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Transcription: {SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
They had one changes then. The pastor had most to say at the churches.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
And it wasn't that way years ago?

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
No. Hmmm. Yes, the trustees.
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They took care all the other side of the church. When I was little the pastor take care of everything.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Um, when you got older, when you decide to leave home, where did you go?
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{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Where'd I go?

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Yes. Did--What age did you leave home?
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{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
I got married when I was 21, but I didn't go nowhere.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay.
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{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
I mean, my father told me you're 21 now, you suit yourself.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Huh, huh

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
But I got married at 21.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay.
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{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
But I still stayed around home.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. So you moved from your parents' home to your own home?

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Um, uh, what was your first job?
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{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
First job I had was shuckin oysters.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Shuckin oysters?

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Shuckin oysters. Right there at [[Bi-8?]].

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Do--

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
I mean after I come in the [[East?]]
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I started shuckin oysters when I was 15 years old.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
15

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
mm-hmm

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Did you start shuckin to support the family, just to have extra money for yourself?

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{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Nah, I started shuckin took care, have to took care of my father and mother.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay.[[long silence]][[radio playing faintly in the background]]
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You're married. What is your wife name?

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Henrietta Jackson.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Henrietta Jackson.
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{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Yeah

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. Do your children live nearby in the community, or have they moved away?

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Well, some of em do.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Have you, have your family ever farmed?

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
I farmed myself.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
You did?
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{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Yeah.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay. What age?
{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Oh, I been farmin since I was 15.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
For yours--, okay, so you're farming at 15 you farming for someone else.
{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Yeah, I'm farmin, at my father.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
For your father-- He owned his own farm?

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Yeah.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Oh, ok. So you still have the family farm?

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay, who's on the farm now?

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Just me.

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
This is where you--

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
This is where I farm at now.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
How many acres you have here?

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Well, I got 10 acres here, but I only work 4 of em here and I work 2 over in Clearwater.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Well, what do you raise?

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Tobacco.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Tobacco? Oh, ok. So, is, tobacco your main source of income or the oyster work?

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Well, tobacco and oysters togethers, that's what I make my livin on.
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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
OK. Ah, and you don't own any livestocks?

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
No.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
OK. You just raise tobacco.

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Tobacco

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
OK
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