Interviewer:  Now uh we were talking about some of the childhood diseases or just a disease that anybody had and uh
176:  Well there was chickenpox and and whooping cough and the measles.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  And uh and some once in a while we'd you'd hear some folks say then the uh typhoid fever. Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  But other than that, I don't remember any you know
176:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah. #
Interviewer:  And you'd well what what would you do to take to take care of it? Would you have to
176:  #1 Well #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: spray it} # or
176:  well uh momma'd always put us to bed and give us teas and uh she used sassafras tea and uh different ginger tea and {X} one thing or another to break out the measles, you know?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
176:  And uh and the whooping cough we just had uh she give us different things for that, it was mostly homemade remedies.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  Made what she did. And uh whooping cough and the measles and the uh mumps.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  And she'd just make us stay stay in bed 'til we got better.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What about um um if someone had uh bad tonsils or appendix or something like this, what would they
176:  Well now that is something that we didn't we didn't know about appendix or nothing like that.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  And I just don't know, I don't think that people had that then.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  They may have
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
176:  #2 may have some # and died with it you see?
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
176:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
176:  #2 not knowing what it was #
Interviewer:  know that if it's a
176:  #1 No they didn't know about it #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # what it was?
176:  No.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Um what do you remember uh about uh talking about your great-grandfather in the war um uh do you remember hearing about any of the soldiers getting sick while they you know they {X} get anything uh from water or anything? Or uh
176:  Well uh they had to drink out of the streams you know
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
176:  #2 when they # come. uh no I don't remember hearing 'em tell about that uh he talked about their their feet would be bleeding you know from frostbite.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
176:  And uh they had when they were in the army they had they've have to go barefoot. You know they just didn't have their shoes would be, they'd be having to walk you see so much #1 and their #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
176:  feet'd get uh blistered and
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  from so much walking. And um there they had more h- he talked more about their feet and and uh getting frostbite
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
176:  #2 you know. #
176:  And all done uh anything else.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And that was in the um what was the name of the war?
176:  #1 Uh #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  Confederate.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Uh-huh. Um well what now that's your great-grandfather. Was your
176:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  grandfather in that war? Or
176:  #1 No my #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  my uh my grand- that was my great-grandfather on my mother's side. But my grandfather on my daddy's side was the one that stayed home, he didn't have
Interviewer:  #1 Oh. Uh-huh. #
176:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Yeah.
176:  Yeah that's that's right.
Interviewer:  Um well let's see um what about and you said that they just really weren't any kind of a social events or anything, what about uh when when would you did you start dating or going out with other with uh
176:  Well
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
176:  #2 that was # after I finished school.
Interviewer:  After um
176:  #1 Yeah well you know #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  yo- going to school you know you just have a {NS} uh what they the ones that you go to school with
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah #
176:  #2 you know and then grade school uh # you had a
Interviewer:  #
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. Uh-huh. #
176:  #2 boyfriend there # {NW}
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
176:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  {X}
176:  Uh they maybe what we uh uh home from school or something like that and carry your books.
Interviewer:  {D: Yeah}
176:  But uh to really date and have a date at home I didn't until after I got grown.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And um wha- what would you do to to go out? Uh would you um would the boy come to your house or would y'all go somewhere
176:  No we didn't go nowhere, we just stayed at home.
Interviewer:  And he'd come to your house?
176:  #1 Come to the house, yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {X} So uh well when uh
176:  That was horse and buggy days you see
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Uh-huh. So there wasn't a there wouldn't be anywhere much to go
176:  #1 No #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  there wasn't anywhere to go.
Interviewer:  No, uh-uh.
176:  Unless you went to church.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  That's the on- about the only
Interviewer:  #1 Were there ever #
176:  #2 place in #
Interviewer:  any dances? Or did you have
176:  Well we weren't allowed to go, we they were dance around about you know but we wasn't allowed to go to 'em.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
176:  {NS} {X} my daddy died when in nineteen fourteen and and she had the responsibility of all of us children
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
176:  #2 you know # and so she just didn't allow us to go to any dances.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  Now one time she {X} we wanted to see 'em.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  And uh they were having a square dance not too far from our home.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  And uh we begged her to go with us and just let us see the dancing and we went and um stayed just a short while and then we went back home.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
176:  But she didn't let us go to anything like that because she was always afraid there might be somebody there drinking {X}
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  You know.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  And so she didn't let us she didn't let us go
Interviewer:  {X} {D: yeah} Well um when you were married were y- you married in the church?
