Jacqueline Mae (Rutledge) Jones Papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Preferred citation:

University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, Jacqueline Mae Rutledge Jones Papers

Summary

Extent:
.5 Linear Feet
Abstract:
(1925-2005) Principally materials related to Jones' education in the University of Virginia School of Nursing, from which she graduated in 1948. Includes Nursing/public-health publications on polio and tuberculosis.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, Jacqueline Mae Rutledge Jones Papers

Background

Scope and content:

The collection offers perspectives on Rutledge-Jones' experiences as a student at the UVA School of Nursing in 1948 and as a practicing nurse afterwards. It includes artifacts, photographs, records, correspondence and publications.

Biographical / historical:

Jacqueline Mae Rutledge was born July 26, 1925 in Roanoke, Virginia; the only child of Kyle and Hazel Dickerson Rutledge. She was a graduate of the EC Glass High School in Lynchburg, Virginia. She attended Lynchburg College but transferred to UVA School of Nursing and graduated in 1948. She worked with polio patients until the discovery of the polio vaccine by Jonas Salk, who became her personal hero. On Nov. 27, 1948 she married Edward Herbert Jones at the Chapel of UVA. He later became a career officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. They had three children; one daughter and two sons. As a military family they lived in many places such as: Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Haiti, Canada and Washington DC. Jacqueline gave up full time nursing for her husband's career and children but she served as a Red Cross Disaster Relief Nurse in North Carolina and Florida and was also a March of Dimes volunteer nurse. She died September 5th, 2004 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Arrangement:

Folders 1 and 2 contain biographical documentation and photographs. Folders 3 and 4 contain correspondence and certificates. Folder 5 contains UVA publications. Folders 6 and 8 contain other publications and Folder 7 contains artifacts.