Woman's Relief Corp. [190-]-[193-].

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Woman's Relief Corp. [190-]-[193-].

View of members of the Woman's Relief Corps and Grand Army of the Republic on an outing in Eldorado Springs, 1900s; view of a group of women posed for a portrait at a Woman's Relief Corps convention in Fort Collins, 1920s; and view of a group of Woman's Relief Corps members posed with Boy Scout Phil Heuston holding a flag, Rev. H. M. Walters of St. John's Episcopal Church, and Robert Bryant, the last surviving Civil War veteran in Boulder, 1938; also view of just the three men.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7471369

Boulder Public Library

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Grand Army of the Republic. Nathaniel Lyon Post No. 5 (Boulder, Colo.)

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The Boulder chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic, comprising veterans of the Civil War, was organized on 19 April 1881 as Boulder Post No. 13, Department of the Mountains. In 1882 the western departments were reorganized and this chapter was renamed the Nathaniel Lyon Post No. 5, Department of Colorado and Wyoming. Two members survived to sign their names to the final pages of the Post's history on 12 May 1940. The last surviving Union veteran in the region died ca. 1944. From t...

Lennartz, Mary Elizabeth Hecker.

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Gentry, Ida.

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Walters, Hubert M., 1897-1960.

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Bryant, Robert L.

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Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.)

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National organization formed in 1883 at the Denver Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, as an auxiliary to that organization and to continue to "care for the Veteran and his dependent ones and to perpetuate the memory of their heroic dead". As the number of Corps grew, each state elected its own governing body, subordinate to the national governing body. In addition to helping veterans, these women worked to get pension help for the nurses who served in the Civil War, founded a home for...

Mulford, Delia A., 1863-1954.

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Heuston, Phil.

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O'Brien, Katherine McDermott, 1849-1933.

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Miller (Fort Collins),

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Turner, Emma Hacker, 1866-1951.

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