Elizabeth Sadoques Mason

Elizabeth Mary Sadoques Mason (May 16, 1897 – September 24, 1985) was one of the first Native American Registered Nurses known in United States. Though not much is known about her career, Elizabeth finished nursing school in New York in 1919 and worked as a nurse to artist Abbot Handerson Thayer. She spent her nursing career between Elliot Community Hospital in Keene, NH and private-duty nursing in her community, even going to Bermuda for one patient.

Although the Sadoques family in Keene was fully Native American, there is an oral history of English descent in the family through Eunice Williams, a Euro-American captive taken in the Deerfield, Massachusetts raid of 1704.