This black and white photograph, taken circa 1890, portrays Julia Sumner Fitch. Julia was born to Edward and Sarah Fitch in Lawrence, Kansas in 1858. At the age of five, she survived Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence, but her family’s house was burned down and her father was killed in the attack.

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
Jayhawkers
Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence

Lawrence, Kansas
Douglas County, Kansas

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Watkins Community Museum of History

88.40.4; C451.11

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