!BIRTH-PARENTS-SIBLINGS-DEATH: Edith Austin Moore, JOSEPH AUSTIN OF NH AND MATTHEW AUSTIN OF ME; p 70.
!BIRTH-PARENTS-DEATH: Vital Records of Ferrisburg, VT.

Doctor, Civil War Nurse, Hospital Manager for Harvey Hospital and Champlain of the National Nurses Association
1870 GIBSON ELIZABETH St. Louis County MO p943 5 W. St. Louis Federal Population Schedule MO 1870 Federal Census Index

May have attended Muskingum College in New Concord, Muskingum, OH since a Elizabeth O. Gibson donated as an alumni and she is known to have been in Cincinnati before 1861.

Was a teacher and physician.
Graduated in medicine at Cincinnati, Ohio in 1859.
Entered the medical dept. of the army in October 1861.
Served four years at head nurse amid great responsibilities.
Abandoned her practice in 1878.

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386 OUR ARMY NURSES.
ELIZABETH O. GIBSON.
On the first day of October, 1861, I received orders from Washington, through Miss Dorothea Dix, to report for duty at St. Louis, immediately. Upon my arrival I was detailed to duty October 2d, in the surgical ward of Fifth Street Military Hospital, St. Louis, where I served, under Di-. John T. Hodgen, twenty-one months. Then patients and nurses were removed to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, twelve miles down the river. Dr. John F. Randolph, of the regular army, was in charge there. My detail of service to that hospital was dated July 24, 1863.

October 26th I received orders to report for duty at Harvey Genei-al Hospital, Madison, Wis., and Oct. 13, 1865, received my discharge from hospital service, and returned to Cincinnati; my discharge being signed by Dr. Howard Culbertson, who was in charge at the Harvey Hospital.

To write a sketch of that four years would require more space than you could give, but I must say this : I count it a high honor to have been an army nurse, and a great privilege to have ministered to the noble men of the volunteer army. I was also especially blessed in having for head surgeons such noble men as Doctor Hodgen and Doctor Culbertson. The lives of both were shortened by their devotion to suffering humanity.
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388 OUR ARMY NURSES.

Mary A. Livermore spent a part of one day in the
surgical ward of the Fifth Street Hospital, and has
given a vivid description of the sufferings of the men
who were wounded at Fort Donaldson. She has also
told how she finally nerved herself to endure the
horrible sights and sounds, and so be enabled to
alleviate the suffering; and her experience was
that of hundreds of sensitive women who entered
the hospitals during the war. In this ward that
she describes I was on duty forty-two nights in
succession, and at any time afterwards when critical
cases needed a woman's watchfulness.

In the four years of service I fainted only once,
but many and many a night I have thought I could
not live until morning, so intense was my sympathy
with the soldiers ; and not until I join the " silent
majority " shall I be free from bodily suffering
caused by my war experiences.

I was allowed to go to the battlefield of Shiloh,
because I could dress wounds; also to Vicksburg
during the siege. From Shiloh our boat took four
hundred and thirty-nine men. They were the last
on the field, and many of them were mortally
wounded. From Vicksburg the boat carried less
than from Shiloh, but on the return trip we had
the experience of being fired upon by the rebels.
The gunboat that was guarding us soon scattered
them, however, and we were not molested again.
Yours in F., C. and L.,

Elizabeth O. Gibson.

849 Appleton Street, Appleton, Wis.
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Thurston genealogies By Brown Thurston
5882 Sarah (Boynton), b. Nov. 24, 1818; m., June 2, 1846, Bela Bingham
Murch, b.,Oct. 12, 1813, son of Nathaniel [served in the war of 1812 at Plattsburg, N. V*., Sept., 1814] and Mary (Bingham) [of Lebanon, N. H.] Murch ; a farmer and mechanic in Appleton, Wis., d. Feb. 20, 1891. They had:
(I) George Henry (Murch), b. Dec. 9, 1847; a carpenter and builder in Denver, Col., m., Aug. 30, 1882, Florence Thompson of Appleton, Wis.
They have : Florence May (Murch), b. Sept. I, 1883; Clarence Harold (Murch), b. Aug. 8, 1885 ;
Geo. Walter (Murch), b. Sept. 8, 1889. He married:

(2) Mary Alice (Murch), b. Nov. 8, 1849; m., at the home of her brother Geo. H. in Denver, June 20, 1889, married:
William Stone Taylor of Fort Collins, Col. ; has been a farmer, ranchman and mill owner in Highlands, Col., now owns a small fruit farm in Passade la. Cal.
They have: Elizabeth (Taylor), b. Jan. 14, 1891.
(3) Sarah Amelia (Murch), b. Nov. 18, 1851 ; teacher in graded school, Fort Collins, and Appleton, Wis.; m., July 19, 1890, married:

Wilfred Dexter Gibson, b. Apr. 4, 1843, teacher of Latin and history in Appleton high school; served a few months at the end of the rebellion in the army, and his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth O. Gibson, was nurse in the army 4 years.

