Mattie Shackleford Papers.

Author/creator Shackleford, Mattie creator.
Format Archival & Manuscript Material
Production1910-1934, 1964, undated.
Description0.35 Cubic ft. (1 document case)
Supplemental ContentCollection guide
Subjects

Scope and content This collection (1910-1934, 1964) contains correspondence, photographs, postcards, official documents, two diaries/journals, and publications related to the World War I service of a nurse trained at Camp McClellan in Alabama and served in France. Also documented is her post-World War I service in Serbia with the Serbian Relief Committee of America.
Access restrictionJoyner- No restrictions.
Cite as Mattie Shackleford Papers (#1448), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Terms of useJoyner- See collection guide for copyright restrictions.
Acquisitions source Joyner- Purchased from Art Beltrone.
Associated materialsFor Related Collection see: Mattie Shackleford Papers (CD 01.60) The Country Doctor Museum Manuscript Collection, at The William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Biographical noteMattie Terrie Shackleford was born February 22, 1877 in Virginia to James Richard and Mary Ann (Terrie) Shackleford. She graduated from the Protestant Hospital of New York and worked as a superintendent there. In 1918, Shackleford was called into service at Camp McClellan and sailed overseas as a member of the Base Hospital 41, University of Virginia. After the war, she worked for the Serbian Relief Committee of America as nurse and lietutenant before becoming the nursing supervisor at Pittman Sanatorium and taught home health nursing. She died June 20, 1960 in Tarboro.

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