Ogden Daily Standard | 1913-12-30 | Page 2 | Famous War Nurse is Called by Death

oo FAMOUS WAR NURSE IS CALLED BY DEATH Salt Lake, Dec. 30. Mrs. Margaret Tileston, 82 years of age, better known as "Auntie'" Tileston, died yesterday yes-terday morning at the Sarah Daft home. For her services as a nurtu-in nurtu-in the civil war sho was personally commended by President Abraham Lincoln In that capacity she watched watch-ed at the deathbed of her first bus band. Captain Stragm? of the Union army, who fell a victim to wounds end sunstroke, suffered on the field at Gettysburg Until a year ago Mrs. Tileston lived ! with the family of George S Gannett. I She was the first woman to enter j Lhe Sarah Daft home as a ward, and went at her own request. She was also the first to die there. Mrs. Tileston was a native ot Troy. Y . where she was born in 1J31 She was married to Captain Strague when 6he was 18 years of age, and took the field as a nurse when he went to the front Her set ond marriage again made her a soldier's sol-dier's wife, her husband being William Will-iam Tileston a civil war veteran, and consul general to Cuba under President Presi-dent Buchanan's administration. The marriage took place In St. Paul in 1S73, where she lived until the death of Mr. Tileston, 1891, when she canu to Salt Lake in company with Georgt S. Gannett She is not survived by any relatives here, but hosts ol friends will remember her while life lasts for them. Private funeral services will be held at the S. D. Evans mortuary chapel tomorrow at 10:30 o'clock. In ferment will be in Mt Olivet cemetery. ceme-tery. oo relatives Living In the United States, but has a 6i3ter, Mary Cole, living in Sweden. His attempt on his life was made shortly after he entered the Sanitarium and, engaged a private bath For several days he had' been staying at the Lincoln house on East First South strret