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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
I said to him-- I said to him, "So just take it and read it,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
but t-test yourself. End of lecture. Now lets talk."
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[[laugh]]
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Yeah, yeah. Let me-- Let's t-turn this off.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Oh.
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Thank you very much.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
You wanna know how I got to Jackson, alright? Born in Regent, Mississippi,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
which is not far away.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
And my father was already in the funeral business in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
(inaudible)
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
And Mr. Frasier, who had started this business in Jacksonville,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
son got involved, and I don't know whether you can use this or not, or should use it,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
but he got involved with a white person; a white girl,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
and he had to leave Mississippi. I understand he left on the freight train.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
And he was an only child, and the mother wanted to go where he went,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
which was Ohio, someplace like that. So Mr. Frasier went looking around for somebody
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
to take the business, buy the business and make it work.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
So my-- He called my father. Got in touch with my father.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
The business that my father was in Hattiesburg was with a man named E. W. Hall.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
I don't know what E. W. stood for, I just called him Unclie Dougie.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
No just verbal, uncle [[inaudible]], not blood relative.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
And then, spent time there,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
and then in Marie, Mississippi, where my mother was born.

{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Her family lived, they lived with his family. But anyway,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
when he bought the business from Mr. Fraiser,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Ummm, about 1924, he moved the task,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
but he kept the business in Hattiesburg, Jacksonville.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
And we still at [[inaudible]] Street, now the same side of the street
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
[[inaudible]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
So, how you say [[inaudible]]--
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
I have a strong-- Really. I don't have the answer to that, you know?
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
So you still ask me questions?
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
No, you, you--
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Transcription Notes:
Reopened. Spaces needed between speakers, some punctuation was needed, inserted -- instead of ..., added "Regent" as her birthplace, put ending timestamp in. Reviewer left a lot of mistakes.