Jennie Green and Eunice Proffitt transcript

File — Container: Single Folder Collections - 2003 Box 2 (03.0030-03.0050), Folder: 03.0040 - Folder 1

Identifier: 03.0040

Staff Only

Content Description

This collection contains an oral transcript of interviews with sisters-in-law Jennie Green and Eunice Proffitt. Green shares her experience during World War II when she served as a mess sergeant in the Women's Army Corps. Proffitt remained on the home front throughout the war and recounts working at her family's farm and as a nurse.

Dates

Event: Majority of material found within 1937-1945
Other: Date accessioned: 2001-07-09

Creator

Green, Jennie, 1909-2004 (Person)
Proffitt, Eunice, 1910-2004 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Biographical / Historical

Jennie Green was born on January 10, 1909 in Yancey County, North Carolina. She grew up on a farm with her grandparents and enlisted in the Women's Army Corps in 1942. She remained in the United States for the duration of her service. Green passed away on February 18, 2004 and is buried at Gibbs Cemetery in Yancey, North Carolina.

Eunice Proffitt was born on May 17, 1910 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. She attended nursing school at the Ellen Fitzgerald Hospital in Monroe, North Carolina. After graduation, she worked as a nurse at Woman's Hospital in New York and later at Duke University. During the war, she helped on her family farm, delivered babies, and administered medicine to the people in her community. She married Roy Proffitt in 1937 and had two children. Proffitt passed away on April 3, 2004 and is buried at Gibbs Cemetery in Yancey, North Carolina.

Proffitt speaks on her famiy being rationed on things like sugar and gasoline. Both women also share their thoughts on the attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent atomic bomb drops in Japan.

Extent

1 folders (1 folder)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Subjects

Atomic bomb--Japan--History--20th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
North Carolina Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Nurses -- United States -- Biography Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Rationing Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Women's Army Corps Subject Source: Local sources
World War, 1939-1945 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings