Mary Madole

Pension: 1130478, 854165
P.O.: 2244 Cass Ave., St. Louis, Missouri
Service: contract nurse at St. James General Hospital, New Orleans, from Nov. 30, 1862 to April 16, 1864
Applied: September 2, 1892
Status: Accepted

Another day, another profile.
Meet Mary Madole, née Flaherty, born May 5th or May 9th, in 1833 or 1838 (depending on which record you look at), in Galway, Ireland.  She immigrated to the States in 1853, and married Richard Knight, who died shortly after.  A respectable widow then, she became a contract nurse at St. James General Hospital in New Orleans--the building is still standing, to an extent; it's now the heavily renovated Board of Trade Plaza--where she served from late November, 1862 to mid-April, 1864.
During the winter of 1863/64, Mary took on a new patient: Joseph H. Madole, a private in Co. D, 147th New York, who was in the hospital with "febris" (a fever).
I always get a smile out of hospital romances.  Poor Dorothea Dix was fighting a losing battle trying to prevent those from happening.
Mary and Joseph were married in the hospital on March 29, 1864.  They then boarded a hospital ship where they both served as nurses (what a honeymoon), and settled in St. Louis, where Joseph worked as a Post Office clerk.  Both were members of St. Leo's, the Catholic church just down the street.  Joseph was also active in the community: he was a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen (AOUW), and the local GAR post, Ransom.  Mary and Joseph had six children together, including Honora, or Annie as she was also known, Martha, and Mary, or Mamie.  Unfortunately, none of them lived past 1900.  Mary was the last, dying in October, 1900, just three months after her father.
Based on what little I've been able to find, it looks like Mary continued to live in the family home.  In until 1918, when she fell and injured her hip.  She was sent to St. John's Hospital, where she wrote to the Bureau asking for them to change her pension from nurse to widow--widows' pensions had been increased in 1916 to $25, but not nurses' pensions.  The Bureau was still in the middle of processing her claim when she died at Mercy Home on May 30, 1919.  She's buried in Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, alongside her husband and daughter.