
Wilson Daily Times, 16 January 1943.
Eastern North Carolina Sanatorium, circa 1945. Asheville Post Card Co., Asheville, North Carolina.
Read how Cora Rountree Farmer helped my grandmother get a job at sanatorium.
- Hatty Perry — in the 1947 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Perry Hattie (c) pract nurse ENCS r [ditto]. In the 1950 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 309 Reid, Minnie Baines, 71; husband Roscoe, 72, building contractor; and daughter Hattie Perry, 46, practical nurse at local hospital.
- Cora Farmer — in the 1947 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: Perry Hattie (c) pract nurse ENCS r [ditto] [In fact, Cora Farmer did not live at the Sanatorium, but at 1201 Queen Street.]
- Christina Currie — in the 1950 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 1208 East Nash, Colon Currie, 39, truck driver for local lumber company, and wife Christine, 35, practical nurse at local T.B. hospital.
- Irene Farmer — in the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: Jeff Farmer, 48, truck driver; wife Rena, 36, private nurse; and children Marvin, 15, and Irene, 13.
- Lula Sims
- Nancy Farmer
- Priscilla Bullock — in the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 516 Smith Street, Hilda [sic] Bullock, 36, laborer; wife Percilla, 35, housekeeper; roomer Evelynia Martin, 18, tobacco factory hanger; and children Bettie J., 9, and Hilda J. Bullock, 7.
- Bessie Gaston — in the 1940 census of Elm City, Toisnot township, Wilson County: on Dixon Street, barber Roscoe Gaston, 58, and wife Bessie, 46, housekeeper.
