Perry Co Medical Folks

Perry Co Kentucky
Medical Folks

Donated by Pat Horne

If you can help identify any photos
please email me, Lynda Combs Gipson

Page Updated on May 08, 2008


Perry County Health Dept
abt. 1960
Hurst Snyder Hospital was started in this old WSGS Radio Station Building

Unknown Family
Dr Gilbert, Dr. Wagers?? & Dr. Eugene Carter

Unknown Doctor
Graduating Nurses

Three Beauties
Nurses weighing an infant

Buckhorn Medical Clinic
Mothers and their Children

Blood Pressure Check
Nursing Class

Mount Mary Hospital, Nuns handing out food
and supplies after the 1957 flood
Hazard Hospital, the nuns bought this hospital from
the doctors and started the Mount Mary Hosp.

A Nurse at Work
Buckhorn Hosp on the hill,
and probably another building by Harvey S. Murdoch

Dr. Payne
Eliza Jane Shackleford nurse for Dr. Payne

Unknown Couple
Dr. Eugene Carter (right) and an Unknown Doctor

Unknown Lady
A Nurse at Work

Mary Princess Sexton from Upper Second Creek. Her mother's
name was Elizabeth Griffith, of Lawrence county Both were well
known as Midwives in our area.
Delivering Medical Supplies?

Unknown
Dr. Dana Synder
1899 - 1982

Unknown
Unknown

Unknown
Nursing Class

Unknown
Midwife Cassie Farler

Unknown
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Notice the Gulf Station
Unknown

Nurse Ruth Pendergrass giving School Shots
She had a big part in the cure of the Blue People
from Troublesome Creek
Unknown

Nurse Eliza J. Shakleford aiding a new Nurse
Possible Wilma Robinson?

Nursing Graguates 1984
Area Midwifes helped many babies come into the world

Unknown doctor in front of Homeplace Hospital
Dr. R. Roderick Baker b. 4-4-1844 d. 10-30-1900.
First Licensed Dr. in Hazard

Perry Co. Medical Society 1956
Standing in the back, first one is Dr. Eli Boggs, Dewey Daniel. Sitting left to right, Dr James Green, Willie Dawahare, Dr Bill F. ODonnel, M. K. Elben, Eugene H. Combs, Ben F. Lutes, Dr. Charles Rutledge, Ralph Peters, Dill Nucci, Kenneth Combs, E. A. Smiley, Dr. UpChurch, Dr. Cordell Williams, Dr. A. B. Pigman, Foreground, right to left, Alex McIntyre, Dick Johnson, I. F. Burke, Virgil Wills, Clyde Baumgardner, James Caudill, and Coach Gobel Ritter.
Unknown Doctor or Nurse?

Hospital cafeteria?
Unknown

Possible Dr. James P. Boggs
Nurse Ruth Pendergrass again
She worked with Dr. Madison Cawein in
helping with the Blue People

Back Row. L to R. Dr. M. E. Combs, Dr. Brown, Filmore McIntosh -Veterinarian, Dr. Grant, Dr. R. L. Collins
Front Row: L to R. Unknown, Unknown, Dr. A. M. Gross
Dr. Davis Fields, a well known medical doctor from the Perry and Knott County areas.

Could this be the Red Cross Gals?
Dr. Donald Martin with 90 year old Tolbert Smith.
Dr. Martin practiced at Homeplace Hospital for
about 20 years. He wrote a book about his experiences
there. This photo is on the cover.

Dr. J. P. Boggs
Midwives

Group of Nurses
Dr. Hunter Gingles 1890 - 1970

Buckhorn Hospital built in 1908 by Harvey S. Murdoch
It helped many folks from Breathitt, Owsley
and Perry Counties
Unknowns

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Second from right may be Miss Hollenbeck
Nuns at the Mount Mary Hospital

Dr Carlo Britt Combs
1879 - 1957
Unknowns

Dr. Z. M. Brashear
Dr. Herman A. Zeal

Dr. Fernando Curtis Roark
Dr. Dan F. Hamilton
with Alice Spurlock and Eliza Hamilton

Midwife Armelda Combs Smith
1862 - 1953
Midwife Vinabelle Smith with Larry Smith

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2007