Alice Cary Risley
Alice Cary Risley (1847-1939) of Columbia, Missouri, was a nurse during the American Civil War. Her mother, Phoebe Farmer, was a cousin of Alice and Phoebe Cary. Her father, Franklin Farmer, had been forced to leave their family home in New Iberia, Louisiana when the war broke out due to their politics. Her father joined the Union Army and the family moved to New Orleans, following the underground railroad. She began service as a nurse in New Orleans at about the age of 15. In 1874 in St. Louis, Missouri, Alice married Samuel A. Risley, a former Union soldier whom she had nursed.[1][2]
She is mentioned in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat of July 27th, 1930. She was president of the National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War.[3] She died in 1939 at the home of her son, Guy, in Alexandria, Louisiana.[1]
References
- ^ a b Ladies of the G. A. R. Pay Tribute to the Late Mrs. Alice Cary Risley, The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune (Chillicothe, Missouri) June 22, 1940, page 1, accessed November 29, 2016 at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7650824//
- ^ Alice Cary Risley, Civil War Nurse, Is 85 Today at Columbia, Jefferson City Post-Tribune (Jefferson City, Missouri) October 1, 1931, page 2, accessed November 29, 2016 at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7650902//
- ^ "Missouri Historical Review". Missouri Historical Review. 25 (1930–1931).
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