Eliza Metcalf
Eliza Metcalf (maiden name: Atwell) was born around 1824 in Rhode Island to Samuel Atwell. She married Edwin Metcalf on December 14, 1846, and they had at least two children: Frederick, born around 1848; and Evelyn, born around 1860. They lived in Providence, Rhode Island, and her husband worked as a lawyer. By 1860, they owned $500 of personal property. She died in Newport, Rhode Island, on July 18, 1863, after a “brief illness.”
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(4805)Metcalf, Eliza ~ Atwell, Eliza18241863-07-18
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Civilian
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  • Gender: Female
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 2

  • (13488) [recipient] ~ Mary T. Ames to Eliza Metcalf, 16 July 186X
  • (13516) [associated with] ~ Frederic Denison to Edwin Metcalf, 21 July 1863

People - Records: 1

  • (4805) Metcalf, Eliza is the [wife of] (4667) Metcalf, Edwin

Places - Records: 2

  • (238) [birth] ~ Rhode Island
  • (1864) [death] ~ Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island

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SOURCES

1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Rhode Island Vital Extracts, 1636-1899, available from Ancestry.com; Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission Index, 1647-2008, available from Ancestry.com; Frederic Denison to Edwin Metcalf, 21 July 1863, DL1869.076, Nau Collection; Fall River (MA) Daily Evening News, 20 July 1863