Esther Wood Montgomery (abt. 1801 - 1875)

Born about 1801 in New Jersey, United States

Ancestors

Died 7 Jul 1875 at about age 74 in Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

She was the Florence Nightingale of the war for the Union, daughter of James Montgomery, an officer in the Pennsylvania line, during the Revolution.

She consecrated her life, to the alleviation of the sufferings of the soldiers. She collected and forwarded delicacies to the sick and wounded, visited and nursed them in the hospitals, and was uncessing in her good Samaritan work, until the "war drums throbbed no longer, and the battle flags were furied."

The lot she is buried in was given by Miss Sarah Smith Stafford, but no headstone marks her resting place. Therefore, in memory of her, in 1877, a collection was taken to erect a monument in her name.

Sources

• A genealogical history of the family of Montgomery : including the Montgomery pedigree by Montgomery, Thomas Harrison pg 93