We were under the impression that a committee had been appointed by our citizens and was still in existence, to see that the families of those who have left our city to peril their lives in defence of our country, were properly provided for in their absence. The [destitute] condition of a woman named Brown, residing near the 2d District School House, whose husband and two sons are in the Iowa regiments, coming to the knowledge of the ladies of Christian Church, they turned out with characteristic benevolence and administered all the aid in their power, until yesterday, when she died. An earlier attention to her wants might not have prolonged her life, but it would have removed any surmises that she was not properly cared for.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, April 1, 1862, p. 1
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