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Lincoln County

  • Mrs. Versie (Janine) Adams     Interviewed March 16, 1999    Subject: World War II war bride from Belgium.
  • F. F. Becker    Interviewed August 22, 1991      Subject: Banking.
  • Mr. & Mrs. Jasper Benoit Becker     Interviewed August 19 and September 11, 1986    Subject: Brookhaven history.
  • Mr. C. C. Clark    Interviewed May 2, 1977   Subject: Ruth Community (Lincoln County, MS), farming, cotton gin.
  • Sara Jane Craig  Interviewed April 21, 1977   Subject: Home Economist for Lincoln County, mattress-making, canning, Home Demonstration Clubs. 
  • William F. Crawford    Interviewed July 2, 1996     Subject: Architecture and local history.
  • Alma S. Durr  Interviewed March 5, 1977   Subject: farming in Caseyville (West Lincoln County), Home Demonstration Club travels.
  • Mrs. Eva Harris    Interviewed July 1987    Subject: Education.
  • Charles Jacobs    Interviewed December 11, 1991    Subject: Newspaper Publishing.
  • Sam Jones    Interviewed February 18, 1989    Subject: Brookhaven, African-Americans in the 1920's, Father's term as mayor (late 1920's), Humorous reminiscences.
  • Thomas Lynwood Moak    Interviewed March 5, 1987    Subject: Logging and lumber industry.
  • Chuck Nelms    Interviewed February 4, 1991    Subject: Integration at the University of Mississippi.
  • Mrs. Anna Byrd Phillips   Interviewed September 27, 1977   Subject: Whitworth College.
  • Jasper Vincent Phillips  Interviewed September 1977    Subject: Brookhaven Pressed Brick and Tile Company.
  • Jack Seavey    Interviewed November 15, 1990    Subject: Local Architecture.

 

Lawrence County

  • Colon Floyd Benson (pdf)  Interviewed June 6, 1977  Subject: Life in Lawrence County, MS.
  • (Rev.) Lessie Senior Butler (pdf) Interviewed July 27, 2977 Subject: Black community in Lawrence County, MS; school games; celebrations; mother's wages; black churches; funerals, wakes, body preparation, etc.; 1929 Depression; Slavery; Ku Klux Klan; sample sermon and hymn.
  • James Woodard Carraway (pdf) Interviewed June 22, 1977 Subject: History of St. Regis - Ferguson Paper Mill in Lawrence County, MS.
  • Steve Denson Cliburn, Sr. (pdf) Interviewed April 10, 1977 Subject: Great Southern Lumber Company; Camp Shelby; Blacksmithing (Farrier) in Lawrence County, MS.
  • Malcolm Steel Dale (pdf) Interviewed May 13, 1977 Subject: History of the Lawrence County Press; Different types of Printing and Presses used; Area publishing; Printing Processes; Reporting.
  • Peggie Smith Holloway Daughtry (pdf) Interviewed April 13, 1977 Subject: Life in Lawrence County, MS; The Quarters; Superstitions; Brush arbor; Ghost stories; Songs; Weather signs; Medicine.
  • Mrs. Josie Mae Smith Foster (pdf) Interviewed March 16, 1977 Subject: Communities of Sontag, Nola, and Tryus in Lawrence County, MS; people, places, and events.
  • (Mrs. John David) Ruth S. Gillespie (pdf) Subject: Life in Lawrence County, MS; college life in the early nineteen hundreds.
  • Abner Clinton Hedgepeth (pdf)  Interviewed March 23, 1977  Subject: The Lumber Industry in Lawrence County, MS.
  • Mrs. Estelle B. Jobron (pdf)  Interviewed June 1, 1977  Subject: Life in Silver Creek, MS; Ferry operation on the Pearl River.
  • Mamie Rebecca Johnston (pdf)  Interviewed June 29, 2977 Subject: Life in Lawrence County, MS; spinning thread; playing "straws" on the violin; weaving on a loom.
  • (Mary) Maud Hill Lambert (pdf)  Interviewed March 9, 1977 Subject: Life in Lawrence County, MS; collecting antiques; travel by ox wagon.
  • A. P. Smith (pdf)  Interviewed August 23, 1978  Subject: Development of the Lawrence County School System, Development of State School Transportation Department.
  • Henry Ervin Reid (pdf) Interviewed August 23, 1977  Subject: The logging industry and county supervisor's responsibilities in Lawrence Co., MS.
  • Mrs. Aughty Hite Smith (pdf)   Interviewed January 26, 1977   Subject: Life on the Farm in Lawrence County, MS.
  • Effie Lee Williams (pdf)  Interviewed June 26, 1977  Subject: Life in Lawrence County, MS; Weather signs and superstitions.

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