Cornelia Read

Ann's husband Rev James Crawford, pastor of the Church, traveled to North Carolina to redeem Cornelia for $1000, passing as white on the train journey.

Cornelia and her younger cousin Juliana became managers of the household after the death of Diana in 1860.

[3] In Nantucket she became the most frequent correspondent of Union Navy officer William B. Gould, whom she had probably met in Wilmington.

[4][5] Gould said that they had known each other since childhood, but 'their relationship seems to have flowered after he visits her in Nantucket in May 1863 when his ship is docked in Boston.

Cornelia was active in the work of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, which her husband had founded, and that of the Grand Army of the Republic, a veterans’ organisation.

Cornelia (front left) and her family in the late 1880s