Pinckney, Rutledge, Pickens, 
 Hayne, Simons, Huger, Grimke, EHot, Rhett, 
 Barnwell, Marion, Moultrie and others. One of 
 the ladies of the reception committee was a g-g-g-g- 
 great granddaughter of Joseph Ball, the father of 
 Mary Ball, afterwards Mrs. Washington, and also a 
 g-g-g-g-great granddaughter of Lawrence Wash- 
 ington, brother of John, the great grandfather of 
 George. Some descendants of noted tories were 
 also there, uniting amicable with the whigs in doing 
 honour to the mother of the greatest man of a great 
 nation." 
 
 Among the beautiful costumes described 
 were two gowns that once belonged to Mrs. 
 Rebecca Motte, worn by her descendants 
 Miss Alice Rutledge and Mrs. H. E. Young. 
 Mrs. Young also wore a beautiful Washing- 
 ton medallion. Mrs. J. Langdon Weber 
 wore an eleg-ant historic costume and carried 
 a fan that had once belonged to a niece of 
 
86 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Mary Ball. Mrs, H. Tupper wore a bro- 
 caded silk 300 years old. 
 
 "And so," concluded the News and 
 Courier, " the Mary Washington Ball has 
 passed into history, one of the most brilliant 
 triumphs of the social world of Charleston," 
 
 Mrs. Lewis was assisted by Mrs. George 
 M. Trenholm and other ladies, 117 dollars 
 were netted by the entertainment, which with 
 membership fees and dues and collections 
 from many sources mounted to ^587, which 
 were gladly and gratefully received by the 
 Board. 
 
 On being asked to suggest a Vice-Presi- 
 dent for New York State, Mrs. Ellen Hardin 
 Walworth named Mrs. John V. L. Pruyn, of 
 Albany. The Secretary wrote to Mrs. Pruyn 
 who replied that she could not take the office 
 herself as she was going to Europe, but she 
 recommended her friend, Mrs. Catherine 
 Gansevoort Lansing of Albany. Mrs. Lans- 
 ing accepted, and her constant, faithful, un- 
 tiring service has been unequaled. 
 
 Mrs. Stewart, having lost a beloved daugh- 
 ter in 1890, and feeling, on that account, un- 
 equal to attending to the Mary Washington 
 
RESPONSES FROM THE STATES. 87 
 
 work in Nevada, recommended Mrs. Gov- 
 ernor Adams as her successor. Mrs. Hetzel 
 wrote to Mrs. Adams, who responded so ad- 
 mirably, that she sent the following spring 
 $213.35 the result of her industry and enter- 
 prise. This donation, from the smallest State 
 in population, greatly cheered the Board. 
 
 On June ist, 1891, Mrs. Waite left Wash- 
 ington for a visit to the Pacific Coast. Be- 
 fore leaving she sent to the Secretary a letter 
 from Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst, announcing that 
 she had forwarded to the Treasurer one 
 thousand and ninety-two dollars and ten 
 cents ($1092.10) collected in California, the 
 largest contribution that had been made. 
 
 Miss Waite had written to a friend in Colo- 
 rado inviting her to be Vice-President for 
 that State, but the lady declined, saying that 
 Colorado was too poor a State to be raising 
 funds for outside objects. Mrs. Hetzel, how- 
 ever, felt that there must be women in Colo- 
 rado ready to do their part in honouring the 
 grave of the mother of Washington, so by 
 the advice of a friend — the former Seccetary 
 of the Mount Vernon Association — she wrote 
 to Bishop Spalding of Colorado, who re- 
 
88 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 sponded in a sympathetic and appreciative 
 letter, recommending the wife of Judge 
 Macon, of Denver, as the most capable and 
 energetic woman in the State. Mrs. Hetzel 
 wrote at once to Mrs. Macon, who responded 
 immediately saying that she would gladly ac- 
 cept the Vice-Presidency, for she took the 
 greatest interest in the subject, as the old 
 monument was one of her earliest memories. 
 She was a Virginian, and her childhood home 
 was on the farm adjoining Kenmore. The 
 subject recalled her youth in Virginia, and 
 she wrote most interesting letters full of 
 reminiscenses, of visits across the Rappahan- 
 nock to Chatham and Pine Grove; of the 
 stories told- by her mother and grandmother 
 of General Washington's visits to his mother. 
 When they told of Madam Washington tend- 
 erly brushing the powder from her son's coat, 
 she, a child, knowing nothing of hair powder, 
 thought that the General must have visited 
 his mother fresh from the battlefield with the 
 gunpowder still covering his garments. 
 
 On June ist, 1891, Mrs. Macon gave a 
 theatrical entertainment for the benefit of the 
 Mary Washington fund. She herself wrote 
 
RESPONSES FROM THE STATES. 89 
 
 appeals to the Sons of America, the G. A. R., 
 the Freemasons of Colorado and other so- 
 cieties, urging them to rescue from oblivion 
 and neglect the grave of Mary Washington, 
 and erect a monument worthy of such a son. 
 She was indefatigable; every Denver news- 
 paper had some appeal or article written 
 either by Mrs. Macon herself or by some of 
 her many friends. Among these contribu- 
 tions was an interestinof account of a visit to 
 the old monument and Mary Washington's 
 home by Mrs. Belford, the wife of a Denver 
 Congressman. 
 
 The amateur theatricals were a complete 
 success. "The Rough Diamond," " Les 
 Precieuses Ridicules," and " Dominick's 
 Love," were admirably rendered by Miss 
 Maude Durbin, Miss Anna Cooper, Mr. John 
 R. Sumner and others. Mrs. Mason sent to 
 the Secretary ^288.18 as the result. 
 
 During the month of June the Secretary 
 received a donation of ^50 from Mr. Have- 
 meyer of New York, through Mrs, Goolrick 
 of Fredericksburg. 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 MRS. PRYOR AT THE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. 
 
 Early in the spring of 1891, Mrs. Emory, 
 I St Vice-President of the Mary Washington 
 Association, received a letter from Mrs. 
 Roger A. Pryor of New York, then Regent 
 of the New York City Chapter D. A. R., ex- 
 pressing great interest in the Mary Wash- 
 ington Association, and asking to be allowed 
 to aid the cause. She was made Vice-Presi- 
 dent at Large among the Daughters of the 
 American Revolution and the Colonial 
 Dames, and at once began her work. For 
 several months she collected dollar member- 
 ships. In May, 1891, she wrote to the Sec- 
 retary asking the price of a Life Membership. 
 The Secretary after much consultation with 
 the President and the Vice-Presidents, replied 
 that the price of a Life Membership would be 
 ^25. Mrs. Pryor responded by sending ^25 
 for a Life Membership for Mrs. H. F. Lovell, 
 of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 At a meeting of the incorporators on May 
 (90) 
 
MRS. ROGER A. PRYOR. 
 
 (nee Sarah Agnes Rice.) 
 Vice-President at T.arge- 
 
AT WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. 9 1 
 
 26th, the last one held before the President's 
 departure for California, the design for the 
 life member's badge was decided upon and 
 the resolutions adopted to make the Life 
 Membership hereditary. The design, a five- 
 pointed star, with the head of Mary Wash- 
 ington in the centre, was suggested by Miss 
 Hetzel. In June, Mrs. Hetzel with her 
 daughter consulted Dr. Hoffman, of the U. S. 
 Geological Survey, about the proposed in- 
 signia, he being an acknowledged authority 
 in such matters, having perfected the beauti- 
 ful idea of the spinning wheel as the insignia 
 of the Daughters of the American Revolu- 
 tion. Dr. Hoffman kindly lent his aid, ap- 
 proved the design and recommended Cald- 
 well & Co., of Philadelphia, as the jewellers 
 to execute the work. 
 
 Mrs. Pryor was spending the summer at 
 the White Sulphur Springs, where she was 
 earnestly working for the Mary Washington 
 Monument. She collected many dollar con- 
 tributions, and persuaded the ladies to make 
 their annual fete a Mary Washington Colon- 
 ial Ball. Every one attending was requested 
 to purchase a Mary Washington badge. 
 
92 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT, 
 
 Mrs. Pryor, finding that several of the guests 
 would like to become life members, wrote to 
 Mrs. Hetzel asking her if it were not pos- 
 sible to have some bado-es finished so that 
 they might be worn at the ball. Mrs. Het- 
 zel wrote at once to Caldwell and Co. that 
 there was a demand for the insignia. The 
 representative of Caldwell at once repaired 
 to the country home of Mrs. Hetzel at Clif- 
 ton, Virginia, with a specimen medal which 
 was found eminently satisfactory. Fifty 
 medals were ordered, and five sent to Mrs. 
 Pryor, and at the Colonial ball at the White 
 Sulphur Springs, the beautiful insignia of the 
 Mary Washington Association made its first 
 appearance. 
 
 At the grand pageant that opened the ball, 
 Mrs. Pryor k^d the march as Mary Washing- 
 ton, escorted by Governor Fitzhugh Lee, who 
 might have impersonated either Light Horse 
 Harry, or his other renowned ancestor, 
 George Mason. Mrs. Pryor was dressed in 
 antique treasures of silks, laces and jewels, 
 sent for the occasion by the ladies of the 
 Fredericksburg- Monument Association, but 
 her most conspicuous treasure was a gold 
 
AT WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. 93 
 
 Mary Washington star presented by the lady 
 managers of the ball. 
 
 It was decided by a committee of ladies 
 who aided Mrs. Pryor, that part of the pro- 
 ceeds should be used for presenting medals: 
 to Mrs. Annie Camm, of Richmond, for great 
 services; to General Charles Anderson, for 
 securing the Virginia colors and U. S. colors 
 to decorate the ball room ; and to Miss Mary 
 Custis Lee, as a testimonial to her father. 
 
 The other Hereditary Life Members pres- 
 ent were Mrs. Benjamin Rowland, of Phila- 
 delphia; Mrs. Charles H. Senff, of Long 
 Island; Mrs. Cross, of Emporia, Kansas; 
 Miss Jennie Inman, now Mrs. Payne, of New 
 York City, and Miss Maude Lee Davidge, 
 of Washington, D. C, Original Incorporator. 
 
 The ball room was decorated in the most 
 exquisite manner with flowers, flags and 
 banners; the American Flag and the State 
 banner of West Virginia, the State banner of 
 Virginia sent by the Governor of Virginia, 
 and the official State flag of the Governor of 
 New York lent for the occasion by Governor 
 Hill ; as a prominent official remarked : 
 " that Mrs. Pryor might stand beneath the 
 
94 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 banner of her native State and the State ot 
 her adoption." 
 
 The costumes were superb, and Mrs. 
 Pryor wrote that it was conceded by all that 
 it was the most beautiful ball ever given at 
 that world renowned summer resort, the 
 White Sulphur Springs. 
 
 Mrs. Pryor's untiring zeal and unsurpassed 
 ability resulted in securing $803.00 for the 
 monument. 
 
 Medals were sent to the five Original In- 
 corporators, and to all persons who had 
 previously given $25 or more. Mrs. Russell 
 A. Alger of Michigan, Mrs. John V. L. 
 Pruyn of Albany, and Mr. Havemeyer of 
 New York, all received medals, likewise Mr. 
 George W. Childs, who sent a most graceful 
 and interesting letter of acknowledgment. 
 
INSIGNIA. 
 Obverse Side. 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 
 THE ILLINOIS BRANCH. 
 
 Mrs. Waite, on her return from the Pacific 
 Coast stopped at Chicago and there presided 
 at a meeting called September ist, 1891, to 
 organize the Illinois Branch of the National 
 Mary Washington Memorial Association. 
 The meeting was held at the Leland Hotel. 
 Chief Justice Fuller opened the meeting with 
 an address explaining the objects of the As- 
 sociation. Judge Lyman Trumbull followed 
 in an eloquent address, dwelling on the 
 womanliness of Mary Washington and urging 
 that the children of to-day might be taken 
 back to the Colonial simplicity of the time in 
 which she lived. 
 
 Dr. H. W. Thomas preached a sermon the 
 following Sunday on "The Higher Values," 
 and one of his sentences I will transcribe : 
 
 " And there is one more name that this land 
 should honor; it should build a monument to the 
 mother of Washington; and in doing this, a monu- 
 (95) 
 
96 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 ment to the mothers of the land who bore and 
 reared its soldiers, its generals and its presidents; a 
 monument to motherhood. And it is fitting that 
 the noble women of the land are working for this 
 worthy object as one feature of the Columbian Ex- 
 position; and the money should not be the gift of 
 a few, but the glad offering of all the children and 
 the men and women of every State." 
 
 Mrs. Trumbull was formally elected Presi- 
 dent, though she had been working many 
 months for the cause. She was a cousin of 
 the President and Secretary as was also her 
 renowned husband. With the enthusiasm 
 and patriotism inherited from a long line of 
 Revolutionary ancestors, Seldens, Mathers 
 and Dudleys, she went to work. She en- 
 listed many Hereditary Life Members; among 
 others Mrs. Potter Palmer, her mother 
 Mrs. Honore, Miss Colvin, Mrs. Wilmarth 
 and Mrs. General Stuart. Many entertain- 
 ments were given, concerts and lecture by 
 Mrs. John Sherwood. On February 22nd, 
 1892, a Colonial Tea was given to the lady 
 managers of the Columbian Exposition there 
 assembled in conference. Mrs. Trumbull, 
 Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mrs. Shepard, Mrs. Ida 
 
THE ILLINOIS BRANCH, 97 
 
 Preston Gibson and other distinguished 
 Chicago women did the honours of the occa- 
 sion. Mrs. Trumbull sent ^i,ooo to the 
 Secretary as the result of her good work in 
 Illinois. 
 7 
 
CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK IN I 89 2, 
 
 In January, 1892, Mrs. Cilley [now Mrs. 
 Arthur Clarke], of New Hampshire, was 
 spending the winter in Washington. She 
 gathered around her a bevy of the most 
 beautiful and gifted young girls ol the Capitol 
 and gave some parlor theatricals in the ban- 
 queting hall of the Arlington, for the benefit 
 of the Mary Washington Monument. As- 
 sisted by her friend, Mrs. Harris, who super- 
 intended the music, aided by the Marine 
 Band, Mrs. Cilley showed herself an efficient 
 and untiring stage manager and worker. 
 "The Bachelor's Dream the Night before the 
 Wedding," a tableau vivant, was beautifully 
 rendered. Mr. Wilson, as the bachelor, must 
 have been an artist and a traveller, for he 
 saw visions of beautiful women from all over 
 the world. To the music of " How So Fair," 
 Miss Knowles glided in in an empire gown, 
 followed by the strains of the Mikado usher- 
 ing in Miss Sutherland in, a real Japanese 
 (98) 
 
WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. 99 
 
 costume, as if actually " In Tokio." " In Lu- 
 cerne " brought Miss Skerrett, in a veritable 
 Swiss peasant's dress, to the music of "La 
 Fille de Madame Angot." "In Rome," a 
 nun, portrayed by Miss Thompson, piously 
 turned away her head to the strains of the 
 prayer from "Der Freischutz." The solem- 
 nity of this devoted maiden was soon forgot- 
 ten, for "Come With the Gypsey Bride" 
 brought Miss Courtney Walthall, so radiant 
 in her scarlet and gold that I am sure every 
 young man present wished that he too were 
 "In Bohemia." To another andante, "Fair 
 Harvard," came a Boston girl, not in the 
 eye-glasses of to-day, but a sweet-faced Pris- 
 cilla. Miss Eastman. Miss Cambell followed 
 as a Spanish lady, while the band played the 
 fandango ; Miss Kelton glided in, striking a 
 lyre, to the strains of the "Maid of Athens;" 
 "A Daughter of the Cavaliers," Miss Annie 
 Rundlett, rustled in to the miusic of "Amaryl- 
 lis," in an old brocade that had graced the 
 Williamsburo- Court in the olden time. This 
 vision of loveliness was succeeded by Miss 
 Washburn, who entered as a beautiful bride 
 to the Wetl'3ing march ; the bachelor fell on 
 
lOO BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 his knees before the chosen one, and the 
 scene closed. 
 
 This was followed by a pretty little comedy, 
 " The Only Young Man in Town," in which 
 Mr. Pierre Stevens found himself pursued by 
 a managing mamma with an sesthetic daugh- 
 ter, half a dozen other love-lorn maidens and 
 a designing widow. Miss Victoria Emory, 
 Misses Denver, Cuthbert, Cabell, Mattingly 
 and Gibson all acted admirably. Miss Marion 
 Thomas was charming as the coquette and so 
 was sweet simplicity. Miss Eastman, while the 
 finished acting of Miss Tisdel, now the Bar- 
 oness de Wollant, was a rare treat. 
 
 The patronesses were Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. 
 McKee. Mesdames Morton, Foster, Elkins, 
 Wanamaker, Noble, Rusk, Field, Harlan, 
 Brown, Scofield, Sheridan, Ramsay, Stanford, 
 Hammond, Kaufman, Haywood, Henderson, 
 Outhwaite, Cable, Leiter, Riggs, Carpenter, 
 Cabell, Hay, Calderon, Carlisle, Madame 
 Romero and the Countess Maximillian Es- 
 terhazy. 
 
 There were many beauties in the audience 
 as well as on the stage, among them was 
 Miss May Cuyler, daughter of Captain Cuy- 
 
WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. lOI 
 
 ler, of the Army; she is now Lady Grey 
 Edgerton, and is considered one of the most 
 beautiful women in Eno-land. 
 
 This charmingentertainment added $535.00 
 to the fund. 
 
 Mrs. James Fairman, of New York, under 
 the auspices of the New York City Chapter, 
 D. A. R., sent $37.00 very soon afterwards, 
 the proceeds of a concert given in New York 
 by the Spanish Students, the Chickering Male 
 Quartette and other artists. A poem on 
 Mary Washington, by Colonel James Fair- 
 man, was written for this occasion. 
 
 On March 31st, a matinee was given at 
 the Lyceum Theatre, New York, under the 
 patronage of Mrs. Roger A. Pryor and the 
 New York City Chapter of the Daughters of 
 the American Revolution. 
 
 The "Duchess of Baywater," a most amus- 
 ing farce, was admirably rendered by Mrs. 
 Charles Avery Doremus in the title role, 
 supported by Miss Ward, Mr. James K. 
 Hackett, Mr. Arthur Doremus, Mr. West 
 and Miss Chapman. "Love in '76" followed 
 with Mrs. Wilbur Bloodgood as Rose Ells- 
 worth in a dainty colonial costume, assisted 
 
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 by Mrs. Wood and Messrs. Lindsay, Bird, 
 Hull, Curtis and others. 
 
 The theatre was beautifully decorated with 
 banners and flags lent to Mrs. Pryor by the 
 Secretary of the Navy, accompanied by a 
 courteous letter written by the chief of the 
 Bureau, George Dewey. 
 
 Among the ladies present were Mrs. J. 
 Burrows Greene, the daughter of Silas Bur- 
 rows, the generous donor of the original 
 monument; Mrs. Donald McLean, Mrs, 
 Ogden Doremus and Madame Adalina Patti 
 Nicolini. The latter received an ovation 
 when she appeared in her box. Mrs. Pryor, 
 the originator of the entertainment, was also 
 warmly welcomed. Upwards of $500 were 
 cleared by this entertainment. After the 
 matinee it was decided to present two silver 
 medals to Mrs. Charles Avery Doremus and 
 Mrs. Wilbur Bloodgood. 
 
 On March 31, a special meeting of the 
 Board of Directors was held when Mrs. 
 Waite submitted a letter from Marion Har- 
 land, offering to write a biographical sketch 
 of Mary, the mother of George Washington, 
 the copyright to be transferred to the 
 
WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. IO3 
 
 National Mary Washington Memorial Asso- 
 ciation for the sum of five hundred dollars. 
 The offer was accepted unanimously. "The 
 Story of Mary Washington" was issued in 
 the Autumn. 
 
 Mrs. Terhune spent many months in Fred- 
 ericksburg collecting every tradition of Mary 
 Washington from those who heard it direct 
 from their parents, grandparents, and all 
 who remembered the dear "Old Madame" 
 as she was affectionately called. When the 
 Secretary wrote telling how she had enjoyed 
 the little volume, the author responded: 'T 
 have so lived with the heroine of the 'story' 
 for the last year that she seems like my inti- 
 mate and familiar friend, and praise of her is 
 sweet." 
 
 In the spring of 1892, Mrs. Pryor wrote a 
 very interesting sketch of Mary Washington 
 for the Home Journal. The Century, also 
 published an article entitled: "The Mother 
 and Birthplace of Washington," by Ella Bas- 
 sett Washington, widow of Lewis William 
 Washington, of West Virginia, the father of 
 Mrs. Keyser, the Vice-President for Mary- 
 land. Mrs. Washington not only married a 
 
I04 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 descendant of Mary Washington, but she was 
 herself her descendant, being the great 
 granddaughter of Betty Lewis. Her article 
 is most interesting, being full of family tra- 
 ditions, and of reminiscences of her great 
 ancestress, as told by her father, and her 
 grandfather, Robert Lewis, the boy who met 
 Lafayette in the garden where his grand- 
 mother was tending her flowers, the young 
 man who was present when the General 
 received the news of his mother's death. 
 
 Mrs. Washington's article concludes with 
 a beautiful tribute to the Mary Washington 
 Association. She was the Mount Vernon 
 Vice-Regent for West Virginia. The Mary 
 Washington Association had to thank the 
 ladies of the Mount Vernon Association for 
 much kind interest and advice. One of the 
 Vice-Regents, Mrs. Hearst of California, is 
 also Vice-President of the Mary Washington 
 Association for her State. Mrs. Ball of 
 Virginia, and Mrs. Barnes of the District of 
 Columbia, have shown great interest and 
 have been very helpful. 
 
 In May, the Mary Washington Chapter ol 
 the Daughters of the American Revolution, 
 
WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. IO5 
 
 the first Chapter organized in Washington 
 City, and the mother of many Chapters, all 
 over the country, gave a lecture in honor of 
 their "Patron Saint." The lecturer was Miss 
 Janet Richards, then Recording Secretary of 
 the chapter; the subject was: "The Passion 
 Play at Ober-Ammergau." Miss Richards' 
 gifts as a lecturer are well known, and of 
 course the entertainment was a great success. 
 Eighty dollars were sent to the Treasurer by 
 the Regent of the Chapter, Mrs. Admiral 
 Lee, who was also Vice-President of the 
 Mary Washington Board of Directors, and 
 later President of the Hereditary Life Mem- 
 bers. 
 
 During the summer of 1892 Mrs. Waite 
 spent much time and travel in search of a 
 design for a monument. She examined many 
 monuments, consulting the best artists within 
 reach, and she finally selected three designs 
 to be submitted to the Board of Directors for 
 a choice, should any among them prove satis- 
 factory. The three designs, one from a New 
 York firm, one from Manning of Washington, 
 and one from Crawford of Buffalo, were care- 
 fully examined and discussed, and that of 
 Crawford unanimously preferred. 
 
I06 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 The President and Secretary visited Fred- 
 ericksburg in October, viewed the ground 
 and consulted with the ladies of the Fred- 
 ericksburg Association. 
 
 In December, 1892, the contract for the 
 monument was signed between the National 
 Mary Washington Association and John 
 Crawford & Son, of Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
MRS. M. V. MACON. 
 
 X'ice-Prcsident of Colorado. 
 
CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 VALENTINE NIGHT IN DENVER, 
 
 On February 14th, 1893, the Mary Wash- 
 ington Association of Colorado, under its 
 invaluable and indefatigable Vice-President, 
 Mrs. Thomas Macon, gave a Colonial ball in 
 the Brown Palace Hotel, Denver. The 
 Denver reporter thus describes it: 
 
 " The grand colonial ball at the Palace last night 
 was the most brilliant social event in the history of 
 the western half of the western hemisphere. It 
 were strange if the names of the patronesses of this 
 event in aid of the National Mary Washington As- 
 sociation, led by those gracious ladies, the wives 01 
 gentlemen whom Colorado has honoured with its 
 chief executive chair, Mesdames Waite, Routt, 
 Cooper and Grant, had not stamped the occasion as 
 one of the very highest social order; but to this 
 was added the largest and most dazzling array of 
 the elite of Denver citizenship ever attracted to one 
 gathering of fashion and beauty. 
 
 "Over 1000 ladies and gentlemen thronged the 
 magnificant parlours, balconies, rotunda and banquet 
 hall of the fine st hotel on the continent. The music 
 (107) 
 
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 the perfume, the flowers and the bewildering beauty 
 of feminine loveliness and exquisite costumes, de- 
 signed by the modistes of the two continents, com- 
 bined to form a picture rarely equalled and never 
 surpassed even in the greatest cities of the new 
 world. 
 
 " It was fitting that in Denver, the youngest and 
 fairest of the cities of the land of liberty, the memory 
 of her who gave to the world its grandest character 
 should be' so splendidly honoured. * * * 
 
 "The remark of a Denver lady will become one 
 of the heritages of the nation's treasure of lofty 
 sentiment, when she said that the object of the As- 
 sociation is 'a lofty impulse which prompts the 
 women of America to buy this ground for their 
 very own, that the deed of transfer may be forever 
 inviolable.' 
 
 "The magnificant hotel was ablaze with light, 
 warmth and radiance of colour. From the topmost 
 tier of the balconies to the spacious rotunda, 130 
 feet beneath, all was a moving panorama of beauty. 
 St. Valentine's Day in the Columbian year was 
 strikingly perpetuated for all time as the occasion 
 of an event unapproached even by the most elabo- 
 rate of society's triumphs." 
 
 In the parlors on the second floor a court 
 reception was held. Governor and Mrs. 
 Waite with the Governor's staff in full uni 
 
VALENTINE NIGHT IN DENVER. IO9 
 
 form, and officers from Fort Logan received 
 gendemen with powdered hair and full cos- 
 tume and ladies with coronets of snowy 
 tresses and gowns of Colonial aad Parisian 
 fashion. 
 
 The dancing took place in the grand 
 rotunda with its walls of onyx and its floors 
 of marble. As the dancers appeared for the 
 majestic polonaise and the minuet the scene 
 was most brilliant; the nine balconies and 
 the winding stairways were crowded with 
 thousands of spectators all unconscious that 
 they themselves in their old time costumes 
 were a part of the wonderful picture. 
 
 Among the many magnificent costumes 
 none attracted more attention than the gown 
 worn by Miss May Patrick. It was truly a 
 colonial production, and it had adorned the 
 ladies of Miss Patrick's family for over a 
 hundred years. An ashes ot roses silk 
 trimmed with navy blue, with full skirts, 
 puffed elbow sleeves and low corsage edged 
 with rich old point applique. It was doubt- 
 less the most ancient costume ever worn in 
 the West. 
 
 Miss Nancy Craig Green, of Culpeper, 
 
I lO BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Va., a great grand niece of Mary Washing- 
 ton, was one of the belles of the ball. She 
 wore a white silk with moss green embroid- 
 eries, an heirloom of colonial days that had 
 belonged to her ancestress, Hannah Ball, 
 sister of Mary. 
 