176:  No I was married at home.
Interviewer:  At home?
176:  #1 Uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
176:  Married in the in the living room.
Interviewer:  Yeah? Uh did you um have any attendants? Or
176:  No
Interviewer:  {X}
176:  #1 no. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # {X}
176:  No.
Interviewer:  {X}
176:  Didn't have any uh just had a wedding at the at the #1 home you know. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. # Uh-huh. And you made a new dress you had
176:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: to} # wear it?
176:  Yeah. Had a the preacher to marry me.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Uh-huh.
176:  And uh my sisters all married at home too.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  We didn't want to have a church wedding.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Well now when uh Laura and Ellis married um your daughter did did
176:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 she # have a church
176:  #1 No. #
Interviewer:  #2 wedding? #
176:  No. No she she {D: had} she married at home too.
Interviewer:  Um {NS} {D: and} I'm trying to think of what other um okay we talked about the churches and uh school um what about um tell me the names of of your furniture, now this this piece right here, what what
176:  That's a chifforobe.
Interviewer:  And what what do you keep in it?
176:  Well there's a place in there to hang uh dresses.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  Uh coats.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  And then on each s- on the other side is drawers to put uh your laundry wear in.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {X} so is it strictly for a woman or would
176:  #1 Yeah that's what #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: does men's} #
176:  #1 Uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # {X} Uh what about um did you have a a chest or something that you um you know did you collect, before you were married, did you collect um different
176:  #1 Different furniture? #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  Yeah, yeah I made a lot of things
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
176:  #2 you see. #
176:  And uh before like embroidering and crocheting and uh {D: crocheting} and things like
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
176:  #2 that. # I had before I married.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  And quilts. I made the quilts and my mother helped me to would quilt 'em put 'em in a frame
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
176:  #2 you know. #
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  {X} hung it up in the house and the frame and uh quilted the quilts.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Um did you have a a chest or anything to keep all that in or did you just
176:  No I didn't have a chest
Interviewer:  They didn't have
176:  #1 No #
Interviewer:  #2 coat # chests
176:  #1 No they didn't have a chest then. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # that?
176:  I had a trunk.
Interviewer:  A trunk?
176:  Yeah, I had a trunk. {NS}
Interviewer:  Well what {X} what did y'all start out with besides your
176:  Well uh what we had when I got married what we had, my mother gave me a a bedstead and a mattress and springs and uh the pillows. And his mother gave him the same thing and four quilts.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  And uh momma gave me four quilts. And I already had about three or four something like that that I had made myself and uh I had a good many pillowcases and sheets and things #1 {D: that you'd} #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
176:  you know that I'd embroidered, crocheted and done, you know fixed and uh then we had to buy we bought uh a stove and a table and chairs, just there's one of 'em right there
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  By the table in the dining room. And um just the s- necessities that we had to have
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  to start housekeeping.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  And uh
Interviewer:  Now did you work when you started out? Or did you stay at home and cook
176:  #1 I taught school. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # you taught school, that's
176:  #1 The #
Interviewer:  #2 right. #
176:  first two years I
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
176:  #2 was married # I taught
Interviewer:  #1 That's right. #
176:  #2 school. #
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  But you didn't get much for it then.
Interviewer:  Yeah. {NS} And w- and what was your husband doing {D: then}
176:  Well he was farming.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  Yeah he was farming.
Interviewer:  Um
176:  He had a Model-T Ford and I'd go to school {D: to in light} morning in that car.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
176:  {X}
Interviewer:  How far away was the school?
176:  About four miles from us where I taught.
Interviewer:  Well where would you find your gas to drive?
176:  Well I'd fill up the tank on Saturday
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  from the time
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
176:  #2 Saturday # and it'd last all the week.
Interviewer:  Is that do y'all come in to get groceries?
