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CoUection: JONES, HOWARD F., PAPERS
Warren County
1864-1866, 1895,. 1915
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Physical Description: 22 items} letters, postal cards, newspaper clippings.
Acquisition: January 19. 1915. Loaned by Howard F. Jones, Warrenton.
Description: This collection relates almost entirely to the erection of
a monument over the grave of Anne Carter Lee, daughter of Robert E. Lee.
Anne Carter Lee was born at Arlington, Virginia, June 18, 1839, and
died October 20, 1862, while on a visit with her mother and sisters to
White Su3jhur Springs (also known as Jones Sulphur Springs and Jones
Springs), a spa in Warren County. Owing to the exigencies of wai) she
was buried in the family cemetery of William Duke Jones, proprieter of
the establishment at White Sulphur Springs. After the war Joseph Speed
Jones, son of William Doke Jones, proposed the erection of a monument
over her grave, and a committee of ladies, headed by Mrs. Joseph Speed
Jones, was formed to implement the proposal. In the summer of 1866 the
monument, financed largely at the expense of the Jones family, was com¬
pleted. The erection ceremony was scheduled for August 8, and invita¬
tions were mailed to various members of the Lee family and to a number
of former Confederate military leaders. These letters, and the replies
which they elicited, constitute the bulk of this collection. Included
among the correspondents are the following: Robert E. Lee (July 25)}
Fitzhugh Lee (Aug. 6)} Daniel H. Hill (Aug. 6)} Robert F. Hoke (Aug. 8)j
and Braxton Bragg (Aug. 9). Also included are letters from Mary Custis
Lee (Aug. 8, 1873) and Fred A. Olds (Jan. 19, 1915), and a letter from
Braxton Bragg in which he describes the ruin of his fortunes (n.d.)
The postal cards contain historical vignettes and color depictions
of the Lee monument.
