Interview with Dorthea L. Castle, October 15, 1988

Project: Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project

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Born in Lawrence County, Kentucky in 1919, Dorthea Castle was two or three years old when her family moved to Van Lear. Her father was a motorman in the mines, and her family moved around to different coal fields. They lived in David and in Jenkins, as well as in Van Lear. She remembers a mine accident when she was a child in which nine men were killed. Castle attended two years of college at St. Mary's in Huntington, West Virginia and finished her education at Booth's Business College in Ashland. Mrs. Castle mentions both her first and second marriage. She lived in Dayton for nineteen years and worked as a bookkeeper before moving back to Van Lear and opening up an auto parts store with her husband.

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1988oh172_app169

Interviewee Name

Dorthea L. Castle

Interviewer Name

Glenna Graves

Interview Date

1988-10-15

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Castle, Dorthea L. Interview by Glenna Graves. 15 Oct. 1988. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Castle, D.L. (1988, October 15). Interview by G. Graves. Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Castle, Dorthea L., interview by Glenna Graves. October 15, 1988, Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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