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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
What is your birth date?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
First month, thirteenth day, [[twentieth?]] year.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
And your present address?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
602 Sollers Wharf Road, Lusby, Maryland, 20657.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Where were you born?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Lower Marboro
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Lower Marlbery?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Maryland.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}

Is that here in Calvert, or?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Yes.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. And that's where you grew up at?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
No. Grew up in Lusby, in Calvert.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Where in Lusby?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Ah, Sollers Wharf Road.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Ah, okay. Who were the names of your immediate family, your mother, your father, your sisters and brothers.
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
[[pray sir?]]
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Your mother, your father, your sister and brothers, what was their names?
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
My grandmother raised me.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Your grandmother?

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Yes. Her name was Maud Brooks.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Did she have sisters and brothers?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
I have sisters, yes: Leola, Iva, Lorraine, Jeanette, Ethel, Darleen; brothers: Thomas, Robert, Maud.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
What is your maiden name?
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Mary High

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Mary High?
Okay. Is your parents still living, or?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
My mother died in December.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
This year? And your father?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
He's been dead quite a few years.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Is your grandmother still living?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
No, she's been dead quite a few years.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
And you grew up in Lusby?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Yes.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Do you have sisters and brothers are still living in the family home?
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
No, they've all moved away. I've one living in Prince Frederick, Leola.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
And the others?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Others, mostly in Prince George County.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Your grandmother raised you. What was your grandmother's occupation?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Housewife.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Tell me a little bit about the community what you grew up in, your neighbours, your friends.

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Very quiet. Grandmother raised me and there was a lot of love. We had a lot of friends. Lot of visitors.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Did your grandmother raise all of your sisters and brothers or just you?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
No, just me.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Just you? Okay. What about this school that you attend. What school did you attend?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
I attend Lusby School and then I, Brooks High School.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Brooks. Tell me some of the things that you did at school. What was the day like for you?
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
It was fine.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
What were some of your recess activities?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Dodgeball [[laughs]]
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay! I think everybody played dodgeball growing up. Who were your teachers?
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Mrs. Groess, Ms Wheeler, Miss Stamper, so many of them. Mr. Fine. I couldn't think of all the teachers' names.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Are you still in touch with the teachers, or?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
I see Mrs. Groess often.
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Betty Groess?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Betty Groess, yeah. And I see Miss Stamper.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
What about your classmates, are you still in contact with your classmates?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Yes, yes, yes, the ones that's here. Amis Bean, Gertrude Willett.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Did you attend church as a child?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Yes.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Which church did you attend?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
St John's.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
And who's the pastor for St John's?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
When I was a child?

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Yes.

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Reverend Bole.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Reverend Bole? What church do you attend now?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
St John's.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
And your pastor now?

{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Reverend Naté.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Naté? And are you in any activities for church, are you in any of the organizations?
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{SPEAKER name="Mary Dawkins "}
Yes: choir member, worship committee, used to be an usher, used to be on the membership committee.
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Transcription Notes:
does she say twentieth year or twenty-eighth year?