(4) Clarence Albert (Murch), b. Aug. 18, 1855; m., Apr. 28, 1877, Martha J. Southmayd; proprietor of a commercial school in Kearney, Neb. They have: Bruce Boynton (Murch), b. July 9, 1889, d. May 22, 1890.


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Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 26.djvu/24 - Wikisource
1127 Mattie HZ House. A11 act for the relief of Mattie W. House. April 21, 1890 ... . 1127 Helen E. Dewey. An act for the relief of Helen E. Dewey. April 21, 1890 ... 1127 Samuel L. MZ Proctor. An act for the relief of Samuel L. M. Proctor. April 21, 1890 1127 William Carroll. An act for the relief of William Carroll. April 21, 1890 .. . ... . 1127 Elizabeth O. Gibson. An act for the relief of Elizabeth O. Gibson. April 21, 1890

March 7, 1890.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. Sawyer, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following
REPORT:
[To accompany H. R. 4749.]
The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 4749^ granting a pension to Elizabeth O. Gibson, have examined the same and report:
The report on which this bill to pension Elizabeth O. Gibson, an army nurse, passed the House is as follows:
The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 4749) for the relief of Elizabeth O. Gibson, have had the same under consideration and beg leave to submit the following report:

Mrs. Elizabeth O. Gibson was appointed nurse, under the authority of Miss Dix, general superintendent of nurses, in the fall ot 1861, anil assigned to duty at the Fii'th Street General Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. She subsequently served in like capacity at Jefferson Barracks, and later at the Harvey General Hospital, Madison, Wis., where her labors closed on October 13, 1865, after four years' faithful and meritorious services. James E. Yeatiuan, late president Western Sanitary Commission, under date of November 30, 1889, states:

" Mrs. Gibson was personally known to me, and was among the number of those specially commended for the ability and fidelity with which she discharged her duties as nurse."
Mrs. Ada Johnson, also of hospital service in 1861 and 1862, testifies that Mrs. Gibson at one time while at Fifth Street Hospital, in St. Louis, was on duty as night-nurse in the surgical ward for more than forty nights in succession, and that she heard Dr. Hodgen, surgeon in charge, say repeatedly that Mrs. Gibson was the " star nurse."
Dr. Culbertson, in charge of the Harvey General Hospital, Madison, Wis., where she was employed during the last two years of her services, and others connected with said hospital, likewise testify to her faithfulness and high character.

Mrs. Gibson is now well advanced in years and very feeble. Dr. Kanouse, of Wausau, Wis., who was an employe' of last-named hospital, and has known her ever since the service, testifies that her present nervousness and enfeebled condition is undoubtedly due to the services sho rendered as a nurse.
The long and faithful services, as well as the dependent condition, of Mrs. Gibson surely entitle her to the consideration of the Government. Few have had so long continuous service, and none have probably more faithfully performed the arduous duties of a hospital nnrse.
Your committee, believing the case to be one of more than ordinary merit, return the bill with the recommendation that it do pass; amended, however, by striking out the word "seventy," in line 7, and the word "five," in line 8, and inserting therein the word " twelve."
The committee concur in the House report and recommend that the bill do pass.

The statutes at large of the United States from ... - Google Books Result
April 21,1800. CHAP. 108.—An act for the relief of Elizabeth O. Gibson
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the o. oibson. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the Pension laws, the name of Elizabeth O. Gibson, a voluntary nurse during the war of the rebellion, and pay her a pension at the rate of twelve dollars per month.
Approved, April 21, 1890.





Wilfred and Emma Gibson. Wilfred and Emma Murch Gibson came to Central City from Appleton, Wisconsin in 1902 so that Wilfred might join the Nebraska Central College faculty.

Wilfred was born in North Collin, New York. He served in the Union Army in the Civil War and had been a teacher and superintendent of schools in Appleton prior to coming to Central City. His wife, Emma, was born in Appleton, was educated there and had been a teacher in the Appleton schools prior to her marriage. Wilfred's mother, Elizabeth Austin Gibson, accompanied them to Nebraska. She was a physician and had served as a nurse for the Union Army in the Civil War. The family purchased an acreage near the college and made their home there as long as they were able to care for it.




Raymond and Grace (Watkins) Gibson. Raymond (adopted) was the only child of Wilfred and Emma Gibson. They moved to Central City when he was nine years old. His wife, Grace Watkins Gibson, came to Central City from Perkins County, Nebraska, to attend Nebraska Central Academy. She and Raymond both graduated from Nebraska Central Academy and Raymond attended Nebraska Central College. They were married in 1916. They spent the first four years homesteading in Colorado, then returned to Nebraska to live and soon after, Wilfred and Emma Gibson came to live in their home until their deaths.

