MOTHER GEORGE
Civil War Nurse
1808 - 1865

The First Fort Wayne home of Mrs. Eliza
E. George was near this spot.  At the
age of 54 she helped make Civil War
nursing history.  Mother George, as
she was known to thousands of Union
soldiers, served with front line troops
in Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and
North Carolina.  Time after time she
braved Confederate gunfire to comfort
the sick and wounded.  Mother George
died at her post in Wilmington, N.C. on
May 9, 1865, a victim of typhoid fever
contracted from returning prisoners.
This marker is erected in her memory
by the
Fort Wayne Civil War
Round Table May, 1965