 The banquet was as unique as the rest ot 
 the ball. The tables groaned beneath a 
 veritable colonial menu^ discovered by Marion 
 Harland in an old i8th century recipe 
 book, and copied into her colonial novel 
 "His Great Self." Roasted shoats, huge 
 turkeys, beaten biscuit, hot waffles, old 
 fashioned cake and other old Virginia deli- 
 cacies. 
 
 The flowers decorated the tables in such 
 profusion that the supper table seemed 
 almost like a conservatory. The principal 
 decoration was a representation of the peace 
 ball at Fredericksburg. The miniature build- 
 ing, four feet square, was in the form of a 
 Court House with a statue of Justice sur- 
 mounting the dome. The figures, 42 in num- 
 ber, were six inches in height. General 
 Washington with his mother on his arm was 
 represented walking down the centre of the 
 
VALENTINE NIGHT IN DENVER. I I I 
 
 mall room while the guests stood on each 
 side with their heads bowed in reverence. A 
 cluster of arcs of electric light hung from the 
 dome and tiny columns adorned with minia- 
 ture electric lights surrounded the building 
 which stood on a flowery embankment bor- 
 dered with tulips and chrysanthemums. 
 
 $1,030 were sent to the Secretary as the 
 receipts trom this beautiful ball, the result of 
 the untiring and devoted work of Mrs. Macon. 
 She not only superintended all the arrange- 
 ments, but she worked with her pen and her 
 brain towards perfecting them. She wrote 
 numberless articles for the daily press all 
 over Colorado, and secured reduced rates on 
 the trains which brought hundreds of guests 
 from the neighboring towns. She was 
 greatly aided by Mrs. Hedges and Mrs. 
 Arbuckle, of Denver, and Mrs. M. D. 
 Thatcher, of Pueblo, all Hereditary Life 
 Members of the Association; but Mrs. Macon 
 was the life and soul of the movement, and 
 it seemed impossible that one brain and one 
 body could have accomplished so much. 
 
 As has been before stated the patronesses 
 of the ball who contributed greatly to the 
 
112 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 prestige of the occasion were the wives of 
 four Colorado Governors: Mrs. Waite, Mrs. 
 Routt, Mrs. Cooper and Mrs, Grant. 
 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 WORK IN MANY STATES. 
 
 Miss Mary Desha, when Vice-President 
 for Kentucky, aroused much interest in that 
 State. Several Hereditary Life Members 
 were enlisted and a liberal donation was sent 
 by the John Marshall Chapter of Louisville, 
 the proceeds of a lecture given by Senator 
 Lindsay at the house of the Regent, Mrs. 
 Sallie Marshall Ewing Pope. Mrs. Lindsay 
 is now Vice-President for Kentucky, Miss 
 Desha having resigned on account of being 
 too far from Kentucky. She is now one of 
 the Vice-Presidents-at-Large. 
 
 Mrs. Mary B. K. Washington, the Vice- 
 President for Tennessee, has also done ex- 
 cellent work. She has enlisted many Heredi- 
 tary Life Members, among them Mrs. Van 
 Leer Kirkman, the President of the Atlanta 
 Exposition. 
 
 Mrs. McPherson, the first Vice-President 
 for New Jersey, raised $400 the first year 
 and continued very active and efficient until 
 8 (113) 
 
114 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 obliged by ill health to go to Europe. She 
 then resigned and Mrs. Margaret Herbert 
 Mather was appointed her successor. Mrs. 
 Mather worked faithfully, with good results, 
 until obliged by ill health to cease work. 
 Both these ladies have passed away within 
 the past year. 
 
 Mrs. Dolph, of Oregon, and Mrs. Squire, 
 of Washington State, have done excellent 
 work on the Pacific Coast. They have each 
 raised not less than four hundred dollars. 
 The Mary Bell Chapter of Tacoma and the 
 Rainier Chapter of Seattle have sent dona- 
 tions. 
 
 California, in addition to the work done by 
 Mrs, Hearst and her able assistants, has sent 
 many donations through the Daughters of the 
 American Revolution. Mrs. Maddox, for 
 many years State Regent, is a Hereditary 
 Life Member. The Sequoia Chapter has 
 done much, through the earnest efforts of 
 Mrs. S. Isabelle Hubbard, of San Francisco, 
 who has had the Mary Washington medal 
 conferred upon her by the Valentine Holt 
 Society of the Children of the American Rev- 
 olution, of which Society she is President. 
 
MRS. AUGUSTA M. DOLPH. 
 Vice-President of Oregon. 
 
WORK IN MANY STATES. I 1 5 
 
 Mrs. Newport, the Vice-President for Min- 
 nesota, is an earnest and faithful worker, and 
 has enrolled among the H. L. M.'s some of 
 the most distinguished and popular women 
 of her State. 
 
 Mrs. Lipscomb, the Vice-President for 
 Georgia, has raised several hundred dollars 
 among the Georgia Chapters. 
 
 The Rhode Island Chapters, through their 
 Vice-President, Mrs. Wilbour, and their State 
 Regent, Miss Knight, have contributed gen- 
 erously. The Gaspee Chapter of Providence 
 holds a Hereditary Life Membership. 
 
 The Vice-President for Ohio, Mrs. D. 
 Meade Massie, has enlisted several Heredi- 
 tary Life Members, among them Mrs. Lucre- 
 tia R. Garfield. Excellent work has been 
 done in the Cincinnati Chapter, principally 
 through the influence of their Regent, Mrs. 
 Brent Arnold, and the efforts of Mrs. Judge 
 Conner. Some of the leading women of 
 Cincinnati have joined, among them : Mrs. 
 Thomas, Mrs. Greeve, Miss Laws, Miss 
 Harrison, Mrs. Hinkle, Miss Doane, Mrs. 
 Hulbert and her daughter, Mrs. Perin. Mrs. 
 Emery, of Cincinnati, has also become an 
 
Il6 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Hereditary Life Member through Mrs. Waite. 
 
 Mrs. Clifton R. Brecken ridge, Vice-Presi- 
 dent for Arkansas and one of the first Vice- 
 Presidents to serve, did faithful service in her 
 State and elsewhere until her departure for 
 Russia. She was the second Ambassador's 
 wife to wear the Mary Washington star at a 
 foreign Court. Mrs. Theodore D. Runyon 
 being the first and Mrs. Charlemagne Tower, 
 Jr., the third. 
 
 In April, 1893, Miss Waite wrote to Mrs. 
 Thomas W. Palmer, of Detroit, asking her to 
 be the Vice-President for Michigan. Mrs, 
 Palmer accepted, and in spite of ill health 
 went resolutely to work in her State. Not- 
 withstanding the hard times and discouraging 
 responses from many towns in the State, 
 Mrs. Palmer succeeded in contributing over 
 $300 in a few months, ^100 being her own 
 donation. Mrs. Whittier, of Saginaw, gave a 
 beautiful colonial ball, and a handsome and 
 successful entertainment was gfiven at Grand 
 Rapids by Mrs. Pantlind; but prairie fires 
 and storms, with the increasing financial de- 
 pression of that time, added to the continued 
 ill health of Mrs. Palmer compelled her to 
 discontinue her work for a time. 
 
IMRS- ABRAHAM LANSING. 
 
 fNEE Catherine Gansvoort.) 
 Vice-President of New York. 
 
WORK IN MANY STATES. 11'/ 
 
 It is impossible to do full justice to the 
 work done in New 'York. Mrs. Pryor as 
 Vice-President at Large, the New York City 
 Chapter under the efficient and untiring 
 chairmanship of Mrs. Fairman, and to Mrs. 
 Lansing the State Vice-President. The fol- 
 lowing extract from an appeal published in 
 the Albany Argus for June 15, 1893, will 
 show not only the spirit that actuated the 
 Vice-President, but how she awakened that 
 spirit in others: 
 
 " I appeal to you without hesitation to enroll 
 your names among those who, for love of country, 
 the credit of our State and the honour of our sex, 
 shall give their aid, and at least the influence of 
 their names and examples to a cause sacred of itself 
 and peculiarly your own, through the method in 
 which it is to be carried through. 
 
 "Your contributions will not certainly in the 
 sense that they will minister to any physical need 
 or misfortune be called a charity, but that they will 
 be for a purpose educational and beneficial in the 
 highest degree, it does not seem to me rational to 
 question. To suggest that such an undertaking is 
 not practical, or is unnecessary or unworthy be- 
 cause it will minister to a sentiment and not to 
 
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 a physical want, is surely to repudiate the influence 
 of the example of lofty character and noble deeds 
 in shaping the civilization of our race. 
 
 " The design of the monument has been chosen. 
 Most appropriately as it seems to me, it will be in 
 the form of an obelisk. My hope is that the women 
 of America will be moved to build it well and to 
 provide for its constant and tender care; not only 
 thereby to preserve the memory of the life which it 
 will commemorate, but to testify continually to the 
 world that the worth of that life and the value of its 
 services to our country, so long and shamelessly 
 ignored, are decorously recognized and publicly 
 proclaimed. 
 
 " On the spot which was chosen for her last rest- 
 ing placs by the noble woman whose life it will 
 typify, rising in that severe and unassailable form of 
 Egyptian art, which has been the admiration and 
 wonder of the ages, may it silently and eloquently 
 declare the grandeur and simplicity of the character 
 of Washington, and testify to the devotion and in- 
 spired love which moulded that character into its 
 marvellous symmetry and strength. 
 " Yours very truly, 
 
 " Catherine Gansevoort Lansing, 
 "Vice-President for New York State N, M. W. M. A." 
 
r 
 
 IMRS. EDWARD ROBY. 
 (nee Lilia p. Goster.) 
 Vice-President at Large. 
 
CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 AT THE WORLD S FAIR. 
 
 Mr. Crawford, the architect of the Mary- 
 Washington Monument prepared a beautiful 
 model of the monument in white marble, five 
 feet hip-h, to be exhibited at the World's Fair. 
 
 It was first placed in the Woman's Depart- 
 ment, but through the courtesy of Mrs. Beale, 
 the Commissioner in charge of the Virginia 
 Exhibit, it was afterwards removed to the 
 Mount Vernon building, at the suggestion ot 
 Miss Desha, aided by the untiring energy 
 and boundless generosity of Mrs. Edward 
 Roby of Chicago. There was inaugurated a 
 series of afternoon teas which became one ot 
 the pleasantest features of the great expo- 
 sition ; a daily social gathering welcomed by 
 Mrs. Trumbull, the Vice-President for Illinois. 
 
 In October, a brilliant colonial reception 
 was held in the New York State building. 
 It is thus described in the Chicago Herald of 
 October 25th: 
 
 (119) 
 
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 " New York's gem banquet hall was the centre 
 of the scene. It was hung with wreaths and 
 slashes of green oak boughs, splendid symbols of 
 the sterling courage and unwavering heart of the 
 great character honoured. These same emblems 
 were wound in gorgeous lavishness around the 
 pillars and up and down the stairway. All the 
 parlours were similarly adorned, and every niche 
 and corner was bright with wide palms and flowers. 
 The red boxes were half hidden in blossoms and 
 everywhere the guests in elaborate raiment were 
 sheltered by great leaves from the tropics. 
 
 " Under festoons the guests entered, to be wel- 
 comed by the receiving party. Mrs. Isabella 
 Beecher Hooker stood at the head of this row and 
 she looked as if she had just stepped from a colon- 
 ial portrait. She wore a quaint cap and flounces 
 and furbelows of great dimensions, with sleeves like 
 angel's wings. By her side were a dozen others 
 dressed as Mary Washington might have been for 
 such a function. 
 
 " Down the line were Mrs. Qglesby, the Countess 
 di Brazzi, Mrs. Lyman Trumbull, Mrs. A. S. 
 Shepard, Mrs. Starkweather, Mrs. Robert L. Henry, 
 Mrs. Jonas Hutchinson, Mrs. Ida Preston Gibson, 
 Mrs. Florence Ives and Miss Minor." 
 
 " * * * Music filled the building. The half 
 hundred musicians of Professor Hecker's Elgin 
 band opened with a classic overture and then 
 
AT THE WORLD S FAIR. I 2 I 
 
 marched the arrivals up the broad stairway in step 
 to a Wagner selection. 
 
 •' When the guests had filled the upper parlors, 
 the dance programme began with a grand entree. 
 This was a charming sight, the long line resembling 
 some picture of an ancient knight's banquet proces- 
 sion. * * * Hon. Lyman Trumbull and Mrs. 
 Trumbull were assigned the places of honor. * * * 
 Around and around the hall the line wound, with 
 spectators about the edge. Every inch of the boxes 
 were occupied, and those who could not get more 
 favored points looked in from the halls and adjoin- 
 ing rooms. 
 
 " Lunchon was served in the parlors. Upstairs 
 the members of the Association waited at dainty 
 tables and below, curious robed people from the 
 Orient did the honors. In the three west rooms 
 native khitmutgars in red fezzes and redder blouses 
 poured Indian tea, and across the way the dainty 
 Ceylonese chatted over fragrant cups and lear .ed 
 their first lesson of Mary Washington from inter- 
 ested groups." 
 
 Among the many beauties that graced that 
 sumptuous hall, none attracted more attention 
 than little Alma Trumbull, a lovely child of 
 ten years, looking like a real little Daughter 
 of the Revolution in her beautiful pink bro- 
 cade ; the court train fell from the shoulders 
 
122 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 and the sweet, bright face of the child was a 
 picture of dehght at the splendid scene and 
 her innocent enjoyment of her own pretty 
 costume. This fair, sweet flower was doomed 
 to fade before blossoming into womanhood. 
 Less than two years after that reception, the 
 dear little girl was seized with diphtheria and 
 passed away in a few hours ; the only child 
 of her heart-broken mother and the joy of her 
 distinguished father's advanced years. 
 
 Duringr the summer the star of the Heredi- 
 tary Life Member was presented to the 
 Duchess de Veragua and also to the Infanta 
 Eulalia. This graceful tribute to the lady 
 guests of the Nation, representing the families 
 of Columbus and of Queen Isabella I., was 
 suggested by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor. At Mrs. 
 Pryor's suggestion, the medal was presented 
 to the Duchess by Mrs. Mitchell, of Florida. 
 
 The result of the work at the World's Fair 
 was to make Illinois the banner State in place 
 of Colorado. Louisiana succeeded Vermont 
 and South Carolina and held it until Mrs. 
 Hearst sent in her contribution from Cali- 
 fornia, who held the first place until the Val- 
 entine ball at Denver placed Colorado in the 
 lead. 
 
CHAPTER XX. 
 
 HON. FRANK HATTON. 
 
 The perfect enthusiasm and enjoyment of 
 the dedication of the Mary Washington 
 Monument, was marred by a great sorrow; 
 the death on April 30th of Hon. Frank Hat- 
 ton, the Editor of the Washington Post, the 
 constant, unfaiHne friend and worker for the 
 cause. 
 
 We have told how his indignant protest 
 against the advertisement for the sale of 
 Mary Washington's grave roused Mrs. Het- 
 zel to suggest that the monument should be 
 built by the women of the United States. 
 We have also told how promptly he re- 
 sponded, and how he assisted and promoted 
 the idea; how he devoted one column of his 
 paper for many months to Mary Washing- 
 ton, and opened it to subscriptions and con- 
 tributions, the Washington Post giving ^200; 
 but it is impossible to do full justice to his 
 unwearied and unfailing assistance from the 
 first suggestion until the completion of the 
 (123) 
 
124 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 monument. Through him Mr. George W. 
 Childs sent his donation of five hundred dol- 
 lars. He also obtained a donation from Mrs. 
 Jeannette M. Thurber, whose name is en- 
 rolled among the Hereditary Life Members, 
 and the aid he gave through the columns of 
 the Post never flagged. 
 
 He had been selected by the other mem- 
 bers of the Board of Directors to represent 
 the ladies of the National Mary Washington 
 Association at the banquet at Fredericks- 
 burg. He also assisted in planning the 
 arrangements contributing thereby to the 
 admirable system which made the Dedication 
 so complete and excellent in every respect. 
 
 But the eloquent voice was stilled; the 
 handsome face and commanding form were 
 missing, and the ceremonies were saddened 
 by the memory of the absent friend and the 
 sight of the vacant chair. 
 
 At a meeting of the National Mary Wash- 
 ington Memorial Association on Saturday, 
 May 5th, the following resolutions were 
 placed on the files of the society records: 
 
 Whereas, by death Frank Hatton has been re- 
 moved from the sphere of his earthly activity and 
 usefulness; and 
 
HON. FRANK HATTON. I 25 
 
 Whereas, the National Mary Washington Mem- 
 orial Association recognize with peculiar feelings of 
 gratitude the services rendered by him; therefore 
 be it 
 
 Resolved, that in the death of Mr. Hatton the 
 community has sustained a severe loss; that this 
 Association does here record its deep appreciation 
 and remberance of the aid, the sympathy and the 
 valued encouragement always met with at his hand ; 
 and it is hereby ordered that this resolution be 
 spread upon the minutes of the board and made 
 part of the history which deceased did so much to 
 dignify and embellish. 
 
 Amelia C. Waite, President. 
 Margaretta Hetzel, Secretary. 
 
 The fame of Frank Hatton belongs to his 
 Country. His career as a Cabinet officer as 
 a literary man as a patriot and a philanthro- 
 pist will live after him. The Mary Washing- 
 ton Monument was but one of the many 
 noble objects to which he devoted his invalu- 
 able time and energies. It was his last great 
 work and he lived to see the shaft completed. 
 
CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 THE NEW MONUMENT. 
 
 During the spring of 1893 the Incorporators 
 of the National Mary Washington Association 
 submitted the design of the monument to the 
 Trustees; President Cleveland, Chief Justice 
 Fuller and Governor McKinney ; who all pro- 
 nounced " it artistically and architecturally 
 correct, harmonious and pleasing, and in so- 
 lidity and simplicity especially appropriate to 
 the character and life of the woman it was de- 
 igned to honor." Objections had been raised 
 in some quarters to the simple form of the 
 obelisk, and some of the old citizens of Fred- 
 ericksburg were loth to have the old monu- 
 ment removed, associated as it was with the 
 memories and traditions of their youth; but 
 it was impossidle to make a firm and endur- 
 inor monument out of the old ruin and the 
 first and continued pledge of the collectors to 
 the contributors was that a firm and enduring 
 monument should be built. 
 
 In the words of Mrs. James Power Smith, 
 (126) 
 
THE NEW MONUMENT. 1 27 
 
 when President of the Fredericksburg As- 
 sociation in a letter regarding Mr. Jack's 
 offer of a monument; already mentioned in 
 Chapter VIII: "Mr. Jack's view is correct, 
 that the old monument is composed of too 
 many small stones, and that has led largely 
 to its ruined condition." 
 
 On October 21st, the corner stone of the 
 new monument was laid by the Fredericks- 
 burg Mary Washington Association. Mrs. 
 Fleming, the President, was unable to be 
 present owing to a severe illness, but the 
 other officers of the Association were all 
 there, with many of the members and a large 
 crowd of citizens. None of the National 
 officers were present, the President Mrs. 
 Waite, saying that she thought it best to 
 defer any national celebration until the mon- 
 ument was completed. 
 
 The ceremonies were conducted by Rev. W. 
 Meade Clark, Rector of St. George's Church, who 
 was made custodian of the tin box deposited in a 
 cavity cut in the northeast corner of one of the 
 massive granite base blocks. He placed each 
 article in the box, naming it as he did so. 
 
 The following is a list of the articles : 
 
 "The Story of Mary Washington," by Marion 
 Harland. 
 
128 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 " The Fredericksburg Daily Star," of October 
 2 1 St, 1893. 
 
 "The Fredericksburg Free Lance," of October 
 2 1st, 1893. 
 
 Old copper cents of 1800, and half cents of 1799, 
 1800, 1 801 and 1806, and Columbia half dollar 
 1807, all donated by F. H. Stonebraker. 
 
 A membership card of the Mary Washington 
 Association of Fredericksburg. 
 
 One ribbon badge of the National Mary Wash- 
 ington Memorial Association. 
 
 One piece of paper in which Mary Washington's 
 will was folded, and scrap of paper on which the 
 original will was written. 
 
 One set of Columbia postage stamps, i to 10 
 cents. 
 
 One photograph of the old monument. 
 
 " The Home Maker Magazine," containing article 
 by Rev. James Power Smith. 
 
 One copy on parchment of the records, Constitu- 
 tion and Charter of the Mary Washington Associa- 
 tion of Fredericksburg, Va. 
 
 One copy of the Incorporation and By-Laws of 
 the National Mary Washington Memorial Associa- 
 tion, Washington, D. C. 
 
 One copy of contract between the National Mary 
 Washington Memorial Association and William J. 
 Crawford, the monument builder. 
 
 One copy of letter from George W, Shepherd, 
 
THE NEW MONUMENT. 1 29 
 
 presenting the lot of land to the Fredericksburg 
 Association, dated January 24, 1890, and the letter 
 of acceptance from Mrs. James Power Smith, first 
 President of the Fredericksburg Association. 
 
 One silver plate from the old monument inscribed 
 on one side: " Corner Stone of the Monument over 
 the Remains of Washington's mother placed 7th 
 May 1833." On the reverse side of this old plate 
 the following is inscribed : " This plate removed 
 from the corner stone of the old monument October 
 7th, 1893, in the presence of Mrs. V. M. Fleming, 
 President, and Mrs. J. F. Thompson, Secretary." 
 
 One card of Rev. W. Meade Clark, who placed 
 the box in the corner stone. 
 
 Pictures of Mary Washington's house, her dress- 
 ing room and sleeping room. 
 
 One new silver plate presented by William J. 
 Crawford, contractor, containing the names of the 
 officers of both Associations, as follows: 
 
 On one side of the silver plate : 
 
 " The Mary Washington Monument Association 
 of Fredericksburg, Va. 
 
 " Mrs. V. M. Fleming, President. 
 
 " Mrs. J. F. Thompson, Secretary. 
 
 "Trustees: Mrs. Charles Wallace, Mrs. T. S. 
 Duneway, Mrs. S. W. Carmichael, Mrs. WiUiam 
 Bradley, Mrs. E. Dorsey Cole, Miss Irene Colbert, 
 Miss Kate Hurkamp, Mrs. Isaac Hunt." 
 
 On the other side of the plate : 
 
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130 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 " National Mary Washington Memorial Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 •' Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, President. 
 
 " Mrs. Margaret Hetzel, Secretary. 
 
 " Trustees : 
 
 " Hon.. Grover Cleveland, President United States. 
 
 •' Hon. Melville W.I Fuller, Chief Justice United 
 States. 
 
 " Hon. Philip W. McKinney, Governor ot 
 Virginia. 
 
 On December 21, 1893, the great shaft 
 was placed near the derrick and the work of 
 elevating it on the plinth was begun. During 
 the 2 2d it was slowly raised from a horizontal 
 to a perpendicular position, and at 4 o'clock 
 p. m. it was placed on the plinth. 
 
 Mrs. Waite went to Fredericksburg with 
 her daughter to witness the raising of the 
 shaft, and from the windows of the house 
 opposite, the residence of Hon, J. Seymour 
 White, she watched every movement of the 
 work. After the obelisk was securely poised 
 on the plinth, she accepted the monument in 
 the name of the National Association. 
 
 The monument, securely boxed, remained 
 in its wooden cover over Christmas Day, but 
 
THE NEW MONUMENT. 131 
 
 It was unboxed on December 26th and thor- 
 oughly cleaned ; then it was again boxed up 
 to remain until the dedication, which it was 
 decided should take place in the month of 
 May, the month endeared to the Association 
 by many anniversaries, not the least of which 
 was the laying of the first corner-stone by 
 President Jackson. 
 
CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 REPORTS AND APPEALS. 
 
 At the annual meeting held on February 
 24, 1894, the President presented the follow- 
 ing report: 
 
 " We now enter upon the 5th year of active work. 
 In previous years we had little to report of results. 
 We worked hard and constantly, but it took a long 
 time to collect the amount needed before we could 
 begin the real work of contracting for and directing 
 a monument to the mother of Washington. 
 
 " Now, we come before you prepared to show 
 results. Our monument to Mary, the mother of 
 Washington, has been put up. The ground around 
 is practically graded and enclosed by a fence to 
 protect it from vandalism. 
 
 " The monument is fifty feet high and comprises 
 a monolith of forty feet, standing on bases and 
 plinth ten feet high. The lower base is eleven feet 
 square. The whole shaft of fifty feet is of Barre 
 granite and the finest workmanship. On the front 
 of the plinth are the words: " Mary the Mother of 
 Washington," and on the reverse side: " Erected by 
 her Country-Women." These inscriptions are beau- 
 tifully cut. Mr. Crawford, the designer and builder 
 (132) 
 
REPORTS AND APPEALS. 1 33 
 
 of the monument, has shown a truly patriotic spirit 
 in the work, putting not only his best skill but his 
 whole heart into it. 
 
 " We have resorted to various methods of raising 
 the money ; some have succeeded beyond our ex- 
 pectations, others have resulted in disappointment. 
 But the monument is now paid for, $11,500. The 
 wrought-iron fence around it, twenty feet square and 
 six feet high, with stone posts, put up in the most 
 substantial manner, is also paid for. This, with the 
 cost of grading, keeping a watchman, and the other 
 minor expenses, have almost exhausted our funds. 
 
 " We must now put a fence around our five acres 
 of park, build a gate-house for the gardener and 
 custodian of the grounds, lay out and improve the 
 park, and we must have a small endowment fund 
 for future expenses. Contributions are daily coming 
 in, but in small quantities, owing probably to the 
 general depression in business and the needs of the 
 unemployed. We are very grateful for all contri- 
 butions, but we must emphasize our needs for more 
 money to enable us to entirely complete this work 
 and hand it over to the trustees this summer. 
 
 [Signed] " Amelia C. Waite." 
 
 The Secretary then presented a concise 
 History and an appeal to the Daughters of 
 the American Revolution, which was ap- 
 proved by the Board and ordered to be 
 printed and circulated. 
 
134 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 She appealed to the Daughters as an 
 Honorary Vice-President-General, present at 
 the organization, when the motion to aid in 
 the completion of the Monument to the 
 Mother of Washington, was passed by ac- 
 clamation. She alluded to the work already 
 done by many Chapters, but realizing the 
 growth of the Society of the Daughters of 
 the American Revolution, she felt it her 
 "official duty" to bring the matter before all 
 the Chapters throughout the country, that 
 every Daughter may be afforded an oppor- 
 tunity to add her mite (though it may be) to 
 redeem the noble pledge made at the organ- 
 ization of our great Patriotic Society on 
 October 1 1, 1890." 
 
 The Concise History contained an epitome 
 of what has already been told in these pages, 
 closing with the following eloquent appeal to 
 the Vice-Presidents: 
 
 " With grateful thanks for all your noble work in 
 the past, and trusting that you will be able to still 
 effectively aid us in the good cause, I remain, 
 " Respectfully yours, 
 [Signed] " Margaret Hetzel." 
 
