[5] Upon the breaking out of the Civil War and during its continuance, she originated and conducted a series of entertainments for the benefit of the soldiers, which produced large sums of money and supplies.

At the May Day Fair, which she inaugurated and superintended from her sick bed at home in Salem, Massachusetts, she placed US$1,200 at the committee's disposal for the soldiers' relief.

Early on, when she learned that regiments from Maine were to pass through Salem, she sent children with flowers and kindly messages to distribute to the soldiers as the train waited at the crossing.

[5] In 1888, in Eliot, Maine, she erected a large building to the memory of an infant son, Edwin Clarence Farmer (1860-1860).

[1] In 1891, the records of Rosemary Cottage indicated that more than 1,000 guests -mothers, young children, shop girls, and tired women- had received two weeks of rest and shelter.