176:  #1 Groceries and everything #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  supplies on Saturday.
Interviewer:  {X} And that was what everybody did?
176:  Yeah. Everybody came into town Saturday and got their groceries and {NS} their supplies for the week.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Uh-huh. {D: God.} Um after you've uh quit teaching school then you just stayed around
176:  Stayed at home
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
176:  #2 yeah. # Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  And the
176:  helped on the farm.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And uh when did you uh {D: di- didn't you say} then you had a um did you have any kind of food store or a
176:  Yeah well he yeah he uh about I I guess we'd been married about four years and he started uh {NS} selling fertilizer
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  And he had a store up here uh in town but we still lived on the farm and he came every day.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  And um then when put in uh you know with the feed and seed.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
176:  And fertilizer, he sold fertilizer, seed and feed and and he did that I don't know how many years before he died and then after he died I ran the s- store right on
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  for ten years after he passed away.
Interviewer:  And did did did that {X} uh did it fold up after you
176:  #1 Yeah. Yeah after I left #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 did it #
176:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
176:  #1 It folded up. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  I uh I turned it over to another person and let {X} {NS} {NS}
Interviewer:  Um {X} {D: the truth is that they didn't}
176:  You better stop that.
Interviewer:  {X} {NS} Well like I said um we talked about so many different topics and there are some of these um the {X} say that they want pronunciations of say I'll ask you some of these questions now. Um one thing um they wanted you to count from one to twenty and uh just do it kind of slowly, just count from one to twenty.
176:  One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Twelve. Thirteen. Fourteen. Fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen. Eighteen. Nineteen. Twenty.
Interviewer:  Okay and um what um what is the number after twenty-six?
176:  Twenty-seven.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um what about the number after twenty-nine?
176:  Thirty.
Interviewer:  And the number after thirty-nine?
176:  Forty.
Interviewer:  Um let's see what is the number after sixty-nine?
176:  Seventy.
Interviewer:  And the number after ninety-nine?
176:  One hundred.
Interviewer:  And what about after nine hundred and ninety-nine?
176:  Nine- uh one thousand.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And uh {D: four} is uh what would ten um what would be ten times a hundred thousand? Would be uh
176:  One million.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {X} Um what about um {X} {NS} uh say um um say uh oranges or apples or something sitting here on the table {D: might} the {D: the one that I'll put my hand down to} the one that's at the first of the line would be the the which one? Um this is the
176:  First?
Interviewer:  uh-huh, and the next would be
176:  Second.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  And the third. And the fourth. And the fifth. And the sixth. And the seventh. And the eighth. And the ninth. And the tenth.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And um now that's as far as we need. Um let's see um what about um the days of the week? Can you name the days of the week?
176:  Sunday. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. Saturday.
Interviewer:  Okay. And um what is another name for Sunday? What what is it sometimes called? Um besides just the name of the day of the week you'd call it you know or that you go to church it's the
176:  Church the Sabbath
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
176:  #2 Day. #
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And what does that mean to you?
176:  Well it means to to uh worship God.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Um if uh if it were say nine o'clock and uh in the morning and you saw someone you went out to get your mail and saw someone walking down the street, what would you probably say to them as a greeting?
176:  Good morning.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What about if it were later? Um after around seven in the evening, what would you say?
176:  Good evening. And uh what about in the middle of the day? Around noon or afternoon? Around two or three two o'clock. Good afternoon?
Interviewer:  Right good- uh-huh. {X} Um and do what do you call um the part of the day between noon and and supper time? {X}
176:  Afternoon.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Um and uh what uh what about after supper? What {X}
176:  It's evening.
Interviewer:  {X} Um let's see uh what about um if you uh had been to visit someone after supper say and when you were going to say goodbye what would you
176:  Goodnight.
Interviewer:  uh-huh. Um what about uh if someone had to get up and get out working {D: just as the sun} {D: an- anything coming up what} he had to start working at what? What would you call that {X} what would you say if somebody has to be up and out uh to farm {D: something or other now when} the sun's coming up, you you have to start work at
176:  Early.
Interviewer:  Early.
