Sally Louisa Tompkins was born November 9, 1833 in Poplar Grove in Tidewater region on Virginia’s Middle Peninsula. She was born to father Colonel Christopher Tompkins and mother Maria Patterson Tompkins. She had four sisters three of which died from a local epidemic that also took her father. Their names are Martha Tompkins Harriet Tompkins and Elizabeth Tompkins. Her only surviving family being her sister Maria Tompkins and her mother. Her father was a American Revolutionary War veteran and a very wealthy merchant. After the deaths of Colonel Tompkins and her sisters, Sally and her remaining family members left Poplar Grove and moved to Norfolk, VA. Even though Sally had a rough childhood she loved helping people. She helped others by nursing …show more content…
She was one of two women who were officially commissioned as officers in the confederate states army. The Robertson Hospital had the lowest mortality rate of any other military hospital. Seventy-three deaths out of one thousand three hundred thirty-four patients. Sally refused to take any payment for the work she did. Mary Chesnut an author and a civil war diarist visited the hospital very frenquently. She wrote “Our Florence Nightingale is Sally Tompkins.” Sally Tompkins was a local hero in Richmond, she kept her hospital open two months after them war. Once the hospital was closed, Sally visited her family members around Virginia. She volunteered to be a Sunday school teacher at the St. James Episcopal Church, she was an active member there for a chunk of her life. Sally died in July 26, 1961 of natural causes, she died in the Confederate Woman’s Home in Richmond and she was burried with military honors. I would like to ask this woman how it felt to be under that constant pressure to keep all those hundreds of wounded men
Laundry was not an easy job back in the Civil War era and once she got so frustrated with one of the laundresses that she slapped her. On February 25, Von olnhausen finally had enough wounded soldiers to keep her busy. She even cared for a confederate soldier; something she never wanted to do. When
Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her dad was James McCauley a carpenter and her mother Leona McCauley was a teacher. At the age of two after her parents separated Rosa moved to her grandparents farm in Pine Level, Alabama with her mother and her younger brother, Sylvester. When Rosa was eleven she was enrolled
She had 1 sister named Grace Muriel Earhart. Her parents were Edwin and Amy Otis Earhart. When she was a child, she was a tomboy and attended public and private schools. She moved to Des Moines Iowa when she was in 7th grade. During the summer she spent the months with her parents.
Aunt Henrietta Jackson daughter of Fielding W Jackson and Elvira Ellis was born in January of 1878. Henrietta was about 11 or 12 when her father passed away leaving her mother to raise 7 children the 6 boys and Henrietta. She was charged with assisting her mom with the children as well as household chores, also learning how to work in the fields. Education was paramount in the Ellis-Jackson home and like her mother she too began a career as a school teacher at Poplar Hill School.
Barton was moving up in rank, and led a group of men into battle, making it the first time a woman had led a combat medical group, showing that women were strong enough to lead in battle. Barton worked hard to lead more women into battle, often adding them to her medical groups to influence female involvement in the military. Barton refined the career of nursing and helped turn it into a respected profession instead of a chore for the duration of the Civil
When she was born she had the name of Bessie Lee Pittman. She worked in a beauty school and at a doctor 's office as her jobs. While she was on a trip in Miami, Florida she attended a society dinner. She sat next to Floyd Odlum and after awhile they started to talk together. She married Oldum in 1936.
“And give up? Not on your life.” Nellie Bly retorted when told to give up her dream job of becoming a reporter. (The Adventures of Nellie Bly). Elizabeth Cochran (the name Nellie Bly was given at birth) was born on May 5, 1864, in Cochran Mills, Pennsylvania.
The purpose of this source is valuable as it is a personal statement of the interviewees thought and experiences. However, a limitation to the purpose is that the interview is a general interview about Anne's experiences in Oak Ridge and does not go into depth about her role as a
Historians do not now anything about her parents. At birth, her given name was Ann. She was always known as Nancy. She was married to Benjamin Hart and they lived in Georgia around 1771.
Debbie Allen Is an American actress dancer, choreographer will all major dances like classical Ballet, Modern, African, Hip Hop and Jazz. Now she is currently teaching young dancers. At age 12 Debbie Allen audition at ballet school when she returned to her birth home in Texas. Auditioning for the school got denied just because of her skin color. When she got a second chance to perform a Russian instructor saw her talent of how a good dancer she is by a that the Russian instructor let her be is his academy .
Sally Ride was the first American woman in space. She is also known for being the youngest person sent into orbit. Sally was born May 26, 1951 to Carol Anderson and Dale Ride in Encino, Los Angeles, CA. As a child Ride showed natural athletic ability. She loved sports.
She was born in 1820 in Porchester County in Maryland along with 8 other siblings. She was the fifth child of her family and
The family moved to New York and Anthony studied at a Quaker school near Philadelphia. Her work as a teacher was to help her
Marjorie Stewart Joyner was born in Monterey, Virginia. She was born on October 24, 1896, and was the granddaughter of a slave and slave owner. After attending primary school, Marjorie moved to Chicago, Illinois to pursue a career in cosmetology. She attended the A.B. Molar Beauty School and she later became the first African-American woman to graduate from the school. At the age of 20, she met and married Robert E. Joyner.
By the end of the year, she left the infirmary to treat soldiers on the battlefield. During in time of desperate needs, Barton delivered many supply wagons and administered care along with the overworked field surgeons. With the progress of women aiding the soldiers in the war drastically progressing, organizations such as the Women’s Central Association of Relief, raised money and delivered supplies to the Union army. A relief group, organized by Barton, carried out first aid, food and water for the soldiers in camps and on the battlefield. Barton traveled to various Union camps over the time span of the Civil war, tending the sick and wounded.