Interview with Nora Colwell, December 2, 1979

Project: Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Nora Colwell was born in Leslie County in 1908 and began school at about the age of nine. She indicates that when the flu epidemic hit Leslie County in 1918 everyone in her family was affected except one sister. The family had no income after her father became disabled, so they preserved and sold produce to persons working in the mining camps. Colwell also discusses a bout with trachoma, which was prevalent during the first part of the century. Colwell paid the local midwife who delivered her first child four dollars' worth of molasses and chickens. She credits the FNS with saving her life and the lives of her children in various circumstances.

Interview Accession

1982oh020_fns163

Interviewee Name

Nora Colwell

Interviewer Name

Sadie W. Stidham

Interview Date

1979-12-02

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Colwell, Nora Interview by Sadie W. Stidham. 02 Dec. 1979. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Colwell, N. (1979, December 02). Interview by S. W. Stidham. Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Colwell, Nora, interview by Sadie W. Stidham. December 02, 1979, Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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