Orlean Puckett: The Life of a Mountain Midwife by Karen Cecil Smith

Orlean Puckett: The Life of a Mountain Midwife

Karen Cecil Smith

166 pages 2003

2 editions

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced
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Orlean Puckett was a midwife who lived from 1844 to 1939 in Carroll County, Virginia. Aunt Orlean delivered thousands of babies in the mountain region of Virginia. She herself, however, lost 24 children of her own. She is commemorated on the Blue ...

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