Interview with Della Gay, September 8, 1978

Project: Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project

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Interview Summary

Della Gay was a young woman in the 1920s, and she talks about life on a mountain farm--grinding corn, making molasses, stringing beans, and performing other farm chores. She describes the work of "granny women" in delivering babies and details the changes brought by the FNS nurses at a time when doctors were difficult to reach. Gay comments upon Mary Breckinridge in her later years and mentions Breckinridge's funeral. She also discusses treatment at an FNS clinic.

Interview Accession

1979oh019_fns020

Interviewee Name

Della Gay

Interviewer Name

Linda Green

Interview Date

1978-09-08

Interview Partial Date

September 15, 1978

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Gay, Della Interview by Linda Green. 08 Sep. 1978. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Gay, D. (1978, September 08). Interview by L. Green. Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Gay, Della, interview by Linda Green. September 08, 1978, Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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