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Full Jenny Wade Biography
Mary Virginia "Ginnie" Wade (May 21, 1843 – July 3, 1863), a seamstress, was the only Gettysburg civilian killed during the Battle of Gettysburg. The house she was killed in is now a popular tourist attraction and museum. It is sometimes thought to be haunted by Ginnie herself and is one of the most well known supposed haunted houses in Gettysburg.
Ginnie was born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Her name is commonly misspelled "Jenny" or "Jennie" Wade due to a typo in the newspaper. She worked as a seamstress with her mother in their house on Breckenridge Street while their father was in a mental asylum. She was engaged to a Jack Skelly who had been wounded two weeks earlier in the Battle of Winchester and died from his injuries on July 12, 1863. Neither knew of the other's death.
Shortly afterward, her mother discovered the body and told the rest of the family. Ginnie was temporarily buried in the basement, and then in the family garden. Her mother baked 15 loaves of bread on July 4 with the dough Ginnie kneaded.
Ginnie Wade was reburied for the third and last time in Evergreen Cemetery in November 1865, near her fiancé, Jack Skelly. A monument was erected in 1900 with an American Flag flying there around the clock. (The only other woman who shares this distinction is Betsy Ross at the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia.) |
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