SEGMENT: FARM WORK, WOMEN'S WORK, & CHILDREN'S EDUCATION
Jessie Ruth Saiter>UIS Collection S>UIS Collection S, Segment 3
| <-Previous Segment | Next Segment-> |
- FAMILY
- Mentions son being born stillborn. Children born at home & delivered by a doctor.
- CHILDREN'S EDUCATION
- Discussion of children's also attending one room schoolhouse. Mention of school consolidation & attending multi-room school with different grades, the Southside School. Description of mother's education. Doesn't recall daughter having spelling bees.
- WOMEN'S WORK
- Had big garden, but did not bury foods for storage. Stores in town began to have fresh produce in winter-time. Mentions a lot of canning & making of preserves & jellies. Huckster stopped coming after they moved to town.
- FARM WORK
- As married man, husband did not collect wild honey. Mentions purchase of a rock-crusher.
- TRANSPORTATION
- Husband had rock-crusher that road crews used to improve roads.
- FARM WORK
- Farmers bought crushed limestone rock to spread on fields. Mentions Mrs. Geisert made small fortune off of her rock quarry.
- ACTIVITIES
- Description of large family reunion.
