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Clipper Reid Dowland's * Interviews with older folks * Greenfield Business Surveys *The Roy Whicker Papers |
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Clipper Reid Dowland's * Interviews with older folks * Greenfield Business Surveys *The Roy Whicker Papers |
Transcribed by
Joe Stout
Vicki Shaffer
MaryCarol
| Thanks to Jere Cox, director of the Gordon Browning Museum & Library in McKenzie TN, the C. Reid DOWLAND papers and the Roy WHICKER papers have been preserved. Thank you, Cousin! - MaryCarol |
| C.
Reid
DOWLAND, in the later part of 1940's and into
the early 1960's
went around the Southern Part of Weakley...Greenfield
area - over
to McKenzie area of Carroll County, and around the
Scullbone community
of Gibson County interviewing some of the old timers
of the day. The
following
interviews are from his unpublished papers located at
the Gordon
Browning
Museum and Genealogy
Library, McKenzie, Carroll County,
Tennessee, Jere Cox,
Administrator.
The interviews Below are only Weakley County folks.
They give us a
glimpse
into what life was like around the Greenfield area in
years past and
also
stories about some of it's more colorful citizens.
Some of the language
used is a little rough, please keep in mind this was
language of the
time.
See Gibson County below for more interviews...
MaryCarol
Click on a surname below... James Harvey "Harve" DREWRY age 96 at time of interview Allen SHARP - Age 83 - Neighbor and good friend of Harve Drewry Robert E. Lee GALLIMORE Marvin A. KIMERY......age 63 at time of interview Rev. George T. MAYO......age 85 at time of interview Ralph R. McUMBER....age 63 at time of interview J. D. "Popcorn Johnnie" SULLIVAN
....age
48 at time of interview Please Click on BUSINESS SURVEYS or WHICKER Papers below #################################################
The BUSINESS SURVEYS... of many of the businesses that were operating in Greenfield in 1946. The information in those surveys listed who the owner was and the previous owners as well as names of their parents and grandparents. The WHICKER papers.. Some of
the
papers of
Roy Whicker, one of the most colorful characters of
our area. |
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