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Clipper Reid Dowland's * Interviews with older folks * Greenfield Business Surveys *The Roy Whicker Papers |
Transcribed by
Joe Stout
Vicki Shaffer
MaryCarol
Editing & Webpages by MaryCarol
| Thanks to Jere Cox, director of the Gordon
Browning Museum & Library, the C. Reid DOWLAND papers and the Roy WHICKER
papers have been preserved. Note from Jere:
"Mary Carol, C.Reid (Clipper) Dowland was the mayor of Skullbone. He moved to Nashville but continued to promote Skullbone. He came home as often as possible and went about the area taking interviews. He intended to write a book but died. His widow cared nothing for his papers and gave them to Mae Dowland Hampton, his cousin. Mae let me borrow the papers and I brought them to Mary Ruth Devault at the library and she copied and had them bound. Recently, after Joe Stout copied the Roy Whicker papers from them, I sent my copy to Vicki Shaffer to transcribe for the Gibson Co. Web Site." |
| C.
Reid DOWLAND, in the later part of 1940's and into the early 1960's
went around the Southern Part of Weakley...Greenfield area - over
to McKenzie area of Carroll County, and around the Scullbone community
of Gibson County interviewing some of the old timers of the day. The following
interviews are from his unpublished papers located at the Gordon Browning
Museum and
Genealogy
Library, McKenzie, Carroll County, Tennessee, Jere Cox, Administrator.
The interviews Below are only Weakley County folks. They give us a glimpse
into what life was like around the Greenfield area in years past and also
stories about some of it's more colorful citizens. Some of the language
used is a little rough, please keep in mind this was language of the time.
See Gibson County below for more interviews... MaryCarol
Click on a surname below... James Harvey "Harve" DREWRY age 96 at time of interview Allen SHARP - Age 83 - Neighbor and good friend of Harve Drewry Robert E. Lee GALLIMORE Marvin A. KIMERY......age 63 at time of interview Rev. George T. MAYO......age 85 at time of interview Ralph R. McUMBER....age 63 at time of interview J. D. "Popcorn Johnnie" SULLIVAN
....age
48 at time of interview
Please Click on BUSINESS SURVEYS or WHICKER Papers below #################################################
The BUSINESS SURVEYS... of many of the businesses that were operating in Greenfield in 1946. The information in those surveys listed who the owner was and the previous owners as well as names of their parents and grandparents. The WHICKER papers.. Some of the papers of
Roy Whicker, one of the most colorful characters of our area. PAGE
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See more of the colorful & historical Dowland
interviews in GIBSON
COUNTY
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