I am forwarding this to the Brooke Site, from a posting on the Ohio Co list, with okay from Linda, as you can see below.... Sharon Rouse-Eye In a message dated 10/25/2003 9:00:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, LCFlu@aol.com writes: > WVOHIO] Pioneer Nurses of WV - New site > Date: 10/25/2003 9:00:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time > From: <A HREF="mailto:LCFlu@aol.com">LCFlu@aol.com</A> > To: <A HREF="mailto:WVOHIO-L@rootsweb.com">WVOHIO-L@rootsweb.com</A> > Sent from the Internet > > > > Hi, Everyone: > > My latest website is "Pioneer Nurses of West Virginia." > http://www.lindapages.com/nurses/nurses.htm > > This is a general WV site and not specifically for one county or area. I > will > appreciate a link from your site. Also, please send the message to your > other > WV lists because I am only on a few. > > The site is dedicated to Jody Green, RN, of Wheeling, Esta Brower, RN, of > Pittsburgh (Miss Fairmont WV 1936) and Ruth Cunningham, LPN, my deceased > mother. > > > This is the description of the site: > > This website, the first online to honor the Pioneer Nurses of West Virginia, > > is in conjunction with my other West Virginia sites that memorialize our > ancestors, as well as the history of West Virginia. > > For the purposes of this website, the Pioneer Nurses are those who were > nurses in West Virginia from the 1860s through 1935. The year 1935 was > chosen when > I bought a vintage booklet that contains a list of all registered nurses in > West Virginia from the time licensing was required (1907), through 1935. (In > > other words, they had to have been practicing by 1935) > > Also included here are the nurses from West Virginia who served in wars, > from > the Civil War through the Korean War. (This is an exception to the paragraph > > above.) > > But this site will NOT be limited to only those nurses (pre-1935) who were > "registered." There were MANY early nurses who practiced as nurses but were > never licensed. Some graduated from organized schools of nursing and others > studied under a physician. Legally, if they didn't get a license when it > became a > requirement, they weren't registered nurses - - but they were, indeed, > nurses. > They will be included in a separate section. > > Visitors to this site are invited to submit photos and biographies of the > nurses. > > ======================================================== > > Maybe this subject is interesting to me only because I am a nurse..... but I > > have enjoyed starting the site. - Thanks to Naomi Lowe Hupp, Phyllis Dye > Slater and John Hess Johnson for their help and encouragement. > > There will be more to come but most of it will be what people submit to > honor > their pioneer nurse relatives. (I am also still dealing with 8,000 Civil War > > Soldiers) - - I am doing some other "nurse research" but I don't know if it > > will be included in this project or be something separate. > > I was very fortunate to be able to locate and purchase some vintage booklets > > that gave me the foundation for this site. - West Virginia is my home state > > and I once knew some PIONEER NURSES when I was an LPN at Reynolds Memorial > Hospital in Glen Dale. > > I later graduated from the professional School of Nursing at St. Francis > Hospital in Pittsburgh. It was suddenly sold last year (in bankruptcy) and > much > of it has been torn down. A number of the WV schools sent their students to > St. > Francis in Pittsburgh for psych training - so at least in that regard, it is > > associated with WV. Very soon I am going to do a Memorial site for my Alma > Mater. > > The photo on the front of my Pioneer Nurses site is not mine. In fact, it > was for sale on eBay a couple months ago. I had planned to bid on it but I > forgot about it. I had downloaded it and I am using it. Of course I feel > guilty > because I usually buy everything I use. - - I would like to buy this and if > I > encounter the new owner, I will certainly try to. - (I will replace this if > I > can find another.) > > Does anyone recognize the cap - and therefore the School of Nursing? I > thought I recalled that Wheeling Hospital had this kind of cap early on. > > I have already found factual discrepancies in the information in my books, > so > I can't guarantee complete accuracy. - Also, the 1907-1935 list is very > large... a 79 page booklet - so it might take time to load if you don't have > a > high-speed connection. > > Like my Civil War sites, I have basic "rosters" and the personal page for > the > nurses will be links from the names. I have a few done. - - I am > interested > in PICTURES. I plan to start collecting them and of course will put them > online. If you have any for sale, please let me know. > > Best Wishes - - > > Linda Cunningham Fluharty > www.lindapages.com > My families: Rouse, Vawter, Armstrong, Cavitt, Bigbee, Brown, Calvert, Roney, Stalcup, Bird, Lapsley, Towles, Kays, Simpkins, Stewart, Hull, Duer, Unger, Holmes, Fouke, Foster, Stimax, Packard, Newell,Broadrib, Bush, Harmison, Sheets, Swearingen, Noel, Mayo, Farmer, Wilson, Eye, Faires