176:  #1 Early. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. # And early morning or um in reference to the sun just {NS} just coming just coming up early uh if you know if it was still dark but the sun was rising up what would he he would if if um {X} he had to start work at
176:  Daybreak? {D: No}
Interviewer:  Yeah, uh-huh. That uh-huh when in other words when the sun's coming up.
176:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # {X}
176:  #1 {D: it'd be uh} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Uh-huh. When the sun's coming up. Um let's see what about um if uh today is Sunday then um uh blank was Saturday. What what would you say in in reference to today? Today it's Sunday so
176:  Yesterday.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh and
176:  Tomorrow.
Interviewer:  is Monday, uh-huh. Um let's see um you said that daybreak was when you were getting up and going out to work. What about uh if you were working out in the field and you worked until the sun went out of the sky, and you'd say he has worked 'til
176:  Dawn.
Interviewer:  {X}
176:  Sundown.
Interviewer:  Or sundown, uh-huh. Uh-huh. Um what do they if somebody came to visit and stay from the first of the month through the fifteenth of the month, you'd say that he had stayed about what?
176:  About a half a month? #1 And #
Interviewer:  #2 Half a # month or a what about fort- fortnight, have you ever heard the that expression?
176:  The what?
Interviewer:  you say a fortnight? Fortnight?
176:  Fortnight.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  #1 I think I have #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # {X} um {X}
176:  {D: He's still there} {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay um what about um the months of the year, could you say the months of the year?
176:  January. February. March. April. May. June. July. August. September. October. November. December.
Interviewer:  Okay um now these are just some uh they're names of states. Different states and I'm gonna try to give you some um {D: some notes and ideas or} {X} {D: that you could know} which states I was talking about when I said it. Um what uh what's the name of the the state where the uh Statue of Liberty is {X} Do you know?
176:  Washington? {NS}
Interviewer:  {D: Of um} um the Albany and Buffalo are cities in the in this state. {NS} {NS}
176:  New York.
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh what about where the uh {X} the uh {D: Liddy Labler came in there} Annapolis {NS} uh what which state is that? {NS}
176:  Maryland.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And uh what about the uh to- tobacco state where uh the capital is Richmond?
176:  Uh Virginia.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And uh another tobacco state
176:  #1 North Carolina. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Uh-huh, North Carolina and uh what about the uh the other Carolina state?
176:  Uh South Carolina.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh, and #1 {X} #
176:  #2 and Georgia. #
Interviewer:  #1 Georgia, uh- #
176:  #2 Georgia, uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  huh. And then what's the state right below us {D: the panhandle}
176:  Florida.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And uh where uh {NS} is the state that George Wallace is from?
176:  Well Alabama.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And what about the uh the capital of Baton Rouge? Uh the state that
176:  That's Louisiana.
Interviewer:  Uh- uh-huh. And uh the the horse state, the bluegrass state.
176:  Kentucky.
Interviewer:  Kentucky. {D: Right} And what about the volunteer
176:  Tennessee.
Interviewer:  And uh the um what about the uh state that's still got {D: miss our} I
176:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  #1 Missouri. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Uh-huh. {D: That's how we always says it} {X} that's how we remembered how to spell it
176:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 just #
176:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 miss our I # {X} Uh what about where Little Rock is the capital?
176:  Arkansas.
Interviewer:  And uh the um humpback state.
176:  Mississippi.
Interviewer:  {NW} that's another way we remembered. And the uh the the big state, the Lone Star
176:  Texas.
Interviewer:  {X} Texas and uh what about um the where Tul- Tulsa
176:  Oklahoma. {NS}
Interviewer:  Oklahoma. And uh Boston is a city in this particular state.
176:  Massachusetts.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And uh what do you call the group of states up in northeast
176:  #1 New England #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # New England, uh-huh. Uh what um it's the biggest city in Maryland.
176:  Baltimore.
Interviewer:  And uh what about the capital of the United States?
176:  Washington
Interviewer:  Right.
176:  D.C.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And uh the the city in Missouri there the uh with the famous blues named for it.
176:  St. Louis.
