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Housewife most of her life. There were four children, I was the oldest, and there was one girl and three boys. Read More

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And your mom, she was a housewife or she did other things?… Read More

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My father was a salesman. He was in World War II, came home, and then he worked for American Tobacco Company and then Johnson Wax Company. He had worked as a salesperson most of his life. He killed himself at 43, committed suicide. I wasn’t very close to him, but… Read More

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What’d your father do?… Read More

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High school?… Read More

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I was in high school. Read More

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How old were you?… Read More

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Well, yeah, I got a little money for that. But I was out there hauling corn too. And then also worked in tobacco patches where we had to pull the blooms off or top them or dust them. I did things with deldron, andron, and malathion without a shirt on… Read More

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They paid you money for that?… Read More

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So it was- They paid you money?… Read More

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Calves, steers, they were steers after we did it. I’d grab a whole one by the tail to hang in there. Bob Joles, he was the biggest bootlegger in all of East Tennessee, a very nice guy, but very wealthy, made all the Moonshine. My family made Moonshine. I remember… Read More

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How old were you?… Read More

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My first real job was working on a friends’ farm and castrated bulls. Read More

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And when did you get your first real job, where they’re paying you money?… Read More

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I went to high school, yes. I was a sophomore and we moved from Madisonville to Knoxville. Then that’s where I had water in the house and toilets in the house, and things like that. Read More

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Then from there, were you able to go to high school?… Read More

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So this was when you were in Tennessee?… Read More

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Yeah. No air conditioning, it’s two grades, sometimes three in one room with one teacher and had an outhouse. In fact, the outhouse was out near the playground. I remember Halloween, we played tricks on things like that. So we tied a rope around the outhouse at school and tied… Read More