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 CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR 237 were placed by the side of his wife in the family burial place in Rural cemetery. In June, 1889, a monument was erected over his grave. It is a pol ished granite sarcophagus, and on one side stands a beautiful bronze figure of Sorrow. MARY ARTHUR MCELROY, born in Greenwich, Washington County, N. Y., in 1842. She is the youngest child of the Rev. William Arthur and the sister of Chester A. Arthur. Her education was completed in Troy, at the seminary of which Mrs. Emma Willard was principal. In 1861 she married John E. McElroy, of Albany, and since that event she has resided in that city. During the administration of her brother she made her home in Washington in the winter season, and dispensed the hospitalities of the White House with rare so cial tact, the place being one for which she was peculiarly fitted by her personal character and pre vious associations.