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Subject: "Grandma Hulda Bassett" Doctress
Date: 9 Apr 2005 22:15:15 -0600

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Surnames: Bassett, Bullock, Harmon
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My ancestor, Hulda Vaughn Harmon Bassett was ordained a doctress in 1868:
From book "Providence and Her People"
Page 30, The early residents of Providence had no professional medical attention. Out of necessity, gentle, helpful, courageous women, without a lesson in nursing assumed the medical care of the community. They were women with families of their own, but with a natural talent for nursing and a sincere and tender devotion to the sick. These women were loved and trusted. The first of these nurses was Grandma Hulda Bassett. She was the mother of Edward and Loren Bassett, and was remembered as one being a real good hand with the sick. Hulda Bassett and Elizabeth Bullock were sustained as doctors on April 27, 1868.....

I am looking for any old journal entries that Providence people may have kept that tell about her doctoring skills or babies delivered. Our family tradition is that she performed opertaions and was famous throughout the state, but I can find nothing to substantiate this. Does anyone have any concrete info to back up this tradition? Thank you in advance!
Cheryl Harmon Bills

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