This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Driver, House Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zZB.2ACI/563.1.1 Message Board Post: My mother told me many times that her mother was a midwife, and delivered many babies. She said people would come from miles around to fetch her to help with childbirth. She also knew natural herbal medicine, and used many native plants in treating her own large family, and did her own stitching of wounds. They always lived a long way from any doctor. She was Ethie Pearl House Driver, and she lived in Choctaw County at that time. I have no way of knowing who she assisted in childbirth. She died in 1942 in a house fire in the Crowder Springs community south of Boswell, before I was born.