Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-29

to picking lint and making bandageS.
States General Hospital in Philadelphia.
where most of her services were rem
dered. Mrs. Lacey receives a pension.
| Mrs Lacey is a charter member of the
Army Nurses Association and has at
tended all conventions. with the excep-
| ton of an encampment at Minneapolis,
| which she was unable to attend on ac-
count of i'll health.
| Mrs. Lacey was elected national presi-
dent in 1909. when the G. A. r. conven-
ton met in Salt Lake City, and re-
elected the following year at Atlantic
City. N: J. Mrs. Lacey is seventy-two
Mrs. Lacey's daughter, Mossie Roby.
was honored at the convention held in
Salt Lake City, being adopted as the
daughter Of the National Army Nurses
Association and presented with the Of
Mrs Lacey was in Washington at the
close of the war, and witnessed the
grand review.
Nurses Her Wounded Brother.
| Mrs. Belle r. Alter was Miss Belize
Thompson when the civil war broke
out, and under that name volunteered.
She began work in September, 1864,
/ in the Taylor House Hospital. in Win
chester, Va. where DIR. Sharp was in
charge. and she served after the bat
| ties of Winchester, Fishers Hill and
Cedar creek. AS this was only an i'm
provised field hospital there were no
duous.
| While here. Miss Thompson's brother,
Col. John M. Thompson of the 49th
Pennsylvania Volunteers. was brought
hospital until the spring of.lS65, when
he was ordered home, and his sister
was sent with him to nurse him. He
was helpless cripple. and Miss
| Thompson nursed him for two years
after the close of the war.
! She is now sfxty-eight years old, and
| resides In Port Royal, Pa She fs
member of the Association Of Army
Nurses, and is depar tment president OF
Pennsylvania.
Husband and kife Nurses.
Mrs. Sarah B. Cross arrived in Wash
| ington while the civil war was at its
height.
| She was born in England, and was
married there, but her husband came to
the United States to make a home for
his wife and baby boy.
! Before he had completed arrange
ments for his wife's comfort the war
before he could send for her. and then
he was helping to look after the sick
and wounded soldiers in Lincoln Gen.
eral Hospital. having enlisted early in
the war.
When Mrs. Cross and her son arrived
in December, she saw that there was
work for her. too. so she entered the
! service as volunteer nurse and work
ed with her husband for nearly two
years in the hospital
She is now seventy-five years old and
with her husband, who is nearly blind,
IL making her home for the present in
Kent. Ohio.
Waited for Age to Serve.
Mrs. Fanny Titus Hazen, past presi-
| dent of the Army Nurses Association,
was the daughter of Simeon b. and
Eliza J. Titus. She was born in YER
shire, VT. on their farm, which had
been owned and occupied by some Of
the same family for more than one hun
dred years. She was educated in the
village school. then went to Lawrence,
Mass. to finish. returning to teach in
her own county.
She would have responded to the first
call for troops had she been a boy. but
was too young to be accepted as a nurse
and had to walt three years. when she
came to Washington. and after much
questioning was accepted and enrolled
as a regular army nurse, and assigned
to Columbia Hospital. where she served
over fourteen months nursing the
derness and Cold Harbor.
Mrs. Hazen was reelected president
Of the Army Nurses for number Of
years. She was married in 1866 to
Charles r. Hazen, sergeant of the 18th
Massachusetts, Volunteers. They have
a son and daughter.
Mrs Hazen is q member of the W. r.
c.. the D. A. R.. the Daughters of Ver-
tions.
Mrs. Dyes Varied Work.
Mrs. Clarissa r. Dye has had a more
varied record Of work than generally
falls to the lot Of one woman.
When the war broke out she was
teaching school in her home in Penn
sylvania. She offered her services for
hospital work. and was accepted. She
was in a Philadelphia hospital in 1851
until December, when she was sent to
Washington to instruct the soldier
nurses in camps how to care for their
sick and prepare their food.
From Washington she was trans
ferred to Philadelphia hospitals again, |
remaining until July. 1882, when she
went aboard the transport the State of
Maine. which was carrying nrst-re-
turned prisoners to Aikens landing. and
brought back the remnant of those Of
the Union army who had been confined
in prisons in Richmond.
The sick from camps were also
brought back to northern hospitals.
She remained on the steamer until 1t
was detailed to carry troops. when
Miss DOrOthea DIX, tnen IN charge OF
the entire nursing service, ordered Miss
Jones to Alexandria, Va, to take charge
of tho Lyceum Military Hospital. just
filled with wounded from the fields of
Bull Run and Chantilly.
Undaunted by Illness.
When October came Miss Jones had
contracted fever, and had to be sent
home, but she was up In November. and.
having collected a lot OF things needed
in the hospital. went again to her post
of duty.
She was again sent to Washington.
and had much difficulty in getting a
pass to follow the soldiers who were
still pursuing Leo. but finally succeed
ed. and went to Rappahannock and
Brandy station with stores.
In 1854 her sister died and left to her
care her small children. SO that after
that her work was confined to the
Philadelphia hospitals, where she served
until the war closed.
| She is now Mrs. Clarissa F. Dye, and
lives in Germantown, Pa. She Is the
possessor Of a medal of honor.
| Martha H. Coleman EnIists
as Union Nurse in Civil War
When Eighteen Years Old
When but eighteen years old. Martha
Hudson Coleman, who now resides at
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