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Rosanna Moore Billing (1832 - 1865)

Rosanna Moore (Rose) Billing
Born in Washington, District of Columbia, USAmap
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died at about age 33 in Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USAmap
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Profile last modified | Created 22 Sep 2017
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Biography

Rose Billing served in the United States Civil War.
Side: USA
Regiment(s): Naval School Hospital
  • Nurse. Never married.
  • Caring for US Civil War soldiers at the Naval School Hospital @ Annapolis at the time of her death
  • Died of typhus fever
  • Fact: Residence (1850) Washington, District of Columbia, United States
  • Fact: Residence (1860) Washington, Maryland, United States
  • Fact: Obituary (17 January 1865) District of Columbia, United States
  • Fact: Burial Washington, District of Columbia, USA[1]

On Saturday last, Miss Rose M. Billing, daughter of Mrs. R. K. Billing, died at the Naval School Hospital at Annapolis, of typhus fever, and yesterday the remains were brought to this city for interment. Miss Billing had devoted her entire energies since the breaking out of the rebellion in ministering to the wants of the sick and wounded soldiers; and when the hospital was established at the Patent Office she was engaged as one of the nurses, and was serving as such at the time of her death at Annapolis, to which place she was transferred on the discontinuance of the Patent Office Hospital. --The Evening Star, January 17, 1865


Sources

  1. Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/114144538/rosanna-moore-billing : accessed 18 June 2021), memorial page for Rosanna Moore “Rose” Billing (1832–15 Jan 1865), Find A Grave: Memorial #114144538, citing Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA ; Maintained by Paul Hays (contributor 47393402) .




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