Mary served as a nurse with the 1st Regiment, Michigan Light Artillery, & as matron at No. 20 Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee during the US Civil War.
Mary (Bair) Loomis was a resident of and died in Michigan.
Mary was a Surgical Nurses for Surgeon's in Tennessee.
It was not Mary A. Loomis who served as a Nurse, it was Mary A. Vanpelt, The confusion happens because in 1870 she remarried Dr. Loomis and applied for her Pension and her husband, 1st Lt. George W. Vanpelt, pension, as letters and card indicates.
"Loomis served under a surgeon by the name of H.J.Merrick, MD. She then went on to the Number 20 hospital, also in Nashville, until May. Once again,
Loomis served as a matron, this time under the surgeon J.R. Goodwin, MD" (excerpt from wikipedia)
Burial: Oak Grove Cemetery, Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan
Research Note
Years of birth: 1850 census she is 16= 1834/ marriage record 1856 she is 20=1836/2nd marriage 1870 she is 36=1834/1880 census she is 40=1840/1900 census she is 67=1833/DEATH Cert states she was born in 1834. She was 72 Y,9 M, 5 days=Oct 1 1833
Findagrave has no source as to where they came up with the exact date of birth.
F-a-g has CHANGED her "M.A. Loomis Van Pelt, Loomis as her maiden name: TO Mary A. Bair Vanpelt
However, sources prove that Loomis is her married name. Bair is the maiden name.
headstone is really hard to make out.
Sources
↑ Citing this Record: "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF8Z-22Z : 22 December 2020), Josiah Bear, Batavia, Branch, Michigan, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). Affiliate Film Number: 347 --Affiliate Publication Number: M432--Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)--Digital Folder Number: 004194645--Microfilm Number: 14809--Image Number: 00050--Indexing Batch: N01165-1
↑ Citing this Record: "Michigan Marriages, 1822-1995", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCDF-DLS : 17 January 2020), George W. Van Pelt, 1856. Source Details: Vol 2 P. 81 --Digital Folder Number: 007621019--Microfilm Number: 927427--Originating System: EASY--Indexing Batch: M51842-2
↑ Citing this Record: "United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDP-YVB7 : 20 February 2021), Mary A Van Pelt Or Loomis, 1892. Affiliate Film Number: 487 --Affiliate Publication Number: T288--Affiliate Publication Title: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934--Digital Folder Number: 005085852--Microfilm Number: 000541243--Image Number: 01783
↑ Citing this Record: "Michigan Marriages, 1822-1995", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC6L-ZL7 : 17 January 2020), Mary A. Ball Van Pelt in entry for Harvey Loomis, 1870.Source Details: 4367 --Source Reference: Volumes D-F
Digital Folder Number: 004653743--Microfilm Number: 930797--Originating System: EASY
Indexing Batch: M73658-7
↑ Citing this Record: "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWD2-2DN : 18 February 2021), George W Van Pelt, 1860. Affiliate Film Number: 538 --Affiliate Publication Number: M653--Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)--Digital Folder Number: 005170119--Microfilm Number: 803538-Image Number: 00312--Indexing Batch: N01738-9
↑ Citing this Record: "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHC6-TPL : 29 May 2021), Harvey Loomis, 1870.Affiliate Publication Number: M593 --Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)--Digital Folder Number: 004273757--Microfilm Number: 000552199--Image Number: 00031--Indexing Batch: N01537-2
↑ Citing this Record: "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW3Z-5H5 : 19 February 2021), Mary A Loomis in household of Harvey Lomis, Burr Oak, St Joseph, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district ED 189, sheet 251C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,603. Affiliate Film Number: 0603 --Digital Folder Number: 005161034--Image Number: 00166
↑ Citing this Record: "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M91P-S83 : accessed 7 June 2021), Mary A Loomis, Coldwater city Ward 4, Branch, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 10, sheet 10A, family 273, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,704. Sheet Number and Letter: 10A --Indexing Batch: N00870-3--Digital Folder Number: 004120216--Image Number: 00117
↑ image 519 familysearch.org Death Record Citing this Record: "Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH54-HZV : 23 February 2021), Mary A. Loomis, 1906. Source Details: v 2 p 172--Digital Folder Number: 007615008--Microfilm Number: 1295526--Originating System: EASY--Indexing Batch: B53285-5
Find A Grave: Memorial #103690582 headstone pic.. f-a-g has the wrong MAIDEN name, Loomis is her 2nd husband's name and BAIR is her maiden name...
NOTE: The wikipedia BIO has her name wrong, she was Mary A. Van Pelt when she and her husband, George W VanPelt joined the 1st Michigan Light Artillery. She did not marry Loomis until 1870.........
wikipedia References:
Holland, Mary G. Our Army Nurses. Roseville: Edinborough Press. p. 167. ISBN 9781889020044. (ebook, free) "Our Army Nurses: Interesting Sketches, Addresses, and Photographs of Nearly One Hundred of the Noble Women who Served in Hospitals and on Battlefields During Our Civil War"
Hall, Richard. Women of the Civil War Battlefront. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. p. 85. ISBN 9780700614370.
Logan, Mrs John A. (1 January 1912). The Part Taken by Women in American History. Perry-Nalle publishing Company. p. 334 – via Internet Archive. "mary loomis civil war nurse."
Holland, Mary G. Our Army Nurses. Roseville: Edinborough Press. p. 167. ISBN 9781889020044.
see also
wikipedia.com "Categories": Women in the American Civil War/People from Coldwater, Michigan/American Civil War nurses/American women nurses
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