ABSTRACT
Queen Elizabeth was born of a Black father and a Cherokee mother in approximately 1894. According to family accounts, she was quite the farmwoman, raising livestock, tending flower and vegetable gardens, and harvesting and preparing plants and herbs to heal the sick. It was not until the mid-1920s that Elizabeth started assisting at births. No one currently living knows what happened in Elizabeth's career from 1926 until 1931. Elizabeth was a respected and busy midwife for the women of Fork Township. Elizabeth provided what would today be called preconception counseling and prenatal care. During the 1940s, birth practices in Warren County began to change, a process documented in the birth records available in the courthouse today.
