Interview with Ollie Baker, November 25, 1979
Project: Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Ollie Baker was born in 1906 at Big Rock in Leslie County, where she attended a one-room school and completed the eighth grade. As a child, Baker helped with farm chores and also carded and spun wool. She first saw Hyden when she was twenty-two, having ridden there on horseback. Baker comments upon how parental discipline has changed over the years and talks about how her husband worked at logging and then in the coal mines until he was disabled.Interview Accession
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Big Rock (Ky.) FNS Coal mines Coal miners Logging industry Loggers Herb doctors Appalachia SchoolhousesInterview LC Subject
Hyden (Ky.) Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. Kentucky Leslie County (Ky.) Midwives HospitalsInterview Rights
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Baker, Ollie Interview by Sadie W. Stidham. 25 Nov. 1979. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Baker, O. (1979, November 25). Interview by S. W. Stidham. Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Baker, Ollie, interview by Sadie W. Stidham. November 25, 1979, Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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