Juliet Ana Ople Hopkins "The Florence Nightingale of the South"-- Part 2

Her second husband was a judge on the Alabama Supreme Court and he was named State Hospital Agent in 1861, with the understanding that his wife would carry out the duties of the post.

Mrs. Hopkins often went out onto the battlefields and was once wounded which left her with a permanent limp.  Gen. Robert E. Lee praised her work.

She died while visiting her daughter in Washington, D.C. on May 9, 1890, and was buried at the grave site of her son-in-law, Union General Romeyn Beck Ayers.    Her marker stone was not erected until 1987.  She is not buried in the Confederate Section, but in Section 1.

--Old Secesh