Emily Elizabeth Parsons (1824 - 1880)

Born 8 Mar 1824 in Tauton, MA

Ancestors

Died 19 May 1880 at age 56 in Cambridge, MA

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Biography

Emily Parsons was a leading civil war nurse of great re-known. Her name is currently on a building of Mass. Memorial Hospital. Her letters to her mother during the war were published posthumously by her father, Theophilus Parsons, Jr. is called Memoir of Emily Elizabeth Parsons. It is readily available in re-print and worth reading.

In the forward of her memoir, her father wrote,

"During the late war, my daughter served in the military hospitals of Fort Schuyler in New York; Lawson Hospital in St. Louis; on a hosptial steamer on the Mississippi, from St. Louis to Vicksburg; and in Benton Barracks Hospital in St. Louis, -from October, 1862 to August, 1864."

Sources

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQXX-VHS : 15 January 2020), Emily E. Parsons, 1824.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DT83-TGQ?cc=1401638&wc=95RD-SPG%3A1031311001%2C1031555701%2C1031555801 : 9 April 2016), Massachusetts > Middlesex > Cambridge > image 322 of 363; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "Massachusetts State Census, 1855," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQWR-CJ4 : 11 March 2018), Emily E Parsons in household of Theophilus Parsons, Ward 01, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 953,948.
• "Massachusetts State Census, 1865", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQCD-PK6 : 22 February 2021), Emily E Parsons in entry for Theopulas Parsons, 1865.
• Parsons, Emily Elizabeth, Parsons, Theophilus(ed). Memoir of Emily Elizabeth Parsons Boston: Little Brown & Co. 1880.

See Also:

• http://civilwarwomenblog.com/emily-parsons/
• Wikipedia: Emily Elizabeth Parsons
• Wikidata: Item Q22019215, en:Wikipedia
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73240587/emily-elizabeth-parsons : accessed 29 August 2021), memorial page for Emily Elizabeth Parsons (8 Mar 1824–19 May 1880), Find A Grave: Memorial #73240587, citing Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Glenn Ellis (contributor 47410127).