 Mrs. Terhune [Marion Harland], always 
 
REPORTS AND APPEALS. 1 35 
 
 active and ready to aid the cause, published 
 in the Christian Herald, a chapter from her 
 "Story of Mary Washington," which, as we 
 already know, she had published by Hough- 
 ton, Mifflin and Co. for the benefit of the 
 National Mary Washington Association. To 
 this Chapter she added a foot note suggest- 
 ing that every woman and child in the coun- 
 try bearing the name of Mary should give 25 
 cents to the monument, leading the donation 
 with her own name, Mary Virginia Terhune, 
 which was followed by Miss Mary F. Waite, 
 who also issued an appeal to the Mary's. 
 The responses to Mrs. Terhune and Miss 
 Waite were numerous, and the Mary Fund 
 soon reached a considerable sum. 
 
 Among the contributors to the Mary Fund 
 was the Rev. Dr. Howison, author of "The 
 Student's History of the United States," and 
 also of the standard History of Virginia. 
 Enclosing a donation in honor of his mother, 
 wife, daughter and sister he paid an eloquent 
 tribute to the Mary Washington Association, 
 saying that the more he studied the life and 
 character of Washington, the more he was 
 convinced of his unequalled grandeur and 
 
136 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 purity, and of his mother's influence in 
 moulding that character; adding that the 
 work of the Mary Washington Association 
 in restoring- the tomb and revivinof the mem- 
 ory of this noble Virginia mother should 
 merit the thanks of every true American. 
 
CHAPTER XXIII. 
 
 THE DEDICATION. 
 
 The loth of May 1894, an ideal spring -day 
 with a cloudless sky, a bright sun tempered 
 by a refreshing breeze, was the day that drew 
 visitors from all over the country to honor 
 the mother of Washington. 
 
 Governor O'Ferrall of Virginia had issued 
 an eloquent and touching proclamation order- 
 ing the State offices in Richmond closed, the 
 flag on the State Capitol placed at half mast 
 and requesting all citizens of Virginia, as far 
 as possible to unite in reverencing the mem- 
 ory of this " Good Virginia Mother." 
 
 The city of Fredericksburg was in gala 
 attire. The streets were a mass of decora- 
 tion: Americau flags side by side with the 
 Virginia State banner: continental buff and 
 blue streamed side by side with the red white 
 and blue and the red and gold insignia of the 
 Ball family which floated before the homes of 
 Mary Ball's descendants. 
 (137) 
 
138 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 " Flags of some sort floated from every housetop 
 and gable window and thousands of little flags 
 waved over the doorways of homes, or were carried 
 in the hands of the younger portions of the com- 
 munity." Often little flags, or the union shield 
 with the Virginia coat of arms would frame a 
 picture, either of the woman who was that day 
 honored or of her immortal son or of Martha his 
 wife or of some other Revolutionary character or 
 event. 
 
 " One of the most noticeable decorations was an 
 old tree standing on a corner of two of the principal 
 streets, which looked as if it might have been seared 
 by the terrible iron hail of nearly a third of a century 
 ago. This ancient tree was wrapped completely 
 from its base, far up among its branches and leaves, 
 with red and white bunting studded with blue stars. 
 The contrast of the bright colors of the bunting 
 with the delicate green of the newly opened leaves 
 was not only picturesque but beautiful. 
 
 At 10:20 the special train from Washing- 
 ton arrived, bringing the President, the Chief 
 Justice, members of the Cabinet and other 
 invited guests, with the ladies of the National 
 Mary Washington Association, the Daughters 
 of the x^merican Revolution and the Marine 
 Band. 
 
 The Marine Band was the first to alight, 
 
THE DEDICATION. 139 
 
 and lost no time in saluting the President as 
 he drove past with " Hail to the Chief" and 
 playing the "Star Spangled Banner" and 
 "America" in honor of Mrs. Waite and the 
 Board of Lady Managers of the N. M. W. 
 
 M. A. 
 
 At the home of Mary Washington, an old 
 time cottage on a side street, a luncheon was 
 served by the Fredericksburg Monument As- 
 sociation to the National Mary Washington 
 Memorial Association. The ladies were re- 
 ceived by Mrs. Fleming, President of the Fred- 
 ericksburg Mary Washington Association, as- 
 sisted by Mrs. Thompson, the Secretary and 
 other ladies. The old house had been pur- 
 chased and restored by the Association for the 
 Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and was 
 shining with a new coat of Colonial yellow. 
 It was furnished completely as in the days of 
 Mary Washington, and the quaint furniture 
 with the turbaned "Aunties" in attendance 
 called one back to the days when the grand 
 '*01d Mistress" was yet alive ; while the open 
 hearted cordiality of the hostesses assured all 
 that the proverbial hospitality of Old Virginia 
 was as active as ever. 
 
140 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 A short time only was allowed to walk 
 through the old house, to wander through the 
 garden where Lafayette found the " Roman 
 Matron " among her flowers, when a summon 
 came to attend the dedication ceremonies. 
 
 The procession in honor of a monument to 
 a woman, erected by women, was most fit- 
 tingly led by ten beautiful young ladies on 
 horseback under the leadership of Miss 
 Rosalie Bankhead of Stafford County. All 
 wore black habits and black cavalry hats, 
 adorned with sable plumes and cockades of 
 the Continental colors. Splendid riders they 
 unflinchingly kept their seats through fire 
 and sword as well as martial music, for the 
 Marine Band followed with a large Military 
 escort, marshalled by General Charles And- 
 erson, who wore conspicuously on his breast 
 the star of the Hereditary Life Member, first 
 worn by him at the White Sulphur Springs 
 at the brilliant ball originated and manag^ed 
 by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor. The first, and 
 almost the only man then entitled to wear that 
 star, was the Adjudant General of the State 
 of Virginia, the marshall of that procession. 
 
 Then followed in carriages the ladies of the 
 two Mary Washington Associations : 
 
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 Mrs. Waite, Mrs. Fleming, Mrs. Hetzel, 
 Mrs. Thompson. 
 
 Mrs. Emory, Miss Maude Lee Davidge, 
 Miss Sallie Emory, Miss Victoria Emory. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Virginia Terhune, Mrs. Chris- 
 tine Terhune Herrick, Mrs. James Power 
 Smith, Miss Hetzel. 
 
 Miss Mary Desha, Miss Janet Richards, 
 Miss Ida Beall, (carrying a flag which her 
 grandfather Admiral ap Catesby Jones car- 
 ried in the war of 1812. 
 
 Then followed the President's carriage 
 which had halted for the ladies to take the 
 post of honor, immediately behind the mar- 
 shal. The President saluted the ladies, hat 
 in hand, with an enthusiastic smile as he ac- 
 corded them the precedence and fell into line 
 behind them. 
 
 Fourteen other carriages followed filled 
 with distinguished guests. 
 
 Then followed the Richmond Light Infantry 
 Blues, the Alexandria Drum Corps, the Al- 
 exandria Light Infantry, the First Virginia 
 Regiment, Co. C, the Richmond Howitzers, 
 the Knights of Pythias, Sons of Confederate 
 Veterans, Confederate Veterans, Fredericks- 
 
142 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 burg Lodge No. 4, James F. Lowrey, Master, 
 and Washington Lodge, Alexandria. William 
 F. Smith, Master. 
 
 [General Washington was initiated a 
 Mason by the Fredericksburg Lodge and 
 was buried by the Washington Lodge of 
 Alexandria of which he was a member.] 
 
 The Grand Master of the Grand 1 .odge of 
 Virginia, with the Grand Secretary of the 
 District of Columbia closed the procession. 
 
 Through the streets of Fredericksburg they 
 marched and as they passed the old mansion 
 of Betty Washington Lewis, now known as 
 Kenmore, the tall, white shaft appeared in 
 sight, surrounded by gaily decorated stands 
 crowded by still more gaily decorated people. 
 In the midst of this bustling crowd it stood, 
 pure, solid, simple, like the woman in whose 
 honor it was erected, a silent reminder of her 
 simple and unobtrusive grandeur of char- 
 acter. 
 
 Through a chaos of people of all ages and 
 sexes, in multifarious costumes, guarded by 
 uniforms of every conceivable color and pat- 
 tern, the grand stand was reached. On the 
 rostrum were seated President Cleveland and 
 
THE DEDICATION. 1 43 
 
 Mayor Rowe, the Vice-President and Mrs. 
 Stevenson, President General of the Daugh- 
 ters of the American Revolution, wearing the 
 star of the Mary Washington Association, 
 presented to her by the Virginia chapters of 
 Albemarle and Roanoke. Near Mrs. Steven- 
 son sat Governor and Mrs. O'Ferrall, Sena- 
 tor Daniel, the Secretary of State and Mrs. 
 Gresham, the Secretary of the Treasury and 
 Mrs. Carlisle, the Secretary of War and Mrs. 
 Lamont, the Secretary of Agriculture and 
 Miss Morton, Secretary Bissell, the Chief 
 Justice and Mrs. Fuller, Justice and Mrs. 
 Harlan, Mrs, Waite, President of the Na- 
 tional Mary Washington Memorial Associa- 
 tion, Mrs. V. M. Fleming, President of the 
 Fredericksburg Mary Washington Associa- 
 tion, Mrs. Hetzel, Secretary of the National 
 Association, and Miss Maude Lee Davidge, 
 Incorporator and Director. 
 
 Next to the rostrum were seats reserved 
 for the descendants of Mary Washington, who 
 had been specially invited by the National 
 Association. They had been summoned from 
 the East and from the West ; from old West- 
 moreland, King George and Fairfax, from 
 
144 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky, Texas, 
 California, New Jersey and New York; one 
 invitation had been sent to Japan, to Paymas- 
 ter Mason Ball, U. S. N. All present wore 
 red and gold ribbons in honor of the Ball 
 family and their seats were decorated with 
 red and gold by the Chairman of Arrange- 
 ments, Hon. William A. Little. Among the 
 descendants present were Miss Eugenia 
 Washington, Col. Thornton Augustus Wash- 
 ington and Miss Lee Washington, Mrs. 
 Fanny Washington Finch and her niece Mrs. 
 Magruder, Miss Eugenia Washington Mon- 
 cure, Captain George Washington Ball and 
 his dauofhters, Mrs. Hill and the Misses Ball; 
 Miss Attaway Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Byrd 
 Lewis, Mrs. Bettie McG. Smoot, Mrs. Wal- 
 lace, Mrs. Mary Stuart Smith and her daugh- 
 ter Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Empie, Mr. Lawrence 
 Washington of Mt. Vernon, and his sisters. 
 Miss Eliza Seldon Washington and Mrs. 
 Eleanor Washington Howard ; Mrs. Perrine, 
 of Baltimore, and her sister, Mrs. Mary 
 Washington Keyser, Vice-President and 
 Hereditary Life Member, wearing the spin- 
 ning-wheel of the D. A. R., the badge of the 
 
THE DEDICATION. 145 
 
 Colonial Dames, the star of the Hereditary 
 Life Member, and the red and gold streamers 
 that distinguished the descendants of Mary 
 Ball. The reunion of the descendants was not 
 the least interesting feature of the celebration. 
 Miss Susan Carrington Clarke and Mrs. 
 Clifton R. Breckenridge, Vice-Presidents for 
 Connecticut and Arkansas, sat near Mrs. 
 Keyser on the grand stand. One could not 
 but regret the absence of Mrs. Pryor and 
 many other Vice-Presidents. Among the 
 Daughters of the American Revolution pres- 
 ent ''were Mrs. Kate Kearney Henry, 
 Regent of the District of Columbia, Miss 
 Ella Loraine Hersey, Mrs. Fanny Washing- 
 ton Reading, Miss Elizabeth Lee Washing- 
 ton, Mrs. Major Goodloe, Mrs. Randolph 
 Powell, Mrs. Thompson H. Alexander, and 
 Mrs. Sylvia Contee Meredith, accompanied by 
 her husband, Hon. E. E. Meredith, the pop- 
 ular Congressman from Northern Virginia. 
 
 The ceremonies opened with a prayer by 
 the Reverend James Power Smith, the author 
 of the touching appeal published in the Home 
 Maker for 1890. After invoking the Divine 
 blessing he said : 
 
 ID 
 
146 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 " Amid these encircling hills of green and these 
 smiling fields of plenty, we have gathered on this 
 gentle errand to do honor to the American woman 
 to whom we owe so much. On this lovely spot, 
 consecrated by her solitary devotions, where rests 
 the hallowed dust in silent sleep of death, American 
 women have erected this monument that our chil- 
 dren's children may remember her in grateful love. 
 They have wished to make it enduring, that its les- 
 sons may never fail among us, and they have made 
 it reach aloft that it may point forever to Thee, by 
 whom alone all mothers fulfill their missions and 
 all sons grow in strength and honor. 
 
 " Where once the rude alarms of war made the 
 air to tremble and the sun to hide his face; on this 
 battlefield, stained alas, with the blood of brothers, 
 we have come from North and South with one 
 accord, to fulfill our common duty of respect. 
 Peace, blessed peace from Thee, O God of Peace, 
 comes with us; and surely 'peace hath its victories 
 no less renowned than war.' 
 
 " We thank Thee for the sweet name of mother; 
 for the memory of this noble American mother ; for 
 her great gift, the son she bore and bred, and all 
 the lessons she taught him of truth and purity, and 
 the manly virtues of self control and unselfish devo- 
 tion to right and to his country in which she 
 trained him. 
 
 " May our people learn more and more to honor 
 
THE DEDICATION. 147 
 
 the name of mother ; and every home be the shrine 
 of all things pure and lovely, and the nursery of 
 sons and daughters to defend and adorn a great 
 and happy land." 
 
 After this sublime, prayer, the Mayor of 
 Fredericksburg rose, and in a very able ad- 
 dress welcomed on behalf of the City of 
 Fredericksburg, the President, Governor and 
 other distinguished guests. He gave a brief 
 account of the first monument and the lay- 
 ing of the corner-stone by President Andrew 
 Jackson ; he paid an eloquent tribute to the 
 lamented Frank Hatton and the ladies of the 
 Mary Washington Association, including 
 " the noble women in various sections, some 
 of whom have graced this occasion by their 
 presence to-day." 
 
 The President of the United States was 
 then welcomed by Governor O'Ferrall on be- 
 half of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He 
 alluded to the memorial in these eloquent 
 words : 
 
 " To perpetuate the memory of her who gave 
 birth to the leader of the American armies in the 
 mighty struggle; fashioned his genius, moulded his 
 character, formed his soul for good, and inspired 
 
148 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 him for the work of Hberating his people from the 
 fetters of tyranny and establishing on this Western 
 Continent an indestructible Union of indestructible 
 States, ' a government which is the cynosure of all 
 nations' eyes, the wonder of the hemispheres, the 
 marvel of the civiiized world.' 
 
 " Here under this bright sky and in these clear 
 sunbeams the first monument is to be dedicated in 
 remembrance of this noble American matron ; 
 builded not, however, by this Government with all 
 its might and wealth and resources, but by a 
 glorious band of women who determined to rescue 
 the memory of the mother of Washington from the 
 corroding hand of time and carve her name in 
 letters deep in marble, where generations down, 
 down the ages to come can read with kindling eyes 
 and swelling bosoms." 
 
 Then, after alluding to Washington as a 
 Cromwell without his ambition, a Scylla with- 
 out his crimes, to the world its brio-htest ex- 
 ample, and to mankind its ideal philanthro- 
 pist, he alluded to President Cleveland as 
 " a statesman without guile, a patriot with- 
 out selfishness ;" he welcomed the Justices of 
 the Supreme Court as successors of John 
 Marshall, with a heart}^ greeting to the mem- 
 bers of the Cabinet, the Senators and repre- 
 
THE DEDICATION. 1 49 
 
 sentatives, concluding with these impressive 
 words : 
 
 " Let our blessings ever follow the glorious 
 daughters of this bonded Union, by whose appoint- 
 ment we are here, who, with feet that never wearied, 
 with a resolution that never faltered, with spirits 
 that never drooped and hearts that never grew faint, 
 pursued the noble work to which they had conse- 
 crated themselves until this pillar was crowned with 
 its apex, the last letter carved, the trowel and chisel 
 laid to rest and the whole structure dedicated for 
 all time to the memory of Mary, the mother of 
 Washington, and committed to the keeping of Vir- 
 ginia, her birthland, her homeland, her graveland, 
 who with her watchful eye will guard it with sacred 
 care and by her strong arm protect it from the 
 Vandal touch." 
 
 The President introduced by Mayor Rowe, 
 followed with an impressive address delivered 
 in a strong, mellow, penetrating voice that 
 seemed capable of filling the entire Monu- 
 ment Park without any effort on the part of 
 the speaker. He said : 
 
 " Goruernor CFerralL Mr. Mayor and Fellow 
 
 Citizens : 
 
 " I speak for those who are to-day greeted as the 
 official guests of Virginia and Fredericksburg, when 
 
150 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 I return hearty thanks for the hearty welcome that 
 has been extended to us in behalf of both State and 
 City. Our appreciation of the warmth of your re- 
 ception is not diminished by the thought that in 
 the light of the highest meaning belonging to this 
 occasion, there are no guests here. We have 
 assembled on equal terms to worship at a sacred 
 National shrine. * * * 
 
 "The man who said he cared not who made the 
 people's laws if he could write their songs, might 
 have said with more truth that he could gauge the 
 strength and honor of a people and their fitness for 
 self government if he knew the depth and steadfast- 
 ness of their love for their mothers. I believe that 
 he who thinks it manly to outgrow his care and 
 devotion to his mother, is, more that he who has no 
 music in himself, fit for treason, stratagem and 
 spoils, and should not be trusted. Let us recall 
 to day as conclusive proof of close relation between 
 American greatness and a lasting love and reverence 
 for our mothers, the proud declaration of George 
 Washington, ' All I am I owe to my mother,' and 
 let us not forget that when his glory was greatest 
 and when the plaudits of his countrymen were 
 loudest, he valued more than these the blessing and 
 approval of his aged mother. 
 
 " While these exercises cannot fail to inspire us 
 anew with reverence for American motherhood, we 
 will remember that we are here to do honor to the 
 
THE DEDICATION. I5I 
 
 woman who gave to our Nation its greatest and 
 best citizen, and that we have the privilege of parti- 
 cipating in the dedication of a monument erected 
 by the women of our land in loving and enduring 
 testimony to the virtues of the mother of Washing- 
 ton. Let us be proud to-day that the nobility of 
 this woman exacted from a distinguished foreigner 
 the admission : ' If such are the matrons of America, 
 she may well boast of illustrious sons,' and that 
 Lafayette, who had fought with her son for 
 American independence, declared after he had re- 
 ceived her blessing: ' I have seen the only Roman 
 matron living at this day.' 
 
 "Remembering these things, let us leave this 
 place with our love of country strengthened, with 
 a higher value of American citizenship, and with a 
 prayer to God that our people may hold fast to the 
 sentiment that grows out of the love and reverence 
 for American motherhood." 
 
 After the President's address the monu- 
 ment was dedicated by the Grand Master of 
 the Masons of Virginia, Mann Page, and the 
 Grand Lodge of Virginia, assisted by Freder- 
 icksburg Lodge No. 4, where Washington 
 was initiated; and Washington Lodge of 
 Alexandria, of which he was the first Master, 
 a member until his death, and under whose 
 management his funeral was conducted. 
 
152 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 When the dedication ceremonies were 
 completed, President Cleveland arose, saying 
 that it was one of the most interesting inci- 
 dents of the occasion to present a lineal de- 
 scendant of " Mary, the mother of Washing- 
 ton," introduced Mr. Lawrence Washington, 
 who responded on behalf of the Washington 
 family. His speech was an interesting sketch 
 of the parentage and home of Mary Ball, of 
 her married life, her widowhood and the 
 character of her children, concluding with 
 these words: 
 
 " A life like hers spent in the performance of 
 those domestic duties which demand no public 
 recognition or applause, and of which no account 
 is immediately written, can only be judged by its 
 results. Tested by this standard it needs no 
 apologies, and her requiem might well close with 
 the motto of her husband's family, ' Excitus acta 
 probat! " 
 
 The President then introduced the orator 
 of the day in the following felicitous words: 
 
 " On a day like this, of which Virginia 
 should feel proud, she is peculiarly fortunate 
 in having within her borders one who is bet- 
 ter equipped than any man in the whole 
 
THE DEDICATION. I 53 
 
 country for performing the duties of the oc- 
 casion. She could not find one more fit than 
 the distinguished son she has chosen. I in- 
 troduce Senator John Daniel." 
 
 Senator Daniel's address on this occasion 
 has been pronounced the ablest oratorical 
 effort of his life ; thai" he was the Senator who 
 so long and valiantly strove to have the work 
 done by the Government, adds zest to his 
 remarks : 
 
 "Mr. President of the United States; Ladies 
 OF THE Mary Washington Monument Asso- 
 ciation, My Countrymen : 
 
 " George Washington was the noblest figure that 
 ever stood in the forefront of a nation's life. We 
 are gathered to-day around his mother's grave. 
 ' All that I am,' said he, ' I owe to my mother.' 
 All that we are as a nation we owe to him. His 
 debt is ours. * * * Beholding this monument, 
 we rejoice that this debt is acknowledged, and 
 realize that no limitation of time can bar rendition 
 of justice to a noble fame. 
 
 " Our gratitude goes forth to our countrywomen 
 who have so worthily achieved this work. Men 
 attempted it and left it half accomplished. The 
 State and the Federal governments alike contem- 
 plated, discussed and postponed it. Our noble 
 women undertook it and it was done. 
 
154 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 " We thank you, Madam, you Mrs. President, 
 and your companions of the Mary Washington 
 Memorial Association. Your success is your re- 
 ward, and you will be henceforth blended in our 
 veneration with her whose name is carved upon 
 this sacred stone. It was fitting indeed that your 
 pious hands should rear the first monument on 
 earth erected by women to a woman, and fitting 
 too that it should bear the name of Mary, the 
 mother of Washington." 
 
 After a tribute to the American home and 
 to its effects on good government and a just 
 nation, he said : 
 
 " You have reared this beautiful obelisk to one 
 who was the light of the dwelling in a plain, rural, 
 colonial home. Her history hovers around it. 
 She nursed a hero at her breast. At the knee she 
 trained to the love and fear of God and to the 
 kingly virtues, honour, truth and valour, the lion of 
 the tribe that gave to America liberty and inde- 
 pendence. This is her title to renown. It is 
 enough. ******* 
 
 " She was the good angel of the hearthstone — 
 the special providence of tender hearts and helpless 
 hands, content to bear her burden in the sequestered 
 vale of life, her thoughts unperverted by false ambi- 
 tion, and all unlooking for the great reward that 
 crowned her love and toil, 
 
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 " But for the light that streamed from the deeds 
 of him she bore, we doubtless would have never 
 heard the name of Mary Washington, and the grass 
 that grew upon this grave had not been disturbed 
 by curious footsteps nor reverential hands ; but it 
 does not follow that she shines only in the reflection 
 of her offspring's fame. Her virtues were not 
 created, they were only discovered by the mar- 
 vellous career of her illustrious son. This memorial 
 might indeed be due to her because of who she was, 
 but it is far more due because of what she was. It 
 is in her own right, and as the type of her sex, her 
 people and her race, that she deserves this tribute 
 stone. 
 
 "There were ten thousand Mary Washingtons 
 among the mothers of the Revolution, and honour- 
 ing her we honour the motherhood of heroic days 
 and heroic men, It was in his character, all suffi- 
 cient in every emergency, that was displayed the 
 overtowering greatness of George Washington and 
 it is not doubted that this character was toned and 
 shaped by his mother's hand. The principles which 
 he applied to a Nation were those simple and 
 elementary truths which she first imprinted upon 
 his mind in the discipline of home." * * 
 
 Senator Daniel reviewed the life of Mary 
 Washington from her youth, when she was 
 "The Belle of the Northern Neck," "The 
 
156 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Rose of Epping Forest," to her old age when 
 she was venerated as the "Roman Matron," 
 or beloved as "Old Madam ;" of her appear- 
 ance at the Peace Ball, her reception of Lafay- 
 ette in her garden, of her last meeting with 
 her great son, when he came to receive her 
 blessing before accepting the highest gift of a 
 grateful nation. He told of her death, of the 
 generous gift of Mr. Burrows; of the laying 
 of the corner stone on the 7th of May, 1833, 
 of the misfortune of the unfinished monument 
 as battle-scarred and weather-stained it had 
 finally become so dilapidated as to be incap- 
 able of reconstruction. He concluded with 
 these stirring words : 
 
 " Once again the May time breaks with its sun- 
 shine, its verdure and its blossoms over the land 
 whose hills and plains were shaken and whose 
 houses were shattered by the thunders of war; but 
 no more do their long lines come gleaming out to 
 the deadly fray; no more is heard ' the noise of the 
 captains and the shouting,' no more are seen the 
 garments rolled in blood. Yet history repeats 
 itself, and a mighty host is again marshaled upon 
 these plains. Manhood and womanhood and child- 
 hood are here; the people have come from far and 
 wide ; the old Masonic Lodge of which Washing- 
 
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 157 
 
 ton was a member and the volunteer soldiery are 
 gathered here, and our noble chief Magistrate and 
 Commander in Chief, who fills the seat of Washing- 
 ton and Jackson, is here to lift up the pure ideals 
 of the Republic and imbibe and impress the lessons 
 of this consecrated day. ' I prophesy,' said Thomas 
 Carlyle, ' that the world will once more become a 
 sincere, a believing world, with many heroes in it — 
 a heroic world. It will then be a victorious world 
 —never 'till then.' Fireside lessons and the 
 mother's love must make it so — sincere, believing, 
 heroic, victorious. In scenes like this are tokens 
 of the fulfillment of the prophet's vision. Patriot- 
 ism kneeling by the good woman's grave invokes 
 its inspirations and prays God's blessing on the land 
 of Washington." 
 
 Immediately after Senator Daniel's oration 
 and the applause that followed, two beautiful 
 baskets of flowers were presented to Mrs. 
 Waite and Mrs. Hetzel by Miss Maude Lee 
 Davldge, of the National Board of Directors, 
 and Miss Victoria Emory, daughter of the 
 First Vice President. They were the kind 
 and graceful gifts of the sister of Senator 
 Daniel. 
 
 Governor O'Ferrall, at the request of the 
 ladies of the Fredericksburg Mary Washing- 
 
158 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 ton Monument Association, read a set of en- 
 grossed resolutions, which were then pre- 
 sented to Mrs, Waite as President of the 
 National Society. 
 
 After a preamble, stating the gift of Mr. 
 Shepherd, the conditional deed to the Na- 
 tional Association and the erection of the 
 monument just dedicated, it was 
 
 ''Resolved, By the Mary Washington Monument 
 Association of Fredericksburg, Virginia, that th% 
 most heartfelt thanks of the Association are due 
 and are hereby tendered to the National Mary 
 Washington Memorial Association for the able and 
 effective way in which the monument on their part 
 has been pushed to a successful completion, for 
 their earnest and untiring efforts, for their zeal and 
 devotion to this sacred cause, and for their patriot- 
 ism so well expressed in this enduring shaft of 
 granite. 
 
