Sophronia

Sophronia Smith Hunt (née Allen; 1846 — 1928) was an American woman who disguised herself as a man and secretly served as a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Her first soldier husband died after he was wounded at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. She and her husband served in the 29th Iowa Infantry Regiment.

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After being found out about a month later, she was allowed to remain with the regiment as a battlefield nurse. The 29th Iowa Infantry regiment fought at the Battle of Jenkins Ferry at the end of April 1864, where her husband lost a leg in battle and subsequently died as a POW. She left the army, never having been wounded in battle.

Sophronia was a sister of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism.

This was my grandmothers middle name - Chlotine Sophronia Toppas (nee Wilson).

Sophronia is the name of Jack Havock's pirate ship in the Larklight series by Philip Reeve.

Sophronia was the given name of Phronsie Pepper (the youngest of five children) in the Five Little Peppers book series written by Margaret Sidney in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Ms Sidney wrote some of the books in "The Wayside", a house in Concord, MA once lived in by both Louisa May Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

In the "Five Little Peppers" books by Margaret Sidney, the youngest girl's name is Sophronia, but they call her Phronsie.

Sophronia Lammle is a character in "Our Mutual Friend" by Charles Dickens.