Interview with Charles Shouse, December 11, 1991
Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Farm and Farmstead Oral History Project
Interview Summary
David Rotenizer interviews Charles Shouse about his life and how his family came to their farm on Cane Creek. Shouse describes his family's moves to find work in the 1920s and 1930s including railroad construction in Indianapolis, Indiana and carpentry in Covington, Kentucky as well as his family's moves to tenant farms. Later, they settled on his grandfather's farm in Cane Creek where Charles raised and sold dairy cattle and pigs, corn, tobacco and hemp.Interview Accession
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Agriculture--Kentucky Country life Family farms Farm life. Genealogy & local history AgricultureInterview Rights
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Shouse, Charles Interview by David Rotenizer. 11 Dec. 1991. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Shouse, C. (1991, December 11). Interview by D. Rotenizer. Family Farms of Kentucky: Farm and Farmstead Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Shouse, Charles, interview by David Rotenizer. December 11, 1991, Family Farms of Kentucky: Farm and Farmstead Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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