|
| Florence
Lincoln, Mother Angela (27
Dec 1857 - 17 Aug 1938) |
|
|
She was the daughter of Timothy Danielson Lincoln and Mary Snelling
Clark of Cincinnati. Educated in Dresden, Cincinnati, and the
Sacre Coeur in Paris, Florence entered the Ursuline order novitiate at
the age of 18. As Mother Angela, she taught briefly at an
Ursuline school in Brown County, Ohio, before taking up her life-long
ministry among the Native American populations of the far West and
Alaska. She served in Rome for a time as assistant to the Mother
General of the Order. In her closing years, she was sent to an
Ursuline community in New Orleans. Finding it to be more like a
"old people's home", the strong willed woman refused to stay.
Apparently invoking some form of privilege, she was able to return to
the Indian mission she had served in Montana, where she died and is
buried.
The above photos are from "The Lincoln
Oak", by Louis Henri Gustave Bouscaren.
|
|
