Della Faulkner (G)
(6:10) Mrs. Faulkner discusses her childhood in Collinwood, Tennessee. This interview is part of an oral history project funded by a grant from the Alabama Historical Records Board, managed by the Alabama Department of Archives and History staff, using funds provided by the National Historical Prese...
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(6:10) Mrs. Faulkner discusses her childhood in Collinwood, Tennessee. This interview is part of an oral history project funded by a grant from the Alabama Historical Records Board, managed by the Alabama Department of Archives and History staff, using funds provided by the National Historical Preservation and Records Commission.Florence-Lauderdale Public Library Digital Archive
Interview with Della Faulkner
May 14, 2009
Florence, Alabama
Conducted by Juliann Losey and Rhonda Haygood
(Also present: Joy Weekly)
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Rhonda Haygood: What about on your days off? What did you do?
Della Faulkner: I’d always go home to Tennessee.
RH: Did you? How far was it?
DF: Well, you know, it was about 30—it’s just Collinwood, Tennessee—about 30 miles, yeah. Um-hm.
RH: What did your mom and dad do?
DF: Well, they used to farm, yeah. At that time, they wasn’t doing anything, just, they were living by their self, wasn’t working nowhere at that time.
RH: Did you have lots of brothers and sisters?
DF: Yes, there were ten of us. There were five girls and five boys.
Julian Losey: What was that like?
DF: Well, it’s good. You learned to give and take and love each other.
RH: Was everybody expected—
DF: Help ever—everybody helped one another better, I think, with a big family.
RH: Everybody was expected to work on the farm?
DF: Um-hm. And they, they’re not as selfish as one or two people, you know, where they grow. And they’re more giving and loving, I think. Our family has always been that way. My husband’s family wasn’t hardly, they wasn’t like my family. I couldn’t understand why anybody couldn’t be so close like we all was, but that was the reason; it wasn’t a big family.
Joy Weekly: But, your family was more spiritual—
DF: Well, could’ve been that.
JW: —than daddy’s family.
DF: Could’ve been that, yeah.
JL: Did y’all go to school?
DF: Yeah. I, first school I went was over on Butler, and I went in the primer, they called it, you know, the first, now that is kindergarten, you know. At that time, we had a primer they called the first time you went to school, and then you went in the first grade after that.
JL: How long did you stay at school?
DF: Well, I, I don’t remember now, I guess about eight hours or six hours, something like that. And I went to, I been to several schools, and one’s still standing up in, Crossroad’s school’s, it’s been tore down here lately, but I got a picture of it, but Fairview school’s still there. It’s on the road you go to Tennessee.
JW: Chisholm.
DF: Chisholm Road, yeah, and it’s still there. And we walked from our house down to school at that time. It was about a mile, a little more. Might have been more than that.
JL: Was it in one room?
DF: No, there was two rooms there, but the other schools was one room. Yeah, I had two rooms in—Crossroad’s was just one, that one on Butler there was just one room.
RH: Did you like school?
DF: Yeah, I liked school.
JW: She pole vaulted in school.
RH: Tell us about that.
DF: Oh yeah. I was a jumper.
RH: Well, did you have track meets or was this just at recess?
DF: Well, I used to run and stick my pole in the thing, jump over a thing, throw my pole back and not knock that thing off.
JW: In school.
RH: As part of a competition?
JL: Did you compete?
DF: Yeah, we played, you know, to see which one could do it, and we’d, I could do that good. Throw my pole back and not knock that off up there.
RH: What was your favorite subject?
DF: I liked reading and English and I, and I liked arithme—arithmetic pretty good, math.
RH: Would y’all like to play pranks on each other and on the teacher in school?
DF: Yeah.
RH: What kinds of things did you do?
DF: Well, one time me and a girl, I gotta tell this, me and a girl didn’t like it cause they, they’d put one of us, each one of us on a different team and they wouldn’t let us have a girls team. And I, we let the air out of the ball one time and didn’t never tell nobody who did it. I thought that was mischief.
JW: Playing pranks.
RH: Yeah.
JW: That’s good.
RH: Did you have good teachers?
DF: Yeah, pretty good teachers, yeah. I had Johnny Tidwell, was a, was a, she was a rough, a strict teacher. And [inaudible] was my first teacher and she was a kind person.
RH: What about when you were growing up? What did, what did you and your brothers and sisters do for fun when you weren’t working on the farm?
DF: We worked. We cut sprouts when we wasn’t doing something else. Get out there and clean off our land and get it ready to plow, stuff like that. We kept busy, now. We didn’t have much idle times. We worked on the farm doing things. There was always something to do. We kept busy, my daddy kept us busy.
RH: Well, with ten of you how, what was your house like? How big was it and—?
DF: Well, we had a—it wasn’t too big, but we, we had several beds in the rooms, and things like that.
RH: So you had to share your rooms.
DF: Yeah, we had to really share with one another, yeah. Cause the girls and boys was separate, but we made it. We all still, all of us is still living, we had two die, one when one was a baby and then one was four years old, and then our brother died, Archie, about five or six years ago. There’s seven of us living now.
RH: Are you the baby?
DF: No, and I got a brother that’s ninety-six years old. I’ll be ninety in July. And then I got a sister that’s two years older than me and she’s ninety-two. Well, and then I got one young—ah, Minnie and, ah, Nettie’s younger than I am, then, Emory, we got my, my youngest one, Emory, my brother. And then I got Holland, he’s—I’m 2 years older than he is.
