Carrie E Detamore

When her mother, Emma, was locked up, Carrie was placed in foster care in Charlottesville. Things worked passably until she became pregnant. Years after the event, when she had no reason to lie (although there was no way to corroborate her story), she said that she became pregnant when her guardian's nephew raped her. Her guardian, whether or not he knew the father's identity, was apparently mortified by her pregnanacy and swept her out of society along with her mother. Carrie was institutionalized because she was pregnant, which indicated to some people that she was an immoral, feebleminded, syphilitic Jukes & Kallikaks epidemic in the making.

On the morning of October 19, 1927, Dr. Bell removed Carrie Buck Detamore's fallopian tubes, in the infirmary of the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded in Lynchburg. The procedure was than believed to be an absolute necessity, a movement strongly supported by proponents of the eugenics movement. (Carrie was the first sterilization with thousands to follow)

After some years in the hospital near Lynchburg, she wangled her was out as a domestic worker, and made her way in the world. She married a local sheriff named William Eagle. After his death, she moved north to Front Royal, Virginia, where she picked apples and married Charles Detamore, an orchard worker. She did some cleaning and nursing. Her life was not extraordinary, but no one who knew her after she left Lynchburg ever considered her feeble-minded.