The Evening Telegraph Aug 1 1906
Mrs. Mary E. Truesdell died of paralysis June 13, age nearly eighty-two year. After her marriage to Mr. George Truesdell, she lived in Kentucky, where 2 sons were born. As she was of pronounced union sentiments, for safety at the breaking out of the rebellion she came north expecting her children to join her later. Mr. Truesdell enlisted in the confederated army taking the boys' with him. Hoping to find her children she became a union spy and acted in that capacity through the war, but she never found trace of her husband or her boys. She came from Selma, Ala, to the WRC Home, May 2 1891, The burial was in the Middle Ridge cemetery.
The Evening Telegraph Aug 1 1906
Mrs. Mary E. Truesdell died of paralysis June 13, age nearly eighty-two year. After her marriage to Mr. George Truesdell, she lived in Kentucky, where 2 sons were born. As she was of pronounced union sentiments, for safety at the breaking out of the rebellion she came north expecting her children to join her later. Mr. Truesdell enlisted in the confederated army taking the boys' with him. Hoping to find her children she became a union spy and acted in that capacity through the war, but she never found trace of her husband or her boys. She came from Selma, Ala, to the WRC Home, May 2 1891, The burial was in the Middle Ridge cemetery.
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Mary E./Truesdale/1826-1906
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