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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
As a child, what organizations were you in, in church?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
Mostly Sunday School, now it's just -

{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Why, when you first left home, um, why did you leave home, and what area did you go to - out of the area or somewhere near, um, your home in which you grew up in?

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{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
It was near home, I was married.

{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Is this where you moved to when you--?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
Yes.

{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Do you have, you said you were married, what was your husband's name?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
George.

{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
George. Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
And how many children do you have?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
Five.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
And their names?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
George Jr., Clarisse, Larry, Claudette, and Charlene.

{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Is your husband from the area?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
Yes.

{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
What type of work did your husband do?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
Labor.

{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Your grandmother was a house -

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
- wife.

{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
A housewife? Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
What type of work did your grandfather do?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
Farmer.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
He was a farmer? Did he have his own farm or - ?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
No.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
He worked for someone else?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
Yes.

{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Who did he work for?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
Parrin. Louis Parrin.

{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Louis Parrin.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
What did they raise - Was it livestock? Did they, uh, plant tobacco, or - ?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
Tobacco.

{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
What about your aunts and uncles? Um, Did you know them as a child growing up? Did they live nearby?

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{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
Uh, my uncles most of us in Baltimore. I had one aunt: Mildred Putt. She lived in the area.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Your grandfather worked for the Parrins. How long did he work for them?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
Um, he worked for the Parrins I guess about, maybe 20 years or more.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Is that the only job he had, farming, or - ?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
And then he farmed for Lore, Rudy Lore.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Is that that same Lore that had the Lore Oyster House?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
It's part of the family.

{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
What was your first job that you had?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
Um, my first job -- that I had, um, was cooking.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
For whom?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
Trying to cook for the Parrins.

{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
[[laughing]] Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
How much were you paid?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
I guess maybe about -- maybe $5 a week.

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{SPEAKER name="SHEILA MONTAGUE PARKER"}
Was this a job that you took strictly for - to raise money for you or was it to help supplement the family income?

{SPEAKER name="MARY DAWKINS"}
No. It was uh -- I lived there and --