Elizabeth Heath

Elizabeth (Heath) Noble was the martiarch of a fairly large family. She grew up in London, but after her parents died she moved to Dublin and married James Noble (in 1867) and then immigrating with his family to the US in 1869. Over her lifetime she gave birth to 12 children only 5 living to adulthood. The consumate giver, she spent her time caring for indigent TB patients in Manhattan, crossing the Brooklyn Bridge on foot.