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YAZOO COUNa?Y BICENTENNIAL

ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

INTERVIEWEEi Mrs, W. W. Marshall

INTERVIEWER I Wendi Marshall

SUBJECT I Interviewee's life during 1930's and later

DATE I September 197^

WMi IVhat is your name?

mm I Annie Louise Lutz MarshallWMi When and where were you "bom?mm t I was horn at Midway here in Yazoo County in 1931. It was

during the Depression.Wi Where did you go to school?MTv/r T 4. at Midway Grammar School which has since beenMMi I started ax School. Later on. I attendedconsolidatea xu

Benton High School.WM. What year did you start to school?MMi In 1937.

+a11 me what you did for recreation when you were young?I Can you xexx^ «ake walksi we had partiesi we went to churchj weMMi We went to pj^gyed basketballi just different things like

went tlvyaXl do today.

. ja of things like we do today?WMi What kinds or t"j.,r had dances, parties, played post-office, played

o-rties different very much from the parties weWMi Are these pa^

have now?

MMi Yes.

WMi How?long hair, no short—real short—skirtsi therewas no J-w/ & . dancinff.MMi There "^f^giv-waggly dancing

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WMi Can you think of a funny experience that happened to you orone of your friends at school?

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MMi Not myself in particular but during the Depression—it wasbefore I was big enough to remember—I remember Mama telling,the teacher one morning was asking Paul and Tom—they werehaving a Health Class#

WMi Who are Paul and Tom?

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MMi Mv brothers. And then I had an older brother named Dick.In those days one teacher taught 3 or ̂ grades. And Dickwas older than Paul or Tom. The teacher asked them whatthev had for breakfast. Dick punched Tom and was trying toffet him to say orange juice, bacon, eggs—Tom looked up andsaid "Sometimes we flop blackberry juice and sometime, wefi on'lard-gravy. Then one day the teachers had a certainr'rln^ in the school they wanted to eat. And they would alll?np tin—them and their children—and the other childrenwnnifi Lt outside. Dick had been to the boys' restroom

was not in the school at the time but you had towPi v waf down a hill and he killed him a snake. He gotand he laid it into the window on one of thetne sn^ son's shoulders. She looked up and she fainted,

teacner . later the principal came back. The teacher

H I've never been so scared in all my life."asked her what was wrong. She said, "Dick Lutz

^ 4. 1?^ a snake over Dan's shoulder." So Dick just knewjust 18^®,^- ̂ 0 get a whipping when the principal called himhe f°^4.fice. And said, "Wennon, uh Dick, where did youinto --ake?" Dick said, "Down at the boys' toilet."kill thaX i,<e+ "Poll rtu-fc lauffhinsr. He said. "Wennon^kill just fell out laughing. He said, "Wennon,The killed it. It might have bitten one of theI'm glad yc,. , a. j, whi-n-ninff for that.I'm glad y g whipping for that,boys.

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MMi Seventeen.

„nu get married so young?WMi Why did yd" se". _ j ̂ 14 .^4.1 «

I, Why did you 6"la got married a little hit younger in those days

MMi Well. now. We didn't have the opportunities thatthan ■''^®yj.-Jav for your education,you have toaaj

WM. How did you meet daddy?„_-am party in the pasture. We were having anMMi At an i°®'°,nner. He came to he with another girl. I metice-cream supp j him down at the church,

him there.ha engaged to the other girl?WMi well, was he engag

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WMi Was he dating her steady?

MMi He was just dating her.

WMi Well, how did y'all start talking?MM I I went with your daddy and the other girl when they were

dating.

WMi Were you douhle-dating?MMi iMn T WAS lust along. They came to my house one night andwe'wLt to her house one night. Then he asked me for a date.I®U Didn't the other girl get mad?MMi For awhils»

WM, Where have you lived since you and Daddy have been married?m,7 ^ iwpd here in Yazoo County all hut one time. WeMMi We have and lived there for two years. He worked

moved to Jac . there. Then we moved back to Yazoo City,at the PosTJ

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WM. How many children do you have?MMi Three*

What are their names?mm. Lindy, V/endi* and Cindy.

+v.4nk of those names? I mean, were they yourHow did else's or what?tea, somehoay

lAaa You were named before I was ever married.1 MMi They were ®ynnv hobbies?WMi Have you ^

Mm. Plenty.

WMi Name me someT like to paint and I like to play the guitar

Mm. t like to drawi ggt together, we like to go towith your houses and sing church songs—religiousdifferent pe°Pg::.for the older people—give them some enter-and gospel 3om

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talnment. Then we just like to sing here at home, together,to -nass time.to pass time.

WMi Have you ever "been on the radio?MMi Once.

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^ naddv like to play a song on your guitars to. Would you and Daddyend this interview?

•Wli If Daddy wants to.■..•all going to sing?

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