Cornelia Hancock was born & raised in Hancock's Bridge, NJ.  She was the
Great Granddaughter of Judge William Hancock, Jr. who was massacred in the
Hancock House in 1778.  Cornelia's Mother, Rachel Nicholson H., was a
strongly opinionated lady who imparted her ambition and her Quaker views to
her daughter.  Cornelia was educated in Philadelphia as were many of the
Nicholsons.  In 1863 Cornelia and her parents were living in Hancock's
Bridge and Cornelia taught school at the Buttonwood seminary on the grounds
of the meetinghouse.  When the Civil War began, Cornelia waited a year
before going to Philadelphia to travel to Gettysburg.  She would not be
turned away by Dorothy Dix or anyone.  When denied, she refused to leave the
train & traveled, not as a "nurse" but as an assistant to her brother-in-law
Dr. Henry Child.  

 

Two thousand seven marks the one hundred forty fourth year since Cornelia
left on her amazing life's journey.  Cornelia's letters from the
battlefields of the Civil War and from the Mount Pleasant, SC "Freedmen's"
school she directed, were edited & published by a cousin, Henrietta Stratton
Jaguette in a 1937 book titled "South After Gettysburg".  Cornelia did not
stop.  She went on to become an early social worker in Philadelphia. She was
a founder of the Children's aid Society of Philadelphia. and after traveling
to England to study factory workers housing, Cornelia help plan Wrightsville
in Philadelphia.  Come learn all of the other jobs Cornelia did to support
herself as a single female in the late 19th & early 20th C.

 

The Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War will be in camp with
displays, Civil War Medical items, operations; medical and otherwise.  The
auxiliary, named for Miss Hancock, the Cornelia Hancock Auxiliary of Lyons
Camp # 10 will be in camp to recreate the atmosphere that Cornelia
experienced.  Plan to come to honor Cornelia and all of our veterans.

 

On Sunday, the public is invited to attend "meeting" in the historic
Alloways Creek Preparative meeting house at 10:30 AM.   The 75th Anniversary
of the 1932 opening of the Hancock House as a NJ State Historic Site will be
observed at 1 PM on the grounds the Hancock House.  The Post Mistress will
be onsite Sunday to "cancel" a special envelope "cache" with a colored
picture of the Hancock House.  The cancellation stamp is the Hancock shield
with the new "forever" stamp.  The cache may be purchased for $ 2.00 each as
a keepsake of the 75th anniversary of the Hancock House NJ State Historic
Site. 

 

Lunch is available for purchase in the LAC Firehall.  Proceeds will benefit
the LAC Ruritans.

 

The Friends of the Hancock House, Inc. program is free and open to the
public.

 


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