Mrs. Helen F. Patterson, wife of Dr. F. W. Patterson, died yesterday at her home in Catonsville, after a lingering illness of liver trouble, age 63 years.
Mrs. Patterson is remembered by many battle-scarred Confederate Veterans as Mrs. Helen F. Mason, whose heroic labors on the battlefield and in hospitals saved many lives. Mrs. Patterson, then Mrs. Mason, was a warm sympathizer of the Confederacy. Immediately after the battle of Gettysburg, with a number of other Baltimore ladies, she went to the battlefield, where thousands of wounded had been left, and devoted herself to their care. It was while engaged in this work that she met Dr. Patterson, then a Confederate surgeon, who had been left behind to care for the wounded. He was made prisoner and later sent to Fort McHenry.
Mrs. Mason continued her work of mercy and love, attending the wounded on the battlefields of Sharpsburg and Antietam and in the hospital at Frederick. She devoted herself particularly to the soldiers of Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama, by whom she was greatly loved and regarded as an angel of mercy. Until her death she received grateful letters at intervals from those she had nursed back to life. Shortly after the war she married Dr. Patterson. She had always been deeply interested in the welfare of Confederate veterans, and assisted in furnishing a room in the Soldiers' Home at Pikesville.
Mrs. Patterson was an artist of ability, an accomplished linguist and had traveled extensively. She was the daughter of the late Frederick Bredemeyer, at one time head of the firm of A. Schumacher & Co. She leaves four children - Mrs. Melbourne Bailey, of Barkerville, B. C.; T. B. Von L. Patterson, Miss Ethel A. Patterson and Harold V. Patterson, of Catonsville.
The Sun, Baltimore, MD, Monday, October 8, 1900, P 6
suggested by: Michael Minnich
Mrs. Patterson is remembered by many battle-scarred Confederate Veterans as Mrs. Helen F. Mason, whose heroic labors on the battlefield and in hospitals saved many lives. Mrs. Patterson, then Mrs. Mason, was a warm sympathizer of the Confederacy. Immediately after the battle of Gettysburg, with a number of other Baltimore ladies, she went to the battlefield, where thousands of wounded had been left, and devoted herself to their care. It was while engaged in this work that she met Dr. Patterson, then a Confederate surgeon, who had been left behind to care for the wounded. He was made prisoner and later sent to Fort McHenry.
Mrs. Mason continued her work of mercy and love, attending the wounded on the battlefields of Sharpsburg and Antietam and in the hospital at Frederick. She devoted herself particularly to the soldiers of Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama, by whom she was greatly loved and regarded as an angel of mercy. Until her death she received grateful letters at intervals from those she had nursed back to life. Shortly after the war she married Dr. Patterson. She had always been deeply interested in the welfare of Confederate veterans, and assisted in furnishing a room in the Soldiers' Home at Pikesville.
Mrs. Patterson was an artist of ability, an accomplished linguist and had traveled extensively. She was the daughter of the late Frederick Bredemeyer, at one time head of the firm of A. Schumacher & Co. She leaves four children - Mrs. Melbourne Bailey, of Barkerville, B. C.; T. B. Von L. Patterson, Miss Ethel A. Patterson and Harold V. Patterson, of Catonsville.
The Sun, Baltimore, MD, Monday, October 8, 1900, P 6
suggested by: Michael Minnich
Mrs. Helen F. Patterson, wife of Dr. F. W. Patterson, died yesterday at her home in Catonsville, after a lingering illness of liver trouble, age 63 years.
Mrs. Patterson is remembered by many battle-scarred Confederate Veterans as Mrs. Helen F. Mason, whose heroic labors on the battlefield and in hospitals saved many lives. Mrs. Patterson, then Mrs. Mason, was a warm sympathizer of the Confederacy. Immediately after the battle of Gettysburg, with a number of other Baltimore ladies, she went to the battlefield, where thousands of wounded had been left, and devoted herself to their care. It was while engaged in this work that she met Dr. Patterson, then a Confederate surgeon, who had been left behind to care for the wounded. He was made prisoner and later sent to Fort McHenry.
Mrs. Mason continued her work of mercy and love, attending the wounded on the battlefields of Sharpsburg and Antietam and in the hospital at Frederick. She devoted herself particularly to the soldiers of Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama, by whom she was greatly loved and regarded as an angel of mercy. Until her death she received grateful letters at intervals from those she had nursed back to life. Shortly after the war she married Dr. Patterson. She had always been deeply interested in the welfare of Confederate veterans, and assisted in furnishing a room in the Soldiers' Home at Pikesville.
Mrs. Patterson was an artist of ability, an accomplished linguist and had traveled extensively. She was the daughter of the late Frederick Bredemeyer, at one time head of the firm of A. Schumacher & Co. She leaves four children - Mrs. Melbourne Bailey, of Barkerville, B. C.; T. B. Von L. Patterson, Miss Ethel A. Patterson and Harold V. Patterson, of Catonsville.
The Sun, Baltimore, MD, Monday, October 8, 1900, P 6
suggested by: Michael Minnich
Mrs. Patterson is remembered by many battle-scarred Confederate Veterans as Mrs. Helen F. Mason, whose heroic labors on the battlefield and in hospitals saved many lives. Mrs. Patterson, then Mrs. Mason, was a warm sympathizer of the Confederacy. Immediately after the battle of Gettysburg, with a number of other Baltimore ladies, she went to the battlefield, where thousands of wounded had been left, and devoted herself to their care. It was while engaged in this work that she met Dr. Patterson, then a Confederate surgeon, who had been left behind to care for the wounded. He was made prisoner and later sent to Fort McHenry.
Mrs. Mason continued her work of mercy and love, attending the wounded on the battlefields of Sharpsburg and Antietam and in the hospital at Frederick. She devoted herself particularly to the soldiers of Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama, by whom she was greatly loved and regarded as an angel of mercy. Until her death she received grateful letters at intervals from those she had nursed back to life. Shortly after the war she married Dr. Patterson. She had always been deeply interested in the welfare of Confederate veterans, and assisted in furnishing a room in the Soldiers' Home at Pikesville.
Mrs. Patterson was an artist of ability, an accomplished linguist and had traveled extensively. She was the daughter of the late Frederick Bredemeyer, at one time head of the firm of A. Schumacher & Co. She leaves four children - Mrs. Melbourne Bailey, of Barkerville, B. C.; T. B. Von L. Patterson, Miss Ethel A. Patterson and Harold V. Patterson, of Catonsville.
The Sun, Baltimore, MD, Monday, October 8, 1900, P 6
suggested by: Michael Minnich
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