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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 1 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] ONTINUITY Mrs Josephine Wood 250 Baxter St Athens Ga ianwati13 1939 Grace McCune A VISIT WITH AUNT JOE It was in a heavy downpour of rain and on Friday the thirteenth that...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 2 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 2 and dry your feet or you will sure have a cold I stopped to remove my coat and hat in a large hall that was furnished with bookcases libary table and...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 3 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 3 tftgra 41111 were living between here and Barnett Shoals and about two miles from Whitehall When I was still very small my daddy moved to Whitehall but it was called Georgia...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 4 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 4 to hide his provisions Them yankees took every bite they had to eat Grandmother got down on her knees prayed and begged them to leave her just enough of syrup and...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 5 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 5 years old at that time and I guess I was scared so bad is why I remembered so well We children climbed up on the gate post to watch as the...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 6 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 6 They stayed around there for several days hunting for the Whites and the old man Connelly was sliping some thing to eat to Jim White in the old hollow tree when...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 7 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 7 dead They just tore up the Vhite home even took the girls dresses out and gave them to the mill women but after they left that time they never came back...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 8 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 8 Not much to get scared about was it but I sure had stage fright then only we didnt know what that was and be cause I said I was five Imasadmaxxxxxxx...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 9 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 9 carry to school and said Mr Dunaway had better let us have water to drink The next morning I carried the bucket and dipper to school with me He wanted to...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 10 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 10 for a long time and I bet I have made a million candles had molds to make them put a string in then poured the hot tallow on them and they...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 11 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 11 the field e and little brother wanted to go to see our grandmother I remember that it was one Saturday morning Mama at first said we could go Then she said...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 12 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 12 one they had ever heard of Yes I was raised in the country and we have had to cari and spin the thread to make our clothes Mama would weave the...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 13 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 13 I knew when I learned his name that I would marry him At least I was pretty sure for a friend of mine and I had tried our fortune a short...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 14 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 14 dresser made of walnut with itt large mirror There was the washstand to match it both old but lovely and showed that they had been well cared for There was also...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 15 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 15 111111 you see I am an old woman But you can just lay your r book and pencil down for dinner is just about ready I told her that was all...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 16 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 16 After we had finished the delicious dinner and itak I did aft blame Mrs WoradjOrliking her cornbread for I dont think I ever ate any just like it We went backto...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 17 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 17 Georgia to preaching And yes we went in an old two hors wagon We were living near Watkinsville when I got married Ana since that time I have lived mostjtale over...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 18 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 18 It was over in East Athens near the old Georgia depot I know ydia have heard about the old depot being across the rivr on Carrs Hill I went to the...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 19 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 19 then you could always find some one else camping also and sit around the camp fires and talk awhile then crawl in our wagon and sleep until morning Those were not...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 20 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 20 in it I knew I had to have it so I waded on down the river until I got my satchel then I guess I was erszy for instead of getting_out_of_the...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 21 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 21 He was watched even then but managed to get away Left the mules and wagon tied In front of a store and slipped out It took him a long time to...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 22 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 22 They went to funerals in wagons and ox carts The coffin was placed in one wagon and I have even seen the pallbearers riding on top of the coffin to the...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 23 of [A Visit with Aunt Joe] 23 children then As all of them that live around here come to see me on Sunday As the door closed behind we I felt the cold and rain again It was...
- Contributor: McCune, Grace - Wood, Josephine
- Date: 1939-01-13