Jessie B. Wallace was posted to Diarbekr (Diyarbakır), where relief workers were badly needed and few would stay. She refused to leave.
She developed mastoiditis, an infection of the bone behind the ear that spreads from the middle ear and, before antibiotics, killed by reaching the brain or the bloodstream. Surgery was the only treatment and it was often too late. She was operated on at Mardin, some sixty miles south, and died there on 28 February 1920.
Her age, her training and the work she did at Diarbekr are all undocumented.
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