Interview with Roy Sizemore, September 1, 1979

Project: Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project

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Roy Sizemore was born at Dryhill in Leslie County, Kentucky. He gives some information about his grandfather, who was a Union soldier in the Civil War, and also discusses political parties in Leslie County from his boyhood to the present. Sizemore recalls Hyden when he was young and describes particular buildings, characteristics of the town, and segments of the population. Traveling salesmen displayed their wares at the hotel, and freight boats were poled up the river to a railroad connection about 1914. Sizemore's parents ran a hotel for a time, and his father became a deputy sheriff and then a U.S. marshal. Sizemore worked in the coal mines and then in the local office of the government relief program that dispensed commodities. He asserts that in the drought years of the early 1930s people were considerably helped by the distributed food. He also recalls the WPA and the CCC in the area and comments upon the benefits to the county from local construction. Sizemore was postmaster in Hyden until he retired at the age of seventy. He subsequently became chairman of his local Red Cross chapter and was appointed to the Hyden Committee of the FNS. Eventually a trustee, he was also appointed to the Board of Governors. Sizemore comments upon various FNS employees he has known, and upon Mary Breckinridge's efforts to raise money for the organization.

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1982oh017_fns160

Interviewee Name

Roy Sizemore

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Susan Schacht

Interview Date

1979-09-01

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Sizemore, Roy Interview by Susan Schacht. 01 Sep. 1979. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Sizemore, R. (1979, September 01). Interview by S. Schacht. Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Sizemore, Roy, interview by Susan Schacht. September 01, 1979, Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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