 " And be it further Resolved, That this Associa- 
 tion do also tender their thanks to those friends 
 who, more especially in the beginning ot this under- 
 taking, came to their aid with untiring interest and 
 unflagging zeal, prominent among whom stand the 
 names of Dr. James P. Smith, the late lamented 
 Frank Hatton, and Mrs. M. V. Terhune." 
 
 This concluded the ceremonies. The ladies 
 
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 of the National Board enjoyed a rest in the 
 cool sweet home of Mrs. Fleming. President 
 Cleveland, after holding a reception on the 
 Monument Park, made a visit to the pretty- 
 cottage opposite, the home of Hon. J. Sey- 
 mour White of the Fredericksburg Free 
 Lance, where he was entertained by Mrs. 
 White and the charming sister of Mrs. White, 
 Mrs. Judge Goolrick, the First Vice-President 
 for Virginia of the National Association. Her 
 early services to the cause are recorded in 
 these pages, especially her admirable appeal 
 published on October 31st, 1889. 
 
 The President, Cabinet, Justices, Senator 
 Daniel and Governor O'Ferrall and staff 
 were then escorted to the old Mary Wash- 
 ington house where they partook of a lunch- 
 eon. The President, delighted, wandered 
 through the old rooms, admiring the quaint, 
 colonial furniture and recalling the past. He 
 then asked if it were too late to invite the de- 
 scendants of Mary Washington to meet him 
 in the old home of their ancestress, for he 
 would be very happy to see them there. 
 Then the wearers of the red and gold, living 
 m Fredericksburg, who were entertaining 
 
l60 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 their kinsfolk from a distance were summoned 
 from their luncheons, and hosts and guests, 
 without regard to age or sex, repaired to the 
 old home, where the great-great-grandson of 
 old Aaron Cleveland, Congregational parson, 
 patriotic poet and Revolutionary officer, had 
 the satisfaction of grasping the hands and en- 
 joying the conversation of the nearest living 
 relatives of his first and greatest predecessor 
 in the home of his beloved and honored 
 mother. 
 
CHAPTER XXIV. 
 
 THE BANQUET. 
 
 At four o'clock, after the dedication, a ban- 
 quet was given in the opera house by the 
 Masons of Fredericksburg, under the auspices 
 of Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4. This was 
 pronounced the grandest banquet that Fred- 
 erieksburg had ever known. The hall was 
 handsomely decorated with flags, festoons, 
 and streamers of bunting, stars and stripes 
 innumerable, the Virginia banner, the Conti- 
 nental colors, buff and blue varied by flowers, 
 ferns and palms, which, combined with the 
 dresses of the lady guests, the regalia of the 
 Masons, the floral ornamentation of the 
 tables, and the cut glass and silverware pro- 
 duced a dazzling effect. 
 
 The Marine Band discoursed sweet music, 
 and when the familiar strains of " Hail to the 
 Chief" announced the arrival of the Executive 
 he was greeted with loud cheers by all 
 present, to whom he was presented by Judge 
 Sener, of Fredericksburg, as "a guest of the 
 II (161) 
 
1 62 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 lodge in which George Washington was made 
 a Mason ; in the spot where Andrew Jackson 
 had laid the cornerstone of a monument to 
 Mary Washington, and which now welcomed 
 the illustrious successor of Washington and 
 Jackson, President Grover Cleveland." 
 
 The President replied in a few felicitous 
 remarks, saying that he was embarrassed by 
 being numbered with his predecessors, for he 
 was but an unworthy successor of Washing- 
 ton and Jackson; he also regretted that he 
 was not a Mason ; perhaps it was not his 
 fault, but he was sure it was his misfortune ; 
 but, he added, that he belonged to a fraternity 
 of which George Washington and Andrew 
 Jackson were both prominent members, whose 
 temple was not as old as Solomon's, for it 
 was an American institution, a fraternity, 
 whose fruits would always be before the 
 world. " Would you know its name ? It is 
 the brotherhood of free and accepted Ameri- 
 can citizens." 
 
 The President and party were hardly 
 seated, the cheering of the crowd and the 
 music of the band not yet hushed when the 
 Governor with Mrs. O'Ferrall, Congressman 
 
THE BANQUET. I 63 
 
 and Mrs. E. E. Meredith and thirteen beau- 
 tiful girls from Richmond, representing the 
 thirteen original States, arrived and were 
 presented by Judge Sener. The Governor 
 responded to the greetings with a few amus- 
 ing words and took his seat amid the laughter 
 and plaudits of his hearers. 
 
 The Governor was followed by Mrs. Waite. 
 When she was introduced by Judge Sener 
 she smilingly bowed her acknowledgements 
 to the rapturous applause which greeted her, 
 equalling in enthusiasm that accorded the 
 President. She was accompanied by Mrs. 
 Fleming and Mrs. Thompson, President and 
 Secretary of the Fredericksburg Association. 
 Mrs. Hetzel, the Secretary of the National 
 Association was unable to be present, being 
 exhausted by the excitement and fatigue of 
 the dedication ceremonies, but her place was 
 admirably filled by the Assistant Secretary, 
 Miss Mary F. Waite. Miss Maude Lee 
 Davidge, Incorporator, was also of the party 
 with Miss Victoria Emory, Miss Elsie McEl- 
 roy, of Washington, and Miss Hetzel, of Fair- 
 fax County, Va. 
 
 The first toast to the "Memory of Mary 
 
1 64 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Washington" was responded to by George 
 Alfred Townsend in an attempt to travesty 
 that memory by a so-called poem, containing 
 more truth than poetry, but very little of 
 either. How one longed for the woman's 
 poem of 60 years previous ! 
 
 The toast: "George Washington the 
 Master Workman of the Age," was re- 
 sponded to by Vice-President Stevenson in 
 an admirable address. As a son of Illinois 
 he extolled the generosity of Virginia in ced- 
 ing to the General Government the great 
 Northwest, the conquest of George Rogers 
 Clarke. He paid a splendid tribute to George 
 Washington as a soldier, a statesman, a 
 Mason. "He was the recognized master 
 workman. His most eloquent eulogist has 
 well said: 'Virginia gave Washington to 
 America and America gave him to the world 
 and the ages.' " 
 
 At the laying of the corner-stone of the 
 National Capitol, one hundred years ago, 
 Washington officiated as Grand Master of 
 Freemasons as well as in his great office of 
 President of the United States. No crafts- 
 man can forget that upon that historic occa- 
 
THE BANQUET. 165 
 
 sion Washington wore the sash and apron 
 that had been wrought by the hands of the 
 wife of the beloved Lafayette. * * * 
 
 "Amid discouragement and danger let us not for- 
 get that with Washington there was an abiding 
 faith in the capacity of his countrymen for self- 
 government. * * * The century just closing has 
 not dimmed the glory of the achievements of this 
 illustrious man. * * * His name and fame are the 
 precious heritage of all people and all times, his 
 last words, the shibboleth of all parties and sec- 
 tions." 
 
 Mr. Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court, 
 U. S. A., responded to the toast: "Our dis- 
 tinguished guests; we extend to them a 
 hearty welcome." 
 
 Justice Harlan, after saying that he was a 
 son of Kentucky and therefore a grandson of 
 Virginia, thanked the people of Fredericks- 
 burg, most cordially on behalf of the Presi- 
 dent and his Cabinet, the Vice-President, the 
 Chief Justice and the Senators and Represen- 
 tatives, for the opportunity of being present 
 on such an interesting occasion and for the 
 generous hospitality extended to all. "All 
 the world," he said, "knows what Virginia 
 
1 66 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 hospitality means." He paid a graceful trib- 
 ute to George Mason's Bill of Rights, and 
 Virginia Constitution of 1776, and to the 
 heroes and statesmen of the Revolutionary 
 period. "But," he concluded, "there is an- 
 other circumstance connected with this occa- 
 sion which is of peculiar interest to the pres- 
 ent Chief Justice and myself as members of 
 the Supreme Court of the United States. It 
 is, that the erection of this beautiful monu- 
 ment is principally due to the untiring, unself- 
 ish, patient labor of a noble woman, the 
 widow of an honored successor of Chief Jus- 
 tice Marshall. I allude, as you know, to Mrs. 
 Amelia C. Waite, the President of the Na- 
 tional Mary Washington Memorial Associa- 
 tion. She deserves and will receive the 
 thanks of all, in every country, who revere 
 the memory of the mother of Washington 
 and her illustrious son." 
 
 The last toast: "To the National Mary 
 Washington Memorial Association," was re- 
 sponded to by Hon. Blair Lee, son of Mrs. 
 Elizabeth Blair Lee, Second Vice-President. 
 He said: 
 
 " The National Mary Washington Memorial As- 
 
THE BANQUET. I 67 
 
 sociation was started in May, 1889, by Mrs. Hetzel. 
 It was about the same time that Mrs. Terhune 
 I Marion Harland] commenced the same work in 
 New York, and a similar movement was made in 
 the Old South Church, Boston. The reason for so 
 general an uprising was the advertisement of the 
 sale at pubhc auction of the ground on which the 
 unfinished mo mment to Mary Washington stood. 
 
 " About this time came the news of the fearful 
 disaster at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, by which, and 
 the coming of the summer season, all efforts were 
 postponed until the autumn, when the work com- 
 menced with vigor. In the meantime the Mary 
 Washington Society of Fredericksburg secured the 
 land and deeded it to the National Society ' on con- 
 dition of their erecting a suitable monument upon 
 the ground.' These conditions appear now to be 
 fulfilled. 
 
 "To Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, President, and Mrs. 
 Margaret Hetzel, Secretary, of the lady managers, 
 is principally due the success of the undertaking. 
 
 " Mrs. Waite brought to this difficult task quali- 
 ties in a woman such as we are familiar with in the 
 character of Washington — dignity, patience, indus- 
 try and good sense. In directing the energy and 
 reconciling the differences of her associates and in 
 arousing public interest, she has experienced and 
 overcome many difficulties not unlike some that 
 met and harrassed General Washington, and she 
 
1 68 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 may not only look back upon her labors as success- 
 ful but as showing forth what they were least meant 
 to exhibit — the exalted nature of a true woman. 
 
 " Mrs. Hetzel suggested the work, and as Secre- 
 tary of the Board of Lady Managers has been inde- 
 fatigable, writing hundreds, I might say thousands 
 of letters to all parts of the United States, endeavor- 
 ing to enlist the patriotism of the women who could 
 appreciate the character of Washington's mother." 
 
 Thus concisely and clearly did Mr. Lee 
 recapitulate what has already become famil- 
 iar to the reader. He then alluded to the 
 successful work of Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, 
 reading a beautiful letter, regretting her ina- 
 bility to be present. After another deserved 
 tribute to Mrs. Terhune and the Vice-Presi- 
 dents of the States, he spoke of the recent 
 loss that the Association had sustained : 
 
 " One vacancy has occurred in the Board of 
 Directors since its organization through the death 
 of Hon. Frank Hatton. Passing along Pennsyl- 
 vania Avenue on the evening of the day he died, 
 by a flag at half mast on the beautiful building he 
 was prominent in erecting, I knew of his departure. 
 The moment and its suggestions were impressive. 
 A bright star was sinking in the clear west. There 
 came one of those lulls which sometimes take place 
 
THE BANQUET. 1 69 
 
 in the traffic of a thoroughfare. It seemed as 
 though the spirit of the dead was taking its last 
 look at the scene of life's labor and success. This 
 Association has lost in him a Director whose posi- 
 tion on the press, whose liberal sympathies and in- 
 tellectual gifts made him a vigorous helper." 
 
 This was the last speech. The ladies at 
 the National Association were saddened at 
 thus recalling the memory of their sympathiz- 
 ing friend and active helper. Mr. Lee had 
 filled his vacant chair and responded for him. 
 The appeal of the Reverend James Power 
 Smith, issued in Fredericksburg on Novem- 
 ber 20, 1889, said: "A general sentiment is 
 rising, stimulated by the meeting in the Old 
 South Meeting House, Boston, and in the 
 action of the Washington Post." This appeal 
 of the Fredericksburg Association made this 
 first tribute to Mr. Hatton, and it was most 
 fitting that the last words spoken at the ded- 
 ication ceremonies should also be a tribute to 
 his memory." 
 
 A contemporary sheet said : "It was a day 
 of patriotic oratory — a day when the minds of 
 the speakers and their hearers were turned 
 back to Revolutionary men and deeds as in 
 
170 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT^ 
 
 'the dear old unestranged days,' as Mr. 
 Lowell would say." 
 
 Too much cannot be said of the unbounded 
 hospitality and perfect management shown by 
 the citizens of Fredericksburg on this impres- 
 sive occasion. The Fredericksburg Monu- 
 ment Association under the admirable lead- 
 ership of Mrs. Fleming, the Masonic Lodge, 
 the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Lodge, and the 
 various committees of invitation, arrange- 
 ment, transportation, etc., all provided in the 
 most complete manner for the comfort and 
 enjoyment of their thousand guests. And it 
 also must not be forgotten here that the do- 
 nation of the Fredericksburg- Monument As- 
 sociation to the monument was two thousand 
 dollars, including the lot. 
 
 The President and party, Mr. and Miss 
 Waite, and other distinguished guests, left on 
 the six o'clock train for Washington, but sev- 
 eral remained, including the Governor and 
 his staff, and a beautiful ball was given in his 
 honor. The Opera House was transformed 
 from a banqueting hall into a ball room, 
 where the showy uniforms of the Governor 
 and his staff and the beautiful ball dresses of 
 
THE BANQUET. 17^ 
 
 the more beautiful Virginia girls made a truly 
 brilliant scene. 
 
 "Thus ended," said the Fredericksburg 
 Star, "the biggest day that Fredericksburg 
 has ever seen or ever will see. Not a disa- 
 greeable incident occurred as far as we could 
 hear to mar the pleasure of the occasion." 
 
CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 DE PROFUNDIS. 
 
 The closing words of Mr. Blair Lee at the 
 banquet at Fredericksburg were: "The work 
 of this organization is but half done. The 
 monument is indeed before you, but a fund 
 must be provided for its preservation ; a 
 keeper, a lodge and suitable enclosures must 
 be secured. While your patriotic emotions 
 are still glowing under the eloquence of Sen- 
 ator Daniel it is hoped that you will each and 
 all resolve that the good work shall stand." 
 
 On February 22, 1895, the annual meeting 
 was held at the residence of Chief Justice 
 Fuller, the host presiding. All the original 
 incorporators were present, also Mr. Lee and 
 Mr. Fendall of the Board of Directors. 
 
 Many Hereditary Life Members were pres- 
 ent. Mrs. Roger A. Pryor and Mrs. Daniel 
 Manning, of New York; Mrs. Squire, of 
 Washington State; Mrs. Cheney, of New 
 Hampshire; Miss Clarke, of Connecticut; 
 Mrs. Putnam, of New Jersey; Mrs. Hulbert, 
 (172) 
 
DE PROFUNDIS. 1 73 
 
 Mrs. Perin, Mrs. Thomas, Miss Annie Laws 
 and Miss Mary Torrence Harrison, of Ohio ; 
 Mrs. MacCartney, Mrs. Hunsicker and Miss 
 Rittenhouse, of Pennsylvania, and Miss Anne 
 Randolph Ball, of the District of Columbia. 
 Mrs. Newport, the Vice-President for Minne- 
 sota, was represented by her daughter, Miss 
 May Newport and Mrs. Mary Stuart Smith, 
 of Virginia, by her daughter, Mrs. Lelia B. 
 Cocke. 
 
 The Secretary after presenting the minutes 
 of the last meeting reported that the list of 
 Hereditary Life Members had increased dur- 
 ing the year from 168 to 187. The Treas- 
 urer's report was then called for and a balance 
 of ^2,600 reported. 
 
 Mrs. Waite then submitted her report, 
 her last annual report. Though the events 
 have already been described elsewhere, it is 
 well to hear of them through her : 
 
 " Since our last annual meeting we have some 
 progress to report, but much less than we had 
 expected. 
 
 " At that time we could say that the monument 
 to ' Mary, the Mother of Washington,' was com- 
 pleted, but not dedicated. 
 
174 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 " That ceremony took place on the lOth of May, 
 1894, in the presence of a distinguished gathering. 
 The President of the United States and many of his 
 Cabinet, the Vice-President and Chief Justice of the 
 United States and some of the Associate Justices, 
 the Governor of Virginia and his staff, with a mih- 
 tary escort, and many others of National reputation. 
 The exercises were most satisfactory. The speeches 
 of the President, the Governor of Virginia, and the 
 Mayor of Fredericksburg were all excellent, and 
 the oration of Senator Daniel magnificent. 
 
 " The monument standing up against the blue 
 sky in its purity and gracefulness elicited universal 
 approbation. So impressive was its appearance 
 that the Secretary of State could find no finer 
 model for the birthplace of George Washington at 
 Wakefield than one of similar design but five inches 
 taller.' * * * 
 
 " We have tried to impress upon our friends that 
 only half of our work is done. We must build a 
 custodian's house, improve the four acres of ground 
 around the Monument and secure an Endowment 
 Fund sufficient to take care of the place. Such are 
 the conditions of our deed from the ' Mary Wash- 
 ington Monument Association of Fredericks- 
 burg.' * * * 
 
 " Our Hereditary Life Membership has been the 
 most profitable source of income during the past 
 year. Our Secretary's report will show the number 
 
DE PROFUNDIS. I 75 
 
 of new members as well as the total. The Life 
 Membership is twenty-five dollars, with which we 
 give a silver star. If a member prefers a gold star 
 it is furnished by paying the extra cost of the metal. 
 An amendment to the by-laws providing for these 
 life memberships gives the members the right to 
 vote at our several meetings on and after February 
 22nd, 1897, and it is expected that thereafter the 
 officers of the Association will be chosen from these 
 members. * * * 
 
 " I would suggest the appointment of a Record- 
 ing Secretary. Our present Secretary has more to 
 do than her strength is equal to in her correspond- 
 ence. This she has managed most admirably, but 
 the duties of both positions are too mush for her. 
 
 "Amelia C. Waite, 
 "President of Ladies' Board of National Mary 
 
 Washington Association." 
 
 According- to this recommendation of the 
 
 o 
 
 President, Miss Mary F, Waite was elected 
 Recording Secretary and the other members 
 of the Board of Managers were re-elected. 
 
 It was resolved at a Board meeting a few 
 days later to proceed at once with the erec- 
 tion of a suitable stone house on the Monu- 
 ment Park for the Custodian. The Secre- 
 tary's report for the year showed that she had 
 
176 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 deposited with the Treasurer ^2000 before 
 the 2 2d of February. Since the annual meet- 
 ing she had received $256.57 from Mrs. Lan- 
 sing, Vice-President for New York State; 
 $25 from the Gaspee Chapter, of Providence, 
 R. I., and $95 from Mrs. Roger A, Pryor, 
 making in all $3276.57. In addition to this 
 amount $3000 had been set aside for the En- 
 dowment Fund. 
 
 On May 24, 1895, Mrs. Hetzel received a 
 touching and eloquent letter from Governor 
 Dillingham, of Vermont^ telling her the sad 
 news of the death of Mrs. Dillingham, one 
 month previous, adding: 
 
 " You know enough of her responsive nature to 
 understand that she was no ordinary woman, and 
 you will pardon me if I add that in all that goes to 
 make life grand she was richly endowed." 
 
 When one remembers with what energy 
 and enthusiasm she responded to the first 
 appeal of the National Association; how 
 promptly she sent in her large donation, col- 
 lected mostly from dollar contributors, and 
 which must have been the result of miraculous 
 courage and industry, one cannot but feel 
 strongly the truth of the tribute here paid her 
 
DE PROFUNDIS. I 77 
 
 by him who knew and loved her best. Her 
 name will always be endeared to the Mary 
 Washington Association as the first Vice- 
 President to respond to the appeal of the 
 Secretary with a contribution that made hers 
 the first banner state, 
 
 Mrs. Dillingham was the fourth Vice-Pres- 
 ident to be called away. Mrs. Faulkner, of 
 West Virginia, who had started her work 
 with great energy lived but a few months 
 after sendino- in her first donation. Mrs. 
 Cockrell, of Missouri, fell a victim to a sudden 
 attack of pneumonia, early in 1893, and Mrs. 
 Dundas Lippincott, of Philadelphia, who had 
 worked with untiring zeal in that city, was, 
 shortly after the dedication in 1894, summer- 
 ing at Bar Harbor, having left Philadelphia 
 during a heated term. Coming too suddenly 
 into the bracing air of Mount Desert she was 
 seized with a sudden illness, and expired in a 
 few days. 
 
 Miss Susan Carrington Clarke, the Vice- 
 President for Connecticut, had gone to At- 
 lanta, to attend the meeting of the Daughters 
 of the American Revolution, held in that 
 city during their Exposition. She had just 
 12 
 
178 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 arrived when she was attacked with what 
 seemed to be a severe cold, but which proved 
 to be a mortal disease. 
 
 The Secretary of the N. M. W. M. A. had 
 received only a few days previously an order, 
 sent by Miss Clarke, through Mrs. Waite, for 
 two gold medals. She sent her reply to 
 the officers of the Daughters of the Amer- 
 can Revolution, knowinof that Miss Clarke 
 was on her way to the Exposition. Her let- 
 ter was returned unopened by the Curator of 
 the D. A. R. office, with the sad news of Miss 
 Clarke's sudden death at Atlanta on Octo- 
 ber 20, 1895. She had been a very active 
 worker. As State Regent of Connecticut 
 she had brought the Mary Washington cause 
 before her Chapters, and she had many plans 
 for increasing the fund. 
 
 On October 20th, the day of Miss Clarke's 
 death, Mrs. Hetzel received a letter from 
 Washington, telling of the sudden illness of 
 Mrs. Waite. Returning from a summer at 
 the old home in Lyme, Connecticut, she 
 had reached Washington, and was on her 
 way from the train to her carriage, when she 
 was seized with vertigo, followed by heart 
 
DE PROFUNDIS. I 79 
 
 failure. She rallied for awhile, and lay for 
 four months very ill, tended by her devoted 
 daughter and her many dear friends. Her 
 interest in the Mary Washington Association 
 seemed to be the one subject that could divert 
 her mind from her physical sufferings; so 
 great was her sense of duty and responsi- 
 bility. She was able to know that the main 
 building of the Custodian's cottage, which 
 she had made her special work for that year, 
 was finished ; to approve the bills presented, 
 and to counsel the Board of Directors to 
 keep intact the $3,000 set aside for the En- 
 dowment Fund. Such was the interest she 
 showed that her friends on the Board hoped 
 for recovery; hoped soon again to see her 
 sweet face, to hear her sage advice and have 
 her once more among them as a true and 
 earnest worker; but it was in vain. On Feb- 
 ruary 2 1 St, at II o'clock p. m., her pure 
 spirit took flight. 
 
 This loss to the Society cannot be esti- 
 mated. It seemed a personal bereavement 
 to every member: 
 
 " Like a summer- dried fountain when our need was 
 the sorest." 
 
l8o BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Her death was felt keenly in her social 
 life, in her church and in her many charities ; 
 especially among the ladies of the Epiphany 
 Church Home; but I doubt if it was any 
 where more deplored than by this Society, to 
 which she had devoted the last years of her 
 life. 
 
 The next day, the 2 2d day of February, 
 was the day of the regular annual meeting. 
 As It had been impossible to give the neces- 
 sary notice on account of the illness of the 
 President, an informal meeting of Vice-Presi- 
 dents and Hereditary Life Members was held 
 at the Washington Club by order of Mrs. 
 Elizabeth Blair Lee, 2nd Vice-President. 
 The sad news of the death of our beloved 
 President was discussed and the Secretary 
 was empowered to draw up resolutions of 
 condolence. The Secretary, prostrated by 
 grief, age, and ill health, was unable to work 
 for some time, nor were any of the directors 
 ready to meet, and it was not until April 8th 
 that the Board met and elected Miss Waite 
 President to succeed her mother. 
 
CHAPTER XXVI. 
 
 THE HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 
 
 In May, 1896, the Secretary, by order of 
 the President, Miss Waite, issued an Appeal 
 to the Vice-Presidents and Hereditary Life 
 Members, begging them to send in their 
 reports and hsts of contributions before 
 February 2 2d, 1897, to be deposited in the 
 Custodian's House; also urging these ladies 
 to interest not only the Daughters and 
 Dames, but all patriotic women in the United 
 States, to complete the work they had so 
 nobly begun. 
 
 Many interesting reports were sent in 
 response by State Vice-Presidents. From 
 Mrs. Lansing of Albany, Mrs. Mary Wash- 
 ington Keyser of Maryland, Mrs. Roger A. 
 Pryor Vice-President at Large, and from 
 Mrs. Sarah E. Fairman the faithful and un- 
 tiring Chairman of the New York City 
 Chapter, D. A. R. Admirable work was 
 also done by Mrs. McCartney of Pennsylva- 
 (181) 
 
1 82 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 nia, and Mrs. Mather of New Jersey, though 
 they did not send any formal reports. 
 
 Among the responses to the Appeal was a 
 letter from Mrs. W. M. Wilcox of Middle- 
 town, Connecticut, showing so much ability 
 and such an intelligent interest in the subject, 
 that the Secretary wrote asking her to accept 
 the office of Vice-President for Connecticut 
 made vacant by the death of her friend and 
 townswoman Miss Susan Carrington Clarke. 
 Mrs. Wilcox accepted and commenced her 
 work on the ist of June. She issued Ap- 
 peals to all the Chapters of the Daughters of 
 the American Revolution in her State, with 
 the approval of Mrs. Kinney the State 
 Reofent. So effective was her work that she 
 enlisted 32 Hereditary Life Members in six 
 months and also collected a large sum from 
 other sources. 
 
 On February 27th, 1897, the annual meet- 
 ing was held at the house of Miss Davidge. 
 It was the first official meeting of the Hered- 
 itary Life Members, according to the by-law 
 that said they were privileged to vote at the 
 Annual meeting on, and after February 2 2d, 
 1897. 
 
HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 1 83 
 
 Miss Mary F. Waite, President in the 
 Chair, presented her report, reading an ac- 
 count of the disbursement of moneys during 
 the past year, and setting forth the needs of 
 the Society for a larger Endowment Fund 
 than the ^3000 invested. 
 
 The Secretary's report was then read giv- 
 ing an account of the receipts during the year 
 and the reports of the Vice-Presidents, mak- 
 ing especial mention of the work done by 
 Mrs. Wilcox, of Connecticut, and Mrs. Miller, 
 of Massachusetts. She also reported the 
 monument built and paid for, the Custodian's 
 House or Monument Lodge also built and 
 paid for and Mrs. Frances B. Goolrick, a 
 Fredericksburg lady of distinguished family 
 and of great intelligence and character ap- 
 pointed Custodian. Mrs. Goolrick will surely 
 be recognized by the readers of this little 
 volume on account of her earnest work in the 
 early days of the Society; she having sent 
 out the first appeal in October, 1 889, suggest- 
 ing the same plan of organization outlined by 
 Mrs. Waite, the previous June and put in 
 operation during the summer by Mrs. Hetzel. 
 
