[Magdalen] Tragedy in Charlottesville

Ginga Wilder gingawilder at gmail.com
Sun Aug 13 14:33:14 UTC 2017


I believe the name of the Episcopal Church that Jim describes is Robert E.
Lee Memorial Church.  A friend of mine was a member of that church as a
child.
Ginga

On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 10:09 AM James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net>
wrote:

> I’ve heard it told that he was in Richmond, VA; another story has it at
> Grace Church, Lexington, VA during Lee’s tenure as president of (then)
> Washington College, where he was the senior warden at said church.  That
> church is on the south west corner of (now) Washington and Lee University
> where Lee is buried in the campus chapel.
>
> -------------------------------------
> Education is its own reward, both for the individual and for society.
>
> Jim Handsfield
> jhandsfield at att.net
>
> > On Aug 13, 2017, at 8:58 AM, Louise Laughton <llaug at twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does anybody remember the particulars of an incident when Gen. Lee was
> the only white person in a church (Episcopal) who stayed and took communion
> at the same altar rail as a black person?
>
>


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