Papers, 1863.

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Papers, 1863.

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Correspondence and transcripts, a written account, and photographs. Biographical material mainly discusses the founding of the Indianapolis Home for Friendless Women. Letters from Graydon in Tennessee to family in Indianapolis detail her Civil War nursing experience. There is also an 1863 letter from Andrew Graydon to his sister Mary Ellen Sharpe, and photographs of Andrew and Emma Graydon.

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Indiana Historical Society Library

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Indianapolis Home for Friendless Women

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Graydon, Andrew

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Graydon, Jane Chambers McKinney, 1802-1891

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Jane Chambers McKinney was born in Wilmington, Del.; about 1815 the family moved to Harrisburg, Pa., where she married Alexander Graydon. Both were active abolitionists. In 1843 they moved to Indianapolis. In 1863 Mrs. Graydon went to Nashville to serve in a Union hospital, and after the war aided in the founding of the Indianapolis Home for Friendless Women, now the Indianapolis Retirement Home. From the description of Papers, 1863. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat rec...