Carol Jean Holland Grisham (F)
(4:40) Carol Jean Holland Grisham talks about her family, especially her grandparents. This interview was conducted as part of a joint project of the Music Preservation Society and the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library. This project focus was oral history interviews with area residents who had l...
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(4:40) Carol Jean Holland Grisham talks about her family, especially her grandparents. This interview was conducted as part of a joint project of the Music Preservation Society and the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library. This project focus was oral history interviews with area residents who had lived or worked on the Tennessee River.Florence-Lauderdale Public Library Digital Archive
Interview with Carol Jean Holland Grisham
March 4 2008
Cherokee, Alabama
Conducted by Freda Dailey
Clip 6
CAROL GRISHAM: My daddy never went to school a day in his life.
FREDA DAILEY: Did your mother?
CG: My mother did. Mother probably had third or fourth because my grandmother died when she, well mother was just about four years old. And, she, she just my step grandmother was she was young and she was mean to, she was mean to Mother and them. Fact is, I shouldn’t even say that, I shouldn’t even say that, but it’s the truth. She didn’t know any better. She really didn’t. Now, she married one of the up here on the side of the road, the weather wax? You know where the weather wax , the weather? You know the two story house. She married the son, my step grandmother married the son. And they did not approve of it. And he died, he had a cold or the flu or something anyhow she had just had a baby. And when he died they just more or less just put her out. But my mother’s mother, my grandmother Mandy, she was pregnant and had cancer. And Granny, that’s what we called the step grandmother, Granny. My Pa he worked down here on the railroad or building or helping to build the railroad in Corinth during the week and he’d come home on the weekend. Of course my grandmother Mandy was pregnant and he hired Granny to come and stay with her and the children because she really had no place to go. She stayed with my mother and the rest of the children until Grandma Mandy had the baby. Of course, Grandma Mandy and the baby died. Both of them died. And two weeks later Pa came in from Corinth one Friday evening and she had her little tow sack or sack or whatever.
FD: Knap sack.
CG: Yeah, her little bunch of junk in there and she said, “Well, Walter, well I’m going to have to go.” And he said, “Well, Nealy” said, “what in the world am I going to do?” She said, “Well” said, “the neighbors are beginning to talk about us. They talk about me.” And he said, “Well let’s just get married.” Wasn’t that romantic, wasn’t that romantic? Because he had a
FD: A house full of kids
CG: He had a house full of kids and she just had this, her son’s name was Leonard. She just had Leonard. So then, in my mother’s family, yours and mine and ours, they ended up with sixteen kids. But they lived together until they died.
FD: Till they died.
CG: And then she died later. But that was their courtship. They didn’t have any courtship. He never had any romantic feeling about her at all except she was somebody that was taking care of
FD: A convenience
CG: Yeah, yeah.
FD: And I imagine a lot of people might have had that back then.
CG: Why, I am sure they did. Don’t you know they did.
FD: Wasn’t any help to get by.
CG: No, no, but back to the river business there, Freda. One of the times when the dam, the locks were, they were repairing the locks and they were doing a plant or something up the river and they were having to, they needed all this sand this barge was taking up the river. And of course couldn’t get through. They unloaded those barges down there in front of where my daddy lived. They operated a sand pile down there in front of Daddy’s house for, for, oh a whole, gosh, it must have been six or eight months because that plant was needing that sand. And they trucked it out then from there. But if you haven’t seen that pile of rocks down there, that pile of rocks is really fascinating. It really is.
FD: Thank you for your time. We are in Cherokee on March 4 2008 with Carol Jean Grisham talking about her experiences growing up especially on the river. This is Freda Daily, the interviewer.
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Carol Jean Holland Grisham (F)Family(4:40) Carol Jean Holland Grisham talks about her family, especially her grandparents. This interview was conducted as part of a joint project of the Music Preservation Society and the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library. This project focus was oral history interviews with area residents who had lived or worked on the Tennessee River.Florence-Lauderdale Public LibraryFlorence-Lauderdale Public LibraryCarol Jean Holland Grisham; Freda Dailey2008-03-04sound; textaudio/mp3; text/pdfEnglishIs part of the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library collectionContact the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library for permission to useFlorence-Lauderdale Public Library Digital Archive
Interview with Carol Jean Holland Grisham
March 4 2008
Cherokee, Alabama
Conducted by Freda Dailey
Clip 6
CAROL GRISHAM: My daddy never went to school a day in his life.
FREDA DAILEY: Did your mother?
CG: My mother did. Mother probably had third or fourth because my grandmother died when she, well mother was just about four years old. And, she, she just my step grandmother was she was young and she was mean to, she was mean to Mother and them. Fact is, I shouldn’t even say that, I shouldn’t even say that, but it’s the truth. She didn’t know any better. She really didn’t. Now, she married one of the up here on the side of the road, the weather wax? You know where the weather wax , the weather? You know the two story house. She married the son, my step grandmother married the son. And they did not approve of it. And he died, he had a cold or the flu or something anyhow she had just had a baby. And when he died they just more or less just put her out. But my mother’s mother, my grandmother Mandy, she was pregnant and had cancer. And Granny, that’s what we called the step grandmother, Granny. My Pa he worked down here on the railroad or building or helping to build the railroad in Corinth during the week and he’d come home on the weekend. Of course my grandmother Mandy was pregnant and he hired Granny to come and stay with her and the children because she really had no place to go. She stayed with my mother and the rest of the children until Grandma Mandy had the baby. Of course, Grandma Mandy and the baby died. Both of them died. And two weeks later Pa came in from Corinth one Friday evening and she had her little tow sack or sack or whatever.
FD: Knap sack.
CG: Yeah, her little bunch of junk in there and she said, “Well, Walter, well I’m going to have to go.” And he said, “Well, Nealy” said, “what in the world am I going to do?” She said, “Well” said, “the neighbors are beginning to talk about us. They talk about me.” And he said, “Well let’s just get married.” Wasn’t that romantic, wasn’t that romantic? Because he had a
FD: A house full of kids
CG: He had a house full of kids and she just had this, her son’s name was Leonard. She just had Leonard. So then, in my mother’s family, yours and mine and ours, they ended up with sixteen kids. But they lived together until they died.
FD: Till they died.
CG: And then she died later. But that was their courtship. They didn’t have any courtship. He never had any romantic feeling about her at all except she was somebody that was taking care of
FD: A convenience
CG: Yeah, yeah.
FD: And I imagine a lot of people might have had that back then.
CG: Why, I am sure they did. Don’t you know they did.
FD: Wasn’t any help to get by.
CG: No, no, but back to the river business there, Freda. One of the times when the dam, the locks were, they were repairing the locks and they were doing a plant or something up the river and they were having to, they needed all this sand this barge was taking up the river. And of course couldn’t get through. They unloaded those barges down there in front of where my daddy lived. They operated a sand pile down there in front of Daddy’s house for, for, oh a whole, gosh, it must have been six or eight months because that plant was needing that sand. And they trucked it out then from there. But if you haven’t seen that pile of rocks down there, that pile of rocks is really fascinating. It really is.
FD: Thank you for your time. We are in Cherokee on March 4 2008 with Carol Jean Grisham talking about her experiences growing up especially on the river. This is Freda Daily, the interviewer.
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