Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1910 — MILITARY HONORS [ARTICLE]

MILITARY HONORS

Paid “Mother” Streight When She Was Laid To Rest. Indianapolis, Ind-, June 8.“Mother” Streigfit, widow of General Abel D. Streight, was buried at Crown Hill this afternoon with military honors, being | the first woman in Indiana over whose grave a salute was fired. She was with the Fifty-first InrtUna Regiment throughout the ituvll War,’ and nearly 100 veterans ascorted her body .to the grave. “Mother” Streight kept j alive a close relationship between ; “her boys,” aS she. termed the members of the Fifty-first. Each j year since the war they have : gathered at her home for their annual reunion. The beautiful Streight mansion on East Washinton street probably will be use<i for a home for aged women, but the reunions of the regiment will be held as long as the members survive.