From Virginia (with video)-Lexington is a place full of history, where into a house built for him, Robert E. Lee came after the Civil War to be president of Washington College.
“He also, as a good Episcopalian, always attended the Episcopal church wherever he was," says David Cox, the author of “The Religious Life of Robert E Lee." "And that certainly was in Lexington.”
He joined the vestry, and was chosen to lead.
“Yeah, I’m filling the same job. He was senior warden of this church when he died,” says Woody Sadler, the Senior Warden today.
Leaving him with a problem. When Lee died, what was then Grace Episcopal was rebuilt as a memorial. A memorial that – as statues and parks honoring Lee and others are removed and renamed – some think should go back to being Grace Episcopal.
More here-
http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Lexingtons-RE-Lee-Episcopal-contemplates-name-change-429528233.html
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