Notes for Eliza Rogers LOCKWOOD

Notes for Eliza Rogers LOCKWOOD

Obit, Washington Post August 29, 1926 Page M16
Mrs. Sigsbee Rites Tomorrow Morning
Was widow of Commander of Maine when ship was blown up
Funeral Services for Mrs. Eliza Rogers Sigsbee , widow of Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee, commander of the Maine when it was blown up, will be conducted tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in the chapel of Joseph Gawler's Sons, 1730 Pennsylvania Avenue northwest. Mrs. Sigsbee died Friday. She fell and fractured her hip last November.

Mrs. Sigsbee was the daughter of Maj. Gen. H.H. Lockwood, who held commissions in the army and navy. He was instrumental in the development of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, where Mrs. Sigsbee will be buried. Mrs. Sigsbee's brother, Lt. James B. Lockwood, of the army, was lost in the Greeley Polar expedition.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. S.E. W. Kittelle, Mrs. Anton Otto Fischer, and Mrs. Robert T. Small; a brother Henry Lockwood, and four sisters, Mrs. Caroline Rittenhouse, Mrs, William B. Orme, Mrs. Robert G. Peck, and Miss Mary Murray Lockwood. For the last several years, Mrs. Sigsbee had made her home with Mrs. Small in this city.