Barton, Clarissa 'Clara' b. December 25, 1821 d. April 12, 1912 Founder of the American Red Cross (Angel of the Battlefield). Clara Barton was born on Christmas Day on a farm near Oxford, Massachusetts. She was a teacher and a government worker before heading off to minister the wounds of soldiers, often on bloody civil war battlefields. Barton was so close to the front lines at the Battle of Sharpsburg that a bullet passed through her clothes and killed the wounded soldier she was tending. She came into the missing soldiers business when a prisoner of...[Read More] Cause of death: Heart failure North Cemetery, Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
b. December 25, 1821 d. April 12, 1912