Interview with Ollie Baker, November 25, 1979

Project: Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project

  • Description
  • Play Interview
  • Rights & Request
  • Citation

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

1982oh019_fns162

Interviewee Name

Ollie Baker

Interviewer Name

Sadie W. Stidham

Interview Date

1979-11-25

Interview Rights

All rights to the interviews, including but not restricted to legal title, copyrights and literary property rights, have been transferred to the University of Kentucky Libraries.

Interview Usage

Interviews may be reproduced with permission from Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, Special Collections, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Restriction

No Restrictions


access interview in full screen  

Interviews may be reproduced with permission from Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, Special Collections, University of Kentucky Libraries.

All rights to the interviews, including but not restricted to legal title, copyrights and literary property rights, have been transferred to the University of Kentucky Libraries.

Add this interview to your cart in order to begin the process of requesting access to a copy of and/or permission to reproduce interview(s). 


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.





You may come across language in UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center collections and online resources that you find harmful or offensive. SCRC collects materials from different cultures and time periods to preserve and make available the historical record. These materials document the time period when they were created and the view of their creator. As a result, some may demonstrate racist and offensive views that do not reflect the values of UK Libraries.

If you find description with problematic language that you think SCRC should review, please contact us at SCRC@uky.edu.

Persistent Link for this Record: https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt73bk16ps7v