Keywords: stepmother
Item 80482
Letter to Sarah Tarbox from brother Valentine, Brooksville, 1851
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1851 Location: Westport Island; Belfast; Sedgwick; Brooksville Media: Ink on paper
Item 80664
Letter to Sarah Tarbox from Rebecca, ca. 1850
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1850 Location: Westport Island Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Rebecca Usher: 'To Succor the Suffering Soldiers'
Rebecca Usher of Hollis was 41 and single when she joined the Union nursing service at the U.S. General Hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania. Her time there and later at City Point, Virginia, were defining experiences of her life.
