Oral history interview with Genella Bogard [sound recording], 1976 August 19

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Oral history interview with Genella Bogard [sound recording], 1976 August 19

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Genella Bogard was born in Trigg County, Kentucky in 1902. She was raised near the Center Furnace, Kentucky where her father worked as a night watchman at the iron foundry. As a child she attended the Hematite and Cumberland Schools. She later taught in the Land Between the Lakes region at Pryor Hollow, Golden Pond and Ferguson Springs during the 1940s. In 1923 she married Joe Bogard, known to locals as the "King of Moonshiners". After his death in 1933, she remarried again briefly in 1941. She later worked in the old age assistance office at the Ken Lake Hotel until her retirement and subsequent displacement to Cadiz in 1966. She died in 1983 and was buried at the Bogard Family Cemetery.

1 sound disc (59 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Murray State University, Waterfield Library

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Murray State University, Waterfield Library

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