 Miss Waite then said that it still remained 
 
184 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 to lay out and enclose the park. She also 
 read a letter from the Custodian asking- for 
 some necessary work for the Lodge. These 
 additions were approved by all present. 
 
 Miss Hetzel then asked that some recep- 
 tacle might be placed in the Board Room of 
 the Lodpfe to receive the records of member- 
 ship and the reports of the contributors. Mrs. 
 Wilcox responded that the Connecticut ladies 
 would furnish the Board room. 
 
 Mrs. Stoddard, of New York, proposed 
 that the number of Hereditary Life Members 
 should be extended on account of the needs 
 of the Society. Ihis was opposed by Mrs. 
 Hall, of Pennsylvania, and other ladies on the 
 ground that it would cheapen the membership. 
 
 The President ruled that that motion, re- 
 quiring an amendment to a by-law, could only 
 be voted upon after a two-weeks' notice had 
 been sent to each member. The votes of 
 absentees could be sent by letter over each 
 signature. 
 
 Mrs. Oglesby, of Louisiana, offered a res- 
 olution in lieu of the previous motion: "That 
 each Hereditary Life Member pledge herself 
 to contribute $20 within the year." This was 
 
HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 1 85 
 
 objected to by several Vice-Presidents and 
 original members, as the Hereditary Life- 
 Membership insured the members against any 
 further tax, and they had so pledged them- 
 selves. 
 
 The President announced, with the deepest 
 regret, that the Treasurer, Mr. E. F. Riggs 
 had been forced to decline re-election, as he 
 was about to leave the country, adding : 
 
 " It is impossible to over-estimate the value of 
 his services to the Association from the very first 
 inception of the enterprise until now. 
 
 " I recommend that the Board put on record 
 their appreciation of all he has done and the loss 
 they sustain at his resignation." 
 
 Miss Waite then resigned as President of 
 the Society, and Mrs. Mary Washington 
 Keyser was elected her successor. 
 
 Miss Hetzel reported the resignation of 
 Mrs. Emory from the Board of Directors on 
 account of failing health. 
 
 In addition to Mrs. Keyser, three new 
 members were then elected on the Board of 
 Directors : Mrs. Wilcox, of Connecticut ; 
 Mrs. Alger, of Michigan ; and Mrs. Fleming, 
 of Virginia. 
 
1 86 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Mr. Blair Lee was elected Treasurer, to 
 succeed E. Francis Riggs. 
 
 Mrs. Hetzel resigned as Secretary and 
 Miss Susan Riviere Hetzel was elected her 
 successor. 
 
 The meeting then adjourned until March 
 15th. 
 
 Resolutions asking that the Hereditary 
 Life Members decide on a limit of extension 
 were then issued by the Secretary and mailed 
 to all Hereditary Life Members. At the ad- 
 journed meeting on March 15th the votes 
 were counted. Fifty-eight had been received ; 
 of these, three were negatives, opposed to 
 any extension ; eight were limited to less than 
 a year; the remainder, the large majority, 
 fixed no limit, but left it to the discretion of 
 the Board, or "until the necessary amount 
 should be raised." 
 
 The members present at this adjourned 
 meetinor, after careful consideration and con- 
 sultation, decided to limit the Hereditary Life 
 Memberships to 600, feeling that that would 
 have been the amount raised had it not been 
 for the financial depression at that time. The 
 by-law was therefore amended: "No medals 
 
HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 1 87 
 
 will be given out after the members number 
 six hundred." 
 
 Of the four members of the Board elected 
 on February 27th, Mrs. Wilcox and Mrs. 
 Fleming accepted; Mrs. Alger did not re- 
 spond; Mrs. Keyser, after careful considera- 
 tion, found herself obliged to decline. 
 
 At a called meetino- of the Board of Di- 
 rectors on April 12th the following officers 
 were elected: 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee, President, to suc- 
 ceed Mrs. Mary Washington Keyser, re- 
 signed. 
 
 Mrs. Eleanor Washington Howard, ist 
 Vice-President, to succeed Mrs. Matilda W. 
 Emory, resigned. 
 
 Mrs. Emily W. Fleming, 2d Vice-President, 
 to succeed Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee. 
 
 In February, 1898, the day before the 
 Annual Meeting of the Mary Washington 
 Association, the sad news was received of 
 the death of their legal adviser, Mr. Reginald 
 Fendall. Major Robert W. Hunter was 
 elected his successor, at the next meeting of 
 the Board of Directors. 
 
 At the Annual Meeting in 1899, the 
 
1 88 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 vacancy on the Board caused by the resigna- 
 tion of Mr. Riggs, and the election of Mr. 
 Blair Lee to the office of Treasurer was 
 brought up. Mr. Shepherd, of Fredericks- 
 burg, who donated the land around the 
 monument, on which the Lodge now stands 
 was unanimously elected to this office. Mr. 
 Shepherd said that he could not accept the 
 office, and at the meeting in 1901 Professor 
 Marcus Benjamin was unanimously elected 
 to fill the vacancy. 
 
 For many years Mrs. Pryor was the only 
 Vice-President at Large, but it v/as found ne- 
 cessary to appoint more ladies for that work. 
 Miss Desha resigned the Vice-Presidency of 
 Kentucky because she was no longer a resi- 
 dent of that, her native State. Mrs. Eleanor 
 Holmes Lindsay then became Vice-President 
 from Kentucky, and Miss Desha continued 
 her work as Vice-President at Large. 
 
 Mrs. Edward Roby of Chicago, who did 
 such signal service at the World's Fair, was 
 asked to work with Mrs. Trumbull as Vice- 
 President for Illinois, as Mrs. Trumbull re- 
 turned to Connecticut when she became a 
 widow; but Mrs. Roby, unwilling to interfere 
 
HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 1 89 
 
 in Mrs. Trumbull's work, preferred to be 
 Vice-President at Large, and she has enlisted 
 many valuable members from all over the 
 country. 
 
 Mrs. Chauncey Stoddard of Plattsburg, 
 N. Y., also worked with such success in the 
 East and the West that she was appointed a 
 Vice-President at Large, and she has gathered 
 in members from many places. 
 
CHAPTER XXVII. 
 
 PRESENTATIONS AND DONATIONS. 
 
 The Articles of Incorporation of the Na- 
 tional Mary Washington Memorial Associa- 
 tion state that "the Association was organized 
 for the purpose of erecting a suitable monu- 
 ment to Mary, the mother of George Wash- 
 ington and maintaining and preserving the 
 same in perpetuity." 
 
 With this object the Hereditary Life Mem- 
 berships were instituted: as a sure means of 
 securing a perpetual Guard of Honor for the 
 tomb of Mary Washington," in the eloquent 
 language of the originator, Mrs. Pryor. 
 
 Representative women all over the country 
 have been enlisted to carry out the objects of 
 the Society. That sacred duty is to descend 
 to daughter, granddaughter or to any heir 
 designated by the member. A list of the 
 Hereditary Life Members will be appended 
 to this volume. It will be seen that very few 
 States are unrepresented and we hope before 
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PRESENTATIONS AND DONATIONS. I9I 
 
 the list is closed to have every State and Ter- 
 ritory on record. 
 
 One very interesting feature of the Asso- 
 ciation has been the presentations of the 
 Hereditary Life Memberships. The first to 
 receive that honor was, most appropriately, 
 Mrs. Roger A. Pryor. At the grand ball at 
 the White Sulphur Springs, which she sug- 
 gested and projected, the membership was 
 presented by the managers of the ball, and 
 the beautiful star of the Mary Washington 
 Association first appeared, worn by the 
 woman who first proposed the Hereditary 
 Life Memberships, Medals were also pre- 
 sented to Mrs. Annie Camm, Miss Mary 
 Custis Lee and General Charles Anderson. 
 
 During the summer of 1893, two medals 
 were presented to the honored guests of the 
 Nation: The Duchess de Verasfua and the 
 Infanta Eulalia. The star was presented to 
 the Duchess de Veragua by Mrs. Martha 
 Mitchell, of Florida, through Mrs. Pryor ; 
 that of the Infanta Eulalia was conferred by 
 Mrs. Pryor herself. Beautiful letters of ac- 
 knowledgement were received from these 
 ladies and the Duchesse de Veragua called 
 
192 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 on Mrs. Pryor, to express her gratification, 
 accompanied by the Duke and all her suite. 
 
 The Mount Vernon Chapter of Virginia 
 was the first to present a medal to its Regent : 
 Miss Eliza Selden Washington, daughter of 
 John Augustine Washington, of Mount Ver- 
 non. This is one of the fourteen descend- 
 ants of Mary Washington among the Hered- 
 itary Life Members. The Washington family 
 have been amonof the most earnest workers 
 for the cause; one especially, Mrs. Mary 
 Washington Keyser of Baltimore. It is 
 hardly necessary to again tell of all she has 
 done to honor the memory of her great an- 
 cestress. The membership of Miss Eugenia 
 Washington was a testimonial from two 
 relatives and a devoted friend. 
 
 The Irondequoit Chapter of Rochester 
 presented a medal to its Regent, Mrs. Caro- 
 line Crafts Little. Mrs. Little oriorinated the 
 idea that all the Chapters of New York State 
 should present a membership to their State 
 Regent. Miss Mary Isabella Forsyth was 
 the first State Regent to receive this testi- 
 monial ; the star has since been conferred on 
 her two successors, Mrs. Belden and Mrs. 
 Verplanck. 
 
PRESENTATIONS AND DONATIONS. 1 93 
 
 In April, 1894, just before the Dedication 
 of the Monument, a star was presented to 
 Mrs. Letitia Green Stevenson, President- 
 General of the Dauo^hters of the American 
 Revolution, by two Virginia Chapters — the 
 Albemarle Chapter of Charlottesville, and 
 the Margaret Lynn Lewis of Roanoke. It 
 was the beautiful thought of the Regents of 
 these two Chapters — Mrs. Mary Stuart Smith 
 and her daughter. Mrs. Lelia B. Cocke, 
 descendants of Mary Washington. 
 
 When the time arrived for the unveiling of 
 the monument a medal was presented to 
 Mrs. J. Burrows (^reen, only surviving child 
 of Silas Burrows, the donor of the first monu- 
 ment. The medal was the gift of Mrs. 
 Roger A. Pryor, Mrs. John Townshend and 
 Mrs. Charles Senff of New York, and was 
 purchased on the day and hour that the 
 Monument was dedicated. The gift was 
 accompanied with many exquisite flowers 
 and was received by Mrs. Greene with thanks 
 and tears. 
 
 The New York City Chapter which has 
 done such admirable work under its efficient 
 and untiring Chairman, Mrs. James Fairman, 
 13 
 
194 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 celebrated the 6th of January, the anniversary 
 of the wedding of George Washington and 
 Martha Custis, by presenting the Mary 
 Washington star to their popular and gifted 
 Regent, Mrs. Donald McLean. 
 In the words of the Chronicle : 
 
 " A gold medal with Hereditary Life Member- 
 ship in the National Mary Washington Memorial 
 Association, was presented to Mrs. Donald McLean, 
 Regent of New York City Chapter Daughters of 
 American Revolution, at Sherry's on the sixth of 
 January, 1896, at the celebration of Washington's 
 Wedding Day. The officers of the New York City 
 Chapter were present. 
 
 " The Chairman of the Mary Washington Fund 
 for the New York City Chapter, Mrs. James Fair- 
 man, represented the Chapter that bestowed the 
 gift and made the presentation address. 
 
 " The Medal was accepted by the Regent, who at 
 the social which followed expressed her gratitude 
 and appreciation of the tribute. 
 
 "Among those present were Mrs. Adlai Steven- 
 son [then President General of the Daughter of the 
 American Revolution], who was the guest of honor. 
 General Horace Porter and Charles Dudley 
 Warner." 
 
 A few days after Mrs. McLean received 
 
PRESENTATIONS AND DONATIONS. 1 95 
 
 the medal, she sent the following felicitous 
 acknowledgment : 
 
 "My Dear Mrs. Fairman: 
 
 "This beautiful Star [of the Mary Washington 
 Association] engraved in letters unfading in the 
 gold and upon the tablets of my heart, and keeping 
 fresh and green the date which will ever hereafter 
 be precious to me personally, as well as interesting 
 historically, will thro'out my life typify to me the 
 radiance of tender friendship. 
 
 " To my children and their followers, this badge 
 of membership in so honorable a society will be 
 more and more valuable as generation succeeds 
 generation. When I contemplate all that the digni- 
 fied and beautiful symbol signifies — historically and 
 to me — I find no adequate words for the exceeding 
 gratitude that stirs within me. Pray believe in its 
 depth and sincerity my dear Mrs. Fairman, and also 
 that I am but more appreciative because your hands 
 presented me with the exquisite insignia — your 
 hands which have worked so faithfully and with so 
 fine results for the great monument. Your hands 
 which have never been outstretched to me save in 
 loyal greeting and leal support. 
 
 " Whatever work I may have performed for our 
 beloved Chapter is rewarded thousandfold by the 
 most happy surprise on that Wedding Day, Janu- 
 ary 6th, 1896. 
 
196 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 " The dainty satin case of my badge [how proud 
 I feel] is bride-like in its purity. Once more with 
 all my heart, I thank you and your sister donors. 
 I am in the past, in the present year, and in all to 
 come, 
 
 " Your constant friend and devoted Regent, 
 
 " Emily N. Ritchie McLean. 
 " yanuary 6, 1896." 
 
 " In 1895, ^^ ^"^^ the desire of some ot the 
 oldest members of the D. A. R. Society in 
 New York, to show their appreciation and 
 recog-nition of the enthusiastic work and the 
 untiring energy of Mrs. J. Heron Crosman. 
 Accordingly, thirty-five ladies united to pur- 
 chase a star of the N. M. W. M. A. and to 
 bestow it upon Mrs. Crosman, making her a 
 Life Member of the National Society. The 
 star was purchased in Washington on Febru- 
 ary 22, 1896, during the session of the Con- 
 tinental Congress. It was formally presented 
 to Mrs. Crosman early in March, in the par- 
 lors of the Buckingham Hotel, New York 
 City, by Miss Vanderpoel, who, in beautiful 
 words of loving commendation, paid a glow- 
 ing tribute to Mrs. Crosman's devoted ser- 
 vices to the National Society of the D. A. R. 
 
PRESENTATIONS AND DONATIONS. 1 97 
 
 In accepting the emblem, Mrs. Crosman 
 dwelt upon the patriotic work and objects of 
 the Society, and paid an exquisite tribute, in 
 words of rare eloquence, to the memory of 
 Mary, the mother of Washington. 
 
 "In thanking her friends, she said: 'Long 
 time ago, hundreds of years before our Revo- 
 lutionary heroes were born, an Oriental poet, 
 in the land of the palm and the date tree, 
 said: "Blessed is the man who can say: 'I 
 have one true friend.'" How blessed am I 
 to-day, to look in the faces of thirty-five loyal 
 friends and true, who, with generous hands, 
 have held out to me their golden star, as a 
 token of their love and regard.' 
 
 "A few days after this presentation, there 
 was sent to the Committee, to be presented 
 to Mrs. Crosman, a beautiful bar from which 
 to hang this star; especially made to order 
 by Tiffany, blending in blue and white enamel, 
 the D. A. R. colors, and studded with sap- 
 phires, an ornament of intrinsic value, as 
 well as of significance, in memory of one of 
 the first Life Members of the National So- 
 ciety, to be worn with the star as part of the 
 presentation gift." 
 
198 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 The Mahwenawasigh Chapter of Pough- 
 keepsie, N. Y., conferred a membership on 
 their Regent, Mrs, Edward Storrs Atwater, 
 in 1897, ^^^ i^ 1900 a medal was presented 
 by the Chapter to Miss Myra Hubbard 
 Avery. 
 
 The Saranac Chapter has presented 
 medals to three successive Regents, Mrs. 
 Stoddard, Mrs. Meyer and Mrs. Gamble. 
 
 On the 19th of January, 1895, the third 
 anniversary of the Mary Washington Colo- 
 nial Chapter of New York City, a medal was 
 presented by the Chapter to its beloved 
 Regent, Miss Mary Van Buren Vanderpoel. 
 The presentation was made by the Rev. 
 Charles Russell Treat, Chaplain of the Chap- 
 ter. It was received with much appreciation 
 by Miss Vanderpoel, and will be, she said, 
 ever considered by her as one of her most 
 valued treasures. On every Memorial Day 
 the Mary Washington Colonial Chapter dec- 
 orates the grave of her Chapter heroine with 
 fresh flowers. 
 
 The efficient and popular State Regent of 
 Connecticut, Mrs Kinney, received the gift 
 of a star from all the Chapters of her State. 
 
PRESENTATIONS AND DONATIONS. 1 99 
 
 This was the work of the Vice-President, 
 Mrs. Wilcox. The Mary Clapp Wooster 
 Chapter of New Haven, conferred the mem- 
 bership on Mrs. DeHa T. Audubon Tyler, 
 and the Wadsworth Chapter, of which Mrs. 
 Wilcox is Regent, presented a medal to Mrs. 
 Mary Hubbard Bunce. 
 
 Mrs. Joseph McWilliams, St. Paul, Minn., 
 had a medal presented by the Nathan Hale 
 Chapter in 1898. The same year, the Min- 
 neapolis Chapter conferred a membership on 
 Mrs. Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve, the 
 pioneer of that city. 
 
 Born on the route, at Fort Crawford, on 
 the Ouisconsin River, the child of an officer 
 of the regiment ordered to establish a post 
 in that wild region, she was two months old 
 when she was brought to her future home, 
 where shortly after old Fort Snelling was 
 built. She has written a record of her 
 "three-score years and ten," called the "Life 
 Long Memories of Fort Snelling," an invalu- 
 able chronicle of the life and growth of " The 
 Old Northwest." 
 
 Nor was the New Northwest silent during 
 the winter of 1898. While the aged pioneer 
 
200 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 was honored in Minnesota, a message from 
 the children was sent across the continent. 
 In San Francisco the Valentine Holt Society 
 of the Children of the American Revolution 
 sent to the Mary Washington Association on 
 the 2 2d of February, a gift of ^40, of which 
 ^35 were devoted to making a hereditary 
 Life Member of their President. Mrs. S. 
 Isabelle Hubbard, one of the best workers for 
 the Mary Washington cause on the Pacific 
 Coast. 
 
 The Caesar Rodney Chapter of Wilming- 
 ton, Delaware, presented a star to its Regent. 
 Miss Sophie Waples. 
 
 Two Chapters in Massachusetts have con- 
 ferred memberships on their Regents. The 
 John Adams Chapter, on Miss Floretta Vin- 
 ing; the Fort Massachusetts on Mrs. Mary 
 F. Richmond. The Massachusetts Daughters 
 have also presented medals to three State 
 Regents : Mrs. Fuller, Miss Daggett and 
 Miss Winslow ; Mrs. Fuller's was the gift of 
 the State delegation at the Continental Con- 
 gress ; Mrs. Daggett's was presented through 
 the Vice-President. Mrs. Ida Farr Miller, and 
 that of Miss Winslow by many Chapter Re- 
 gents, through Miss Vining. 
 
PRESENTATIONS AND DONATIONS, 20I 
 
 In 1897, Mrs. S. V. White, of Brooklyn, 
 became a Hereditary Life Member. Mrs. 
 White is well known for patriotic and philan- 
 thropic work, especially in connection with 
 the memorial to the Prison Ship Martyrs. 
 She was one of the early contributors and 
 promoters of the Mary Washington cause, 
 and when she joined the Society, she at once 
 went to work with the sing-le-heartedness for 
 which she is well known. She enlisted many 
 friends, among others, Mrs. Emily Warren 
 Roebling, of New Jersey. She had a star 
 presented to Mrs. Daniel T. Wilson, of 
 Brooklyn, for long service on the committee 
 of Home and Country in the Chiropean Club 
 of Brooklyn. 
 
 In 1898, she, as Chairman of the Martyrs 
 Monument Committee, D. A. R., offered a 
 prize to that member of the Society of Chil- 
 dren of American Revolution who should 
 during the year raise the largest contribution 
 for the Monument to the Martyrs of the 
 Prison Ships of the American Revolution. 
 The prize, a Mary Washington medal, was 
 awarded in 1899, to John Christy Giles, Jr.. 
 of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
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 On the same day, February 22, 1899, a 
 medal was presented to Mrs. Daniel Lothrop 
 by the New York officers of the Children of 
 the American Revolution, in recognition of 
 her patriotic work in founding- the Society, 
 and her long and faithful service for the 
 organization. 
 
 Two days after this presentation to the be- 
 loved President of the children, on February 
 24, 1899, the star was presented to Mrs. 
 McKinley by the Ohio delegation to the Con- 
 tinental Congress of the Daughters of the 
 American Revolution. The presentation took 
 place in the Blue Room of the White House 
 and was a mos^ g-raceful and eleoant cere- 
 mony. Mrs. McKinley, enthroned in a 
 spreading arm chair, exquisitely gowned in 
 light silk trimmed with rare lace and chiffon, 
 looked as fair and pure as a white lily. The 
 Ohio ladies led by Mrs. Rathbone, were first 
 received by the President and Mrs. McKinley ; 
 many being old and dear friends ; they were 
 followed by the ladies of the Mary Washing- 
 ton Association led by Mrs. Eleanor Wash- 
 ington Howard and Miss Susan Riviere 
 Hetzel. 
 
PRESENTATIONS AND DONATIONS, 203 
 
 Mrs. Rathbone made a short and eloquent 
 address presenting the medal and reading the 
 inscription: " Ida Saxton McKinley." When 
 she handed it to Mrs. McKinley she admired 
 in greatly and asked Mrs. Rathbone to pin it 
 on to her breast. She was then welcomed 
 into the Mary Washington Association by the 
 members present, the descendants of Mary 
 Washington, Mrs. Hunter, Mrs Howard, 
 Mrs. Finch and Miss Eugenia Washington 
 being specially presented ; and the wife of the 
 Executive became a member of the Society 
 organized in honor of the mother of his first 
 and greatest predecessor. 
 
 Mrs. McKinley's enjoyment of that presen- 
 tation and the President's gratification and 
 delight in her enjoyment will always be a 
 tender memory to all present. The knightly 
 devotion and watchful care that has so en- 
 deared our lamented President to this Nation, 
 and has left us such a shining example of con- 
 jugal love was never more touchingly shown 
 than on that occasion. 
 
CHAPTER XXVIII. 
 
 THE MONUMENT LODGE. 
 
 During the memorable summer of 1898 
 very little could be done towards completing 
 the Endowment Fund of the Mary Washing- 
 ton Association. On account of the war 
 with Spain no circulars or appeals were sent 
 out by the Secretary. Nothing could be 
 thought of or asked for but aid for the 
 wounded and comforts for the dying. The 
 work of the patriotic women of this land, 
 daughters, dames and many others, singly 
 and collectively, is one of the most glorious 
 pages in the history of American woman- 
 hood. The work of the War Relief Com- 
 mittee of the Daughters of the American 
 Revolution, as told in the second volume of 
 the Smithsonian Report, shows the work of 
 that societ}', and sister societies were no less 
 energetic and useful. 
 
 Two visits were made to the monument 
 grounds that year. One in May, appointed 
 by the President, Mrs. Lee, just before war 
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 Washington Howard and Miss Desha. 
 The Lodge, a small stone cottage Colonial 
 design, was examined, a granite coping to 
 enclose the grounds was decided upon, the 
 grading of the road was provided for and 
 other necessary work on the grounds and 
 lodge was recommended. 
 
 On November 9th, after the war, the visit- 
 ing committee, consisting of Mrs. Eleanor 
 Washington Howard, Miss Desha, Mrs. 
 Brockett, and Miss Hetzel again went to 
 Fredericksburg and inspected the monument 
 and grounds. Mrs. Howard, the last daugh- 
 ter of the Washingtons born at Mount Ver- 
 non, brought willows from the grave of her 
 renowned great-uncle, and planted them 
 around the grave of his mother, her honored 
 ancestress. 
 
 Another child of Mary Washington was 
 remembered on that day. A new Chapter of 
 the Daughters of the American Revolution 
 was started, which bears the name of Betty 
 Washington Eewis. Mrs. Page, the State 
 Regent of Virginia, came from Norfolk and 
 met her colleagues, Mrs. Brockett, Vice-Pres- 
 
206 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 ident General, in charge of organization ; 
 of Chapters ; Miss Susan Riviere Hetzel, 
 Registrar General; and Miss Mary Desha, 
 Founder. A delightful meeting was held at 
 the hotel, and many members were enlisted. 
 Mrs. William Key Howard was appointed 
 Regent. She is the present owner of Betty 
 Lewis' beautiful mansion, and a few weeks' 
 later the Chapter organized in that historic 
 home. Greatly to the regret of all, Mrs. 
 Howard was obliged to resign soon after, and 
 Mrs. Goolrick, the Custodian of the Monu- 
 ment, was elected her successor. 
 
 The handsome Colonial furniture collected 
 by Mrs. Wilcox for the Board Room — now 
 called the Connecticut Room — was greatly 
 admired by the committee: so much so that 
 a few weeks later, at the State Conference of 
 the Virginia Daughters, a resolution was 
 passed to furnish a Virginia Room. Unfor- 
 tunately, the ladies of the Mary Washington 
 Association were not able to accept this kind 
 offer, greatly to their regret. The Lodge is 
 very small and the Connecticut Room is the 
 only room that belongs exclusively to the As- 
 sociation ; the rest of the house is the home 
 
THE MONUMENT LODGE. 207 
 
 of the Custodian. Mrs. Schultz, of New Jer- 
 sey, an earnest friend and member expressed 
 a wish that New Jersey should have a room, 
 and I am sure that would be the wish of many 
 states, and it is a great pity that there are no 
 more rooms to furnish at the Monument 
 Lodge, as at Mount Vernon, but the house is 
 too small as it was only built for a lodge. 
 
 In May. 1899, the Hereditary Life Mem- 
 bers in response to a resolution passed at the 
 annual meeting, were all summoned to Fred- 
 ericksburg to meet around the tomb of Mary 
 Washington. 
 
 The ladies who responded to this invitation 
 were met by a deputation of gendemen at the 
 Fredericksburg station, where carriages were 
 in waiting to take them to the monument. 
 At the Lodge they were enthusiastically wel- 
 comed by Mrs. Goolrick, the Custodian, and 
 Mrs. Fleming, Vice-President of the National 
 Association. They were then presented to 
 Mrs, Charles Wallace, the President of the 
 Fredericksburg Monument Association, who, 
 assisted by a bevy of charming women and 
 beautiful girls with a fair sprinkling of the 
 male sex entertained the company. 
 
