Every one in the community was so frightened that no one would nurse the boy.

Miss Davidson closed her school and remained by the bedside of the boy night and day until he recovered.

While she was at her Ohio home on her vacation, the worst epidemic of yellow fever broke out in Memphis, Tenn., that perhaps has ever occurred in the South.

When she heard of this, she at once telegraphed the Mayor of Memphis, offering her services as a yellow-fever nurse, although she had never had the disease.
Miss Davidon's experience in the South showed her that the people needed something more than mere book-learning.

She heard of the Hampton system of education, and decided that this was what she wanted in order to prepare herself for better work in the South.