Arabella Wharton Griffith Barlow, Grave and Memorial

Title

Arabella Wharton Griffith Barlow, Grave and Memorial

Contributor

Bysterbusch, Hailey

Biographical Text

The gravestone is made of white marble.
In 1996, a marker memorializing her life and service was added to the grave.

Text

ARABELLA WHARTON GRIFFITH
wife of
FRANCIS C. BARLOW
DIED
WASHINGTON D. C.
JULY 27, 1864

ARABELLA WHARTON GRIFFITH BARLOW
Civil War Nurse
Born February 29, 1824 in Sommerville, New Jersey. Arabella Barlow served as a nurse during the Peninsula, Antietam and Gettysburg campaigns. In 1861, she married General Francis Barlow, whom she twice nursed back to life from grievous wounds. She nursed at hospital sites at Fredericksburg, Port Royal, White House and City Point “with no thought but for those who were suffering and dying all around her . . . ”, Arabella Barlow contracted Typhus fever and died in the service of her country on July 27, 1864.

Date Modified

1996

Type

English Grave

Bibliographic Citation

Civil War Nurses, Annie L. Reeder and Arabella W. Barlow, New Jersey Women's History

Arabella Wharton Griffith Barlow, Find a Grave