Memorials of Agnes Elizabeth Jones / by her sister ; with introduction by Florence Nightingale.

  • Jones, J., Miss.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Memorials of Agnes Elizabeth Jones / by her sister ; with introduction by Florence Nightingale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX—(B.) 4> ANOTHER GONE BEFORE.* “ And when one soldier falls, let ten pursue his way.” N one sad day in last February a very dear friend of our Mission took leave of earth for Heaven— “ sweet Agnes Jones,” “Dear Agnes,”admired and loved by all who knew her, died of typhus fever in her rooms in the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary, where she had for three years voluntarily secluded herself from home, friends, and family as entirely as any foreign missionary, for the constant personal superintendence of that large institution, and the training of its paid nurses according to the plans of Miss'Nightingale, who speaks of her loss as “ irreparable.” At the early age of thirty-five her self-sacrificing » work is done, though its fruit and its example will long survive her. Her personal friends, with many a sigh for their own loss, had yet endeavoured cheerfully to resign her to her vocation, which was evidently that of nursing. * From ‘The Missing Link Magazine ’ for April, 1868.