Interviewer:  Yeah. And uh {D: let's see} what is the seaport county in South Carolina, the old seaport county
176:  Charleston.
Interviewer:  And uh what about a a steel- making town in Alabama?
176:  Birmingham.
Interviewer:  And uh what about one of the the big city in Illinois?
176:  Chicago.
Interviewer:  And uh the capital of Alabama.
176:  Montgomery.
Interviewer:  And what a- um what are some um what's a what are the gulf cities on uh in Alabama?
176:  Mobile.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {NS} Um let's see what are some uh what about a resort city in uh western North Carolina?
176:  Asheville.
Interviewer:  And what about um oh about the biggest city in east Tennessee?
176:  Chattanooga.
Interviewer:  And uh what what
176:  #1 Knoxville. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  #1 Uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  #2 Knoxville. #
Interviewer:  And uh what what about the uh uh town in Tennessee where Martin Luther King was
176:  Uh Memphis.
Interviewer:  And what about the Country Music Theatre?
176:  Nash- {NW}
Interviewer:  {D: right} and of course the capital of Georgia is
176:  #1 is Atlanta. #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  And you've mentioned the your father made trips to
176:  Savannah.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And what's the uh town just just up the road from from Hazlehurst? The {X}
176:  #1 Macon. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # and uh what about down
176:  #1 Columbia. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  #1 Uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  Um let's see what what is the uh capital of the Mardi Ga- Gras state of
176:  #1 Ne- #
Interviewer:  #2 Louisiana? # of
176:  #1 New Orleans. #
Interviewer:  #2 Louisiana? #
176:  #1 New Orleans. #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. # And what about the uh um one of the the big cities in Louisiana
176:  Baton Rouge.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Um let's see what about the uh city in Illinois where the the baseball team's at?
176:  Cleveland.
Interviewer:  {NW} Uh-huh, and uh what about the um town in Kentucky the where the Kentucky Derby is held?
176:  Louisville.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Okay. Let's see um now some of the different things we have uh talked about is talking about some of the uh parts of a house and all of course um uh what what do you call the open place on a floor in front of a fireplace? Uh like this right here, what would this be?
176:  The hearth.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {D: Okay} {X} that's the hearth. Um what about um to to put in- inside the fireplace {D: and} you've got the different things that two little things to put the
176:  The firedogs.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. To put the logs out
176:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  {X} and uh
176:  andirons or firedogs,
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
176:  #2 whatever they #
Interviewer:  #1 {D: of the same} #
176:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  {D: thing maybe} Um let's see {NS} um what do you call this? {X}
176:  It's a mantel.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  #1 Mantel. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # and uh put pictures in {D: different things that} what did did y'all used to keep on the mantel? Did y'all usually just {X} you always kept like pictures and
176:  #1 Or a clock. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # A clock?
176:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  And all on it?
176:  Uh-huh. Um let's see, what now do you call the big a big piece of wood with barbs on it that you burn in the fireplace that would light you keep to keep going all day long or all night um a a large piece of wood. Um I mean a large Uh {NW} a backlog.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Does it and it would how long would it burn?
176:  Well it'd burn mostly all night if it was put in there you know green.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
176:  A backlog would, that's what they
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
176:  #2 call it #
Interviewer:  #1 and that #
176:  #2 you know? #
Interviewer:  would keep
176:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  it'd be coals, red coals the next morning.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  Keep it warm.
Interviewer:  Um well what about um uh did you have some name for the wood that um you used to start to start a fire? Uh {D: logpicking} wood.
176:  That was splinters they called 'em, it was
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
176:  #2 light # wood.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And they'd start right
176:  #1 They'd #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  start off
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
176:  #2 Uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  And uh what what would you use next to {X}
176:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  #1 Uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # start start what about little um pieces of wood that you might throw in to keep it going? Um {D: would} would you in other words after or once you'd use the small stuff wood
176:  Get started.
Interviewer:  to get it started with would they um would you have to keep adding small pieces of wood to it? Or
176:  Well until you get some coals started, you know
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And then coals would keep it
176:  #1 keep it, yeah, uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  #2 warm, keep it going? #
176:  keep it going.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Um what about um uh when the fire was burning and it would make fly stuff all on the chimney, what did you call
176:  Soot.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And what about after um a fire was burned out, then what would be left? Uh
176:  coals
Interviewer:  coals. Yeah, and uh yeah and everything, if the wood just completely burned up, what what would they {D: do you know}
176:  Ashes.
