Army Nurses, she was called to Washington in June, 1889. She conferred with committees and Congressmen, rendering valuable aid in support of favorable legislation for the pending bill. She was prostrated by the intense heat from which the city of Washington suffered during that summer. A severe illness followed, resulting in serious deafness, and she was obliged to defer active work for two years.
She was elected Department Treasurer in February, 1892, and has been unanimously re-elected at every subsequent State convention. She can rightfully claim the honor of being the pioneer of the Woman's Relief Corps. The organization, which now numbers one hundred and fifty thousand members, is largely indebted to her for the written work which was the foundation of its ritualistic system. Of her it may be said, as of Alexander Hamilton, that valuable facts are stored away in the deep recesses of her mind, to rest undisturbed until needed for reference. She is recognized authority on historical matters. She has delivered Memorial Day addresses in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, and has addressed hundreds of camp-fires and other patriotic gatherings. She has friends in every State in the Union.
She is a member of the Executive Committee of Arrangements for the National Convention in Boston (August, 1904), chairman of the Entertainment Conmiittee, and a worker on several sub-committees.
As National Counselor she has performed active duties during the, past year, and will have a prominent part in all the receptions and other gatherings connected with the Order during encampment week.
Her activities have not been confined to one branch of work. She is broad-minded, and her executive ability is quickly recognized in any organization in which she becomes interested. In the Sunday-school connected with the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of East Boston, of which she is a member, she was for many years the teacher of a large class of young ladies. In temperance work she has always been active, filling prominent offices in the Independent Order of Good Templars, and is a Past Grand Commander of the United Order of the Golden Cross. Three years she has served as chaplain of the Sarah Bradlee Fulton Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Medford. She is also an earnest worker in the International Order of King's Daughters and Sons, holding for six years the office of leader of the Inasmuch Union of Medfont.
Unselfish and tender-hearted to a marked degree, she is beloved by all who are privileged to know her. To the fact that she is sunny and optimistic by nature, with the helpful faculty of seeing always the humorous side of things, is owing largely her power to overcome formidable obstacles in the line of duty. She is always just and impartial, seeking ever for both sides of the question, willing to concede, but remaining true to her convictions.
George Samuel Taylor Fuller, of Medford, her son, with whom she (a mother tenderly cherished) makes her home, was born November 27, 1856. He is a graduate of the Lyman Grammar School of East Boston, also of the Boston English High School. Since his residence in Medford he has been identified with plans for the benefit of the city, and has served as a member of the city government. At the last election he was chosen a member of the school board. He is corresponding secretary of the Medford Historical Society, serving his third year in that position. September 19, 1887, he married Ella Jane Prescott, of Exeter, N.H., who also comes of Revolutionary ancestors. They have one son, George Prescott Fuller, a patriotic lad, interested in all that pertains to the American flag and its defenders.
GRACE ATWOOD POPE was born in the historic town of Plymouth, Mass.,
being the daughter of Edward B. and Deborah Cilley (Pratt) Atwood. She
married in 1893 John Parker Pope, the son of Colonel Pope of the Marine Corps. On the maternal side she traces her ancestry back to a number of the "Mayflower" Pilgrims, among them, to mention but a few, being Dr. Samuel Fuller, William Brewster, Francis Eaton, Stephen Hopkins, and Isaac Allerton. The following is a record of the Fuller line:—
