1981 Interview with
Oral History:
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Jennifer A. Marshall and Adam M. Marshall interviewed their
great-grandmother, Florence Williams Marshall, in the summer of 1981. She was born in
Jennifer:
What are the first things you remember?
The first thing Great-Grandma remembers is
that the floors in the farmhouse were cold.
They had moved there from
Adam:
Where did you go to church?
Great-Grandma’s family went to the
Jennifer: What was the first car you remember seeing?
Great-Grandma doesn't remember when she saw her first car, but
she remembers that the first car her father bought was a black Model-T
Ford. Her father drove it very, very
slowly. The roads were not made for
cars. They were made for horses and
buggies.
Adam:
What animals did you have on your farm?
There were lots of animals on the
farm. They had chickens, cows, horses,
pigs, wild rabbits, turkeys and ducks.
Great-Grandma had a pet dog named Coolie. He was a nice dog, brown with white
spots. He was hit by a car and
killed. Grandma doesn't like milk even
today because when she was little and they were milking the cows they would
squirt milk right into their mouths. It
was warm and didn’t taste very good.
Jennifer: What was your favorite toy?
Great-Grandma
said that she didn't have very many toys when she was little. Her favorite toy was a doll whose name was
Sarah. Usually she would get clothes for
Christmas. Sometimes she would get one
toy. Her family always had a Christmas
tree. They would decorate it with paper
dolls they cut out. Also they would
string popcorn and sew little ornaments.
They never bought Christmas decorations.
Since they lived with their grandparents, there always were lots of
people for Christmas--uncles and aunts and cousins--and they always had a big
dinner.
Adam: What did you eat for breakfast?
Great-Grandma always had the same thing for breakfast. They ate pancakes and sausage every
morning. Sometimes they would have
sausage and buttered bread. The sausage
was made on their own farm. The pancakes
were buckwheat pancakes. They grew the
buckwheat and then took it to a mill to have it ground into flour for the
pancakes.
THE
JACOB WILLIAMS FAMILY, 1897
Lee
Philo Williams, father of Florence Williams Marshall, is second from the left
in the back row. His parents, Jacob
and Betsy Williams, are seated in the front row, middle. This photo was taken in front of the old
Jacob Williams home in
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Great-Grandma also told us that she
and her sister Mary each had two plaid dresses--one red and the other
blue. They would wear them to school,
one each week, and then they would trade off.
When Grandma wore her red dress, Mary would wear her blue dress. They came down halfway between their knees
and their feet. Leggings came up to the
knee. The shoes were high, above their
ankles, and had to be buttoned.
When they went to school in the winter, their father would take
out the bobsled the night before and plow a path. By morning it might be drifted shut, so they
sometimes had to walk up to their waist in snow to get to school. The school was located between the farm and
Kellersburg, off a road to the right. It
was called
When we talk to Great-Grandma again, we want to ask her about
her school--what subjects she studied, how many children were in each class,
when she got vacations, and about when she was a schoolteacher. Also, what was the longest trip she took when
she was little.
Also, about when she met Great-Grandpa and about when they got married.
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