ANNA M. LUDLAM WOOLRIDGE

Class of 1908


According to Ohio Birth and Christening records, Anna M. Ludlam was born December 23, 1883 to Joseph Ludlam and Nancy J. Meagher in Sandy Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio.

In the 1900 census of Akron, Summit County, Ohio, Anna Ludlam, age 16, was working as a servant. Her parents were still living in Sandy Township with their other children, Maggie, Emily, George, Ruth, and Eulalia.

In the 1910 census of Canal Dover Village, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, Anna M. Ludlam was a nurse for a private family. She was living in the home of her sister, Emily E. [Elizabeth] McVan, the wife of John T. and their three children, the youngest a newborn.

Anna is found in the Pittsburgh City Directories for the years 1912, 1915, and 1917.

In 1920 census, Anna M. Ludlam, Army Nurse, 36, born in Ohio, was stationed at the U. S. A. Hospital, Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland. Anna is named in a 1922 history of the Pittsburgh Red Cross as a St. Francis nurse graduate who was "in active service with the American Expeditionary Forces and in the United States."

According to her World War I Application for Compensation, she was born in Mineral City, Ohio on December 23, 1883. She began her active service on October 1, 1918, was sent to Camp Lee, Virginia, and was honorably discharged on September 11, 1921.

Anna married Harry Woolridge and they are found in the 1930 census living in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Anna was 46, and her husband was 39. Three nurses were boarders in their home.

Following her military service, Anna was was a member and officer in the Edith Cavell Nurses' Post No. 596, American Legion, Harrisburg.

Harry Woolridge was a veteran of World War I.

Harry Benjamin Woolridge, born in Quincy, Pennsylvania on October 5, 1891, died on June 24, 1964 at the Veterans' Hospital in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Anna died in Harrisburg in January 1974. They are buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Harrisburg.

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