Ivy Kinny Hair Hagood

Born: 18 December 1889, Elk Garden, Mineral County, West Virginia
Died: 18 February 1970, New Mexico

Ivy Kinny Hair was a member of the Army Nurse Corps Reserves beginning in 1917, serving at the Base Hospital Camp in Greene, North Carolina, and served overseas from July 13, 1918, to June 18, 1918, at an Evac Hospital. In the course of her service, she was awarded the Order of St. Sava (Serbian).[i] She returned to the United States, departing Brest, in June 1919 on the U.S.S. Agamemnon, identified as belonging to the Casual Nurse Detachment #32.[ii]

Ivy Kinny was born December 18,1889 in Elk Garden, West Virginia to P.J. and Annie Kinny.[iii] She married her first husband, Dr. Judson E. Hair Jr. in 1912, and their daughter Martha Ivy was born in 1914.[iv] Dr. Hair died March 29, 1915, while enroute from Arizona to his home in Bamburg, South Carolina. He had been ill for several months and had gone to Arizona to seek recovery.[v]

In 1918 she married her second husband Ernest Charles Hagood. He served in WWI, died in 1972, and is buried with his wife in Santa Fe National Cemetery. After returning from the First World War, the couple lived for a while in Birmingham Alabama in the home of her brother-in-law Toliver R. Bentley and other family members. By 1930 the couple had moved to their own home in Birmingham, where they lived with her daughter Martha Ivy and their son Ernest Charles Hagood, Jr. [vi] Shortly thereafter, the family moved to New Mexico where her husband practiced medicine, living in both Albuquerque and Socorro.[vii] Shortly after their arrival in New Mexico, their daughter Martha Ivy died, in 1933, in Gallup, New Mexico. Ivy died on February 18, 1970 at the age of 81, following a long illness, in Albuquerque, where she had been a member of the Central Seventh-Day Adventist Church and the Medical Auxiliary.[viii]

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[i] Maryland Military Men, 1917-1918. The Order of St. Sava was an Order of Merit awarded by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes  to nationals and foreigners for various meritorious achievements and for social and relief work. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St._Sava).

[ii] Lists of Incoming Passengers, 1917-1938. Textual records, 360 Boxes. NAID: 6234465. Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774-1985, Record Group 92. The National Archives at College Park, Maryland. Lists of Outgoing Passengers, 1917-1938. Textual records. 255 Boxes. NAID: 6234477. Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774-1985, Record Group 92. The National Archives at College Park, Maryland

[iii] West Virginia Births, 1804-1938

[iv] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3870058/ivy-hagood

[v] The Bamberg Herald, April 1, 1915

[vi] 1920 Federal Census and 1930 Federal Census.

[vii] 1940 Federal Census, 1950 Federal Census, 1953 Albuquerque City Directory.

[viii] Albuquerque Journal, February 20, 1970

Prepared by Sue Taylor PhD, Central New Mexico Community College

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