Diarist; wife of noted Civil War and frontier officer Albert T. Barnitz; mother-in-law of Congressional Medal of Honor winner Bernard A. Byrne
Dark-haired Jennie Platt, a pretty, vivacious young woman from a prominent Ohio family, met the dashing poet-cavalry officer Albert Barnitz just after the Civil War, and married the young widower in East Cleveland, Ohio, on February 11, 1867. For the next four years she shared his life in the 7th US Cavalry, residing in various forts on the frontier until his wounds from the 1868 Battle of the Washita forced his early retirement from the service in 1870. (Highlights from the couple's diaries and letters were edited by historian Robert M. Utley and published under the title "Life in Custer's Cavalry".) After Albert's retirement, the Barnitzes returned to Cleveland, traveled extensively, and raised their three daughters: Bertha, Mary ("Maidie"), and Blanche. Widowed in July 1912, Mrs. Barnitz died 15 years later, at about 86 years of age. Although the Barnitz monument gives her year of birth as 1841, Jennie herself refused to reveal her age even to her husband, and may actually have been older. In addition to Col. Barnitz, she was predeceased by their daughter Maidie, who died at age 38 in the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake, and by their son-in-law, Bernard Byrne, a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Spanish American War. (Byrne, who had married Bertha Barnitz in 1892, died of a tropical disease he had contracted during his military service in the Philippines.) Mrs. Barnitz was survived by daughters Bertha (Byrne's widow, shown in the photo at right as a baby) and Blanche, who died at age 80 in 1955. All except Bertha are buried here in Arlington. (Bertha Barnitz Byrne Peele, who died at age 91, was killed in an auto accident in 1961.)
Dark-haired Jennie Platt, a pretty, vivacious young woman from a prominent Ohio family, met the dashing poet-cavalry officer Albert Barnitz just after the Civil War, and married the young widower in East Cleveland, Ohio, on February 11, 1867. For the next four years she shared his life in the 7th US Cavalry, residing in various forts on the frontier until his wounds from the 1868 Battle of the Washita forced his early retirement from the service in 1870. (Highlights from the couple's diaries and letters were edited by historian Robert M. Utley and published under the title "Life in Custer's Cavalry".) After Albert's retirement, the Barnitzes returned to Cleveland, traveled extensively, and raised their three daughters: Bertha, Mary ("Maidie"), and Blanche. Widowed in July 1912, Mrs. Barnitz died 15 years later, at about 86 years of age. Although the Barnitz monument gives her year of birth as 1841, Jennie herself refused to reveal her age even to her husband, and may actually have been older. In addition to Col. Barnitz, she was predeceased by their daughter Maidie, who died at age 38 in the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake, and by their son-in-law, Bernard Byrne, a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Spanish American War. (Byrne, who had married Bertha Barnitz in 1892, died of a tropical disease he had contracted during his military service in the Philippines.) Mrs. Barnitz was survived by daughters Bertha (Byrne's widow, shown in the photo at right as a baby) and Blanche, who died at age 80 in 1955. All except Bertha are buried here in Arlington. (Bertha Barnitz Byrne Peele, who died at age 91, was killed in an auto accident in 1961.)
Diarist; wife of noted Civil War and frontier officer Albert T. Barnitz; mother-in-law of Congressional Medal of Honor winner Bernard A. Byrne
Dark-haired Jennie Platt, a pretty, vivacious young woman from a prominent Ohio family, met the dashing poet-cavalry officer Albert Barnitz just after the Civil War, and married the young widower in East Cleveland, Ohio, on February 11, 1867. For the next four years she shared his life in the 7th US Cavalry, residing in various forts on the frontier until his wounds from the 1868 Battle of the Washita forced his early retirement from the service in 1870. (Highlights from the couple's diaries and letters were edited by historian Robert M. Utley and published under the title "Life in Custer's Cavalry".) After Albert's retirement, the Barnitzes returned to Cleveland, traveled extensively, and raised their three daughters: Bertha, Mary ("Maidie"), and Blanche. Widowed in July 1912, Mrs. Barnitz died 15 years later, at about 86 years of age. Although the Barnitz monument gives her year of birth as 1841, Jennie herself refused to reveal her age even to her husband, and may actually have been older. In addition to Col. Barnitz, she was predeceased by their daughter Maidie, who died at age 38 in the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake, and by their son-in-law, Bernard Byrne, a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Spanish American War. (Byrne, who had married Bertha Barnitz in 1892, died of a tropical disease he had contracted during his military service in the Philippines.) Mrs. Barnitz was survived by daughters Bertha (Byrne's widow, shown in the photo at right as a baby) and Blanche, who died at age 80 in 1955. All except Bertha are buried here in Arlington. (Bertha Barnitz Byrne Peele, who died at age 91, was killed in an auto accident in 1961.)
Dark-haired Jennie Platt, a pretty, vivacious young woman from a prominent Ohio family, met the dashing poet-cavalry officer Albert Barnitz just after the Civil War, and married the young widower in East Cleveland, Ohio, on February 11, 1867. For the next four years she shared his life in the 7th US Cavalry, residing in various forts on the frontier until his wounds from the 1868 Battle of the Washita forced his early retirement from the service in 1870. (Highlights from the couple's diaries and letters were edited by historian Robert M. Utley and published under the title "Life in Custer's Cavalry".) After Albert's retirement, the Barnitzes returned to Cleveland, traveled extensively, and raised their three daughters: Bertha, Mary ("Maidie"), and Blanche. Widowed in July 1912, Mrs. Barnitz died 15 years later, at about 86 years of age. Although the Barnitz monument gives her year of birth as 1841, Jennie herself refused to reveal her age even to her husband, and may actually have been older. In addition to Col. Barnitz, she was predeceased by their daughter Maidie, who died at age 38 in the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake, and by their son-in-law, Bernard Byrne, a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Spanish American War. (Byrne, who had married Bertha Barnitz in 1892, died of a tropical disease he had contracted during his military service in the Philippines.) Mrs. Barnitz was survived by daughters Bertha (Byrne's widow, shown in the photo at right as a baby) and Blanche, who died at age 80 in 1955. All except Bertha are buried here in Arlington. (Bertha Barnitz Byrne Peele, who died at age 91, was killed in an auto accident in 1961.)
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