Elizabeth Barrows Ussher

Elizabeth Freeman Barrows Ussher 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 own father John Otis Barrows. She was the wife of missionary physician Clarence Ussher.

Elizabeth Freeman Barrows was born in Kayseri, Ottoman Empire onOctober 1873 to Christian missionary parents. Due to her brothers poor health condition, when Barrows was two years old she and her family moved to Manisa in the hope that a change of environment would be helpful for the child. Once in Manisa, the Barrows family remained with other missionaries already stationed there. After Elizabeths brothers health improved, the family traveled to Constantinople, where they managed to find a house in Besiktas, a suburb of the city.

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