Fifty six years old and she volunteers to serve up near the front.
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Birth: Sep. 12, 1807
Death: Dec. 21, 1864
Civil War Union Nurse. The daughter of Reverend Horatio Gates Jones, a prominent Baptist Minister, and the sister of Colonel John Richter Jones, Colonel of the 58th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
Years later the Grand Army Republic Post in Roxborough - Post Number 12 - was named in her honor, one of only two such GAR post in Pennsylvania named for a woman.
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