1887 photograph of Harriet Tubman, her husband Nelson Davis and adopted daughter Gertie.
Harriet married her second husband Nelson Davis in 1869 and adopted their daughter, Gertie. Her husband had served as a private in the 8th United States Colored Infantry Regiment from September 1863 to November 1865. Nelson died on October 14, 1888 of tuberculosis.
She and her first husband, John Tubman, were separated after she escaped to freedom, and by the time she returned, he had remarried.