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Emma Loretta <I>Terradell</I> Morris

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Emma Loretta Terradell Morris

Birth
Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
Death
26 Sep 1972 (aged 82)
Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
Burial
Ewing, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA Add to Map
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Emma Loretta Terradell was born November 14, 1889. Before the U.S. entered World War I Loretta was a nurse. She worked with her sisters Eleanor and Mercedes in a convalescent home for soldiers in Chantilly, Oise, France. The home was founded and operated by Eleanor and her husband, Elliott F. Shepard and named "The Elliott F. Shepard Convalescent Hospital." The hospital was used for the Lafayette Escadrille and the American Field Service. The sisters continued their work after the U.S. entered the war, and they contributed to the evacuation of wounded during the battle of Chauteau Thierry. Fallowing the war Loretta spent three years traveling throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Upon her return to Trenton in 1922 she gave a number of lectures on these travels in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Loretta received a Medal of Valor from the Federated Club of Trenton in 1923. On September 17, 1925, Loretta married Gelston Bailey Morris at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity in Paris. Morris, born August 29, 1881, was a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was involved in his father's steel business, Morris-Bailey Steel Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. He died October 27, 1933. Apparently Loretta came to live with Mercedes and her husband in Princeton, N.J., after Morris' death. The couple owned homes in Briarcliff, New York (called "Boxwood," sold in 1946) and Miami Beach, Florida (sold in 1972). Loretta died of colon cancer on September 26, 1972, in Princeton, N.J., where she had lived with Mercedes for forty years, and was buried in the cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church of Ewing, N.J.
Emma Loretta Terradell was born November 14, 1889. Before the U.S. entered World War I Loretta was a nurse. She worked with her sisters Eleanor and Mercedes in a convalescent home for soldiers in Chantilly, Oise, France. The home was founded and operated by Eleanor and her husband, Elliott F. Shepard and named "The Elliott F. Shepard Convalescent Hospital." The hospital was used for the Lafayette Escadrille and the American Field Service. The sisters continued their work after the U.S. entered the war, and they contributed to the evacuation of wounded during the battle of Chauteau Thierry. Fallowing the war Loretta spent three years traveling throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Upon her return to Trenton in 1922 she gave a number of lectures on these travels in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Loretta received a Medal of Valor from the Federated Club of Trenton in 1923. On September 17, 1925, Loretta married Gelston Bailey Morris at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity in Paris. Morris, born August 29, 1881, was a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was involved in his father's steel business, Morris-Bailey Steel Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. He died October 27, 1933. Apparently Loretta came to live with Mercedes and her husband in Princeton, N.J., after Morris' death. The couple owned homes in Briarcliff, New York (called "Boxwood," sold in 1946) and Miami Beach, Florida (sold in 1972). Loretta died of colon cancer on September 26, 1972, in Princeton, N.J., where she had lived with Mercedes for forty years, and was buried in the cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church of Ewing, N.J.

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