!BIRTH-PARENTS-SIBLINGS: Edith Austin Moore, JOSEPH AUSTIN OF NH AND MATTHEW AUSTIN OF ME; p 70.

!BIRTH-PARENTS-DEATH: Vital Records of Ferrisburg, VT. (has 9 Jul 1825)
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Elizabeth O Gibson , b 1-9-1829 , dt Nathaniel & Susan (Palmer) Austin m (?) to Dexter Gibson , d 5-6-1904 , Central City, NB
Ch: Wilfred D b 4-4-1843 , North Collins, Erie Co, NY
m 7-19-1890 to Emma S Murch
12-4-1902 Emma Gibson , rolf (?)
11-6-1924 Emma M Gibson , gct Denver MM, Colo
9-3-1925 Emma Gibson , Raymond & w Grace & ch Ruth , Genevieve & Reva Helen , rbr
?Raymond L Gibson , b 8-10-1892 , Ortangamie Co, Wisc , s W D & Emma
w Grace , b 10-22-1896 , Perkins Co, NB , dt Charles & Kittie Watkins , m 5-27-1916 , Perkins Co, NB
Ch: Ruth Genevieve 5-12-1917 , Lincoln Co, Colo
Reva Helen b 2-2-1920 , Laramie Co, Colo
2-3-1916 Ray Gibson , rbr
6-14-1917 Raymond Gibson , gct Greenfield MM, Venango, NB
9-2-1920 Raymond L Gibson & w Grace C & minor ch Ruth Genevieve & Reva Helen' rocf Greenfield MM, NB
12-21-1924 Raymond Gibson & w Grace & minor ch (?) gct Denver MM, Colo
6-10-1925 Raymond Leroy Gibson & w Grace & ch Ruth Genevieve & Reva Helen gct Denver MM, Colo
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Cordelia P. Harvey

by Linda L.

Did you know Cordelia P. Harvey
was called "Wisconsin's Angel"?

During the Civil War, millions of union soldiers were sent
into battle. If it had not been for Cordelia Harvey,
many lives would have been lost. Cordelia visited
soldiers in battelfield hospitals, taking food,
clothing, and news from home with her. When she
saw that the hospitals were miserable places,
Cordelia decided to take action. Mrs. Harvey felt
they should move the sick and wounded back up
north. Army officials and government officials did
not agree with her. 8,000 Wisconsin citizens signed
a petition stating they should have hospitals up
north. The petition was taken to Lincoln by
Cordelia. He was not impressed and sent her to the
Secretary of War Stanton. Lincoln refused to set up
hospitals until he heard from the army officials. She
then returned and Lincoln gave in. They were set up
in Milwaukee, Prairie du Chien, and Madison. Over
600 soldiers had treatment from the Harvey Hospital
in the capital. The war ended and the building
became an orphanage. Over 3000 children between
the ages of 4 and 14 went there. A tablet as a
remembrance of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey was put near
the hospital. A monument was made in honor of the
"Wisconsin Angel", Cordelia P. Harvey.

https://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Oaks/4173/gibson.htm#GIBSON

Elizabeth O. (Austin) Gibson (1825-1904)

Central City, Merrick County, Nebraska

Mrs. Gibson was a Civil War nurse. Her government-issue stone reads "Elizabeth O.Gibson, U. S. Army Nurse." The report of Central City WRC Corps Buford #29 for Memorial Day 1906 stated "Mrs. Dr. Gibson, an army nurse, is buried in the cemetery,"and that "One Army nurse's grave was decorated" in 1910. The Nebraska Department of Veterans Affairs in 1984 included her in their list of all deceased veterans in Merrick county. Though a practicing physician she evidently went into the Civil War as a nurse. Her being assigned to the Western Dept. seems to indicate that she went through the Sanitary Commission. She served four years in hospitals in St. Louis, Missiouri and Madison, Wisconsin, and came out with broken health.

Elizabeth O. Austin was born July 9, 1825 in Vergennes, Vermont. Her son was born April 1843, when she was just under 18, in North Collin, Erie County, New York state. By 1861 she was a practicing physician in Cincinnati, Ohio. Later she and her son were in Appleton, Wisconsin. She was there at least 14 years. Her son came to Central City, Nebraska in 1902, and it seems safe to assume she came then too. They were Quakers, or more properly, Friends. The Friends had established Nebraska Central College in Central City in 1899. The next two paragraphs are from her obituary, word-for-word:

"At the opening of the Civil War, in 1861, she was a practicing physician in Cincinnati, O. When the call for volunteer nurses came, she at once responded, and was assigned to the Western Dept. at St. Louis, Mo. Here she served as nurse and matron in the "Sixth St.Hospital" and "Jefferson Barracks" two years. Twice during this period she went to the front - Pittsburg Landing and Vicksburg, each time bringing back a boat load of several hundred wounded soldiers. The last two years of the war she served as matron in chargeof Harney Hospital, Madison, Wis. She had charge of 800 beds, and as she had taken the chemical course in college, she had the hardest kind of service in surgical wards. In fact, she went to war a strong hearty woman of thirty-six years, and came out at forty with broken, permanently impaired health.

