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Elizabeth H. Wiemann

Nurse,
Army Nurse Corps

 

Entered the Service from: New Jersey
Died: November 6, 1918
Buried at: Section 21, Grave 4
                  Arlington National Cemetery
                  Arlington, Vurginia

ELIZABETH H. WEIMANN was a nurse at Cooper Hospital until she enlisted with the American Red Cross and went overseas. She did splendid work, especially in connection with the Spanish influenza epidemic of the fall of 1918. Miss Weimann contracted this malady and died on November 6, 1918. She  was the only woman from Camden County NJ to give her life during World War I.

Elizabeth Weimann was survived by her parents, Max and Bertha Helen Weimann of 217 Ninth Avenue, Haddon Heights NJ, and younger brother, Max L. Weimann. The family had moved to 217 Ninth Avenue in Haddon Heights NJ by January of 1920, when the census was taken. Nurse Weimann was brought home to American and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia on January 14, 1921.

The Weimann family remained in Haddon Heights through 1978 .


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