Elizabeth Freeman Barrows Ussher (20 October 1873 – 14 July 1915) was a Christian missionary and a witness to the Armenian genocide.

Elizabeth Freeman Barrows was born in Kayseri, Ottoman Empire on 20 October 1873 to Christian missionary parents.

[5] Due to her brother's poor health condition, when Barrows was two years old she and her family moved to Manisa in the hope that a change of environment would be helpful for the child.

After Elizabeth's brother's health improved, the family traveled to Constantinople, where they managed to find a house in Beşiktaş, a suburb of the city.

[7] The family eventually settled in Atkinson, New Hampshire and, at the age of eleven, Elizabeth Barrows was baptized in the local church.

[20] After teaching for a few years, she decided to return to the United States in 1908, where she visited her family in the town of Stonington, Connecticut.

After making a brief stop in Tiflis, Ussher went to Echmiadzin, Armenia to witness the anointment of the new Catholicos of All Armenians, Matthew II Izmirlian.

These extracts from Mrs. Ussher's diary give only a glimpse of a few of the deeds of unspeakable cruelty, visited upon many thousand of innocent Armenians, by the Turkish government in its effort to crush those of that people who were righteously trying to defend themselves – their families and their firesides.

These diary entries, along with a description of the events, were then published by her father John Otis Barrows in 1917 in a book entitled In the Land of Ararat: A Sketch of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman.

Once the resistance began, Barrows stated that "although the Vali calls it a rebellion, it is really an effort to protect the lives and the homes of the Armenians.

[29]Ussher notes, however, that "many of the Turkish soldiers are averse to this butchery", adding that "the Vali has promised plunder and glory to the lawless Kurds, who are nothing loath to do his will.

"[30] In the same entry, Ussher describes how forty women and children who were "dying or wounded from Turkish bullets" had been brought to their hospital to be cared for.

[30] In the meantime, Ussher describes how the Varak Armenian monastery, a refuge for some 2,000 people, was burnt and destroyed by the Turkish authorities.