Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: BIOGRAPHY – Staff
Leona Patterson Burden (1917-2011)
Jess Wiggins Burden (c. 1917-2005)
Teachers, 1941-1942
Leona P. Burden standing beside entrance sign for PMSS, where she and her husband, Jess Burden taught in 1941-42. She re-visited the PMSS campus in June 2007. [burden_leona_011.jpg]
TAGS: Leona and Jess Burden, Leona P. Burden, teachers, Nancy Adams, Mary Dresser
LEONA AND JESS BURDEN Staff
Teachers 1941-1942
Leona and Jess Burden were teachers at Pine Mountain Settlement School during the school year of 1941-1942. When Leona P. Burden came back to Pine Mountain in June of 2007 for the first time since those early years, she was 90 years old. Her daughter, Shirley McLaughlin brought her back to the campus where she had the opportunity to see all the changes that had taken place through the years. At the time of her visit, she was in a retirement home in Portland, Oregon.
Leona P. Burden was hired at the School to teach Home Economics and to supervise the Dining Hall in Laurel House Her husband, Jess Burden, taught Math, Physics, Chemistry and was in charge of the physical plant, including motor vehicles and the coal mine on the edge of the campus.
The following is a photographic memoir of her return visit to the Pine Mountain Campus in June of 2007, where she is accompanied by Nancy Adams, Director, and Mary Dresser, Assistant Director of the School.
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Leona P. (Patterson) Burden was born on April 16, 1917, in Dandridge, Tennessee, to George and Josie Moree Patterson. She attended Berea (Kentucky) College, graduating with a Bachelors Degree in Home Economics, Class of 1941.
She married Jess Wiggins Burden, a Physics major at Berea College, Class of 1941. He died in 2005.
She was 93 when she died on January 18, 2011, in West Linn, Oregon. She is survived by four of her five children: Thomas Earl, Shirley, Mary Joyce, and Jane.
GALLERY
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- Leona P. Burden standing next to altar in the Chapel at Pine Mountain, 2007. [burden_leona_001.jpg]
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- Leona P. Burden standing in front of the transept entrance of the Chapel at Pine Mountain, 2007. [burden_leona_003.jpg]
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- Leona P. Burden and Nancy Adams (right), PMSS Director, by Chapel side, 2007. [[burden_leona_004.jpg]
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- Leona P. Burden standing next to Old Log where she and her husband Jess Burden lived while teaching at PMSS in 1941-1942. [burden_leona_006.jpg]
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- Leona P. Burden sitting on the porch of Old Log where she and her husband Jess Burden lived while teaching at PMSS in 1941-1942. [burden_leona_007.jpg]
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- Leona P. Buden and Mary P. Dresser, PMSS Assistant Director, standing in front of Laurel House II, June 2007. [burden_leona_009.jpg]
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- Leona P. Burden standing beside entrance sign for PMSS, where she and her husband, Jess Burden taught in 1941-42. She re-visited the PMSS campus in June 2007. [burden_leona_011.jpg]
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Title |
Leona and Jess Burden |
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Alt. Title |
Leona P. Burden Jess Burden |
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Identifier |
Permalink: https://pinemountainsettlement.net/?page_id=12644 |
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Creator |
Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY |
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Alt. Creator |
L.V. Stanford |
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Subject Keyword |
Leona Burden ; Jess Burden ; Pine Mountain Settlement School ; education ; photographs ; donations ; Chapel ; Laurel House II ; Old Log ; dietitian ; chemistry ; physics ; math ; sciences ; Home Economics ; teachers ; education ; boarding school ; 1941 ; 1942 ; |
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Subject LCSH |
Burden, Leona Patterson, — 1917-2010. |
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Date |
Digital: 2014-06-07; Date of photographs: June 2007 ; |
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Publisher |
Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY |
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Contributor |
Shirley McLaughlin |
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Type |
Collections ; text ; image ; |
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Format |
Photographs in file folders in filing cabinet, alphabetical under Ser. 09, “Burden”. |
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Source |
Series 09: BIOGRAPHY ; Photograph Series ; |
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Language |
English |
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Relation |
Is related to: Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections, Series 09: Staff and Personnel ; Photograph Series ; |
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Coverage Temporal |
1941-42 ; 2007 |
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Coverage Spatial |
Pine Mountain, KY ; Harlan County, KY ; Portland, OR ; |
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Rights |
Any display, publication, or public use must credit the Pine Mountain Settlement School. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. |
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Donor |
Photographs by Shirley McLaughlin, daughter. |
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Description |
Photographs of Leona P. Burden a teacher at Pine Mountain Settlement School along with her husband, Jess Burden. Leona taught Home Economics and managed the Dining Hall and Jess taught a variety of science classes in the school year, 1941-42. |
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Acquisition |
2007 from Shirley McLaughlin, daughter. |
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Citation |
Leona and Jess Burden, Series 09, Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers, Pine Mountain Settlement School, KY. |
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Processed By |
Helen Hayes Wykle ; Ann Angel Eberhardt ; |
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Last Updated |
2014-06-07 hhw ; 2024-01-19 aae ; |
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Source |
“Leona Paterson Burden” Obituary, January 18, 2011. https://obits.woodhavenfh.com/obituary/burden-leona |
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