Interviewer:  Yeah. {D: Okay and} Um these, when speaking of furniture, we've already mentioned some. Uh let's see what about the um that uh I know that you'd have one it's in the living room uh what what do you call the large piece of furniture in the living room that you sit on?
176:  A settee.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And what about some other names? Have you ever heard any other names for it or
176:  #1 well #
Interviewer:  #2 do you # call 'em any other um might be a called a
176:  #1 Was it the #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  #1 {D: manz} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  #1 or #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Um yeah or um uh well have you ever heard it called sofa? Or
176:  #1 Yeah sofa and #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  #1 couch #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
176:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  What about um davenport? Have you ever
176:  #1 Yeah, I've heard that #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  #1 a a davenport. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Uh-huh. Um {NS} what is there any distinction between {D: them} what you would call a a lounge or a settee or a a sofa, is there any like is one larger than another that would make you call one a settee and one a sofa or anything?
176:  Well I think a a lounge is m- is larger than a a settee or a sofa, don't you think so?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Probably
176:  I think the lounge
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
176:  #2 would would be # would be larger.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Well what {X] to lou- uh lounge would you think uh that you would
176:  #1 Think of lie down #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  #1 yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
176:  #1 Yeah that's what #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah that # would be
176:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  It would be. Well now didn't {D: bed} that you said that um one being the potter {D: in the} uh in the old house {NS} was it an actual bed or was it a
176:  It was an iron bed,
Interviewer:  It was
176:  #1 An iron bed. #
Interviewer:  #2 an iron bed? #
176:  #1 Uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  Um is that the type bed that you have?
176:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
176:  #2 Uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  {X}
176:  Well not all iron beds but they that I remember that one was uh you know
Interviewer:  it was an iron bed.
176:  It was an iron bed.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
176:  #2 Uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  And where did you stay in the potter {D: you know where he}
176:  It was uh it was in one side one
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
176:  #2 side of the room. # Yeah.
Interviewer:  {D: one room} taking up the whole room and it wasn't in the way?
176:  No it wasn't in the way, uh-uh. It was a large room.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {NS} {NW} um well what about uh {D: stuff say when} uh you talked about {D: new things of} furniture {D: when you came} {D: back to} {X}
176:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  {X} Um
176:  #1 chifforobe. #
Interviewer:  #2 chiffo- # robes. Uh-huh. And uh what about uh let's see a a piece of another piece of furniture like that would be {D: sitting} um to keep um that has drawers in it that you put clothes in.
176:  Wardrobe.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Um and uh what will can you describe it? What would it look like, what would it have a door on it or just drawers? Or
176:  It uh it uh the wardrobe?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  It had doors and you could uh hang up your clothes in it.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And uh
176:  Because they didn't have no closets,
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
176:  #2 built in the house. #
Interviewer:  When was the fir- what was the first house that you had closets in?
176:  #1 Uh #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
176:  {D: that} the um when my daddy built his new house
Interviewer:  {D: You now had}
176:  #1 he puts closets 
in it #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Did he have big closets or
176:  No they wasn't too big as they should've been.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
176:  But there {NS} were closets.
Interviewer:  {D: so and there were} {X} put the sheet over
176:  #1 Yeah, yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: your clothes} #
176:  #1 Uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # {X} Uh-huh. Um what about uh somethi- another {D: say the water} {D: what'd you have um} have you ever heard of another name for something that you had {X} keep keep keep clothes in? Sweaters or um
176:  Chest of drawers.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Uh have you ever heard it called anything else? uh or is that or for instance, this piece of furniture right here that you've got, what what do you refer
176:  Call that a dressing table, wouldn't it?
Interviewer:  Yeah. Uh-huh, I I think. What about uh any have you ever heard of any other names for {X} what about one a little taller maybe? That uh {NS} would have a mirror on it Uh do you know of any
176:  I don't know {X}