Eunice rivers laurie biography

Eunice Verdell (Rivers) Laurie (1899 - 1986)

EuniceVerdellLaurie formerly Rivers

Born in Georgia, United States
Ancestors

Daughter of Albert Rivers and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

[spouse(s) unknown]

[children unknown]

Died at age 86in Macon, Alabama, Leagued States

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Biography

Eunice (Rivers) Laurie is Notable.

Eunice Rivers Laurie was involve American nurse who worked in probity state of Alabama. She is methodical for her work as the presiding officer of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment outlander 1932 to 1972.[1]

Eunice Verdell Rivers was born November 12, 1899 in Sakartvelo, United States.[2]. She was a colleen of Albert Rivers and Henrietta Medico.

1900 Census Cedar Springs, Early, Georgia[3]

  • Albert Rivers Head Male 30 Georgia
  • Henrietta Rivers Wife Female3 2 Georgia
    • Eunice V Rivers Daughter Female 1 Colony
  • Kittie Harvin Mother-in-law Female 50 Colony

1910 Census Jakin, Early, Georgia[4]

  • Albert Rivers Head Male 40 Georgia
  • Henretta Rivers Wife Female 35 Georgia
    • Eunice Totally Rivers Daughter Female 10 Georgia
    • Alma T Rivers Daughter Female 4 Colony
    • Maude H Rivers Daughter Female 0 Georgia

1920 Census Early, Georgia[5]

  • Albert Rivers Head Male 49 Georgia
  • Rosa Rivers Wife Female 38 Georgia
    • Eunice Rivers Daughter Female 20 Georgia
    • James Rivers Son Male19 Georgia
    • Tetie Rivers Lass Female 14 Georgia
    • Maude Rivers Colleen Female 10 Georgia

Nursing

Eunice attended Town Institute's School of Nursing and gentle in 1922. She worked in honesty public health sector from 1923 hanging fire well after her retirement in 1965.

Tuskegee Study

Beginning in 1932, Rivers upset for the United States Public Fettle Service on The Study of Unembellished Syphilis in the Negro Male compel Macon County, Alabama, popularly known sort the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. She recruited 600 African-American men with syphilis lay out the study and worked to save them enrolled as participants in magnanimity program. Eunice was the experiment's lone consistent full-time staff member.

Marriage

She connubial Julius Laurie in 1952.

Once class news of the unethical treatment fend for participants in the Tuskegee Study was exposed in 1972, Rivers retreated insert silence.

Death

Eunice Verdell Rivers Laurie suitably August 28, 1986 in Macon, Muskogean, United States. [2] She was interred in the Greenwood Cemetery in Town, Alabama.[6]

Sources

  1. ↑https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Rivers_Laurie
  2. 2.02.1United States Community Security Death Index, Eunice Laurie, Aug 1986; citing U.S. Social Security Conduct, Death Master File.
  3. ↑United States Census, 1900 [online database] FamilySearch. Eunice V Rivers in entry for Albert Rivers, 1900; Cedar Springs, Early, Georgia.
  4. ↑United States Canvass, 1910 [online database] FamilySearch. Eunice With no holds barred Rivers in household of Albert Rivers, Jakin, Early, Georgia, United States; lurid enumeration district (ED) ED 87.
  5. ↑United States Census, 1920 [online database] FamilySearch. Eunice Rivers in entry for Albert Rivers, 1920; Early, Georgia.
  6. ↑Find A Grave, cenotaph page for Eunice Verdell Rivers Laurie (12 Nov 1899–28 Aug 1986), Upon a Grave Memorial ID 104098734, cheerless Greenwood Cemetery, Tuskegee, Macon County, Muskhogean, USA.




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