Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-02
Salt Lake Women Served as
Nurses In the Civil w ar

ny boy came n bearing "a roll Of
! carpet This unusual luxury awoNe
Mics Baritone suspicious.
She questioned him closely, and found
! that the roll had been stolen from one
OF the ncighborlng houses Take q
! back immediately she directed and ~
/ was taken away Not even poi the
/ STRESS off the dlscomfurts OF war dld her
Integrity fau Asked FOR personal Inn
pfessions of the famous war nurse.
Mrs Lacey says. that during The strug.
elo. Miss Barton was not 900 actual
worker but suporlutendad the work
pmuuod fDr and visited che various
hospitals. and directed aN
PEN PICTURE or WOMAN
.Ciara Barton" said Mu Lacey.
twas emlnently fitted 20 oversee this
work. the trouble was that she was
perhaps too dictatouui. her manner be-
INK oNcrbeariug and lntolerant in
later years this trait led her into many
difficulties. among them WIN the ltcd
cross society from which she was
recently deposed She is good woe
man" went on Mrs Lacey. but at ihC
same time it is very hard Co ect aions
vita her She nasa home boz Washing
tom given hor boy the government
which she made O. sort of Red Cross
headquarters. When ] saw her last
something like two wears ago. had
to help raise her from her scut as snc
was too feeble 20 move
Mrs. larey'e own uracucul work give
beer glimpse into some of the worst
horrors OF the war ~ had TO care for
some OF the soldiers who had lain jn
Libby prison. and no tongue can de-
scribe their condition Mrs. Lacey's
extreme youth made her ordeal an the
more marvellous. she was q surprise
to an those who knew of her expert
eucc
She wou remembers the day when
her husband. 60 whom she had been
only a short time welded. came home
and told her .hat he thought of on
listing for the var and asked her what
she thought oft
- think n Won don't will was her
reply Sumterlhad just hceu fired up-
on. Her husbahd was captain in his
state regiment, and the young couple Ia
their different capacitics served in the
war five years to a dag. their releases
being signed 40 the Same time Capt.
Roby went out of the struggle with a
wound which eventually killed him and
later the young widow was again mar
rlcd this time TO The man whose name
She now bears.
SIGNED FAMED DOCUMENT.
Mrs. Gacey's ancestors number line
OF distinguished patriots. Abram Clarke.
her great -grandfathor. was "a sgncr OF
the Declaration Of Independence. James
clark was the English clergyman who
sent Paul Revere on his eventful ride.
The family originally came over IN the
Mayhower. and their names are on Ply
mouth Rock Mrs Lacey is "a native OF
Plymouth herself
Some of tho civil wars great heroes
came under Mrs Lacey's care Gen
Hancock and Gen. Meade were among
her patients and she knew well Lin
coin. Grant and sheridan
II remember how Lincoln would come
10 our ward ana bending over the cots
who're the wounded soldiers lay. would I
speak words Of enCoura cement. And |
how they loved that great man"
Mrs Lacey states that she met IN |
Salt Lake city a short time ago a man F,
she nursed az Manassas.
Mrs Lacey came here from New Jer- /
iey three years ago. and has become I
so attached 10 salt Lake that she will |
not return east again. She is enthusi- I
lstiC over the efforts made by Senator |
smoot TO obtain pensions for the nurses |
n the war.
LOOK TO SENATOR sMOOT
'The g. A. r. people have found him /
noble and uparight. and We believe
hat with him to champion our rights
sc viii vet win them from Congress.
Many a woman. said Mrs. Lacey, with !