Leila Daughtry was born in Portal, GA, in 1898 and died in 2012 at the age of 114 years old. She was the first intern at Egleston Children’s Hospital after graduating from Medical School in 1928. She helped developed the vaccine for whooping cough after an epidemic claimed a number of her patients. She is indeed a prize citizen of Bulloch County.
Bulloch Tidbits are a weekly feature written and narrated by the Bulloch County Historical Society (BCHS) Executive Director Virginia Anne Franklin Waters. Each week Virginia Anne takes Grice Connect readers onto a historical journey back in time saluting the people and places that have make Statesboro and Bulloch a wonderful place to call home.
Bulloch Tidbits on Grice Connect are made possible thanks to the generous support of McCook's Pharmacy a locally owned pharmacy located at 23630 US-80 in Statesboro.
