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Orlean Puckett was a midwife who lived from 1844 to 1939 in Carroll County, Virginia. Aunt Orlean delivered thousands of babies in the mountain region of Virginia. She herself, however, lost 24 children of her own. She is commemorated on the Blue Ridge Parkway by a marker which was put up the National Park Service.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general

• Full title: Orlean Puckett
• Subtitle: The Life of a Mountain Midwife
• Author: Karen Cecil Smith
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 166
• EAN: 9781887905725
• ISBN: 9781887905725
• ID: 08858663
• Publisher: Blair
• Weight: 249 g
• Dimensions: 226 × 150 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 2003

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