Anna Ella Carroll
at Old Trinity
at Old Trinity
Anna Ella Carroll was born August 29th, 1815. The eldest daughter of Governor
Thomas King Carroll, she read extensively in his library and immersed herself in
Maryland politics.She died in on February 19, 1894 and is buried at Old Trinity.
Although Anna and her family were slaveholders, she favored a gradual ending of
slavery and resettlement of former slaves. At the time of the Civil War she urged then
Governor Hicks to keep Maryland in the Union, and wrote tracts supporting the
President’s constitutional power to suppress rebellion. After the war, she fought a long
battle for recognition and compensation, a cause championed by many suffragists.
Anna spent most of her adult life in Baltimore or Washington DC. where she died in on
February 19, 1894. She and Governor Carroll are both buried in the Old Trinity
churchyard because her youngest brother became a beloved doctor in Church Creek.
He followed his mother’s devotion to Anglicanism and is credited with the 1853
restoration of Old Trinity. His youngest daughter, Nellie Calvert Carroll, lived to see the
restoration and rededication of the building in 1960. As a result of her final bequest,
wreaths are placed on the Carroll family graves to this day. The Friends of Anna Ella
Carrol will hold a ceremony at her grave at 2 pm on Saturday, August 27th.
Thomas King Carroll, she read extensively in his library and immersed herself in
Maryland politics.She died in on February 19, 1894 and is buried at Old Trinity.
Although Anna and her family were slaveholders, she favored a gradual ending of
slavery and resettlement of former slaves. At the time of the Civil War she urged then
Governor Hicks to keep Maryland in the Union, and wrote tracts supporting the
President’s constitutional power to suppress rebellion. After the war, she fought a long
battle for recognition and compensation, a cause championed by many suffragists.
Anna spent most of her adult life in Baltimore or Washington DC. where she died in on
February 19, 1894. She and Governor Carroll are both buried in the Old Trinity
churchyard because her youngest brother became a beloved doctor in Church Creek.
He followed his mother’s devotion to Anglicanism and is credited with the 1853
restoration of Old Trinity. His youngest daughter, Nellie Calvert Carroll, lived to see the
restoration and rededication of the building in 1960. As a result of her final bequest,
wreaths are placed on the Carroll family graves to this day. The Friends of Anna Ella
Carrol will hold a ceremony at her grave at 2 pm on Saturday, August 27th.
The cemetery, eight miles from Cambridge on Route 16 west, one mile beyond the town of
Church Creek, is open to visitors every day of the year from dawn until dusk. .
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