Elizabeth "Eliza" Clinedinst Crim

Elizabeth "Eliza" Clinedinst Crim

Crim, Elizabeth C. (1838-1931)

Photograph of Elizabeth “Eliza” Clinedinst Crim later in her life and seated in a chair.

Eliza was also known as “Mother Crim” due to her actions following the Civil War Battle of New Market caring for cadets from the Virginia Military Institute.

Morrison Studio

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Shenandoah County Library

ca 1920

Identified in 2003 by Nancy Stewart who had collected several pictures of the subject from the Washington Post and Richmond Times Dispatch newspapers. She also recalled that the subject was a cousin of Hugh Morrison.

Also identified in 2005 by John D. Grim, II, the great grandson of Eliza (Clinedinst) Crim. He dated the photo as ca 1925 and also remembered that Eliza and Hugh Morrison were cousins.

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Eliza (Clinedinst) Crim appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 002800, 004907, 006622, 017464, 022729, 026754, 026755, and 040174.

004907

Glass Negative