- Joined
- Mar 21, 2012
I was born near Gettysburg. I was one quarter African American in that my mother was a free biracial woman of Caucasian and African American descent, and my father was Irish.
Carl Sandburg described me as "a comely quadroon with Caucasian features and a skin of light-gold tint, a Roman Catholic communicant with Irish eyes ... quiet, discreet, retiring, reputed for poise and personal dignity."
I was the housekeeper of a prominent lawyer and was at his bedside when he died.
After the battle of Gettysburg, I hired a horse and wagon, and collected food and supplies for the wounded of both sides from neighbors in Adams, York and Lancaster counties and delivered them to the makeshift hospitals.
Steven Spielberg even used me as a character in his 2012 movie Lincoln.
Who am I?
credit: @Wallyfish
Carl Sandburg described me as "a comely quadroon with Caucasian features and a skin of light-gold tint, a Roman Catholic communicant with Irish eyes ... quiet, discreet, retiring, reputed for poise and personal dignity."
I was the housekeeper of a prominent lawyer and was at his bedside when he died.
After the battle of Gettysburg, I hired a horse and wagon, and collected food and supplies for the wounded of both sides from neighbors in Adams, York and Lancaster counties and delivered them to the makeshift hospitals.
Steven Spielberg even used me as a character in his 2012 movie Lincoln.
Who am I?
credit: @Wallyfish