45 Women Buried at Arlington National Cemetery

Marie Therese Rossi (1959-1991)
> Known as: First American female combat commander to fly into battle during the Persian Gulf War; killed in a helicopter crash in 1991

Mary Crawford Ragland (1922-2010)
> Known as: Member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only all-black, all-female Women’s Army Corps unit to serve overseas during World War II; one of seven 6888th members interred at Arlington

Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis (1788-1853)
> Known as: Wife of George Washington Parke Custis, who built the estate that became Arlington National Cemetery

Mary Randolph (1762-1828)
> Known as: Distant cousin of Thomas Jefferson; author of the pioneering American cookbook “The Virginia House-Wife;” probably first person buried on the estate that became Arlington National Cemetery

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958)
> Known as: War correspondent reporting from the Belgian front in World War, and later a famed mystery writer; interred with her husband, Maj. Stanley Marshall Rinehart, U.S. Army