Mary Emerson Barnitz, called "Maidie", was the second of three daughters born to the noted Civil War and frontier officer Albert Barnitz of the US 7th Cavalry, and his second wife, the former Jennie Platt. She was also the sister-in-law of Congressional Medal of Honor winner Bernard A. Byrne, husband of her elder sister Bertha. Highly emotional since childhood, Maidie's depressive tendencies worried her father as early as 1895, and she was seen by several physicians. She was in San Francisco during its famous earthquake of 1906, and although she survived the disaster, the event so traumatized her that she never recovered her mental and physical health. She died four years later at the age of 38. Predeceased by her brother-in-law, Byrne, who was buried in Arlington after his death eight months earlier of a tropical disease he had contracted during his service in the Philippines, Maidie was survived by her parents and her sisters Blanche and Bertha (Byrne's widow). In time all but Bertha would join her here: Col. Barnitz in 1912, Mrs. Barnitz in 1927, and Blanche in 1955. (Bertha Barnitz Byrne Peele, who died at age 91, was killed in an auto accident in 1961.)
Mary Emerson Barnitz, called "Maidie", was the second of three daughters born to the noted Civil War and frontier officer Albert Barnitz of the US 7th Cavalry, and his second wife, the former Jennie Platt. She was also the sister-in-law of Congressional Medal of Honor winner Bernard A. Byrne, husband of her elder sister Bertha. Highly emotional since childhood, Maidie's depressive tendencies worried her father as early as 1895, and she was seen by several physicians. She was in San Francisco during its famous earthquake of 1906, and although she survived the disaster, the event so traumatized her that she never recovered her mental and physical health. She died four years later at the age of 38. Predeceased by her brother-in-law, Byrne, who was buried in Arlington after his death eight months earlier of a tropical disease he had contracted during his service in the Philippines, Maidie was survived by her parents and her sisters Blanche and Bertha (Byrne's widow). In time all but Bertha would join her here: Col. Barnitz in 1912, Mrs. Barnitz in 1927, and Blanche in 1955. (Bertha Barnitz Byrne Peele, who died at age 91, was killed in an auto accident in 1961.)
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