Interview with Fannie Huff, March 16, 1980
Project: Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project
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Fannie Huff was born at Dryhill in 1911. She describes her childhood, when her father farmed and logged for a living. Huff also tells of her later life in the coal camps. Five of her fourteen children were delivered by FNS nurses, and Huff compares their services to those of local midwives or "granny women."Interview Accession
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Huff, Fannie Interview by Sadie W. Stidham. 16 Mar. 1980. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Huff, F. (1980, March 16). Interview by S. W. Stidham. Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Huff, Fannie, interview by Sadie W. Stidham. March 16, 1980, Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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