page_title: Elizabeth Barrows Ussher
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Elizabeth Barrows Ussher / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Elizabeth Ussher died in this house
context_page_description: Elizabeth Freeman Barrows Ussher was a Christian missionary and a witness to the Armenian Genocide. Barrows described the atrocities against the Armenians as "systematic and wholesale massacre." Much of her life is described in the 1916 publication by her father John Otis Barrows. She was the wife of missionary physician Clarence Ussher.
context_section_description: Elizabeth Ussher and her husband were heavily involved with the refugee crisis in the region. They provided shelter in their residence to one hundred families; on 8 May Elizabeth described her home in this way: "Every available covered spot is crowded with families with little bedding, cribs, crying babies, and many sick from exposure, lack of food and fear."
  She eventually contracted typhus which had broken out and spread amongst the refugees. She died on 14 July 1915 at the age of 41 and was buried in Van. Her husband also contracted typhus and went into a coma, but survived.
caption: The house where Elizabeth Ussher died
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