US. Army Nurse,
Mildred Tucker Poynton
Born 11 April 1895, Jackson, Pennsylvania
Died 23 March 1996
Burial Site: SFNC, O 0 331
Mildred Tucker (Poynton) joined the Army Nurse Corps as a Red Cross Nurse in April of 1918 and served stateside at General Hospitals 8 and 21. She was discharged on January 25, 1920. [i]
Mildred Tucker was born April 11, 1895 in Jackson, Pennsylvania to Judson and Ida Tucker.[ii] Following her service in World War I she married Edward Arthur Poynton in Washington D. C.[iii] They lived in Washington D.C. for the next 30+ years where her husband worked for the Department of the Interior and she was a housewife and mother to their two daughters Martha and Barbara.[iv] They moved to Albuquerque in the mid-1950s.[v] Her husband also served in the first World War and died in 1983 in Albuquerque.[vi] Mildred died on March 23, 1996, 19 days shy of her 101st birthday.[vii]
[i] Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013
[ii] Find a Grave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1091444/mildred-t-poynton); United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls
[iii] Carbondale Daily News, Carbondale, PA Saturday January 24 1920
[iv] Federal Censuses 1930, 1940, and 1950.
[v] Albuquerque City Directory 1955.
[vi] Albuquerque Journal, April 24, 1983.
[vii] U. S. Social Security Death Index, 1935 – 2014
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Prepared by Sue Taylor PhD, Central New Mexico Community College