208 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 After viewing and admiring the beautiful 
 monument, they were invited to a bountiful 
 luncheon at the Lodge, given by the Freder- 
 icksburg ladies. After luncheon all gathered 
 on Oratory Rock, that spot so sacred to Mary 
 Washington's hours of prayer. There an 
 address of welcome was delivered by Hon. 
 William A. Little, followed by a very interest- 
 ing paper written and read by Mrs. Louise 
 Levering Weber, of Philadelphia, on the work 
 of the women of the United States and what 
 they had accomplished in the Mount Vernon 
 Association and the Mary Washington Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 The wall enclosing the park, the latest work 
 of the Association was then examined and 
 approved. It is a very low wall, hardly more 
 than a coping, but it is built of the same beau- 
 tiful Virginia granite as the Lodge, and is in 
 perfect keeping with the house and the monu- 
 ment. Mrs. Schultz, of New Jersey, planted 
 a fine hydrangea near the Lodge. The 
 Lodge itself was also much admired, espec- 
 ially the Connecticut Room with its treasures 
 of antique furniture and bric-a-brac. 
 
 After a drive to the National Cemetery 
 
THE MONUMENT LODGE. 2O9 
 
 [the battle-field, Marye's Heights] the day 
 concluded with a tea at Mary Washington's 
 house to which the ladies were invited by the 
 Fredericksburg branch of the A. P. V. A.: the 
 Association for the Preservation of Virginia 
 Antiquities. In 1890, this Association bought 
 the old home and had it put in perfect order. 
 
 Among the Hereditary Life Members in the 
 party were two great- great-granddaughters 
 of Mary Washington : Mrs. Fanny Washing- 
 ton Finch and Miss Eugenia Washington. 
 Fredericksburg was Miss Washington's for- 
 mer home and at every turn she was greeted 
 by old friends. At Mary Washington's house 
 these ladies were constantly reminded of 
 some anecdote or tradition learned from par- 
 ents or grandparents. With them we wan- 
 dered through the cottage and the old garden, 
 where little is left of " Old Madam's" careful 
 tending except the high box hedges, which 
 must have stood there when she welcomed 
 Lafayette in her gardening outfit. 
 
 The tea, served by the youngest and pret- 
 tiest young girls of the A. P. V. A, was fol- 
 lowed by songs, recitations and an impromptu 
 dance in which old and young joined and 
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2IO BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 made the evening pass away all too soon. 
 When the ominous news of the approach of 
 "train time" came, the rich, sweet voice of 
 Mrs. McKnight Moses led the chorus of the 
 "Star Spangled Banner" and "Auld Lang 
 Syne," and with kind farewells the ladies left 
 for Washington, hoping to be able to go an- 
 other day and bring with them more mem- 
 bers to see the Monument, enjoy the many 
 reminiscences of that historic town and the 
 never failing hospitality of Old Virginia. 
 
 In September, 1899, the Secretary made 
 another visit to Fredericksburg, She spent 
 three days at the Monument Lodge, with her 
 kind hostess, Mrs. Goolrick. While there 
 she deposited in the old Colonial secretary 
 placed by Mrs. Wilcox in the Connecticut 
 Room, the reports of the early Vice-Presi- 
 dents and the lists of all contributors who had 
 registered their names, Mrs, Fleming, the 
 Second Vice-President, was present when 
 these records of the Monument Builders were 
 placed in the desk. 
 
 This had long been a cherished wish of 
 Miss Hetzel. At the annual meeting of 1897 
 she had asked that a depository might be fur- 
 
THE MONUMENT LODGE. 211 
 
 nished for these early records. Anything to 
 hold papers ; a desk, a cabinet or even a 
 chest, for it had been a pledge to the builders 
 of the Monument that their names should be 
 enrolled at the Monument Lodge. 
 
 The Fredericksburg Mary Washington 
 Monument Association, after giving the 
 ground, donated to them by Mr. Shepherd, 
 to the National Association, and having done 
 so large a part towards the building of the 
 Monument, resolved to erect another memor- 
 ial to Mary Washington; and the Mary 
 Washington Hospital is now an important in- 
 stitution in Fredericksburg. And thus is the 
 memory of our greatest heroine kept green ; 
 not only by an enduring obelisk from the 
 women of her country, but by a living charity 
 from her townswomen in her old home. 
 
CHAPTER XXIX. 
 
 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 On the morning of December 25, 1899, in 
 the early morning, 2:30 a. m., Mrs. Margaret 
 Hetzel passed away, in the 85th year of her 
 age. 
 
 She had striven faithfully during the last 
 two years of her life to keep up her work for 
 the Mary Washington Association. Though 
 broken in health and spirit by the loss of her 
 beloved friend and co-worker, Mrs. Waite, in 
 1896, she continued the duties of Secretary 
 for another year. After she resigned in 1897 
 she continued in charge of the Hereditary 
 Life Memberships until she could no longer 
 do the work. Repeated attacks of grippe at 
 her advaneed age finally undermined her 
 constitution and impaired her vigorous intel- 
 lect. Still, so continued was her interest in 
 the cause that she insisted on assisting in 
 sending the notices for the annual meeting 
 in 1899, and she placed the stamps on all the 
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IN MEMORIAM. 213 
 
 360 envelopes, and would allow nobody to 
 help her. 
 
 From the moment that she first conceived 
 the idea, until her pen dropped from her poor 
 aged hand her enthusiasm never faltered. 
 Only one who had lived with her and saw 
 her daily could realize how she devoted her 
 days and nights, in winter or summer, from 
 year to year, to that object. The work she 
 often said was " a true labor of love" and she 
 at first objected to accepting the allowance for 
 extra expenses on that ground. She asked 
 one very clever woman to accept the office, 
 but she answered, " I will if you will provide 
 me with two clerks." The ladies of the 
 Board of Audit knew Mrs. Hetzel well, and 
 they knew that no one else could do the work 
 as Mrs. Hetzel did it, and that is why they 
 proposed the regular allowance, as she hav- 
 ing served several years without one, was 
 unable to do so longer. Mrs. Hetzel pos- 
 sessed the pen of a ready writer and a beau- 
 tifal flowing hand. I feel sure that corre- 
 spondents all over the country must remem- 
 ber and admire her letters. A resolution 
 from the Independenee Hall Chapter D. 
 
2 14 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 A. R. pays tribute to "her ardent patriotism 
 and magnetic enthusiasm, always inspiring 
 others." The results of her work, the amount 
 collected in that short time — a time, too, of 
 great financial depression — testify to her 
 energy and eloquence, and show that the 
 extra expenses allowed for were well ex- 
 pended. In the words of an old and dear 
 friend: "She bore the burden and heat of 
 the day, and lived to see her object accom- 
 plished." " The world is poorer that she has 
 left it." 
 
 Mrs. Hetzel originated the idea that the 
 monument should be built by the women of 
 this country, but Mrs. Waite directed the 
 plan of organization and the methods that 
 brought it so soon to a successful conclusion. 
 While Mrs. Hetzel was busily issuing appeals 
 and collecting, Mrs. Waite was no less busily 
 disbursing and doing untold work as chair- 
 man of the Building Committee. She jour- 
 neyed in many States in search of the best 
 design for a monument, and when that mon- 
 ument was completed she went to Freder- 
 icksburg to see it raised on its base. Before 
 the Lodge was built she attended to every 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 215 
 
 item of the work on the grounds, and the 
 subject seemed never absent from her 
 thoughts until the last. 
 
 It is a striking fact that these two women 
 who had so devoted the closing years of their 
 lives to the memory of Mary Washington 
 should have left this world on days closely 
 associated with the life of her great son. Mrs. 
 Waite left us at 1 1 p. m., February 21st, the 
 eve of his birth, and Mrs. Hetzel fell asleep 
 on December 15th, 1899, while the echoes of 
 the Centennial of Washington's death still 
 lingered on the ear and in the heart. 
 
 " It is good to meet such natures, there are 
 none too many in this world." 
 
 A few days later, Mrs. Hetzel was laid to 
 rest in Arlington, covered with floral tributes 
 from many friends, of which none was more 
 touchingly appropriate than a laurel wreath 
 from the Army and Navy Chapter of which 
 she was a member. 
 
 Among the testimonials received by the 
 writer during the sad weeks that followed 
 was the following from the National Board of 
 Management of the Daughters of the Amer- 
 ican Revolution : 
 
2t6 building of a monument. 
 
 " Entered into rest on the morning of December 
 15th, 1899, Mrs. Margaret Phoebe J. Hetzel, of 
 Washington, District of Columbia, an organizer and 
 charter member of the Daughters of the American 
 Revolution and its first Honorary Vice-President 
 General. Mrs. Hetzel was also the originator and 
 Secretary of the Mary Washington Memorial As- 
 sociation. 
 
 " The Board of Management of the National So- 
 ciety of the Daughers of the American Revolution 
 hereby express their heartfelt sympathy with Miss 
 Su.san Riviere Hetzel, Registrar General, and with 
 her sister, Mrs. Margaret Riviere Hetzel Pendleton, 
 in the loss of their gifted mother, who passed away 
 in the fullness of years, ripened for the heavenly 
 garner. 
 
 " Mary Jane Seymour, 
 
 " Historian General. 
 " Alice Pickett Akers, 
 " Recording Secretary General." 
 
 The Fredericksburg Free Lance published 
 the following editorial: 
 
 "The death of Mrs. Margaret Hetzel, which oc- 
 curred in Washington last Saturday, has been 
 heard with regret by our people. Mrs. Hetzel was 
 the pioneer and principal projector of the movement 
 which culminated in the erection of the monument 
 here to the memory of Mary, the mother of Wash- 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 217 
 
 ington. * * * Mrs. Hetzel was patriotic, zealous 
 and untiring in her work, and the beautiful shaft 
 that marks the spot where sleeps the mother of the 
 father of his country, the wondrous work of the 
 women of this land, is a monument to her energy 
 and activity. She was of distinguished ancestry, of 
 amiable, gentle character, kind in her dealings and 
 a gentle Christian woman. Our people knew her, 
 and pay the tribute of their sorrow in her death." 
 
 Mrs, Fleming, Vice-President of the Na- 
 tional Society and President of the Freder- 
 icksburg Mary Washington Association thus 
 wrote to the Secretary: 
 
 " That she in her old age should undertake and 
 live to see the successful completion of such a work 
 as hers is very remarkable. She has now passed 
 to her reward, but her memory will live as one who 
 'did what she could' through all of a long and 
 eventful life." 
 
 Tributes from Daughters and Chapters all 
 over the country were received, among them 
 the following from Mrs. Fairman, whose work 
 as Chairman of the Mary Washington Asso- 
 ciation in the New York City Chapter is so 
 well known : 
 
 "The Mary Washington Monument is also a 
 
2l8 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 monument to your mother who concentrated all 
 her efforts to accomplish a great result and in which 
 she was most successful. It is given to but few 
 women the opportunity to see such a beautiful com- 
 pletion of her labors. I rejoice that she did see it. 
 Of her it may well be said : ' She being dead yet 
 speaketh.' " 
 
 The American Monthly Magazine pre- 
 sented an eloquent and touching memorial 
 from the pen of Miss Mary Desha. After 
 telling of Mrs. Hetzel's early association and 
 services to the Daughters of the American 
 Revolution, she said: 
 
 " It is because women such as she, broad-minded, 
 self-sacrificing and patriotic were among the early 
 officers of the Society that its foundations were laid 
 broad and deep, and an influence has gone out 
 from it that has kindled the patriotic fires of the 
 land. * * * 
 
 " In 1889, when she was over 70, she inaugurated 
 the movement to restore the monument and pre- 
 serve from desecration the tomb of the mother of 
 Washington. She wrote the first letter, gave the 
 first dollar and lived to see the work completed. 
 The beautiful shaft that marks the spot is not only 
 a monument to Washington's mother, but is a 
 memorial to the four devoted women, Daughters of 
 the American Revolution, all over seventy years of 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 219 
 
 age, who organized and carried to completion this 
 noble work, neglected alike by State and Nation. 
 
 "As I stood beside her coffin and looked upon 
 her peaceful face beautiful even in old age, and after 
 years of sicknecs and suffering, I could not grieve 
 that her work was done, but rather rejoiced that 
 after a life of patriotic, zealous, untiring work, faith- 
 ful loving service in every relation of life, she had 
 been permitted to hear the words ' well done good 
 and faithful servant,' and entered into her rest. 
 
 " Mary Desha, 
 " Founder and Honorary Vice-President General." 
 
 Mrs. Matilda W. Emory, another of the 
 " four devoted women " so tenderly men- 
 tioned by Miss Desha was laid to rest six 
 weeks after Mrs. Hetzel. Her brilliant past 
 has been already told in these pages ; her in- 
 tellectual, social and moral prominence as 
 well as her unfailing wit and good judgment 
 inherited from her renowned great-grand- 
 father, Benjamin Franklin. She and Mrs. 
 Hetzel had been friends since they first met 
 in Washington as the wives of brother offi- 
 cers. Members of the same church, friends 
 in sickness and sorrow, associated in the same 
 charities, it is sweet to think that in death 
 they were not divided. 
 
2 20 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Mrs. Fanny Washington Finch was called 
 home in March, 1900, and on Thanksgiving 
 Day of the same year, Miss Eugenia Wash- 
 ington, her cousin and housemate also left us. 
 These two Hereditary Life Members joined 
 the pilgrimage to Fredericksburg in May, 
 1 899. It was their last visit to the home and 
 tomb of their threat ancestress and it is a 
 great boon to remember how happy that visit 
 was. 
 
MRS. W. \V. WILCOX. 
 (nee Elizabeth Shepard Crittenden.) 
 
 Vice-President of Connecticut. 
 
CHAPTER XXX. 
 
 AFTERMATH. 
 
 At the annual meeting on February 2 2d, 
 1 90 1, the following report was presented and 
 read by Mrs. Wilcox, It was received with 
 much interest and tells the story of the Con- 
 necticut room in such a pleasant way that I 
 shall give my readers the benefit of it : 
 
 ''One morning in February, 1897, a party of 
 Connecticut friends, including myself, went from 
 Washington to Fredericksburg to visit the home 
 and burial place of Mary Washington. At the 
 Lodge we were welcomed by the very efficient 
 custodian, Mrs. John T. Goolrick, the wife of a 
 prominent lawyer of Fredericksburg, and Regent of 
 the D. A. R. Chapter of that city. 
 
 "The room in which we were invited to register 
 our names was cheerless and bare, with the excep- 
 tion of one piece of furniture, a table; and we all 
 know that one table cannot furnish a room very 
 satisfactorily. 
 
 " It was on this occasion that the idea originated 
 of asking the women of Connecticut to furnish the 
 room. We lost no time in securing the necessary 
 (221) 
 
22 2 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 authority. On our return a committee was formed 
 and the work was at once begun. 
 
 " Five years have passed, and to-day the dear 
 little room looks cheerful and bright with its coat 
 of yellow paint, its colonial cornice, its rows of old 
 blue plates and tea-pots on brackets over the 
 windows and doors, its lovely rug and curtains. 
 Those of you who have not seen the room will be 
 interested to know that we have an antique writing- 
 desk, one colonial arm-chair, two mirrors, window 
 shades, curtains, two handsome colonial chairs, a 
 Chippendale table, two pairs of candlesticks, and- 
 irons, shovel and tongs, seven blue plates, three 
 sugar bowls, four tea-pots, a sofa and a water color 
 of Washington at Mount Vernon. 
 
 " Connecticut has made sixty-four Life Members 
 of the Association, and these at thirty-five dollars 
 each, have netted the Society twenty-two hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 " Wadsworth Chapter of Middletown, Connecti- 
 cut, contributed one hundred and fifty dollars to- 
 wards the erection of the Mary Washington Monu- 
 ment. 
 
 " The sale of photographs of the monument and 
 lodge, also of the little book, ' The Story of Mary 
 Washington,' by Marion Harland, and a Mary 
 Washington tea have netted the Society quite a 
 sum. This with contributions from friends has 
 amounted to three hundred dollars. The expenses 
 
AFTERMATH. 223 
 
 thus far for furnishing the room have been two 
 hundred and ninety-four dollars. 
 
 " We hope in time to adorn the walls with colon- 
 ial pictures, and we are now anticipating with much 
 pleasure a beautiful gift of the Connecticut Coat of 
 Arms from the Ruth Wyllis Chapter of Hartford. 
 
 " Elizabeth S. Wilcox, 
 " Vice-President of Connecticut for the N. M. W. 
 
 M. A." 
 
 In May, 1900, the Harrisburg Chapter pre- 
 sented a medal to Mrs. Annie Buehler Lam- 
 berton, for four years their most gracious, 
 kind and hospitable Regent. A year later 
 the Colonial Dames of New Hampshire made 
 an Hereditary Life Member of Mrs. Martha 
 Cilley Bouton Clarke, well known and loved 
 by the early members of the Mary Washing- 
 ton Association. 
 
 On October 23, 1901, the Carolina Scott 
 Harrison, of Indianapolis, presented the 
 golden star to Mrs, Cornelia Cole Fairbank, 
 President-General of the Daughters of the 
 American Revolution, The following inter- 
 esting account of the presentation was sent 
 by the Chapter Historian : 
 
 "On the afternoon of October 23d, 1901, the 
 
2 24 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter, Daughters of the 
 American Revolution of Indianapolis, gave a large 
 reception in honor of Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, 
 President General of the National Society of the 
 Daughters of the American Revolution and one of 
 the early members of the Caroline Scott Harrison 
 Chapter. More than two hundred guests re- 
 sponded, each Chapter in the State sending several 
 representatives. Mrs. John N. Carey, Regent of 
 the Chapter, received the guests and presented them 
 to Mrs. Fairbanks and to Mrs. James M. Fowler, 
 State Regent of Indiana. 
 
 " During the afternoon Mrs. Carey in a short ad- 
 dress presented Mrs. Fairbanks with a Life Mem- 
 bership in the National Mary Washington Memorial 
 Association, a handsome pin, the insignia of that 
 Association accompanied the gift. 
 
 " Mrs. Fairbanks made a graceful acceptance of 
 the membership and then a short address relative 
 to the Continental Hall. 
 
 " Mrs. Jefferson H. Claypool, 
 
 " Historian, Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter." 
 
 On June 27, 1902, a tablet was erected in 
 Zion Church, Allentown, Pa., by the Liberty 
 Bell Chapter, in commemoration of the con- 
 cealment of the bell while the British were in 
 possession of Philadelphia. The tablet was 
 unveiled by Miss Minnie F. Mickley, founder 
 
AFTERMATH. 225 
 
 and first Regent of the Chapter, and descend- 
 ant of John Jacob Mickley, who, while the 
 enemy were entering the city, brought the 
 Liberty Bell, in one of his farm wagons, cov- 
 ered with farm material from Philadelphia to 
 Allentown, where it was hidden in the cellar 
 of Zion Church. 
 
 Immediately after this ceremony, the pres- 
 ent Regent, Mrs. Saeger, on behalf of the 
 Liberty Bell Chapter, presented to her prede- 
 cessor. Miss Mickley, the insignia of the 
 Mary Washington Association. 
 15 
 
CHAPTER XXXI. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 The resolution of Miss Desha, adopted by 
 the Daughters of the American Revolution at 
 their first meeting has been faithfully fulfilled. 
 I can but review what has been already told 
 when I recount the splendid work of the 
 many Chapters and members of that organi- 
 zation. The Secretary of the Mary Wash- 
 ington Association was an organizer ot the 
 Daughters of the American Revolution, the 
 President and the two Vice-Presidents were 
 Charter Members, as were also Mrs. Pryor, 
 Mrs. Terhune, Mrs Clifton Breckenridge, 
 Mrs. Keyser, Mrs. Trumbull and Mrs. Roby. 
 Miss Desha was a Founder, and Mrs. Wil- 
 cox, whose wonderful work has been told in 
 the preceding chapter, is a member and Re- 
 gent of the Wadsworth Chapter, Middle- 
 town, Conn. 
 
 Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, in addition to having 
 originated the Hereditary Life Memberships, 
 (226) 
 
MRS. JAMES FAIRMAN. 
 
 (nee Sarah Elizabeth Holden.) 
 Chairman N. M. W. M. A., New York CitylCliapter. 
 
FINIS. 227 
 
 enlisted herself 63 Hereditary Life Members 
 from Daughters and Dames all over the 
 land, I will also add in her own words : 
 
 " Desiring that every member of the New York 
 City Chapter of the Daughters of the American 
 Revolution should have the privilege of contributing 
 to our sacred work, and having full faith in the in- 
 telligence, patience, patriotism and fidelity of Mrs. 
 Sarah E. Fairman, I appointed her as a sub-com- 
 mittee to present our cause at every meeting of the 
 Chapter. She has more than justified my trust in 
 her. At her last report to me she announces that 
 she has collected in all one thousand three hundred 
 and seventy-one dollars, and transmitted the same 
 to the Board at Washington." 
 
 This, added to collections made by Mrs. 
 Pryor herself, reaches at least the sum of four 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 An account has already been given of the 
 presentation of medals from Chapters to their 
 Regents and from many Chapters to State 
 Regents. In addition to that a great deal has 
 been done by Chapters. 
 
 Early donations were sent by Mrs. Smith 
 of the Philadelphia Chapter, Miss Lilian 
 Evans of the Donegal and Miss Mickley of 
 
228 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 the Liberty Bell Chapter. Lectures were 
 given for the benefit of the cause by the John 
 Marshall Chapter of Louisville, Kentucky, 
 and the Mary Washington Chapter of Wash- 
 ington, D. C. The Army and Navy, the Old 
 Colony and many others have sent donations 
 and several Chapters have themselves taken 
 memberships. The Gaspee of Providence, 
 the Louisa St. Clair of Detroit and the Fanny 
 Ledyard and Susan Carrington Clarke Chap- 
 ters of Connecticut all hold memberships. 
 Many of our best v^^orkers are Chapter Re- 
 gents. Mrs. McCartney, of the Wyoming 
 Valley Chapter, is the Pennsylvania Vice- 
 President. Mrs. S. V. W^hite, of Brooklyn, 
 and Mrs. Stoddard, of the Saranac Chapter, 
 have enlisted many Hereditary Life Members, 
 so has Miss Baird Huey, of Pennsylvania. 
 In fact so much has been done by Daughters 
 and Children that it seems impossible to do 
 justice to it all. Three Presidents-General 
 are Hereditary Life Members: Mrs. Steven- 
 son, Mrs. Manning and Mrs. Fairbanks. 
 
 I have stated the work of the Daughters 
 in this way so that one may see how prodig- 
 ious it has been, and I suppose this has given 
 
FINIS. 229 
 
 ground for the impression that the Mary 
 Washington Monument was entirely the work 
 of the Daughters of the American Revolu- 
 tion. As you see, it is true that a large pro- 
 portion of the work was done by the Daugh- 
 ters; but it is but justice to many earnest 
 workers and generous contributors to say 
 that the building of the Mary Washington 
 Monument and the providing for its future 
 care and preservation was not solely the work 
 of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 
 Mrs. Hearst, of California, who raised the 
 first thousand dollars, has never joined the 
 Daughters of the American Revolution ; nor 
 has Mrs. Macon of Colorado, Mrs. Dolph of 
 Oregon, Mrs. Adams of Nevada, Mrs. Squire 
 of Washington, Mrs. McPherson of New Jer- 
 sey, Mrs. Gray of Delaware, nor Mrs. Vance 
 of North Carolina. Mrs. Lewis of South 
 Carolina, was not a Daughter when she gave 
 that beautiful ball in Charleston, nor was 
 Mrs. Story of Louisiana, when she sent ^900 
 from the Carnival Ball at New Orleans, 
 though she subsequendy joined, and was for 
 some dme State Regent of Louisiana. 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Gansevoort Lansing, whose 
 
230 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 wonderful work for the Mary Washington 
 cause must be well known, was a Daughter 
 of the Cincinnati and the Regent of the 
 Gansevoort Chapter, Daughters of the Revo- 
 lution. The Chapter was named after her 
 grandfather. She sent a donation from that 
 Chapter to the Mary Washington fund. The 
 Chapter subsequently left the Daughters of 
 the Revolution and joined the Daughters of 
 the American Revolution, but Mrs. Lansing 
 did not join with them. She has never be- 
 come a D. A. R. 
 
 We have several Dauo-hters of the Revolu- 
 tion in our list of Hereditary Life Members, 
 among others Miss Torquina L. Voss, of 
 Indianapolis, and Mrs. Charlton L. Moody, 
 of Philadelphia. 
 
 The Colonial Dames of Pennsylvania, 
 through their distinguished officer, Mrs. 
 Elizabeth Duane Gillespie, sent a liberal 
 donation ; the Massachusetts Society of 
 Colonial Dames has a Life Membership, and 
 the Colonial Dames of New Hampshire have 
 conferred a medal on their State President. 
 
 Not only are there many Daughters and 
 Dames among the Hereditary Life Members, 
 
FINIS. 231 
 
 but many who are neither Daughters or 
 Dames, but still are noble patriotic women 
 and the inscription on the monument tells us 
 truly that it is to 
 
 MARY THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON, 
 ERECTED BY HER COUNTRYWOMEN. 
 
MISS SUSAN RIVlfiRE HETZEU 
 
The National 
 Mary Washington Memorial Association^ 
 
 CHARTERED FEBRUARY 22, 1B90, 
 
 IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
 
 trustees. 
 
 The President of the United States (ex-officio). 
 The Chief-Justice of the United States {ex-officio'). 
 The Governor of Virginia (ex-officio). 
 
 :©oarJ) of directors. 
 
 President. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee. 
 
 ist Vice-President. 
 
 Mrs. Eleanor Washington Howard. 
 
 2d Vice President. 
 
 Mrs. Vivian M. Fleming. 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 Miss Susan Riviere Hetzel. 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Hon. Blair Lee. 
 
 Legal Adviser. 
 
 Major Robert W. Hunter. 
 
 Pa rlia m en la rian. 
 
 Miss Mary Desha. 
 
 Mrs. W. W. Wilcox. Mrs. Roberdeau Buchanan. 
 
 ORIGINAL INCORPORATOR. 
 
 Miss Maud Lee Davidge. 
 
 (233) 
 
234 
 
 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 ItXcespreetDents of States. 
 
 Mrs. Henry Hall Davis, Maine. 
 
 Mrs. Senator Blair — Mrs. Person C. Cheney 
 
 — Mrs. Shepard, New Hampshire. 
 
 *Mrs. Dillingham— Mrs. Horace H, Dyer, Vermont. 
 Mrs. Ida Farr Miller, Massachusetts, 
 
 Mrs. B, O. Wilbur, Rhode Island. 
 
 Mrs. Wilcox, Connecticut. 
 
 Mrs. Abraham Lansing, New York. 
 
 *Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Mather— Mrs. 1. 
 
 W. SCHULTZ, 
 
 •Mrs. J. P. LiPPiNCOTT, 
 
 Mrs. W. H. McCartney, 
 
 Mrs. Senator Gray — Mrs. Churchman — 
 Miss Waples, 
 
 Mrs. Mary Washington Keyser, 
 
 Mrs. V. M. Fleming, 
 
 Mrs. J. C. Kenna— Miss Virginia Lewis 
 Mitchell, 
 
 Mrs. Senator Vance, 
 
 Mrs. John W. Lewis, 
 
 Mrs. M. a. Lipscomb, 
 
 Miss Wheeler, 
 
 Mrs. H. D. Money, 
 
 Mrs. J. Washington Story, 
 
 Mrs. Senator Reagan, 
 
 Mrs. Ambler, 
 
 Mrs. Mary B. Washington, 
 
 Mrs. Clifton R. Breckenridge, 
 
 Mrs. William Lindsay, 
 
 Mrs. D. Meade Massie, 
 
 Mrs. George H. Shields, 
 
 Mrs. Mason (resigned) — Mrs. Robert Stock- 
 well Hatcher. 
 
