The St. Cloud Hotel where Elizabeth (Gross) Cisler was the widowed proprietor and business entrepreneur. (Photo Provided)

The executive director of the Castle Museum will lead a tour of notable women buried in Mound Cemetery in Marietta from 10-2 p.m. today.

Executive Director Scott Britton will present “Remember the Ladies” Cemetery Tour, named for the admonition in March 1776 by First Lady Abigail Adams to her husband President John Adams that when America’s founders declared their independence and created a new code of laws, they should “remember the ladies.”

The tour will include stories and the legacy of women from the area.

The earliest tale is about Bathsheba (Rouse) Greene, the first female school teacher in the Northwest Territory. Bathsheba came to Marietta in December 1788 with her family and was hired in the summer of 1790 to teach young boys in reading, writing and arithmetic while she taught reading, writing, and sewing to the girls.

Another was the first female craftsman in the Northwest Territory, Lydia (Moulton) Leonard McKawen. Her father and brother were among the 48 Marietta settlers and Lydia and the rest of the family arrived in Marietta the following year in 1789.

Dr. Bertlyn Bosley, a world-renowned nutritionist and owner of the Castle into the 1980s. (Photo Provided)

She would become the wife of two early Marietta physicians, both of whom preceded her in death.

Lydia, like hundreds of other early Washington County pioneers, would pass away in November 1823, one of the last deaths of the devastating Sickly Seasons of 1822 and 1823.

Britton also will discuss Betty Washington (Lewis) Lovell, the grandniece of George Washington who was labeled the “ministering angel in the sick-rooms” of Marietta and a dedicated supporter of the needy of our community; Daphne Squires, a free multiracial woman who owned a house next to the cemetery, was widely regarded by many in the 19th century as Marietta’s best cook, and whose funeral was attended by members of “all the old Marietta families who had known her…as an independent, kind hearted, excellent woman; Elizabeth (Cisler) Gross, a business entrepreneur and the widowed proprietor who turned the St. Cloud Hotel into one of the biggest establishments in town; and Dr. Bertlyn Bosley, a world-renowned nutritionist who worked mainly with impoverished communities in rural North Carolina, Alaska, and then throughout Central and South America and was co-owner of The Castle when it was restored and renovated in the 1970s and 1980s.

Daphne Squires tombstone. Squires was a free Black woman who owned a house next to the cemetery and was widely regarded by many in the 19th century as Marietta’s best cook. (Photo Provided)