Interview with Tempie Young, August 29, 1978
Project: Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project
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Tempie Young was born on Cutshin Creek in 1905. She began to work in the fields when she was six, and she describes the usual farm chores. When Young was a child, people dried nearly all their food because they did not have a place to keep canned things from freezing. Young's family raised tobacco and also ginned their own cotton. She tells of her father's work as a stonemason and comments upon his practice of taking care of older persons. Young talks about the flu epidemic after World War I, and also describes her life in a coal camp after she married.Interview Accession
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Young, Tempie Interview by Linda Green. 29 Aug. 1978. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Young, T. (1978, August 29). Interview by L. Green. Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Young, Tempie, interview by Linda Green. August 29, 1978, Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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