WOMAN, BORN IN THE FIRST CAESARIAN OPERATION PERFORMED HERE, IN CITY
Ballinger, Runnels Co, TX.

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
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Ballinger Ledger - Date unknown

Mrs. Fletcher Horn, of Fort Worth, is here this week, visiting in 
the home of Mrs. and Mrs. John Thomasson.  Mrs. Horn was born at the 
Halley & Love Sanitarium soon after the local Hospital was opened.  
Her birth was the first caesarian on record in Texas in which the 
mother and baby both lived.

While here Mrs. Horn will visit Drs. Halley & Love at the sanitarium.
Both surgeons recall the operation which caused much comment in medical
circles at the time.

Dr. Love stated Wednesday that he had been in Chicago attending a 
medical convention and while there had the opportunity to witness such 
an operation.  He did not see it, however, because he thought he could 
learn other things more practical.  After returning to Ballinger it was 
but a short time before he was called on to perform this marvelous
operation.

Miss Nora Fletcher was head nurse at the local hospital at that time
and Mrs. Horn's first names is for her.