Christina Hench

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Revolutionary War Nurse, at Yellow Springs, Pennsylvania. http://yellowsprings.org/about/virtual-village-tour/hospital-ruins-...

https://www.lewistownsentinel.com/news/local-news/2014/02/runkle-sp...

Excerpts from above article specifically mentioning Christina Hench: Pennsylvania troops would camp that night on the pro-Patriot Rice, Hench and Hartman farms in Chester County. Abigail Rice and her neighbor, Christina Hench, baked bread all night to feed the troops and allowed officers to sleep in their homes. Johannes Hench let the soldiers slaughter 40 of his cattle for food and pick the fruit from the trees in his orchard.

During this time, Washington petitioned Congress for a hospital to care for the sick at Valley Forge. One hospital was approved, “and it was built right where our ancestors lived,” in about a month’s time, at a site then known as Yellow Springs, Runkle said. Zachariah Rice helped to build the hospital and at one point Peter Hartman helped Washington plant a tree there. Abigail Rice and Christina Hench served as nurses. Both eventually contracted typhus and, although they recovered, were always frail afterward, both dying within a few years of the war’s end. Washington visited the hospital several times.

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