Interview with Rachel Bowling, Ott Bowling, May 31, 1979
Project: Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Rachel Bowling married Ott Bowling in 1925, and they raised ten children. They have lived in Leslie County almost all their lives. Rachel Bowling discusses her life as a homemaker and the details of washing, cooking, and caring for livestock. She tells how to spin wool and indicates that her children's clothes were ordered from the Montgomery Ward catalog twice a year. Ott Bowling discusses the pride they took in their home and family. The Bowlings also talk about the medical needs of a large family and comment upon their association with the FNS nurse-midwives.Interview Accession
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Rachel Bowling
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Birth control Childhood Clothing Cooking Family Financial struggles Food Home Homemakers Household necessities Hurricane Creek (Ky.) Kids Large families Leslie County (Ky.) Livestock Marriage Montgomery Ward Nurses Pregnancy Pride Raising children Society Spinning wool Ten children WashingInterview Rights
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Bowling, Ott Interview by Dale Deaton. 31 May. 1979. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Bowling, O. (1979, May 31). Interview by D. Deaton. Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Bowling, Ott, interview by Dale Deaton. May 31, 1979, Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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