| Title: |
McMarty, Oseola
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage
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| Collection: |
Mississippi Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Miss Oseola McCarty was born on March 7, 1908, in Wayne County, Mississippi, near the town of Shubuta, the only child of Lucy McCarty. She was raised by her maternal grandmother, Julia Smith McCarty. About 1916 the family moved to Hattiesburg where her grandmother purchased a seven-acre truck farm, which supplied not only much of the family's food but also a surplus that they exchanged at the local store. McCarty attended Eureka Elementary School until the sixth grade when she dropped out to care for an aunt who was ill. She never married nor had children. Since the deaths of her grandmother in 1944, her mother in 1964, and her aunt in 1967, she has lived by herself in the family home.
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| URL: |
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohmccartyo.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1996 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
McCarty, Oseola, 1908-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
7-Mar-1908
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Wayne County, MS; Mississippi; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
Black
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| Speaker occupation: |
Washerwoman
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| Age at speaking: |
88
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| Document date: |
22-Feb-1996
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| Interviewer: |
Walton, Shana
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| Locations discussed: |
Mississippi; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Agriculture; Cities and towns--Mississippi; City and town life--Mississippi; Community; Local history; Mississippi; Mississippi--History; North America; Oral history; United States
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0025679-27591
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