Find A Grave Links To Our Civil War Women

He really was, wasn't he? It seems as if he got lucky twice, too- there's nothing to be said of discredit to either of them from what I've read. It must have been more that awful, to have lost those children and then their mother, so to have someone for even a few years at the end of his life seems more than deserved.
 
I did notice on Find A Grave, that the generals and men, the famous ones, tend to be sponsered there. Of course they should be, although have to say once in awhile I bump into one who is not, a little odd. The wives? Frequently not, unless they were famous in their own right. Seems a shame, doesn't it? I used my October allotment on the Mrs. Longstreets, seemed they truly should be honored too, part of our History.
 
Mary Morris Husband, please see thread on her.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/f...Scntry=4&GSob=n&GSsr=41&GRid=28643187&df=all&

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I read on one of their informational blurbs how many millions of hits Find A Grave gets in a week- I'd have guess with all that traffic, the best-set up software on the planet would develop a hiccup or two, here and there. Amazing it works as well as it does, with all the activity.
 
I'll be looking them up, and thanks VERY much. I'm guessing we'd find in her bio who it was she was pointing out to anyone veiwing hre photo, whose mouring card she is holding. You can see by the size and the pattern, that's what it must be. My graunt's sister's card, died as a 4 or 5 year old, looked a LOT like this.
 
Portions taken from http://www.sierracollege.edu/ejournals/jsnhb/v4n2/farnham.html

"In her time, the public knew her. Eliza Farnham's name first appeared in newspapers in 1840. It stayed there twenty-five years. Her public lectures on phrenology, spiritualism, prison reform, and the superiority of women attracted audiences and admiration: “The entire people present seemed determined not to lose a sentence. They were right. There was not one word but deserved attention; not a weak, worthless paragraph in the whole of it. The impression left predominant was that the entire lecture was all of thought….the production of an earnest, philosophical, enlightened mind…imbued with clear perceptions and pure aspirations.”

Her every move made good copy. Following her controversial administration at Sing Sing Prison, Mrs. Farnham attempted to take 130 marriageable women to gold rush California, captivating editors on both coasts. Magazines knew her name, too. In Brother Jonathan she debated the editor, John Neal, on woman's rights; in the Knickerbocker she humorously described an Illinois camp meeting; in The Prisoner's Friend she revealed how famed deaf-mute Laura Bridgman, her student at Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe's Massachusetts Institute for the Blind, learned to communicate in a trail-blazing technique famously practiced years afterward with Helen Keller. "

"In California, Eliza Farnham married and divorced an abusive husband, then returned east. In New York, during the financial panic of 1857, she founded the Women's Protective Emigration Society, escorted several hundred unemployed women to jobs in Illinois and Indiana, and inspired more public praise: “Few ladies…have labored with more true zeal…to ameliorate the condition of the laboring class of women, and those who, by reason of misfortune, need aid, than Mrs. Eliza W. Farnham. Truly can she be classed among our noblest female philanthropists…. God speed her in her noble mission.” "

" In 1863 she was again in the East, this time at Gettysburg, serving with Dorothea Dix as a volunteer "
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