What did Mary see? Mary B. Wade was an actual person who faithfully comforted injured Civil War soldiers. Her "kind, winning and motherly ways made her always a great favorite with the soldiers" who always called her Mother Wade. She was still going strong at the age of eighty.
I learned about Mary while reading a 145 year old book we have in our Civil War book collection.
She came to mind when I was thinking of how we all have tales to tell ... our life stories.
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And what valuable tales those are! So many stories are being lost to time- I'm glad you found hers.
Mornin' Cindy, that is one of the things I loved about nursing....listening to people's stories and what stories they were. Mary must have had some stories to tell. Like my mother used to say, "if walls could talk."
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