Berea College. Hutchins Library. Special Collections,

Mabel Martin Wyrick is a writer and community historian from Corbin, Kentucky, writing on Whitley, Knox, and Laurel Counties. Her newspaper columns, which were variously titled, "Factual Folklore" and "Mabel's Fables", appeared in the London (Ky) Sentinel-Echo and Corbin (Ky) Times-Tribune. She also published a book entitled "If Quilts Could Talk, I'd Listen" (1988).

From the description of Mabel Martin Wyrick Local History Collection 1854-1893. (Berea College). WorldCat record id: 51063467

Breckinridge founded FNS in part as a response to the early deaths of her two children. After completing nurses training in New York City, she went on to study midwifery in England. Breckinridge focused her efforts mainly in Leslie, Clay, and Harlan counties where poor roads made travel by horseback and jeep necessary. The scarcity of doctors required that FNS nurses respond to a wide range of medical needs beyond just those of expectant mothers and their infants. Her efforts eventually resulted in the establishment of a hospital at Hyden, several neighborhood nursing clinics, and a nurse-midwifery training program. All have continued to the present time.

From the description of Frontier Nursing Service Collection 1923-1970. (Berea College). WorldCat record id: 50909623