Hope Butler

Elsie Hopestill "Hope" Butler Wilson (August 18, 1893 – January 26, 1984) was an American ambulance driver, canteen operator, and relief worker in France and Serbia during World War I and in occupied Germany in the postwar period.

[6] Their great-grandfather was Benjamin Franklin Butler, attorney general in the Andrew Jackson administration.,[7] and their uncle was N. Howard Thorp, who was instrumental in preserving cowboy songs and verse.

[13] Butler, like some other women volunteers, wore her hair short while working in Europe, a fact that was considered newsworthy at the time.

[14] "One couldn't keep one's hair clean, getting under cars to mend them, sleeping in garages, on planks anywhere," she explained, "so I cut mine off.

[15] In 1925, Hope Butler became the third wife of Francis Mairs Huntington Wilson, a writer and former diplomat, when they wed in Zurich.