Listed in the Wakeland/Thompson Diary.

"Aunt Nancy" lived in Indianapolis. She was the first nurse in that city and was a volunteer army nurse for the Union during the Civil War and was stationed near the front at Paducah, KY for 3 months.

Newspaper obituary from two clippings which my grandmother had kept, from The Star (?), circa March 24, 1904:

MRS. NANCY HAWKINS DEAD
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21 March (written in pencil)

Spent Eighty of Her Eighty-Nine
Years in and Near Indianapolis

Mrs. Nancy Hawkins, a pioneer of Marion county, died at her home, 224 East Ohio street, this morning at 5 o'clock. She will be buried in Crown Hill cemetery Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Hawkins was well known among the older families of Indianapolis. She was born in North Carolina in 1815, and came to Indiana in 1824 or 1825, settling near Indianapolis, which had just been platted. She spent eighty of her eighty-nine years in and near Indianapolis, and was a most interesting talker on pioneer history of the city and of central Indiana.

Mrs. Hawkins was a nurse, and in that capacity she became endeared to some of the leading families. For years she and her daughter, Miss Eliza J. Hawkins, have lived in East Ohio street. Her daughter is the last member of the family. Mrs. Hawkins was an invalid during the last four or five years. She was confined to her bed, however, only a little more than a week preceding her death, which was due to old age.

OLDEST NURSE IN
THE CITY IS DEAD
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"Aunt Nancy" Hawkins, Veteran
of Civil War, Passes Away
at Advanced Age.
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"Aunt Nancy" Hawkins, a pioneer of this county, and the first professional nurse in Indianapolis, died at her home, 224 East Ohio street, yesterday morning. She was eighty-nine years old. During the first year of the war of the rebellion she served several months as an army nurse.

Nancy Hawkins was born in North Carolina in 1815. When nine years of age her parents moved North and settled in Marion county, where she lived continuously with the exception of three months of her life. Several years after moving to this county her father died, and the daughter helped support her mother, by nursing. She followed that profession, and when her family came to this city, she was the first professional nurse.

At the beginning of the civil war, when the call was made for nurses, she volunteered, and was sent to Paducah, Ky. She was near the front at all times, nursing sick and wounded soldiers and after serving almost three months, returned to this city. She nursed in many of the most prominent families. She was employed by the late Ovid Butler, and remained in his family, as nurse, for about thirty years.

Mrs. Hawkins was known for her sympathetic nature and tender care of the sick. While nursing the soldiers, she one day found a fourteen-year-old boy lying at the side of the road, with his leg shattered by a shell. She nursed the lad for several weeks, and then took him to his relatives near Lawrenceburg.

One daughter, Miss Eliza Hawkins, sixty-nine years old, with whom she lived, and two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Wakefield<sic> of Santa Rosa, Cal. and Mrs. C. Trester of Cedar Rapids, Neb, survive her.

The funeral will be held from her late residence on Ohio street tomorrow after noon at 2 o'clock. The burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery.