Cleo McDaniel (E)
(4:34) Cleo McDaniel talks about her Sleepy Doll. She also discusses the way she made spending money and more about her school days. 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 Histor...
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(4:34) Cleo McDaniel talks about her Sleepy Doll. She also discusses the way she made spending money and more about her school days. 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 Cleo McDaniel
May 6, 2009
Florence, Alabama
Conducted by Patti Hannah and Rhonda Haygood
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Cleo McDaniel: The first doll I ever had was a Sleep, Sleepy Doll and I couldn’t understand why it opened and closed its eyes, cause I knew it wasn’t alive. And so, I just got me a hammer and laid it on the hearth and cracked its head.
Rhonda Haygood: Are you serious?
CM: I never did get another doll. I got, I got a whipping.
RH: You got a whipping instead of a new doll?
CM: Yeah, I got a whipping; I never did get another doll. Yeah, I did, after I got up a little bigger and I think I sold Rosebud salve or Cloverdine or something and got me a doll.
RH: What is the salve you sold? What was that?
CM: Cloverdine or Rosebud.
RH: What is that?
CM: Salve. It’s a salve.
RH: Did you purchase this from a company and then—?
CM: Yeah, they’d send you something. You know, sell so many boxes and you’d get a prize, a doll or something.
RH: Oh, okay. How old were you when you did that?
CM: Oh, I was about twelve year old I guess.
RH: Is that right? Wow.
CM: I wasn’t that old.
Patti Hannah: You were an entrepreneur, then, if you were making money hoeing, and chopping cotton and picking cotton and selling salve and, you were doing good business.
CM: I knew my A—, ABCs before I started to school, all except “e”. Well I finally learned “e”, but I’ve, I just taken my pencil and rubbed it out. Just rubbed that “e” out, and I got a spanking for that, too. Cause I thought if that “e” wasn’t there I wouldn’t have to learn it. And, one day, the first day I went to school, now this is funny, the first day I went to school, Lena Polk, that’s my teacher’s name, and, ah, I come to a word—I could read, cause Momma, Momma had taught me to read, you know, and I could read, but I, I didn’t know all the words. So, I come to a word I didn’t know in my little book. And so—this just made my brothers so mad they could’ve just whipped my tail good—I just got up and prissed up to the teacher and said “Miss Teacher, what’s this word?” [inaudible] got away with them you know.
PH: Y’all were all in one room?
CM: Yeah.
PH: So, they knew.
CM: Yeah, all them big ol’ boys and all in the same room, you know. The Raschs and Ringlesteins and them ol’ big grown boys, and my brothers.
PH: How many grades were in there? All of them? How, how far did the school go?
CM: I don’t know. I don’t know, they couldn’t have went very high in that little one room school. It’s Underwood, still Underwood, but it’s a different Underwood, now.
RH: Did y’all go pretty much all day to school?
CM: No, we didn’t go but about six hours, I think. Not very long. Didn’t go, I didn’t go down there but part of two years, then we moved up here and I started to Fairview and that’s where—and I didn’t know—I knew Bessie Mae and, and Bessie Moomaw. I knew them and I got with them. They buddied with me, and when they went to class, I went to class and I got in the third grade, the third. I got in the, in the—and my brothers was older than me and they, they, they knew the Dodd boys and they just went to class with them and, and I got ahead of them [laughs].
PH: So, you just assigned yourself a grade, right?
CM: I did [laughs].
PH: And then you went to Cloverdale after Fairview? Cloverdale was the high school, I guess, or was it still elementary?
CM: They taught through the eleventh grade.
PH: Okay.
CM: They taught through the seventh at Fairview and I with seventh grade two years to keep from going to Cloverdale.
PH: Why didn’t you want to go to Cloverdale?
CM: I didn’t want to go up there, to start with. I didn’t know nobody up there.
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Cleo McDaniel (E)Dolls; Education; Business enterprises(4:34) Cleo McDaniel talks about her Sleepy Doll. She also discusses the way she made spending money and more about her school days. 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 LibraryCleo McDaniel2009-05-06sound; textaudio/mp3 ; text/pdfEnglishIs part of the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library CollectionContact Florence-Lauderdale Public Library for permission to use.Florence-Lauderdale Public Library Digital Archive
Interview with Cleo McDaniel
May 6, 2009
Florence, Alabama
Conducted by Patti Hannah and Rhonda Haygood
Clip 5 of 5
Cleo McDaniel: The first doll I ever had was a Sleep, Sleepy Doll and I couldn’t understand why it opened and closed its eyes, cause I knew it wasn’t alive. And so, I just got me a hammer and laid it on the hearth and cracked its head.
Rhonda Haygood: Are you serious?
CM: I never did get another doll. I got, I got a whipping.
RH: You got a whipping instead of a new doll?
CM: Yeah, I got a whipping; I never did get another doll. Yeah, I did, after I got up a little bigger and I think I sold Rosebud salve or Cloverdine or something and got me a doll.
RH: What is the salve you sold? What was that?
CM: Cloverdine or Rosebud.
RH: What is that?
CM: Salve. It’s a salve.
RH: Did you purchase this from a company and then—?
CM: Yeah, they’d send you something. You know, sell so many boxes and you’d get a prize, a doll or something.
RH: Oh, okay. How old were you when you did that?
CM: Oh, I was about twelve year old I guess.
RH: Is that right? Wow.
CM: I wasn’t that old.
Patti Hannah: You were an entrepreneur, then, if you were making money hoeing, and chopping cotton and picking cotton and selling salve and, you were doing good business.
CM: I knew my A—, ABCs before I started to school, all except “e”. Well I finally learned “e”, but I’ve, I just taken my pencil and rubbed it out. Just rubbed that “e” out, and I got a spanking for that, too. Cause I thought if that “e” wasn’t there I wouldn’t have to learn it. And, one day, the first day I went to school, now this is funny, the first day I went to school, Lena Polk, that’s my teacher’s name, and, ah, I come to a word—I could read, cause Momma, Momma had taught me to read, you know, and I could read, but I, I didn’t know all the words. So, I come to a word I didn’t know in my little book. And so—this just made my brothers so mad they could’ve just whipped my tail good—I just got up and prissed up to the teacher and said “Miss Teacher, what’s this word?” [inaudible] got away with them you know.
PH: Y’all were all in one room?
CM: Yeah.
PH: So, they knew.
CM: Yeah, all them big ol’ boys and all in the same room, you know. The Raschs and Ringlesteins and them ol’ big grown boys, and my brothers.
PH: How many grades were in there? All of them? How, how far did the school go?
CM: I don’t know. I don’t know, they couldn’t have went very high in that little one room school. It’s Underwood, still Underwood, but it’s a different Underwood, now.
RH: Did y’all go pretty much all day to school?
CM: No, we didn’t go but about six hours, I think. Not very long. Didn’t go, I didn’t go down there but part of two years, then we moved up here and I started to Fairview and that’s where—and I didn’t know—I knew Bessie Mae and, and Bessie Moomaw. I knew them and I got with them. They buddied with me, and when they went to class, I went to class and I got in the third grade, the third. I got in the, in the—and my brothers was older than me and they, they, they knew the Dodd boys and they just went to class with them and, and I got ahead of them [laughs].
PH: So, you just assigned yourself a grade, right?
CM: I did [laughs].
PH: And then you went to Cloverdale after Fairview? Cloverdale was the high school, I guess, or was it still elementary?
CM: They taught through the eleventh grade.
PH: Okay.
CM: They taught through the seventh at Fairview and I with seventh grade two years to keep from going to Cloverdale.
PH: Why didn’t you want to go to Cloverdale?
CM: I didn’t want to go up there, to start with. I didn’t know nobody up there.
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