Elizabeth (Billings) Walcott (1840 - 1930)

Born 10 Oct 1840 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Wife of Dana Mills Walcott — married 10 Oct 1867 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Descendants

Died 1 Sep 1930 at age 89 in Rutherford, Bergen, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

Buried at Natick, Massachusetts.

• Fact: Nickname Lizzie
• Fact: Residence (1860) Census Barrington, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States
• Fact: Residence (1880) Union, Bergen, New Jersey, United States
• Fact: Residence (1910) Rutherford Ward 1, Bergen, New Jersey, United States
• Fact: Residence (1915) Census Rutherford Borough, 1-4 ward, 1 district, Bergen, New Jersey, United States
• Fact: Residence (1920) Rutherford, Bergen, New Jersey, United States
• Fact: Burial Dell Park Cemetery, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
• Fact: Cause of Death Chronic myocarditis
• Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch Elizabeth was probably born at 60 Power Street on the east side of Providence, RI. During the Civil War, she worked as a nurse at the Mt. Pleasant Hospital (a military hospital) in Washington, DC. In her spare time, she liked to go through the wards and play her melodeon and sing to the wounded soldiers. It was while doing this one day that she first met her future husband. He was a chaplain in the hospital and became enraptured when he heard her singing. He said she had the sweetest voice in the world.

Sources

• Ullmann, Helen Schatvet. Descendants of Peter Mills of Windsor, Connecticut (Penobscot Press, Acton, MA, 1998) Page 654.