Elizabeth Barrows Ussher

Elizabeth Barrows Ussher
Born(1873-10-20)20 October 1873
Kayseri, Ottoman Empire
Died20 September 1915(1915-09-20) (aged 41)
Van, Ottoman Empire
Occupation(s)Christian missionary and witness to the Armenian genocide

Elizabeth Freeman Barrows Ussher (20 October 1873 – 14 July 1915) was a Christian missionary and a witness to the Armenian genocide. Barrows described the atrocities against the Armenians as "systematic and wholesale massacre." Much of her life is described in the 1916 publication by her father John Otis Barrows, who described her as a "martyr of the Great War". She was the wife of missionary physician Clarence Ussher.

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