Papers of the Benjamin Franklin Yancey Family

May Elizabeth Yancey to Harriet Anna Yancey, January 2, 1925

Place--Petersburg, VA | Place--Washington, D.C. | Travel

This is a postcard with a picture of the "Tomb of Unknown Soldier, Arlington, VA."

May Yancey informs her mother, Harriet, as to when she will be arriving in Plainfield, New Jersey.

Tomb of Unknown Soldier,
Arlington, VA.
In a beautiful marble sarcophagus directly in front of the Memorial Ampitheatre at Arlington, Va., is the tomb of America's unknown soldier, overlooking the capital of the country which he loved and for which he died.
"The name of him whose body lies before us took flight with his imperishable soul. We know not whence he came, but only that his death marks him with the everlasting glory of an American dying for his country."
"We do not know the eminence of his birth, but we do know the glory of his death. He died for his country, and greater devotion hath no man than this. He died unquestioning, uncomplaining, with faith in his heart and hope on his lips that his country should triumph and its civilization survive."
President Harding

To: Mrs. H.A. Yancey.
916 Grant Ave
Plainfield.
Postmark: Washington 4, D.C.
JAN 2, 1925
6-PM

Will leave Washington 3:15 this evening arriving 7:35 in Petersburg.

D.
May.

Published by: Virginia Center for Digital History

Source copy consulted: Papers of the Benjamin Franklin Yancey Family (MSS 11599), Alderman Library, University of Virginia

Text and images (c) copyright 2001, by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia

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