Mary Jewett Telford

In her later years, Telford was a published writer, editor of numerous journals, lecturer on the temperance circuit and charter member of the Woman's Relief Corps, an auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic.

9 Cemetery in Seneca,[2] the family made the decision to move to Lima Township, Michigan, to be closer to Lester’s brothers, who had migrated there in the 1820s.

Michigan Governor Austin Blair, a friend of her father’s, gave her a special permit and Jewett was off to war.

8 in Nashville, Tennessee, for eight months, the sole woman in a hospital occupied by six hundred soldiers.

A move from Iowa to Denver, Colorado Territory was made in 1873 in hopes of improving Telford’s asthmatic condition.

A writer since her teenage years, Telford’s short children’s story, "Tom", was published in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1880.

[6] In July 1883, Telford became a charter member of the Woman’s Relief Corps (an auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic),[7] which was dedicated to assisting veterans, their wives and their children.

In the late 1880s, Telford became the editor of the Colorado Farmer journal, while contributing articles to newspapers in cities around the country.

Telford had him buried at Stones River National Cemetery,[9] the former battlefield on which he had been wounded years before.