Interview Summary

Tobacco production-- Bourbon County Kentucky-- inheritance customs-- residential history-- farm labor-- educational background-- role of religion-- diet-- Rayburn Family history-- mother's death to 1918 flu epidemic-- father's death in 1925 to methane gas inhalation in grain silo-- women's role on farm-- chicken production-- farm laborers-- folk medicine-- home remedies.

Interview Accession

1992oh015_ff200

Interviewee Name

Geneva Witt

Interviewer Name

Andrea Allen

Interview Date

1992-01-17

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Witt, Geneva Interview by Andrea Allen. 17 Jan. 1992. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Witt, G. (1992, January 17). Interview by A. Allen. Family Farms of Kentucky: Tobacco Production Technology and Policy Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Witt, Geneva, interview by Andrea Allen. January 17, 1992, Family Farms of Kentucky: Tobacco Production Technology and Policy Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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