Ann Eliza Ashe Tutwiler

Biography

Ann Eliza Ashe Tutwiler stood beside the communities that formed near Stokes Cemetery, offering encouragement and care to friends and neighbors. Though little survives of her day-to-day life, she embodied the nurturing spirit that held families together during uncertain times.

Her memory remains in the quiet grace of the cemetery that shelters her, a gentle reminder of the strength of women who quietly sustained the fabric of rural society.