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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
--Commencement exercises. That's what we called em';
Commencement exercises, when we had something like that
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
which was an extra special.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
And I got a chance one time to come down to Tugalo [[Tupelo]] College to her graduation.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
And I was still young.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
How often did you go into town?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Only once or twice. My people, my grandmother, she was kinda shifty. I guess you could call her, uh, thrifty.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Thrifty.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Thrifty would really be the word.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
She would-- We had cows, horses.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
We were some of the better livers you would say, you know? [[All laugh]]
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
So-- Cause most people didn't have any way of getting around.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
We did have horses and buggies back then, you know.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Cows to milk, goats to have. Hogs, chickens, that kinda stuff. We had chickens for-- to get our fresh eggs,
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
then kill a cow in the winter time.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Once it get real cold, somebody in the neighborhood probably kill a cow.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Maybe later, you kill one; I kill mine; ya kill yours; she kill hers, later.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
We never hardly killed 'em at the same time cause we could divide them with the others.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
These are family members you divided with or neighbors?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Neighbors. Family members, as well, if you had any. But uh, I think I can remember more family,
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
uh, I mean neighbors, you know, friends around then family people.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
My mother and grandmother lived close together. That was when I had two-- My-- My mother, my grandmother and one aunt could divide--
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I had another aunt, but she didn't have a husband,so we had to divide with her.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
And still have to laugh at us. Well, I used to steal our stuff for her and her babies.

[[All laugh]]
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Where were your parents from?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Where were they from? They were from Alabama.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Well, I-- Well they-- Well this is a great greatgrand--
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Transcription Notes:
This is both Pearl and Louise asking questions of Marella. Louise has the younger sounding voice of the two. Tupelo College, Mississippi.