This black and white photograph shows Sarah Wilmarth Fitch Stevens along with her daughter Julia Sumner Fitch. They both lived in Lawrence, Kansas and were survivors of Quantrill’s Raid. Edward Fitch, husband to Sarah and father to Julia, was shot and killed in the 1863 attack. Their house was burned down and the rest of the family escaped.

Battle for Missouri, 1861-1865 -- Military History of Missouri and Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
Picturing the War
Surviving a Guerrilla War
Women
Border Ruffians
Bushwhackers
Guerrillas
Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence

Lawrence, Kansas
Douglas County, Kansas

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Watkins Community Museum of History

88.40.10; C433.14

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