Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister Mary Lydia Clifford CSC

South Bend Tribune 11/30/1914

Sister Mary Lydia, CSC, a nurse during both the civil and Spanish-American wars, is dead at St. Mary’s, where she has lived since 1910, when failing heath forced her to give up her active work. Her worldly name was Mary Clifford. During the civil she was stationed at Mound City, Ill. where she cared for the wounded soldiers.

In 1898 she was called to Lexington, Ky., where she was in charge of 150 nurses at the hospital for the wounded of the Spanish-American war. In 1886 Sister Lydia was placed in charge of Mount Carmel

Hospital at Columbus, Ohio, and from 1893 to 1895 she was superior of the Assumption School in this city, In 1898 she went to St. John’s Hospital at Anderson, Ind. and later in 1902 she supervised the work of Our Savior Hospital at Jacksonville, Ind. She is survived by a nephew, Patrick A. Clifford of Valparaiso, Ind.

Requiem mass was sung Saturday morning at St. Mary’s. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Burial was in the Community Cemetery.