 Mrs. Lyman Trumbull — Mrs. James F. 
 
 Hervey, Illinois 
 
 New Jersey. 
 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 Delaware. 
 Maryland. 
 Virginia. 
 
 West Virginia. 
 
 North Carolina. 
 
 South Carolina. 
 
 Georgia. 
 
 Alabama. 
 
 Mississippi. 
 
 Louisiana. 
 
 Texas. 
 
 Florida. 
 
 Tennessee. 
 
 Arkansas. 
 
 Kentucky. 
 
 Ohio. 
 
 Missouri. 
 
 Indiana. 
 
VICE-PRESIDENTS OF STATES. 
 
 235 
 
 Mrs. Thomas W. Palmer, 
 
 Mrs. Clara A. Cooley, 
 
 Mrs. John L. Mitchell — Mrs. Angus 
 
 Cameron, 
 Mrs. Kate Smeed Cross, 
 Mrs. R. M. Newport, 
 Miss Morton, 
 
 Mrs. Senator Dolph, 
 Mrs. Senator Squire, 
 
 Mrs. L. Bradford Prince, 
 
 Mrs. Senator Warren, 
 
 Mrs. Senator Hearst — Mrs. A. L. Hubbard. 
 
 Mrs. Senator Stewart — Mrs. Gov. Adams, 
 
 Mrs. M. V. Macon — Mrs, F. W. Goddard, 
 
 Miss Virginia Miller, 
 
 Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, ") 
 
 Miss Mary Desha, 
 
 Mrs. Edward Rosy, | 
 
 Mrs. Chauncey Stoddard, 
 
 Michigan. 
 Iowa. 
 
 Wisconsin. 
 
 Kansas. 
 
 Minnesota. 
 
 Nebraska. 
 
 Dakota. 
 
 Oregon. 
 
 Washington. 
 
 Montana. 
 
 New Mexico. 
 
 Idaho. 
 
 Wyoming. 
 
 California. 
 
 Nevad*. 
 
 Colorado. 
 
 District of Columbia, 
 
 At Large. 
 
LIST 
 
 OF 
 
 HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 National 
 Mary Washington Memorial Association. 
 
 * Deceased, see last page. 
 
 *l. Mrs. Amelia C. Waite, Incorporator. 
 *2. Mrs. Matilda W. Emory, Incorporator, 
 
 17 18 H St., Washington, D. C. 
 3. Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee, Incorporator, 
 
 Sligo, Montgomery Co., Md. 
 *4. Mrs. Margaret Hetzel, Incorporator, Clifton, Fairfax Co.,Va. 
 
 5. Miss Maud Lee Davidge, Incorporator, Washington, D. C. 
 
 6. Mrs. Annette Henry Alger, Detroit, Mich. 
 
 7. Mrs. John V. L. Pruyn, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 8. Mrs. H. F. Lovell, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 9. Mrs. Frank Hatton, Washington, D. C. 
 
 10. Mrs. George W. Childs, " " 
 
 11. Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, New York City. 
 
 12. Miss Mary Custis Lee, Lexington, Va. 
 
 13. General Charles Anderson, Richmond, Va. 
 
 14. Miss Annie C. Camm, " " 
 
 15. Miss Jennie Inman (Mrs. Payne), New York City. 
 
 (236) 
 
HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 
 
 237 
 
 16. 
 
 Mrs. Mary L. Hunter, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 17- 
 
 Mrs. Kate Smeed Cross, 
 
 Emporia, Kans. 
 
 18. 
 
 Mrs. Charles H. Senff, 
 
 Long Island, N. Y 
 
 19- 
 
 Mrs. Benjamin Rowland, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 20. 
 
 Mrs. George de B. Keim, 
 
 « 
 
 21. 
 
 Mrs. \Vm. F. Havemeyer, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 22. 
 
 Mrs. M. J. Welmarth, 
 
 Chicago, Ills. 
 
 23- 
 
 Mrs. Potter Palmer, 
 
 « 
 
 24. 
 
 Mrs. Honore, 
 
 « (( 
 
 25- 
 
 Miss Katherine Colvin, 
 
 ti (( 
 
 ^26. 
 
 Mrs. Francis M. Stewart, 
 
 « 
 
 27- 
 
 Mrs. Abraham Lansing, 
 
 Albany, N. Y. 
 
 28. 
 
 Mrs. Charles Avery Dorenms, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 29. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Washington Keyser, 
 
 Baltimore, Md. 
 
 30- 
 
 Mrs. M. V. Terhune, 
 
 Pompton, N. J. 
 
 31- 
 
 Mrs. Jeanelte M. Thurber, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 32. 
 
 Mrs. Spencer Trask, 
 
 « 
 
 33- 
 
 Mrs. Cleraence B. Fish, 
 
 .< 
 
 34- 
 
 Mrs. Daniel Manning, 
 
 Albany, N. Y. 
 
 35- 
 
 Mrs. G. A. Van Allen, 
 
 .< 
 
 36. 
 
 Mrs. Robert L. Fryer, 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 " 
 
 Mr. Dudley Olcott, 
 
 Albany, N. Y. 
 
 37- 
 
 Mrs. Ida Remington Squire, 
 
 Seattle, Wash. 
 
 38- 
 
 Mrs. Louise Ackerson, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 39- 
 
 Mrs. Anna Geer Belden, 
 
 Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 40. 
 
 Miss Margaret Caroline Sands, 
 
 W^ashington, D. C. 
 
 *4i. 
 
 Mrs. Alice C. Bakewell, 
 
 New York. 
 
 42. 
 
 Mrs. Fairleigh, 
 
 St. Joseph, Mo. 
 
 43- 
 
 Miss Mary E. Cook, 
 
 Columbus, G.i. 
 
 44- 
 
 Mrs. L. Hedges, 
 
 Denver, Col. 
 
 45- 
 
 Mrs. M. B. V. Stacey, 
 
 Seattle. 
 
 46. 
 
 Miss Mildred Hall, 
 
 Denver, Col. 
 
 47- 
 
 Mrs. M. D. Thatcher, 
 
 Pueblo, Col. 
 
 48. 
 
 Mrs. Emma N. Arbuckle, 
 
 Denver, Co'. 
 
 49- 
 
 Mrs. Mary N. Miller, 
 
 SeaUle. 
 
 5°- 
 
 Mrs. Eliza Ferry Leary, 
 
 <( 
 
238 
 
 1 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 51- 
 
 Mrs. Clara Clayton Crawford, 
 
 Seattle, 
 
 52. 
 
 Mrs. R, J. McKnight Moses, 
 
 Washington, D. C, 
 
 53- 
 
 Mrs. Lucy Wharton Drexel, 
 
 New York. 
 
 54. 
 
 Mrs. Margaretta W. Mohr, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 55- 
 
 Mrs. Mary Muhlenberg Emery, 
 
 Cincinnati, 0. 
 
 *56. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Parker Corning, 
 
 Albany, N. Y. 
 
 57- 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Manning Sage, 
 
 Menands, Albany, N.Y, 
 
 58- 
 
 Mrs. Dawn L. Hitchcock, 
 
 New York. 
 
 59- 
 
 Mrs. Ferdinand Earle, 
 
 " 
 
 *6o. 
 
 Mrs. Deborah B. Coleman, 
 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 6i. 
 
 Mrs. Mary F. Myer, 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 62a 
 
 !.Mrs. Belinda Olney Wilbour, 
 
 Bristol, R. L 
 
 623.Mrs. Martha Mitchell, 
 
 Florida. 
 
 63- 
 
 Mrs. Fannie A. Crosby, 
 
 " 
 
 64. 
 
 Miss Marion Biddle, 
 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 65- 
 
 Miss Elizabeth N. Brown, 
 
 " 
 
 66. 
 
 Mrs. Angelina B. Collins, 
 
 Seattle, Wash. 
 
 67. 
 
 Mrs. Ellen Wain Harrison, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 68. 
 
 Mrs. George F. Lord, 
 
 New York. 
 
 69. 
 
 Mrs. Henry K. Sheldon, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 70. 
 
 The Duchess de Veragua, 
 
 Spain. 
 
 *7i. 
 
 Mrs. Fanny Thurston Ballard, 
 
 Louisville, Ky. 
 
 72. 
 
 Mrs. William Lindsay, 
 
 Frankfort, Ky. 
 
 73- 
 
 Miss Mary G. Leland, 
 
 Fall River, Mass. 
 
 74- 
 
 Miss Fanny Brown, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 75- 
 
 Miss Mary Desha, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 76. 
 
 Infanta Eutalia. 
 
 Spain. 
 
 *77- 
 
 Mrs. John Townshend, 
 
 New York. 
 
 78. 
 
 Mrs. Louisa J. Black, 
 
 " 
 
 79- 
 
 Mrs. Mary Donohan, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 80. 
 
 Mrs. Eleanor Martin, 
 
 <( « 
 
 *8i. 
 
 Miss Harriet A. Weed, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 *82. 
 
 Mrs. Harriet Cramer Porter, 
 
 Waterford, N. Y. 
 
 83- 
 
 Mrs. Jerusha Appleton, 
 
 Albany, N. Y. 
 
 84. 
 
 Mrs. Sally Patterson Sharpe, 
 
 Wilkes Barre, Pa. 
 
 85- 
 
 Mrs. Annie E. Hobbes Blanchard, 
 
 Santa Paula, CaL 
 
HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 
 
 239 
 
 86. 
 
 Mrs. Ethel W. Sperry Crocker, 
 
 California. 
 
 87. 
 
 Miss Estelle L. Willoughby, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 88. 
 
 Mrs. Annie M. Crawford, 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 89. 
 
 Mrs. Alice G. Cole, 
 
 Fredericksburg, Va. 
 
 90. 
 
 Mr. Edward Avery Shedd, 
 
 Chicago, Ills. 
 
 91- 
 
 Mrs. Edward Roby, 
 
 Roby, Ills. 
 
 92. 
 
 Mr. John S. Field, 
 
 Chicago, Ills. 
 
 93- 
 
 Mrs. Mary I. Trumbull, 
 
 Saybrook, Conn. 
 
 94- 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth S. Wilcox, 
 
 Middletown, Conn. 
 
 95- 
 
 Mrs. Colin Armstrong, 
 
 Illinois. 
 
 96. 
 
 Mrs. William A. Talcott, 
 
 Rockford, Ills. 
 
 97- 
 
 Mrs. M. E. Potter, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 98. 
 
 Mrs. Lucia B. Kellogg, 
 
 Waterbury, Conn, 
 
 99. 
 
 Mrs. M. N. Putnam, 
 
 Elizabeth, N. J. 
 
 100. 
 
 Mrs. Frances N. Woodward, 
 
 (1 « 
 
 lOI. 
 
 Mrs. Virginia Knox. Maddox, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 102. 
 
 Mrs. Alice H. Wallace, 
 
 Albany, N. Y. 
 
 103. 
 
 Mary Washington Association, 
 
 Fredericksburg, Va. 
 
 104. 
 
 Mrs. T. W. Palmer, 
 
 Michigan. 
 
 105. 
 
 Mrs. Edward I. Smith, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 106. 
 
 Miss Annie Law Hubbell, 
 
 » 
 
 107. 
 
 Mrs. Annie D. B. Reynolds, 
 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 108. 
 
 Mrs. Seth Low, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 109. 
 
 Miss Pauline P. Whitney (Mrs.Pag< 
 
 -t), " 
 
 no. 
 
 Mrs. Mary P. S. Campbell, 
 
 Elizabeth, N. J. 
 
 HI. 
 
 Mrs. Catherine R. Kernochan, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 112. 
 
 Mrs. Mary W. Bowler, 
 
 Virginia. 
 
 "3- 
 
 Mrs. Sara S. Whiting, 
 
 New York. 
 
 114. 
 
 Mrs. Martha W. Wysong, 
 
 New York. 
 
 115- 
 
 Mrs. Mary Stuart Smith, 
 
 Charlottesville, Va. 
 
 116. 
 
 Mrs. Henrietta B. HufF, 
 
 Greensburg, Pa. 
 
 117. 
 
 Mrs. Frances Candy B. Griscom, 
 
 Haverford, Pa. 
 
 118. 
 
 Mrs. D. Meade Massie, 
 
 Chillicothe, 0. 
 
 119. 
 
 Mrs. A. Howard Hinkle, 
 
 Cincinnati, O. 
 
 120. 
 
 Mrs. Eva S. Cochran. 
 
 New York City, 
 
 121. 
 
 Mrs, Florence St. J. Wardwell, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
240 
 
 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 122. Mrs. Emma Thompson Smith, Ballston Spa, N. Y. 
 
 123. Mrs. Fanny Morris Ward, New York City. 
 *I24. Miss Alice Thompson, Ballston Spa, N. Y. 
 
 125. Mrs. Wilhelmina Blatchford, New York City. 
 
 *I26. Mrs. Mary Ford Bush, Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
 
 127. Mrs. Henrietta Crosby Thompson, Troy, N. Y. 
 
 128. Mrs. Mary I. Burden, New York City. 
 
 129. Mrs. Abby Townsend Lansing, Albany, N. Y. 
 l30ff.Mrs. Emily Norwood Trevor, New York City. 
 i30iJ.Mrs. Fanny Brooke Reid, Baltimore, Md. 
 
 131. Mrs. Catherine Fox Lansing, Little Falls, N. Y. 
 
 132. Mrs. Hannah Biddle Williams, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 *I33. Mrs. J. Burrows Greene, New York City. 
 *I34. Mrs. Elizabeth L. Marquand, New York. 
 
 135. Mrs. Caroline de F. Orr, Troy, N. Y. 
 
 136. Mrs. Jennie C. Fassett, Elmira, N. Y. 
 
 137. Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes, New York City. 
 
 138. Mrs. Mary B. Lewis, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 139. Mrs. Janet Suffern Lansing, New York. 
 
 140. Mrs. Lucretia R. Garfield. Mentor, O. 
 
 141. Mrs. Eliza E. Newport, St. Paul, Minn. 
 i42«.Mrs. Gertrude Darragh Linton, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 i42<i.Mrs. M. Bell Moncure Hall, Baltimore, Md. 
 143^. Mrs. Laura E. Hancock Merriam, Minnesota. 
 i43<5.Mrs. M. C. Head, Tennessee. 
 
 144. Mrs. Wilbur Bloodgood, New York City. 
 
 145. Mrs. S. M. S. Stiles, Watertown, N. Y. 
 
 146. Mrs. Virginia G. Empie, Wilmington, N. C. 
 
 147. Mrs. Fannie E. Poisson. London, England. 
 
 148. Mrs. Katherine C. Breckenridge, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
 
 149. Mrs. Ida Farr Miller, Wakefield, Mass. 
 
 150. Mrs. Maria W. W, Proctor, Utica, N. Y. 
 
 151. Miss Mary Perkins Quincy, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 152. Mrs. Margaret J. Hunsicker, Norristown, Pa.- 
 
 153. Mrs. Jean Eno Campbell, Hoboken, N. J. 
 
 154. Mrs. Mary Derr, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
 
HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 
 
 241 
 
 ass- 
 
 Mrs. Frances E. Loomis, 
 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 ise. 
 
 Mrs. M. Fay Peirce, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 157- 
 
 Mrs. E. M, E. Darlington, 
 
 Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 158. 
 
 Mrs. Ella Guthrie Painter. 
 
 Allegheny, Pa. 
 
 159. 
 
 Mrs. Julia K. Hogg, 
 
 Allegheny, Pa. 
 
 160. 
 
 Mrs. Rachel H. Mellon, 
 
 Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 161. 
 
 Mrs. Felicia R. Johnson, 
 
 Allegheny, Pa. 
 
 162. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth P. Kennedy, 
 
 Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 163. 
 
 Mrs. Mary F. Robbins, 
 
 Allegheny, Pa. 
 
 164. 
 
 Mrs. Harriet F. Greve, 
 
 Cincinnati, 0. 
 
 165. 
 
 Mrs. Charlotte L. Bolton, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 166. 
 
 Mrs. Marie Dennis Mercur. 
 
 Wallingford, Pa. 
 
 167. 
 
 Mrs. Eleanor Selden Washington 
 
 
 Howard, 
 
 Alexandria, Va. 
 
 168. 
 
 Mrs. Addie Wallerstein, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 169. 
 
 Mrs. Caroline M. B. Hulbert, 
 
 Clifton, 0. 
 
 170. 
 
 Mrs. Malilda H. Perin, 
 
 Clifton, 0. 
 
 171. 
 
 Miss Annie Laws, 
 
 Cincinnati, 0. 
 
 172. 
 
 Mrs. Harriet C. Robbins, 
 
 Cincinnati, 0. 
 
 173- 
 
 Mrs. Adeline C. French, 
 
 Glendale, 0. 
 
 174. 
 
 Dr. Fannie W. Oakly, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 175- 
 
 Mrs. Isabella I. Thomas, 
 
 Cincinnati, O. 
 
 176. 
 
 Mrs. Alice C. Brewster, 
 
 Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 177. 
 
 Mrs. E. W. Fleming, 
 
 Fredericksburg, Va. 
 
 178. 
 
 Miss Anne Randolph Ball 
 
 
 
 (Mrs. Baughman), 
 
 Davenport, la. 
 
 ^179. 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Herbert Mather, 
 
 Bound Brook, N. J. 
 
 180, 
 
 Miss Sarah Martine Rittenhouse, 
 
 Germantown, Pa. 
 
 181. 
 
 Mrs. Katherine Searle McCartney, 
 
 Wilkes Barre, Pa. 
 
 182. 
 
 Mrs. P. C. Cheney, 
 
 Manchester, N. H. 
 
 183. 
 
 Mrs. Emma Westcott Bullock, 
 
 Bristol, R. I. 
 
 184. 
 
 Miss Eliza Selden Washington 
 
 
 
 (Mrs. Hunter), 
 
 Alexandria, Va. 
 
 185. 
 
 Miss Mary Torrence Harrison, 
 
 Cincinnati, 0. 
 
 186. 
 
 Mrs. Ella K. Perin, 
 
 Baltimore, Md. 
 
 187. 
 
 Mrs. Mary H. Hart, 
 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 16 
 
242 
 
 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 1 88. Mrs. Alice Shepley Nichols, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 189. Mrs. Donaldson, St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 190. Mrs. Mai Philler Lee, Haverford, Pa. 
 
 191. Mrs. Louise Levering Weber, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 192. Mrs. Lena Burton Clarke, Minnesota. 
 
 193. Miss Julia Scott Stevenson 
 
 (Mrs. Hardin), Illinois. 
 
 194. Mrs. Sarah D. Hewitt, New York City. 
 
 195. Mrs. Letitia Green Stevenson, Bloomington, Ills. 
 
 196. Mrs. Olivia Gardner Moses, Trenton, N. J. 
 
 197. Mrs. Anne Van Rensselaer Wells, New York. 
 
 198. Mrs. Helen Biddle Griscom Bettle, Haverford, Pa. 
 
 199. Mrs. Hannah Nicholson Ellison, Pennsylvania. 
 
 200. Gaspee Chapter, Providence, R. I. 
 
 201. Mrs. Sarah L. Horton, New York. 
 
 202. Mrs. Grace Lea Hunt, Wilkes Barre, Pa. 
 
 203. Miss Emma C. King, Xenia, O. 
 
 204. Mrs. Joanna Wharton Lippincott, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 205. Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst, Washington, D. C. 
 
 206. Mrs. Sarah Boice Runyon, Plainfield, N. J. 
 
 207. Mrs. Julia Williams Biddle, Pennsylvania. 
 
 208. Mrs. Elizabeth Hart Colt, Hartford, Conn. 
 *209. Mrs. J. I. Washburn, Connecticut. 
 
 210. Mrs. Jeanie Washington Campbell 
 
 Story, New Orleans, La. 
 
 211. Mrs. Caroline Crafts Little, Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 212. Mrs. Mary Everest Rockwell, Meriden, Conn. 
 
 213. Mrs. Harriet Dawson Glover, Fairfield, Conn. 
 
 214. Mrs. James Hicks, Piqua, O. 
 
 215. Mrs. Sarah E. Fairman, New York City. 
 
 216. Mrs. Charlemagne Tower, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 217. Mrs. Frank Houston Wyeth, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 218. Miss Harriet Baird-Huey, " •' 
 
 219. Mrs. Herman F. Straw, Manchester, N. H. 
 
 220. Miss Helen Murray Reynolds, Wilkes Barre, Pa. 
 
 221. Mrs. Mary T. Hill, St. Paul, Minn. 
 
HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 
 
 243 
 
 222. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Nora Blood Carpenter, 
 
 Manchester, N. H, 
 
 223. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Donald McLean, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 224. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Scott Jordan, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 225. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Robert Stockwell Hatcher, 
 
 Lafayette, Ind. 
 
 226. 
 
 Miss 
 
 Marguerite Doane, 
 
 Cincinnati, 0. 
 
 227. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Mary J. Monfort, 
 
 St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 228. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Elizabeth Cass Ledyard God- 
 
 
 dard, 
 
 Colorado Springs, Col, 
 
 229. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Anna Maria Lathrop Hewes, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 230. 
 
 Miss 
 
 Mary Harvey, 
 
 Wilkes Barre, Pa. 
 
 231. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 M. B. McK. Bailey, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 232. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Abby Day Slocomb, 
 
 Groton, Conn. 
 
 233- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 H. Bowron, 
 
 Sing Sing, N. Y. 
 
 234- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Rosalynd Wood Clingan, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 235- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Margaret L. Postley, 
 
 New York. 
 
 236. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Mary D. Chahoon, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 237- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Lillie Van Loun Lindabury, 
 
 Bernardsville, N. J. 
 
 238. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Marcellus Hartley, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 239- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 J. Heron Crosman (Ellen Hall) 
 
 , New Rochelle, N. Y. 
 
 240. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 J. Mauran Rhodes, 
 
 Ardmore, Pa. 
 
 241. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 W. A. Bowron, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 242. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Gertrude Van C. Hamilton, 
 
 « 
 
 243- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Andrew J. Colvin, 
 
 Albany, N. Y. 
 
 244. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Edith L. Collins, 
 
 Albany, N. Y, 
 
 245. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 W. M. Knight, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 246. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 J. De W. Harvey, 
 
 Wilkes Barre, Pa. 
 
 247. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Louis J. Hall, 
 
 Harrisburg, Pa. 
 
 248. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 A. W. Reed, 
 
 Baltimore, Md. 
 
 249. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Cornelia Gray Lunt, 
 
 Evanston, 111. 
 
 250. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 James W. Randall, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 251- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Roger Wolcott, 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 252. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Edward Storrs Atwater, 
 
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
 
 253- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Eva C. Hersey, 
 
 St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 254. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Martha Bennett Phelps, 
 
 Wilkes Barre, Pa. 
 
 235- 
 
 Miss 
 
 ; Helen Erben, 
 
 Radnor, Pa. 
 
 256. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Marcus Benjamin, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
244 
 
 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 257. Mrs. Anna Scott Paine Worden, 
 
 258. Mrs. M. W. Jackson, 
 
 259. Miss Mary Isabella Forsyth, 
 
 260. Mrs. Abbie Cory Turner, 
 
 261. Mrs. Matthew Henry Robertson, 
 
 262. Mrs, Jessie Glen Shultz, 
 
 263. Mrs. Emily A. Williams, 
 *264. Mrs. E. H. Woodruff, 
 
 265. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Coe, 
 
 266. Mrs. S. P. Townsend, 
 
 267. Mrs. George P. Lawton, 
 
 268. Mrs. Mary A. H. Smith, 
 
 269. Mrs. Alice M. Stanley, 
 
 270. Mrs. Sara T. Kinney, 
 
 271. Mrs. Mary B.White, 
 
 272. Miss Elizabeth M. White, 
 
 273. Mrs. Delia T. Audubon Tyler, 
 
 274. Mrs. Mary Root Wilcox, 
 
 275. Mrs. Henry T. Bulkley, 
 
 276. Miss Frances Wakeman, 
 
 277. Mrs. Julia Du Bois James, 
 
 278. Mrs. Charles H. Roberts, 
 
 279. Mrs. John L. Camp, 
 
 280. Mrs. E. K. Hubbard, 
 
 281. Mrs. Leland Stanford, 
 
 282. Mrs. Mary H. Wilson, 
 
 283. Mrs. William B. Thayer, 
 
 284. Mrs. O. V. Coffin, 
 
 285. Miss M. P. Keenan, 
 
 286. Mrs. Julia S. Whittemore, 
 
 287. Miss Sarah S. Brayton, 
 
 288. Mrs. F. R. Skinner, 
 
 289. Miss M. W. Denny, 
 
 290. Mrs. Martha Cameron House, 
 
 291. Mrs. Clara A. Cooley, 
 
 292. Mrs. H. J. Bailey, 
 
 Wilkes Barre, Pa. 
 Bellefonte, Pa. 
 Kingston, N. Y. 
 Cooperstown, N. Y. 
 Albany, N, Y. 
 Phillipsburg, N. J. 
 Middletown, Conn. 
 
 Cromwell, Conn. 
 Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 
 << << i< 
 
 Milford, Conn. 
 
 New Britain, Conn. 
 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 "1 Little Boar's Head, 
 / Northampton, N. H. 
 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 Middletown, Conn. 
 
 Southport, Conn. 
 « (< 
 
 Seymour, Conn. 
 West Chester, Pa. 
 Hartford, Conn, 
 Middletown, Conn. 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 Middletown, Conn. 
 Kansas City, Mo. 
 Middletown, Conn. 
 Baltimore, Md. 
 Naugatuck, Conn. 
 Fall River, Mass. 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 Allegheny, Pa. 
 Pittsburg, Pa. 
 Dubuque, la. 
 Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 
 
 245 
 
 293- 
 294. 
 295. 
 296. 
 297. 
 298, 
 299. 
 300. 
 301. 
 302. 
 
 303- 
 
 304- 
 
 *305- 
 
 306. 
 
 307- 
 308. 
 
 309- 
 310. 
 
 3"- 
 312. 
 
 313- 
 314- 
 
 315- 
 316. 
 
 317- 
 318. 
 
 319. 
 320. 
 321. 
 322. 
 323- 
 324. 
 325- 
 326. 
 
 327- 
 328. 
 
