Clara Mae Lester Cloud interview, 1981 Apr. 10.

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Clara Mae Lester Cloud interview, 1981 Apr. 10.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70979277

Interview includes a few pages on her father Rufus Lester, mother, Jeannette Owens Kenney Lester, and other relatives. Subjects include life on the farm in Cooperton; attendance at local schools; childhood chores, games, and school activities; lengthy discussion of garden produce and other items in the family diet; school literary club activities; chain gangs; Fruit Jar Center (Okla.); World Wars I and II; 1929 Depression; dust storms; assistance in the hospital after the fire at Babbs Switch school; and general outlook on life.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8066965

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Cloud, Clara Mae Lester, 1903-1997

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