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Missouri Heroine or Springfield Orphan Advocate

Missouri Heroine, Mary Whitney Phelps, being an orphan herself, could empathize with the lost and suffering children of the numerous dead and missing Missouri veterans during the Civil War. An early settler in Springfield, Missouri, with her husband, Phelps became … Continue reading

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