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Della Faulkner (G)Family history(6:10) Mrs. Faulkner discusses her childhood in Collinwood, Tennessee. This interview is part of an oral history project funded by a grant from the Alabama Historical Records Board, managed by the Alabama Department of Archives and History staff, using funds provided by the National Historical Preservation and Records Commission.Florence-Lauderdale Public LibraryFlorence-Lauderdale Public LibraryDella Faulkner2009-5-14sound; textaudio/mp3; text/pdfEnglishIs part of the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library collection.Contact the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library for permission to use.Florence-Lauderdale Public Library Digital Archive
Interview with Della Faulkner
May 14, 2009
Florence, Alabama
Conducted by Juliann Losey and Rhonda Haygood
(Also present: Joy Weekly)
Clip 7 of 8
Rhonda Haygood: What about on your days off? What did you do?
Della Faulkner: I’d always go home to Tennessee.
RH: Did you? How far was it?
DF: Well, you know, it was about 30—it’s just Collinwood, Tennessee—about 30 miles, yeah. Um-hm.
RH: What did your mom and dad do?
DF: Well, they used to farm, yeah. At that time, they wasn’t doing anything, just, they were living by their self, wasn’t working nowhere at that time.
RH: Did you have lots of brothers and sisters?
DF: Yes, there were ten of us. There were five girls and five boys.
Julian Losey: What was that like?
DF: Well, it’s good. You learned to give and take and love each other.
RH: Was everybody expected—
DF: Help ever—everybody helped one another better, I think, with a big family.
RH: Everybody was expected to work on the farm?
DF: Um-hm. And they, they’re not as selfish as one or two people, you know, where they grow. And they’re more giving and loving, I think. Our family has always been that way. My husband’s family wasn’t hardly, they wasn’t like my family. I couldn’t understand why anybody couldn’t be so close like we all was, but that was the reason; it wasn’t a big family.
Joy Weekly: But, your family was more spiritual—
DF: Well, could’ve been that.
JW: —than daddy’s family.
DF: Could’ve been that, yeah.
JL: Did y’all go to school?
DF: Yeah. I, first school I went was over on Butler, and I went in the primer, they called it, you know, the first, now that is kindergarten, you know. At that time, we had a primer they called the first time you went to school, and then you went in the first grade after that.
JL: How long did you stay at school?
DF: Well, I, I don’t remember now, I guess about eight hours or six hours, something like that. And I went to, I been to several schools, and one’s still standing up in, Crossroad’s school’s, it’s been tore down here lately, but I got a picture of it, but Fairview school’s still there. It’s on the road you go to Tennessee.
JW: Chisholm.
DF: Chisholm Road, yeah, and it’s still there. And we walked from our house down to school at that time. It was about a mile, a little more. Might have been more than that.
JL: Was it in one room?
DF: No, there was two rooms there, but the other schools was one room. Yeah, I had two rooms in—Crossroad’s was just one, that one on Butler there was just one room.
RH: Did you like school?
DF: Yeah, I liked school.
JW: She pole vaulted in school.
RH: Tell us about that.
DF: Oh yeah. I was a jumper.
RH: Well, did you have track meets or was this just at recess?
DF: Well, I used to run and stick my pole in the thing, jump over a thing, throw my pole back and not knock that thing off.
JW: In school.
RH: As part of a competition?
JL: Did you compete?
DF: Yeah, we played, you know, to see which one could do it, and we’d, I could do that good. Throw my pole back and not knock that off up there.
RH: What was your favorite subject?
DF: I liked reading and English and I, and I liked arithme—arithmetic pretty good, math.
RH: Would y’all like to play pranks on each other and on the teacher in school?
DF: Yeah.
RH: What kinds of things did you do?
DF: Well, one time me and a girl, I gotta tell this, me and a girl didn’t like it cause they, they’d put one of us, each one of us on a different team and they wouldn’t let us have a girls team. And I, we let the air out of the ball one time and didn’t never tell nobody who did it. I thought that was mischief.
JW: Playing pranks.
RH: Yeah.
JW: That’s good.
RH: Did you have good teachers?
DF: Yeah, pretty good teachers, yeah. I had Johnny Tidwell, was a, was a, she was a rough, a strict teacher. And [inaudible] was my first teacher and she was a kind person.
RH: What about when you were growing up? What did, what did you and your brothers and sisters do for fun when you weren’t working on the farm?
DF: We worked. We cut sprouts when we wasn’t doing something else. Get out there and clean off our land and get it ready to plow, stuff like that. We kept busy, now. We didn’t have much idle times. We worked on the farm doing things. There was always something to do. We kept busy, my daddy kept us busy.
RH: Well, with ten of you how, what was your house like? How big was it and—?
DF: Well, we had a—it wasn’t too big, but we, we had several beds in the rooms, and things like that.
RH: So you had to share your rooms.
DF: Yeah, we had to really share with one another, yeah. Cause the girls and boys was separate, but we made it. We all still, all of us is still living, we had two die, one when one was a baby and then one was four years old, and then our brother died, Archie, about five or six years ago. There’s seven of us living now.
RH: Are you the baby?
DF: No, and I got a brother that’s ninety-six years old. I’ll be ninety in July. And then I got a sister that’s two years older than me and she’s ninety-two. Well, and then I got one young—ah, Minnie and, ah, Nettie’s younger than I am, then, Emory, we got my, my youngest one, Emory, my brother. And then I got Holland, he’s—I’m 2 years older than he is.
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