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Transcription: [[Background talking and noises throughout]]
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Okay.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
It's full maiden name, Marella Mayberry. M-a-r-e-l-l-a.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
And, and that's your maiden name?
[00:00:17]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Uh--Marella and, my, the other part is Mayberry.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
M-a-y
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
b-e-r-r-y
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Uh-huh, and where are you from?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Phone number?
{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Where are you from?
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
From?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Canton, Mississippi
{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Oh?
[00:00:35]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Canton, C-a-n-t-o-n
{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Can you tell us a little bit about growing up in Canton?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Well, I grew up out in the rurals between three churches.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
That's about near as I can tell about back then. Uh, uh Pilgrim Rest on 43, that's not, that's on 43 HWY.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Uh-- Mary Grove, out near 43, off of 43 also, and
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Pine Grove was the other church. We had three churches that we could walk to.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Hmm, and when was that?
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
That was back in the teens and twenties, early twenties.
[00:01:24]
{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Mm-Hmm and while your were living in that area, did you ever see movies come through either--?
[00:01:35]
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Uh,no. We used to have a few church movies they'd bring 'em around to the churches.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
A few movies I remember. My brother used to go most, and when he'd come back, I mean he would, uh, he would get afraid. He would be talkin' in his sleep you know.
[[Laughter]]
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I guess, I don't know what, what about it that made him afraid, but he was. He would be afraid after he'd go to the movie and come back.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
It never carried me until I got grown enough to go by myself.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Oh,your family were farmers?
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Yes.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Uh-huh.
{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
That's all we did just about back then. We, we didn't have anything.
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Transcription Notes:
Both Pearl and Louise are talking on this tape to Marella. Louise's voice is the younger sounding one.
I think the speaker might be saying near (Former transcriber had: why) timestamp: [00:00:48]
Speaker might change to Louise Spence timestamp: [00:01:24]
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