GENEVIEVE MARCELLA SEABOLT

Class of 1914

Genevieve Marcella Seabolt was born February 8, 1894 in Cassandra, Cambria County, Pennsylvania. Her parents were John Seabolt and Irene Maxwell, both born in Pennsylvania. Siblings in the 1900 census, Washington Twp., Cambria County, were Michael, Chester, Mary, Francis, Brady and John.

The father died in 1902, and in the 1910 Washington Twp. census, the mother, Irene, is listed with children, Michael, Mary, Genevieve, Francis, Brady, John and Patrick.

Genevieve graduated from the school of nursing in 1914 and then served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War I. She was stationed at the Base hospital in Camp Hills, New York. She did not serve overseas.

In the 1920 report of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Genevieve Seabolt was a nurse at the Pennsylvania State Sanitorium for Tuberculosis at Cresson.

Genevieve's mother remarried, to Bert Plummer, and Genevieve, a "Trained Nurse, Emergency," was residing with them at Portage, Cambria County, at the time of the 1920 census.

In 1930, she was listed as a "Graduate Nurse, General Practice." Two brothers in the family home were coal miners.

By 1940, Genevieve's mother, 75, was again a widow. Genevieve, 46, and her brother, Brady, lived with her in Portage.

The mother, 86, died when she fell out of a window and broke her neck on June 1, 1951.

Seabolt

A news article in the Altoona Mirror, dated November 12, 1954, about the Cambria County American Legion Auxiliary, indicated their intention to send Christmas gifts to "two World War I nurses who are hospitalized or in ill health." It went on to say that Genevieve Seabolt, formerly of Cassandra, was a patient in Oleen, N. C. Veteran's Hospital.

Genevieve M. Seabolt died on June 20, 1978. She is buried at Saint Brigid Cemetery, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, where a number of her family members are also interred.



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