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Town of Calhoun, South Carolina Oral History Collection

PayneE Cassette 2, Side 1

Media

Part of Interview: Payne, Eva

Title

PayneE Cassette 2, Side 1

Source

Eva Payne Interview

Date

Unknown (presumably in 1988)

Description

Cassette 2

Side 1

00:07: Eva briefly explains that the vase on her piano came from one of her mothers first sweethearts. It was saved from the house fire.

2:00: Although Megginson enquires about church services, Eva begins discussing school. She started going to school in Central initially, because there was no accredited school in Calhoun. She had to take the train, so her day lasted from 7am to 5pm. Mrs. Bolger was one teacher she can remember from that school. Carrie Calhoun was a teacher in a closer Calhoun area school. This schoolhouse had two rooms, a heating stove, and outdoor restroom facilities. School usually started a week after September and lasted into late spring. The school day lasted from 8am until around 4pm with one hour for lunch. Books were bought from a drugstore in Central.

11:55: Church activities are discussed. The family was Methodist, though Eva and her sister Gracia joined the Baptist's. Indeed the family seemed to have attended services at most of the local denominations.

15:10: Megginson asks Eva to think back to her childhood and describe the immediate surroundings around her family home. She can remember the brick Boggs Store across the street. At that time she can recall that two gentlemen who ran the operation were Mr. Nichols and Mr. Holden. Mr. Nichols was originally from Seneca. J.D. Morgan actually owned the store, while Nichols and Holden ran the day to day operations. Eva was a bookkeeper at the Boggs store for eleven years. She prepared statements; most buyers from the store kept a charge account.

24:40: Eva can also remember Mr. Smith's general store. Her uncle John Boggs actually started the operation, but when he was elected clerk of court, he sold the business to Mr. Smith. John Wiley Cochran also built this building.

27:59: J.W. Cochran's wife was Alice Cochran. She was originally a Boggs.

29:30: Mamie Crawford was John Wiley Cochran's daughter.

29:44: Audio ends.

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