 Mrs. Caroline E. H. Davis, 
 
 Miss Irene Stout, 
 
 Mrs. Ellen M. Wilcox, 
 
 Mrs. Charles A. Carroll, 
 
 Mrs. H, S. Ruggles, 
 
 Mrs. Chauncey Stoddard, 
 
 Mrs. W. A. Conover, 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Denison Reilay, 
 
 Miss Mary Cecelia Ryan, 
 
 Mrs. Grace A. Mervvin Provoost, 
 
 Meriden, Conn. 
 Dayton, O. 
 Meriden, Conn. 
 New Brighton,Staten I. 
 Wakefield, Mass. 
 Plattsburg, N. Y. 
 New York City. 
 Pennsylvania. 
 Elizabeth, N. J. 
 Dubuque, la. 
 
 Mrs. Annie Dryden Parker P. Lyon, Meriden, Conn. 
 
 Mrs. Eugene C. Eaton, 
 
 Mrs. George Baty Blake, 
 
 Mrs, Franklin Farrell, 
 
 Mrs. Marshall Calkins, 
 
 Mrs. Rutherford Trowbridge, 
 
 Mrs. Charles F. Brooker, 
 
 Mrs. Maria W. Pinney, 
 
 Mrs, Mary Josephine Clark, 
 
 Mrs. Eliot C. Clarke, 
 
 Mrs. E. R. Sprague, 
 
 Mrs. E. J. Cartwright, 
 
 Mrs. Florence Hildredth Nesmith, 
 
 Mrs. George W. Grouard, 
 
 Mrs. Oliver P. Dickinson, 
 
 Mrs. Leonora P. Nesmith, 
 
 Mrs. Jane Ten Eyck Sanders, 
 
 Susan Carrington Clark Chapter, 
 
 Mrs. Washington Morton, 
 
 Fannie Ledyard Chapter, 
 
 Mrs. Thomas A. Reilly, 
 
 Mrs. Lydia W. Noyes, 
 
 Mrs, Harriet P. Bradley, 
 
 Miss Mary F. de Velasco, 
 
 Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames. 
 
 Mrs, E. P. Sohier, Boston, Mass, 
 
 Maiden, Mass, 
 Boston, Mass. 
 Ansonia, Conn, 
 Springfield, Mass. 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 Ansonia, Conn. 
 Derby, Conn. 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 Boston, Mass. 
 « <{ 
 
 Brookline, Mass. 
 Lowell, Mass. 
 Reading, Mass. 
 Chicago, 111. 
 New York, 
 Albany, N, Y. 
 Meriden, Conn. 
 New Brighton, Staten I. 
 Mystic, Conn. 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Mystic, Conn. 
 Meriden, Conn. 
 New York City. 
 
246 
 
 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 328. 
 
 Mrs. E. P. Lohier, 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 329- 
 
 Mrs. Roberdeau Buchanan, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 330- 
 
 Mr. M. H. Dodge, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 331- 
 
 Mrs. E. H. Harrison, 
 
 Lewisburg, Pa. 
 
 332- 
 
 Mrs. Mary E. Crane, 
 
 Dalton, Mass. 
 
 333- 
 
 Mrs. Nelson Morris, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 334- 
 
 Mrs. A. K. Rothschild, 
 
 <f « 
 
 335- 
 
 Mrs. I. Bartholomew, 
 
 Ansonia, Conn. 
 
 336- 
 
 Mrs. S. V. White, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 337- 
 
 Mrs. G. B. Andrews, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 338. 
 
 Mrs. J. H. Ogelsby, 
 
 New Orleans, La. 
 
 '339- 
 
 Mrs. Fanny Washington Finch, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 34°- 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth S. Reeder, 
 
 Bellefonte, Penn. 
 
 341. 
 
 Mrs. Mary S. Cochrane, 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 342. 
 
 Mrs. Caroline F. Warren, 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 343. 
 
 Mrs. Anna Hill Thomas, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 344- 
 
 Mrs. James W. Bartlett, 
 
 Colorado Springs, Col. 
 
 345- 
 
 Miss Phebe Northrup Stoddard, 
 
 Poultney, Vt. 
 
 346. 
 
 Mrs. Joseph E. McWilliams, 
 
 St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 347- 
 
 Mrs. Van Leer Kirkman, 
 
 Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 348. 
 
 Mrs. Frederick C. Curtis, 
 
 Albany, N. Y. 
 
 349- 
 
 Mrs. Laura Barnard Thompson, 
 
 Milford, Conn. 
 
 350. 
 
 Mrs. Mary B. Washington, 
 
 Cedar Hill, Tenn. 
 
 351- 
 
 Mrs. Cephas B. Rogers, 
 
 Meriden, Conn. 
 
 352. 
 
 Mrs. Ida Pitt Ritter, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 353- 
 
 Mrs. Lizzie J, Birdseye, 
 
 Bridgeport, Conn. 
 
 354- 
 
 Mrs. Esther B. Noble, 
 
 Norwalk, Conn. 
 
 355- 
 
 Miss Annie Burr Jennings, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 356. 
 
 Mrs. Charlotte 0. Van Cleve, 
 
 Minneapolis. 
 
 357- 
 
 Mrs. S. F. Farnam, 
 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 3S8. 
 
 Mrs. Lora Haines Cook, 
 
 Cooksburg, Pa. 
 
 359. 
 
 Mrs. Julia Tomlinson Bishop, 
 
 Bridgeport, Conn. 
 
 360. 
 
 Mrs. Mary E. Griffin Merrill, 
 
 Albany, N. Y. 
 
 361. 
 
 Mrs. S. Isabelle Hubbard, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 362. 
 
 Mrs. Helen Parmele Handy New- 
 
 
 
 berry, 
 
 Detroit, Mich. 
 
HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 
 
 247 
 
 363. 
 
 Mrs. Henry Payne, 
 
 Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 364. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Hazard McCalla, 
 
 U. S. N. 
 
 365. 
 
 Mrs. Emma Welch Walcott, 
 
 New York Mills. 
 
 ^366. 
 
 Miss Eugenia Washington, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 367- 
 
 Mrs. A. R. Jones (A. Morton Jones) 
 
 , Brookline, Mass. 
 
 368. 
 
 Mrs. Anna E. Lupton, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 369- 
 
 Mrs. Theodora H. Wallace, 
 
 U. S. N. 
 
 370- 
 
 Mrs. Mary B. F. Leiper, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 371- 
 
 Miss Floretta Vining, 
 
 Hull, Mass. 
 
 372. 
 
 Mrs. Jane Esther Stone, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 373- 
 
 Mrs. David L. Stetson, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 374. 
 
 Mrs. Jessie Van Zile Belden, 
 
 Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 375- 
 
 Miss Jeannette Emma Smith, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 376. 
 
 Mrs. Lucy W. Whitney, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 377- 
 
 Mrs. Hattie Nourse Brockett, 
 
 Alexandria, Va. 
 
 378. 
 
 Mrs. Emily Warren Roebling, 
 
 Trenton, N. J. 
 
 379. 
 
 Miss Mary Van Buren Vanderpoel, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 380. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth D. Vail, 
 
 Denver, Colorado. 
 
 381- 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Hilliard Hatch, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 382. 
 
 Mrs. Phebe C. Wilson, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 383. 
 
 Mrs. Ida Saxton McKinley, 
 
 Executive Mansion, 
 
 384. 
 
 Mrs. Harriett N. Lothrop, 
 
 Concord, Mass. 
 
 385- 
 
 Miss Dorothy White, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 386. 
 
 John Christy Giles, Jr., 
 
 « « 
 
 387- 
 
 Mrs. Minnie M. Kendrick, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 388. 
 
 Mrs. Emily N. McGuire, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 389- 
 
 Mrs. Althea T. Bedle, 
 
 Jersey City, N. J. 
 
 390. 
 
 Mrs. George F. Fuller, 
 
 Springfield, Mass. 
 
 391. 
 
 Mrs. Helen P. Benedict, 
 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 392. 
 
 Mrs. Teresa H. English, 
 
 ,< 
 
 393- 
 
 Mrs. Florence C. Moseley, 
 
 « 
 
 394- 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth D. Thaw, 
 
 Allegheny, Pa. 
 
 395- 
 
 Mrs. Frances Boatt Moss, 
 
 Sandusky, Ohio. 
 
 396. 
 
 Mrs. Ella Myers Peets, 
 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 397- 
 
 Mrs. W. J. Frisbie, 
 
 Camden, N. J. 
 
 398. 
 
 Louisa St. Clair Chapter, 
 
 Detroit, Michigan. 
 
248 
 
 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 399. Mrs. Rumina Ayres McClure, 
 
 400. Miss Jennie M. Clarke, 
 
 401. Mrs. Emeline Joslin Colony, 
 
 402. Mrs. Mary F. Richmond, 
 
 403. Mrs. Florence D. Talbot. 
 
 404. Mrs. Emily M. Currier, 
 
 405. Miss Martha H. Rigg, 
 
 406. Mrs. Catherine Hippie Cook, 
 
 407. Mrs. Elizabeth R. H. Moulton, 
 
 408. Miss Anne Hampton Barnes, 
 
 409. Mrs. Lucy Tarr Fleming, 
 
 410. Mrs. Helen M. Norton, 
 
 411. Mrs. Levietta Bartlett Conner, 
 
 412. Mrs. Emma Kidwell McCahill, 
 
 413. Mrs. Sophie W. Sage, 
 
 414. Mrs. Julia Arnold Bradley, 
 
 415. Mrs. Emma Stinson Green, 
 
 416. Mrs. Rachel McM, Miller, 
 
 417. Mrs. Jerusha T. Rockwell, 
 
 418. Miss Lilla T. Pechin, 
 
 419. Mrs, Mary Powers Harris, 
 
 420. Mrs, Grace G. F. Reynolds, 
 
 421. Mrs. Mary Shelley Pechin, 
 
 422. Mrs. Elizabeth C. B. Nourse, 
 
 423. Mrs. Charlotte M. H. Maurice, 
 
 424. Mrs. Abigail J. H. Dyer, 
 
 425. Mrs. Margaret Pratt Myers, 
 
 426. Mrs, Rosetta R. Hostetter, 
 
 427. Miss Caroline Pearson, 
 
 428. Mrs, Nannie Gilmore Herr, 
 
 429. Miss Sophie Waples, 
 
 430. Miss Emily Ritchie Perkins, 
 
 431. Mrs. Florence F, McKinney, 
 
 Little Rock, Ark. 
 Providence, R. L 
 Keene, N. H, 
 North Adams, Mass, 
 Lynn, Mass. 
 Longwood, Mass. 
 Pittsburg, Pa. 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Rosemont, Pa. 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Chestnut Hill, Phila., 
 
 Pa. 
 Little Rock, Ark, 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 Washington, D, C, 
 U. S. A, 
 
 Southington, Conn, 
 Easton, Pa, 
 Turtle Creek, Pa. 
 Southport, Conn, 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 li « 
 
 Wilkes-Barre, Pa, 
 Torega, Botetourt Co., 
 
 Va. 
 Absecon, N. J, 
 Athens, Pa, 
 Rutland, Vt. 
 Plattsburg, N. Y. 
 Allegheny, Pa, 
 Harrisburg, Pa, 
 (( << 
 
 Wilmington, Del. 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Chestnut Hill, Phila., 
 Pa. 
 
HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 
 
 249 
 
 432. Mrs. Effie Fleming Disston, 
 
 433. Mrs. Mary Kate Hancock, 
 
 434. Mrs. Ida Tucker Morris, 
 
 435. Mrs. Fannie J. Helmuth, 
 
 436. Miss Mary Benson, 
 
 437. Mrs. Leah Dale Fassett, 
 
 438. Mrs. Emily H. Roots, 
 
 439. Miss Bessie J. Kibbey, 
 
 440. Mrs. Mary Gertrude Kibbey, 
 
 441. Mrs. Sara L. Lee, 
 
 442. Mrs. Anna Pretty man Rowland, 
 
 443. Mrs. Delia Boardman Conover, 
 
 444. Mrs. Ellen M. Beale, 
 
 445. Miss E. Crowell, 
 
 446. Mrs. Isabella L. Tliompson, 
 
 447. Miss Sara W. Daggett, 
 
 448. Mrs. Eleanor Howe Nimick, 
 
 449. Mrs. Anna S. W. Smith, 
 
 450. Mrs. Elizabeth McC. Miller, 
 
 451. Mrs. Mary Fairfax Woodward, 
 
 452. Mrs. Antoinette F. Wheeler, 
 
 453. Mrs. Annie B. Shepard, 
 
 454. Mrs. Mary Hubbard Bunce, 
 
 455. Mrs. Margaret R. Pendleton, 
 
 456. Mrs. Arabella A. Peterson, 
 
 457. Mrs. Frederica C. T. Getchell, 
 
 458. Miss Myra Hubbard Avery, 
 
 459. Mrs. Emma C. Humbird, 
 
 460. Mrs. Annie B. Lamberton, 
 
 461. Miss Virginia Lewis Mitchell, 
 
 462. Mrs. Mary Gertrude Edson Aldrich, 
 
 463. Mrs. Emma Lukens Thompson, 
 
 464. Mrs. Ellen H. M. Peck, 
 
 465. Mrs. Mary Isabelle Hervey, 
 
 466. Miss Eleanor Magruder, 
 
 17 
 
 Chestnut Hill, Phila., 
 
 Pa. 
 Franklin, Pa. 
 Chicago, Ills. 
 New York City. 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 Franklin, Pa. 
 Little Rock, Ark. 
 Washington, D. C. 
 Marshalltown, la. 
 Boston, Mass. 
 Chicago, Ills. 
 <( « 
 
 Parkesburg, Pa. 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Atlantic City, N. J. 
 Boston, Mass. 
 Pittsburg, Pa. 
 Brooklyn, N. Y, 
 U. S. N. 
 U. S. N. 
 
 Bridgeport, Conn. 
 East Derry, N. H. 
 Middletown, Conn. 
 Laurel, Md. 
 Lockport, N. Y. 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
 Pittsburg, Pa. 
 Harrisburg, Pa. 
 Charlestown, W. Va. 
 New York City. 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Milwaukee, Wis. 
 Chicago, 111. 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
250 
 
 
 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 467. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Sophie Knox Garvin, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 468. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Margaret Byers Stanford, 
 
 Harrisburg, Pa. 
 
 469. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Genevra W. Woodruff, 
 
 New York City 
 
 470. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Ella H. Graeme, 
 
 Wilkes Barre, Pa, 
 
 471. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Edith Conant Thornton, 
 
 Pautucket, R. I. 
 
 472. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Mary K. Browne, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 473. 
 
 Miss 
 
 Torquinia L. Voss, 
 
 Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 474- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Mary C. Hoffman, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 475- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Lida McK. Howard Smith, 
 
 Germantown, Pa. 
 
 476. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Florence Gray Estey, 
 
 Brattleboro, Vt. 
 
 477- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Edna P. Davis, 
 
 Portland, Me. 
 
 478. 
 
 Miss 
 
 Sarah Doughty, 
 
 Absecon, N. J. 
 
 479- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Susan Babcock Munson, 
 
 Albany, N. Y. 
 
 48o. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Mary Clinton Baldwin, 
 
 « « 
 
 481. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Caroline Buchanan, 
 
 i< (( 
 
 482. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Henrietta A. Longley, 
 
 Pautucket, R. I. 
 
 483. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Emily L. A. Thomson, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 484. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Katherine R. Wollcot Verplanck 
 
 , Fishkill-on-Hudson, 
 N. Y. 
 
 485. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Catherine H. T. Avery, 
 
 Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 4S6. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Virginia S. Hodge, 
 
 " 
 
 487. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Julia T. Scott, 
 
 Bloomington, 111. 
 
 488. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Ellen Damon LaLanne, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 489. 
 
 Miss Alice A. De LaMar, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 490. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Elizabeth Eddy Moody, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 491- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Alice Greene Crandall, 
 
 New London, Conn. 
 
 492. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Antha Clift Buxton, 
 
 Middletown Springs, 
 
 Vt. 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 493- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Caroline Damon Kerr, 
 
 494- 
 
 Mrs, 
 
 , Barbara Eugenie Williams, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 495- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Martha L. Chase, 
 
 Waterbury, Conn. 
 
 496. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Lillian Ptke Roome, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 497- 
 
 Mrs, 
 
 , Virginia Bulkley Perry, 
 
 Southport, Conn. 
 
 498. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 , Ella E. T, Saeger, 
 
 Allentown, Pa. 
 
 499. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 . Susus Embury Blodgett, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 500. 
 
 Mrs, 
 
 , Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, 
 
 Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 
 
 251 
 
 501. 
 
 Miss 
 
 Adele Kneeland, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 502. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Mary McGill Gamble, 
 
 Plattsburg, N. Y. 
 
 503- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Marietta Michael Dedericke, 
 
 Albany, N. Y. 
 
 504- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Jane C. Bevin, 
 
 East Hampton, Conn. 
 
 505. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Mary Comstock Vaits, 
 
 New London, Conn. 
 
 506, 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Rose E. Lytton, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 507- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Adeline T. Emerson, 
 
 Rockford, 111. 
 
 508. 
 
 Miss 
 
 Eliza Mansfield, 
 
 Peoria, 111. 
 
 509- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Elizabeth S. Law, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 510. 
 
 Miss 
 
 ; Mary Alice Law, 
 
 i< <( 
 
 5"- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Martha Cilley B. Clarke, 
 
 Manchester, N. H. 
 
 512. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Harriet McGaw Woodbury, 
 
 Bedford, N. H. 
 
 513- 
 
 Jklrs. 
 
 Mary J. Foster, 
 
 Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
 
 514- 
 
 Miss 
 
 Martha Edwards Beach, 
 
 Bridgeport, Conn. 
 
 515- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Mary Louise Woodin, 
 
 Berwick, Pa. 
 
 ^516. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Elizabeth Foster Wood in. 
 
 « i( 
 
 517- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Annie Jessup Woodin, 
 
 « i< 
 
 518. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Theodora C. Bailey, 
 
 Denver, Col, 
 
 519. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Abby Jane Gray Taylor, 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 520. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Angeline Ensign Newman, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 521. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Fannie A. Welcher,, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 522. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Emily Ripley McGregor, 
 
 Newark, N. J. 
 
 523- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Ella Petrie Lamb Jewett, 
 
 St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 524. 
 
 ISIrs. 
 
 Harriet S. Boas, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 525- 
 
 Miss 
 
 Minnie F. Mickley, 
 
 AUentown, Pa, 
 
 526. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Alice H. Van Anden, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 527. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Frances Hubbard Larkin, 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 528. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Emma Embury Cattus, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 529. 
 
 Miss 
 
 Emma Embury Cattus, 
 
 » 
 
 530- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Francis Larkin Esty, 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 531- 
 
 Miss 
 
 Isabella Hale Crandall, 
 
 Yonkers, N, Y, 
 
 532. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Mary Richardson Welsh, 
 
 Toledo, 0. 
 
 533- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Augusta M. Dolph, 
 
 Portland, Ore. 
 
 534. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Francie Grant Wager, 
 
 Cleveland, 0. 
 
 535- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Elizabeth Duncan Thayer, 
 
 North Adams, Mass. 
 
 536. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 ^L Jenny Piatt, 
 
 New York. 
 
252 
 
 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 537. Mrs. Ellen M. Colton, 
 
 538. Mrs. Susan Carrie Elson Clokey, 
 359. Mrs. Emily Hall Hazen, 
 
 540. Mrs. Alice Henderson Van Tassel, 
 
 541. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Gordon, 
 
 542. Mrs. Annie F. Shardlow, 
 
 543. Mrs. Sarah B. Camp, 
 
 544. Mrs. Florence Skid more Brown 
 
 Menges, 
 
 545. Mrs. Katie P. Farnham, 
 
 546. Mrs. Eliza Jumel Caryl, 
 
 547. Mrs. Mary Stewart Carey, 
 
 548. Miss Helen M. Winslow, 
 
 549. Mrs. Mary E. F. Maynard, 
 
 550. Mrs. Janette Adams Garner, 
 
 551. Mrs. Mary Little Deere, 
 
 552. Mrs. Christina VonK. Wade, 
 
 553. Mrs. Elizabeth Cynthia Barney Buel, 
 
 554. Mrs. Clara Curtis Qualey, 
 
 555. Mrs. James DeSoto Giblin, 
 
 556. Mrs. Janet Watson Seward, 
 
 557. Mrs. Harriet W. Smith, 
 
 558. Mrs. Elizabeth O. Galusha, 
 
 559. Mrs. Caroline Augusta Warner, 
 
 560. Mrs. Elizabeth Dismukes, 
 
 561. Mrs. Hortense Hay Mclntire, 
 
 562. Mrs. Henrietta Candee Weir Hesing, 
 
 563. Mrs. Frances Ayres Johnson Gibbs, 
 
 564. Mrs. Ella Holmes White, 
 
 565. Mrs. Mathilde von T. Iredell, 
 
 566. Mrs. Emilie D. Martin, 
 
 567. Mrs. Augusta Danforth Geer, 
 
 568. Mrs. Medora Sanford Todd, 
 
 569. Miss Stella Florine Broadhead, 
 
 570. Mrs. Harriet P. Simpson, 
 
 571. Mrs. Edith Darlington Ammon, 
 
 California. 
 Decatur, 111. 
 Pelham Manor, N. Y. 
 Dubois, Pa, 
 Pittsburg, Pa. 
 New York City. 
 Winsted, Conn. 
 Saratoga Springs, N. Y 
 
 Yonkers, N. Y. 
 Yonkers, N. Y. 
 Indianapolis, Ind. 
 Roxbury, Mass. 
 Marquette, Mich. 
 Colorado Springs, Col, 
 Moline, Ills. 
 Allegheny, Pa. 
 Litchfield, Conn. 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 Troy, N. Y. 
 Auburn, N. Y. 
 New York City. 
 Troy, N. Y. 
 Troy, N. Y. 
 Columbus, Ga. 
 Baltimore, Md. 
 Chicago, Ills. 
 Philadelphia, Pa, 
 New York City. 
 Allentown, Pa. 
 New York City. 
 Washington, D. C. 
 New York City. 
 Jamestown, N. Y. 
 Brookline, Mass. 
 Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
HEREDITARY LIFE MEMBERS. 
 
 253 
 
 572. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Julia Husted Merrill, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 573- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Elizabeth Carroll Abell, 
 
 Baltimore, Md, 
 
 574- 
 
 Miss 
 
 Kate M. McKie, 
 
 Cambridge, N, Y. 
 
 575- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Ellen Southwick Hart, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 576. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Emily A. Peckham, 
 
 Troy, N. Y, 
 
 577- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Emilie D. Robb, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 578. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Caroline M. Murphy, 
 
 Cincinnati, 0. 
 
 579- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Caroline Berry Britton, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 580. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Katherine Pratt Horton, 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 581. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Mary Wood Swift, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 582. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Elizabeth W. Hoffecker, 
 
 Wilmington, Del. 
 
 583- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 William L. Cooney, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 584- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Phebe Armstrong Sherwood, 
 
 Ottawa, Ills. 
 
 S85. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Edith Wallace Knowles, 
 
 Wilmington, Del. 
 
 586. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Aurora B. McClellan, 
 
 Athens, Ala. 
 
 5!^7. 
 
 Miss 
 
 Louise Holman Haynes, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 588. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Catherine A. Bruce, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 589. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Annie R. McW. Hain, 
 
 .. 
 
 590. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Henrietta Pyre Benson, 
 
 Troy, N. Y. 
 
 591. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Mary Hart Wright, 
 
 (( (I 
 
 592. 
 
 Miss 
 
 Mary Harris Pearson, 
 
 Harrisburg, Pa. 
 
 593- 
 
 Miss Ellen Evans, 
 
 Norristown, Pa. 
 
 594- 
 
 Mrs, 
 
 Betty McG. Smoot, 
 
 Alexandria, Va. 
 
 595- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Frances Bernard Goolrick, 
 
 Fredericksburg, Va. 
 
 596. 
 
 Miss 
 
 Susan Carpenter Frazer, 
 
 Lancaster, Pa. 
 
 597- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Lizzie S. Belding, 
 
 Rockville, Conn. 
 
 598. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Eugenia W. Daw, 
 
 Lansingburgh, N. Y. 
 
 599- 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Katherine Duncan Smith, 
 
 Birmingham, Ala. 
 
 600. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Josephine Campbell Rathbone, 
 
 Hamilton, Ohio. 
 
254 
 
 BUILDING OF A MONUMENT. 
 
 DECEASED MEMBERS AND INHERITORS. 
 
 Deceased Members. 
 
 1. Mrs. Amelia C. Waite. 
 41. Mrs. Alice C. Bakewell. 
 60. Mrs. Deborah B. Coleman. 
 71. Mrs. Fanny Thurston Ballard. 
 Si. Miss Harriet A. Weed. 
 
 113. Mrs. Sara S. Whiting. 
 
 134. Mrs. Elizabeth L. Marquand. 
 
 264. Mrs. E. H. W'oodruff. 
 
 400. Miss Susan Carrington Clarke. 
 
 26. Mrs. Frances M. Stewart. 
 
 77. Mrs. John Townshend. 
 
 100. Mrs. Frances N. Woodward. 
 
 209. Mrs. Jane Ives Washburn. 
 
 305. Mrs. George Baty Blake. 
 
 4. Mrs. Margaretta Hetzel. 
 
 2. Mrs. Matilda W. Emory. 
 
 339. Mrs. Fanny Washington Finch. 
 
 56. Mrs. Mary Parker Corning. 
 
 82. Mrs. Harriet Cramer Porter. 
 
 124. Miss Alice Thomison. 
 
 126. Mrs. Mary Ford Bush. 
 
 179. Mrs.Margaret Herbert Mather. 
 
 366. Miss Eugenia W^ashington. 
 
 133. Mrs. J. Burrows Greene. 
 
 247. Mrs. Eliza Warford Hall. 
 
 Inheritors. 
 Miss Mary F. Waite. 
 Mrs, Ann Katherine Moorhead. 
 
 Miss Abby Churchill Ballard. 
 
 Mrs. Sara Whiting Rives. 
 Mrs. Linda Marquand Terry. 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Kellogg Chase. 
 Miss Jennie Clarke. 
 Mrs. Frances Welles Shepard. 
 Mrs. Mary L. Townshend 
 
 Rennard. 
 Miss Mary Evertson Barrow. 
 Miss Grace Ives W^ashburn. 
 
 Miss Susan Riviere Hetzel. 
 Miss Victoria de Montholon 
 Emory. 
 
 Miss Edith T. Herbert Mather. 
 Miss Eugenia Washington 
 
 Moncure. 
 Mrs. Mary Greene Chapin. 
 Miss Grace Hall. 
 
INSIGNIA. 
 Reverse Side. 
 
DECEASED MEMBERS AND INHERITORS. 255 
 
 Deceased. Inheritors. 
 
 182. Mrs. Person C. Cheney. Mrs. Agnes Cheney Fish. 
 
 345. Miss Phebe Northrup Stod- 
 dard. Mrs. Frances A. H. Rice. 
 83. Mrs. Jerusha Appleton. Mrs. Elizabeth A. Wynkoop. 
 312. Mrs. Eliot C. Clark. 
 
 112. Mrs. May W, Bowler. Mrs. Alice W. Bowler. 
 
 516. Mrs. Elizabeth Foster Woodin, Miss Elizabeth Foster Wood in. 
 
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