Latest / Legends of Real Spirits
The Midwife Who Signed Church Sheets and Erased Births
The Midwife Who Signed Church Sheets and Erased Births
Fear and fascination meet in a grocery-bag tin: forty-three index cards naming women born in Phelps County between 1952 and 1991, each scrawled with "Dr. F. Stevens - attending" while no birth certificate lists her. What was a woman who signed every Methodist supper sheet for thirty-one years doing at dozens of unrecorded deliveries, and why did someone bury her paper trail under a septic riser?
In this episode, we follow the discovery of those cards and the archive materials that map a life lived both publicly and invisibly. We trace…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.