Celebrating National Genealogy Day and Women's History Month
Making a Difference: Audrey Lee Attaway Garcia Today is National Genealogy Day, and also Women's History Month, and I would like to highlight one of my 2nd cousins (1x removed), Audrey Lee Attaway. I had never met her, but after reading her story, I wish I had known her. I have found the below information through newspapers, U.S. Census records, historical documents, and military records. Growing up in the Wiregrass Audrey was the daughter of George Walden Attaway, Sr. and Nancy Adelle Culverhouse and lived in the small town Ariton in Dale County, Alabama, which is in the southeastern part of the state. Her father was a farmer who owned a general farm with about 80 acres and her mother was a homemaker. She had one sister, Verma, and two brothers, George Jr., and James. As a child and as a teenager, Audrey was active in school, her church, and her community in Center Ridge. Nurse Training and U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps In June of 1944, at the age of 19, Audrey left home to atte
