Edmund Moore Rhett-- Part 3: A Du Pont Connection and a Statue in Charleston

**   Edmund's sister Marianna Rhett Du Pont ((1875-1967) married Francis Irenee Du Pont (1873-1942).  He was one of the famous Du Pont family and this is who Edmund was working for when he died in 1918 of the Spanish flu and Wilmington, Delaware.

No doubt his family relationship helped with the job.  Although in the past, only the top West Point graduates got into the Army Corps of Engineers so Edmund must have been very talented.

**  From Ancestry boards.

**  Alicia Rhett

On October 20, 1932, Alicia and three  other young ladies, all descendants of members of the Confederate garrison of Fort Sumter, unveiled the Confederate Defenders of Charleston monument.  (Hopefully it will be allowed to remain.)

In June 2019, this statue was "vandalized." (Hate Crime)   Two people were arrested, one of whom was a white person.

--Old Secesh