Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-11-17
THE BRAVE NORTHERN GIRL
who Gave up Her school and VOlun-
tarIIy Nursed HelIOw-FeVer Pa
tIents until she DIed-Her
Last Letter.

Chattanooga Times, 1t may seem to some
TeOple TO be rude to print the following, but
there Is so much of the true woman, 30 much
practical christian heroism lii it, that we
thought best to request TO publish It. Miss
Alderman wrote it after she had entered on
her work as yellow fever nurse, which we
all sorrowfrlly remember terminated in her
death:
Nj DEAR FRtEND-Wheh you open this
shall be safe from all care, or sorrow or dan
ger. | want to ask last favor from you to
whom | owe so much. You cannot think
how much ! have appreciated your kind care
tor me, and what a haven of rest your home
has been for me. God will bless you for 1t all.
Please write to my flther for me. Tell him
died doing my duty, and that would rather
my body should lie IN Chattanooga, the home
OF my choice. His address is p. Alderman,
Oxford, Michigan. | would like my watch
and chain sent to my niece, Hattie Louut, at
Prescott, Arizona. To my niece, Miss Emma
Landon, send my cuff buttons and pin.
want her TO have the sugar bowl and cream
pitcher my mother went to keeping house
With; also my grandmother's sugar-bowl.
They are with my sister, Mrs. Barnes, in
Hadley, Michigan. Give my writing desk
and large bible TO Annie Mcclure. Give my
German bible to May Wilder. You will
please accept my large dictionary, my vases,
brackets, cones, and Rev. DR.. Thomas's pic
ture. Give Fannie Chandler the mate-the
last work did. have a note OF acknowledge
nent for seventy five dollars in the Discount
AID Deposit bank, with two vouchers for
fifty dollars each. The balance of
that and the unpaid salary for this
month will bury me, or, if the city
have served chose to bury me
give that money to the Women's christian
association, together with my sewing ma
chine; it will be of benefit to the Orphans
Home. Give my clothes that are not de-
stroyed to the poor. also my school books. If
L leave any clothes not suitable to be given
the poor, let them be sold for the benefit of
the Orphans Home. Ask Mr.. Loomis to &C.
cept my hammock. 1t is at Mr.. Tyler's
Somewhere in my trunk or boxes is a small
gold pencil with garnet in the end: Give
it to your little daughter Jessie. There are
some zephyrs and aprons in my zinc trunk,
belonging to the building fund. The books
Of the association are In the First national
bank. Divide my ferns and moses between
Mr.. A. Burns and Mr.. I. Richmond. prom
ised them some, from Roam mountain. There
is ''log cabin" built at Mr. Campbell's,
into which l sewed some happy thoughts of
a bright home of my own, years and years
ago. Please keep it and all the odds and
ends that | have accumulated. All is well
with me. | am so glad that have been per-
mitted to help in this work. You know the
'lnasmuch" test. Just think how blessed |
am in being allowed to suffer and die in this
work. God bless and keep you and yours.
have thought of all my loved ones in these
solitary watches, and prayed God to bless
them and make them all His. Yours, low
ingly, HATTIE ACKERMAN.
FRIDAY, September 81, 1878.
The letter was addressed to Mrs J. F.
Loomis, Miss Ackerman's near and trusted
friend. 1t was sealed, and on the envelop
is Endorsed, ITO be opened only in case of
my death in this work.