Vance Cassette 1 Side 2
Media
Part of Interview: Vance, Lucille
Title
Vance Cassette 1 Side 2
Source
Lucille Vance Interview
Date
1990-07-02
Description
00:00--Mrs. Vance discusses the food they would eat on wash day.
2:00--Furniture--She does not remember buying furniture, they had furniture from her grandparents. She believes it was originally bought in Anderson.
3:13--Her grandfather made baskets. He tried to teach her but she was an uninterested teenager, she regrets not paying attention. He would sell these baskets to people in the community for extra money. Mrs. Vance goes on to describe the different types of baskets her grandfather would make.
7:20--Her grandmother made quilts along with other community women in all day quilting gatherings, could turn out 2 or 3 quilts in a day.
14:30--Mrs. Vance's grandfather lived and worked with white families while growing up in Augusta, GA. He drove carriages and helped with the horses. After his sister married a man from the Upper Piedmont he came to visit and never left.
20:54--Disasters--Her grandmother experienced an earthquake growing up, things fell off the walls and shelves. Mrs. Vance remembers being scared one was going to happen after hearing the story.
22:10--Sickness--The 1917 Flu is what killed Mrs. Vance's mother as well as her mother's sister in 1919. No one else was affected. Her mother had just had a child and he died around the same time as his mother. Her mother fell out of a chair with sickness on a Thursday and died on that Saturday.
A bout of typhoid fever swept through Mrs. Vance's father's siblings and killed five of them.
27:20--Mrs. Vance counts out the kids in her father's family, 11 in all.
29:30--Harrell and Vance name off Vance's siblings and some information about each.
32:03--Audio Ends.
2:00--Furniture--She does not remember buying furniture, they had furniture from her grandparents. She believes it was originally bought in Anderson.
3:13--Her grandfather made baskets. He tried to teach her but she was an uninterested teenager, she regrets not paying attention. He would sell these baskets to people in the community for extra money. Mrs. Vance goes on to describe the different types of baskets her grandfather would make.
7:20--Her grandmother made quilts along with other community women in all day quilting gatherings, could turn out 2 or 3 quilts in a day.
14:30--Mrs. Vance's grandfather lived and worked with white families while growing up in Augusta, GA. He drove carriages and helped with the horses. After his sister married a man from the Upper Piedmont he came to visit and never left.
20:54--Disasters--Her grandmother experienced an earthquake growing up, things fell off the walls and shelves. Mrs. Vance remembers being scared one was going to happen after hearing the story.
22:10--Sickness--The 1917 Flu is what killed Mrs. Vance's mother as well as her mother's sister in 1919. No one else was affected. Her mother had just had a child and he died around the same time as his mother. Her mother fell out of a chair with sickness on a Thursday and died on that Saturday.
A bout of typhoid fever swept through Mrs. Vance's father's siblings and killed five of them.
27:20--Mrs. Vance counts out the kids in her father's family, 11 in all.
29:30--Harrell and Vance name off Vance's siblings and some information about each.
32:03--Audio Ends.
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