Richmond County

County History:

Richmond

Region:

Piedmont

Quick Facts

People and Biographies

Notable individuals from nursing history.

Margaret Lucille "Lou" Covington (1919-2019): U.S. Navy flight nurse during World War II.
Mabel Williams (1950s-1960s): Nurses aid and civil rights activist. An oral history interview with Williams is available through UNC's Documenting the American South.

Resources

Additional resources for further research.

Health Care Institutions

Archives

The Moncure Hospital, Hamlet, NC [photograph] available in the UNC North Carolina Postcards collection.

Newspaper Clippings

1916, Jun 15. "Mrs. Galloway is a popular trained nurse and resigned as head nurse of the Hamlet Hospital a few weeks ago". The Enterprise, p.5. Albemarle, North Carolina.
1919, Dec 19. [History of the American Red Cross nurses in Rockingham during the 1918-1919 influenze epidemic][part 2]. Rockingham Post-Dispatch, p.1, 11. Rockingham, North Carolina.
1924, Jul 17. Attention, Midwives. Rockingham Post-Dispatch, p.7. Rockingham, North Carolina.

Compiled by:

Phoebe Pollitt

North Carolina Nursing History