Maria Appolonia “Abigail” <I>Hartman</I> Rice

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Maria Appolonia “Abigail” Hartman Rice

Birth
Ilbesheim, Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Death
6 Nov 1789 (aged 47)
West Pikeland, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Chester Springs, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot
Row 19
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Mother of twenty one children. Contracted typhus ministering to sick and wounded Revolutionary War soldiers in Yellow Springs Hospital in Chester Co., Pennsylvania.

Daughter of Johann and Annae Margarethae Hartmans.
-Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898, FHL Film #193913

Maria Appolonia"Abigail" Hartman Rice was National Society Daughters of the American Revolution [NSDAR] Patriot #A094808 until NSDAR closed her line due to no evidence or proof of her service as a nurse at Yellow Springs Hospital in Chester County PA under Dr. Bodo Otto. The Hartman, Hench and Rice families resided near the hospital so the women provided service to the soldiers there. The families were well vested in the Revolution and well represented with multiple members serving in the military and/or providing patriotic service, but the women had no pay stubs or such as NSDAR requires to prove that they "served", contrary to the Chester County, PA history.

The Abigail Hartman Rice Chapter of NSDAR flourished in Washington, D. C. for 85 years until it was merged with another chapter [Emily Nelson Chapter] and lost it's identity and its many years of serving NSDAR.
Mother of twenty one children. Contracted typhus ministering to sick and wounded Revolutionary War soldiers in Yellow Springs Hospital in Chester Co., Pennsylvania.

Daughter of Johann and Annae Margarethae Hartmans.
-Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898, FHL Film #193913

Maria Appolonia"Abigail" Hartman Rice was National Society Daughters of the American Revolution [NSDAR] Patriot #A094808 until NSDAR closed her line due to no evidence or proof of her service as a nurse at Yellow Springs Hospital in Chester County PA under Dr. Bodo Otto. The Hartman, Hench and Rice families resided near the hospital so the women provided service to the soldiers there. The families were well vested in the Revolution and well represented with multiple members serving in the military and/or providing patriotic service, but the women had no pay stubs or such as NSDAR requires to prove that they "served", contrary to the Chester County, PA history.

The Abigail Hartman Rice Chapter of NSDAR flourished in Washington, D. C. for 85 years until it was merged with another chapter [Emily Nelson Chapter] and lost it's identity and its many years of serving NSDAR.

Inscription

[newer marker]
ABIGAIL HARTMAN RICE
WIFE OF
ZACHARIAH RICE
1742 – 1789
SERVED AS A NURSE AT YELLOW SPRINGS
HOSPITAL DURING THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION.
PLACED BY
ABIGAIL HARTMAN RICE
CHAPTER, D.A.R.
[Original marker is said to have been stolen,
but read, -
"Some have children
Some have none.
Here lies the mother of twenty-one."
An account states that,
"seventeen of her twenty-one children
followed her body in procession to the grave…
such a sight was never before seen
in Pikeland and may never be again."]

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