“ FUSSELL, Miss Susan, educator, army nurse and philanthropist, born in Kennett Square, Pa., 7th April, 1832, and died in Spiceland, Ind., in 1889. Her parents were Dr. Bartholomew and Lydia Morris Fusscll, both of old Quaker families, and both in advance of their time in intelligence and ideas. The daughter Susan was the woman of the house in her early years, as her mother died when she was only a child. The death of the mother broke up the home cirle. Susan, when fifteen years old, began to teach school, and from that time she was her own supporter. ”

“ Four of the children were married from their home in Spiceland. A legacy bequeathed to Miss Fussell by a relative of her mother greatly w idened her opportunities for doing food. She secured a sufficient number of acres of and to supply a bounteous home. During the first year of her residence in Spiceland, Miss Fussell, impressed with the importance of good, pure home influences in rearing children to be honest, useful men and women, applied to the county commissioners for the pauper children of Henry county. ”

“ She was interred in the Friends' Burial Ground, in Fall Creek, Ind. She was a member of the Friends' Society and always valued her right of membership, but she belonged to mankind and knew no bounds of sect in doing good. ”