4-10-18 Identify

[MaryDee]

I am Elizabeth Thorn, caretaker of the Gettysburg Cemetery during the war.
https://www.gettysburgdaily.com/elizabeth-thorn/

 

[adisciu9]

Elizabeth Thorn.

 

[JOHN42768]

Elizabeth Thorn --- Elizabeth was the caretaker of the cemetery. In the three weeks following the battle she dug 105 graves. Elizabeth Thorn (1832-1907) was six months pregnant at the time of the battle. Her daughter, Rose Meade Thorn (named in part after the United States commander at Gettysburg) was born in September, 1863.
Source: https://www.gettysburgdaily.com/elizabeth-thorn/

 

[Ole Miss]

Elizabeth Thorn
Regards
David

 

[ErnieMac]

Elizabeth Masser Thorn.

 

[mofederal]

https://americacomesalive.com/2014/...-six-months-pregnant-burying-dead-gettysburg/

Elizabeth Thorn, her daughter was named Rose Meade Thorn. She served as caretaker of Evergreen Cemetery while her husband was in the Army.

 

[Mike Serpa]

She is Elizabeth Thorn.

 

[nextcity]

Elizabeth Thorn

 

[connecticut yankee]

Elizabeth Masser Thorn (1832-1907)

Often referred to as the "Angel of Gettysburg," Elizabeth emigrated from Germany in 1855 with her husband, Peter Thorn. Within a few months, Peter became caretaker of the newly established cemetery. When Peter went off to join the Union army, Elizabeth and her father assumed the responsibilities of the cemetery. In 1863, Confederate armies began moving in on Pennsylvania, and Elizabeth and the rest of her family fled to a nearby farmhouse when the fighting began on Cemetery Hill. After General Lee and his Confederate armies retreated back to Virginia, Elizabeth and the family returned to the house to find a vast number of bodies had been dumped in front of the house, including many dead horses. The stench was overpowering, and despite the obvious need, volunteers to help bury the dead quickly abandoned Elizabeth and her father due to the overwhelming work. Elizabeth ended up digging over 100 graves in the weeks after the war. Supposedly at the time Elizabeth was six months pregnant.

 

[rebel brit]

Elizabeth C Thorn.
Elizabeth and her husband Peter lived in the Evergreen cemetery gatehouse at Gettysburg for 19 years. Elizabeth and her family left the house the morning of July 2, 1863 and returned on July 7, 1863. As Elizabeth later described the scene, "everything in the house was gone except three feather beds and a couple of pillows.
Elizabeth Thorn (1832-1907) was six months pregnant at the time of the battle. Her daughter, Rose Meade Thorn (named in part after the United States commander at Gettysburg) was born in September, 1863.

 

[BrianB]

Elizabeth Thorn

 

[sarladaise]

She was Elisabeth Thorn, wife of the caretaker of Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg. After
her husband joined the US Army in 1862 she became the caretaker of the cemetery. Her daughter
Rose Meade Thorn was named after General Meade.
The monument is the Gettysburg Women's Civil War Memorial.

 

[HeroesandRebels]

This is a statue of Elizabeth Thorn, titled Statue of the Pregnant Gravedigger. She dug graves for over 100 soldiers at Gettysburg after immigrating to the US from Germany. Her husband Peter fought in the Union army, and her home was overtaken during the Battle of Gettysburg.

 

[hoosier]

Elizabeth Thorn

 

[chellers]

The Gettysburg Women's Civil War Memorial, whose subject was Elizabeth Thorn. Her child was named Rose Meade Thorn.

https://www.gettysburgdaily.com/elizabeth-thorn/

 

[Schwallanscher]

elisabeth thorn

 

[Iron Brigade]

Elizabeth Thorn, and the statue is the Gettysburg Women's Memorial.

 

[Stony]

Revised. You are Elizabeth Masser Thorn.

 

[ami]

Answer: Elizabeth C. Maser Thorn (1832-1907) wife of Peter Thorn (1826-1907), the Caretaker of Gettysburg's Evergreen Cemetery. She took his place during the three years he was away in the U. S. Army. She was six months pregnant when the Battle of Gettysburg was fought, yet provided information on local roads to the U. S. Army, dug graves and buried soldiers. Returning to her gatehouse home a few days later, she recorded, "everything in the house was gone except three feather beds and a couple of pillows. The beds and a dozen pillows we had brought from the old country were not fit to use again. The legs of six soldiers had been amputated on the beds in our house and they were ruined with blood and we had to make way with them." In the three weeks following the battle she dug 105 graves. Her daughter, the fourth of eight children, was Rose Meade Thorn.

Edit - It's clear from the official answer that the intent was to ask "Who am I?" but this wasn't explicitly stated in the question. Some players wondered whether the question was asking about the identity of the woman who was describing herself, the name of the statue that was pictured, the name of her child who was subsequently born, or the name of the community where she lived. Everybody answered at least one of these correctly, so everybody who answered got credit for a correct response.

hoosier