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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Identify yourself. Identify yourself. Where you were born, and when. How old you are.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
I am Lula Bell Adams. The daughter of Mose Adams and Kara Hayes, my mother's maiden name.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
I didn't say when I was born.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
April 25th, 1908
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
You were born here in-- ?

{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
Yes, Memphis, Tennessee.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Were your parents also?
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
My mother and father both were born in Tennessee.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
My mother came from Memphis,
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
in the rear of [[?]], what's north, what was north Main Street,
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
and at that time, property owned by a Memphis Bowman.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
The house that she was born in, it was known as Memphis Bowman's Yard.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
You told me-- And so, do I have to give the date of my mother's birth?
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Sure, if you want to, sure.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
Well, my mother was born June 5th; I'll track that back it's correct dates; 1890.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
And the day of the week, it was Thursday.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
My grandmother had pretty good situation, you see.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
Her mother was born in safer times. In Macon, Georgia.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
And whoever they belonged to let the house servants children
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
be taught by the teacher of the plantation owners.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
She learn to read better than just about as well as I can read now.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
She pointed to her and words that she didn't understand, she could separate them into syllables,
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
and as I got old enough, I could look it up in the dictionary,
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
and she would fix in her own words as to what it meant.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
I have considered myself to be very fortunate
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Right.

{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
because not only did they wait until my grandfather passed
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
when my mother went for three months on.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
[[Dry throat sound]] And my-- And she's the youngest; the last of the Hayes [[Laughing]] family children.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Hayes was your maiden name?

{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
Huh?

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Hayes was your maiden name?

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
[[Cross Talk]] His mother's name--

{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
No. My mother's maiden name was Hayes,
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
but she wasn't but 3 months old when her father passed.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
So she didn't know anything about him and in later years.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
We found out that he was born in Huntsville, Alabama, in that section.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
And they were looking for the heirs of Van Hayes, which was his name.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
And I was big enough to, you know, know about it because the government
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
was buying up the land that they were fixing to put the power plant in Huntsville.
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
So my grandmother didn't know anything about the family property or nothing, you know,
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{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
because for some reason he didn't want to be, didn't tell her about it.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Would you spell that last name for us, Hayes?

{SPEAKER name="Lula Adams"}
HAYES.
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