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Posted on https://www.fold3.com/memorial/1118/civil-war-nurs...dc-1703-17312b545f43

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ELIZABETH O. GIBSON

Elizabeth O. Gibson, Cincinnati, Ohio

In October 1861, Gibson received orders from Washington to report to the Fifth Street Military Hospital at St. Louis; she later was transferred to Jefferson Barracks hospital about twelve miles away. She was discharged while on duty at the Harvey General Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. Like others she complimented the surgeons she worked with, told of the pitiless sights and endless night watches, and of having to harden oneself. She was proud that in four years of service she "fainted only once", but suffered long-term ill health. Her main adventure seemed to have been: "I was allowed to go to the battlefield of Shiloh because I could dress wounds; also to Vicksburg during the siege. From Shiloh, our boat took four hundred and thirty-nine men. From Vicksburg, the boat carried less than from Shiloh, but on the return trip we had the experience of being fired upon by the rebels. The gunboat that was guarding us soon scattered them, however, and we were not molested again."

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"Since the War, she has let as active a life as her health would permit. She was a member of the National Nurse's Association and its Chaplain for one year. She was Chaplain of the Wisconsin State Encampment one year, and was for fourteen years Chaplain of the W. R.C. of Eggleston Post, Appleton, Wis. Patriotism was the ruling passion of her long, eventful life."

The Central City WRC corps added: "In sister Gibson we lose a member of unusual worth. Though frail in body for many years, her voice was ever ready to proclaim her love for her country and her ever increasing faith in God's goodness and mercy." She was also a member of Women's Christian Termperence Union.

She had one son, Wilfred D. Gibson, a teacher for more than 40 years, who lived on the College Section near Central City. He is buried to his mother's right, and his stone reads: Wilfred D. Gibson, Co. E, 138 Ohio, U. S. Inf.

Elizabeth O. Gibson died May 6, 1904, age almost 79, and is buried in Central City Cemetery, Central City, Nebraska.

In November 6, 1923, a Daughters of Union Veterans tent was organized in Central City and was named Elizabeth O. Gibson Tent No.14. It disbanded in 1952-53. The 1978 DUV Department History did not have much information on this tent but did state that Elizabeth O. Gibson was a nurse at the 5th Street Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. during the Civil War, and fellow nurses were Mrs. Colfax, Miss Addie E. Johnson, and Miss Plummer.

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Sources:

- WRC Department Annual Convention Journals: 1907 24th, page 86. 1911 28th, page59.

- NEGenWeb: List of all deceased veterans in Merrick County, from the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1984.

- Central City Cemetery: telephone call.

- Obituaries: Central City Republican, May 14, 1904. Also April 17, 1921 for Wilfred D.Gibson and July 9, 1931 for his wife. Obtained from the Merrick County Historical Museum courtesy of Nancy B. Johnson, Historian- Research Consultant.

- A Short History of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865 and The Nebraska Department, about 1978, by The Nebraska Department BicentennialCommittee.

Thomas Dexter Gibson - His name is shown as Thomas D. in the Appleton, WI city directories for Elivabeth O. Gibson as the widow of Thomas D.

In the Quaker minutes for Nebraska her husband is shown as Dexter Gibson
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[PDF] Edith Austin Moore's Field Notebooks 50 - 54
p. 149 Thomas Dexter Gibson b. 14 Feb. 1815; m. Elizabeth Austin of Hamburg, NY; had a son and dau. in Ashby, MA 6 Jan.
1868.

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There was a Thomas Gibson age who enlisted at age 19 in the 3rd Ohio Independent Light Artillery Battery
on 8 - March - 1862. (1862 - 1815 = 47) Thomas was 47 years old in 1862.


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Selected Ordnance Patents... Thomas D. Gibson, Projectile. 90732, 06/01/1869
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1850 Census
Thomas D Gibson
Ashburnham, Worcester, MA
abt 1815
Massachusetts
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St. Louis Death record 
J T D Gibson
Death Date: 11 Aug 1864 (does not agree with 6 Jan 1868 from
Cemetery: Bellefontaine
Address: St Louis
Volume: K
Page: 349
County Library: RDSL 7
Missouri Archive: C 10365
SLGS Rolls:307
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