Interview with Droxie Hopson, July 19, 1988
Project: Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project
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Mrs. Hopson moved to Auxier from McDowell, Kentucky in 1925 when she married a miner. Her father was a farmer, and she describes how he made staves and shipped them on the river. Her mother died when she was seventeen of an unknown illness. Hopson had eleven brothers and sisters. She discusses her own battle with rheumatic fever as a young woman. She remembers a time when her husband was laid off, and states that her husband supported the union. Hopson only finished the eighth grade in school, but she earned her GED as an adult.Interview Accession
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Medical care and illnesses Sickness Coal mining camps Coal mines and mining Coal miners EducationInterview Rights
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Hopson, Droxie Interview by Glenna Graves. 19 Jul. 1988. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Hopson, D. (1988, July 19). Interview by G. Graves. Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Hopson, Droxie, interview by Glenna Graves. July 19, 1988, Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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