This is Grace Killmayer Kruepel. She was my great grandfather's (John Killmayer) sister. Even though she never had any children she was a midwife to many. She helped to deliver my grandmother Grace and her siblings. She also helped to deliver my mother.I always wonder how many babies she helped to bring into the world.
My great grandmother (Mamie) kept a journal and one entry states that Aunt Grace took her stillborn baby to a doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
At the time autopsies were illegal and I assume this was her contribution to science.
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