Interview with Florence E. Walker Lindsey, March 30, 1990

Partial Transcript: Okay, this is Nola Hadley. I'm interviewing Florence Lindsey at her home in Cincinnati...

Segment Synopsis: Lindsey talks about her family background and tells how her parents met. She discusses her birth, what her childhood was like, and her childhood home.
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Keywords: Chickens; Cisterns; Doctors; Dover (Ky.); Fathers; Gardens; Grandfathers; Grandmothers; Grandparents; Houses; Lamps; Meals; Mealtimes; Mothers; Parents; Radishes; Railroads; Siblings; Sisters; Trees; Union Baptist Church (Dover, Ky.)

Subjects: Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company; Childbirth; Children; Cooking; Desserts; Education; Marriage; Midwives

Partial Transcript: Did you have uh, uh chores that you had to do?

Segment Synopsis: Lindsey discusses her household chores, as well as her family's special meals, such as those on Sundays.
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Keywords: Bread; Chores; Church; Fish; Fishing; Food; Homemade bread; Ice cream; Meals

Subjects: Cooking; Gardening; Holidays; Housekeeping; Laundry; Manners and customs

Partial Transcript: Whe, when uh, with you kids, when you were ever bad, who did the discipline?

Segment Synopsis: Lindsey describes how her mother disciplined her and her siblings. She talks about holidays that her family celebrated, and some of their family traditions for these events.
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Keywords: Christmas trees; Church; Discipline; Dolls; Independence Day; July 4th; Meals; Mealtimes; Mothers; Picnics; Punishment; Switches

Subjects: Christmas; Discipline of children; Holidays

Partial Transcript: Do you know your relatives here in Cincinnati now?

Segment Synopsis: Lindsey discusses her parents' views on topics such as politics, race, and education. She also talks about their marriage.
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Keywords: Arguments; Disagreements; Nieces; Relations; Relatives

Subjects: Children; Cincinnati (Ohio); Education; Families; Marriage; Politics; Race

Partial Transcript: Could you describe your first school?

Segment Synopsis: Lindsey talks about her early education, as well as her teacher, her school, and her childhood friends.
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Keywords: Dunce caps; Dunce hats; First grade; Friends; Students

Subjects: Children; Education; Rural schools; School discipline; Schools; Teachers

Partial Transcript: Um, when you got older and got beyond ninth grade, where did you go to school now?

Segment Synopsis: Lindsey tells how her family moved to Cincinnati when she was in the fifth grade. She describes what it was like to grow up in the city.
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Keywords: B&O Railroad; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; Fathers; Houses; Layoffs; Movies; Moving; Railroads; School subjects; Third Street; Westerns

Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Education; Public Schools; Teachers

Partial Transcript: How was your school district? What school did you go to?

Segment Synopsis: Lindsey describes what it was like to attend school in Cincinnati when she was growing up. She also talks about making friends there.
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Keywords: Classes; Curfews; Exercise; Friends; Geography; Geometry; Gymnasiums; Hiking; History; Languages; Latin; Math; Mathematics; Mrs. Houston; School subjects; Sewing; Stoll School (??)

Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Friendship; Schools; Teachers

Partial Transcript: So, uh, you, your family moved in right at the beginning of the Depression...

Segment Synopsis: Lindsey talks about life in Cincinnati during the Great Depression, and shares personal remembrances of the Great Flood of 1937. She talks briefly about changes in Cincinnati since her childhood.
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Keywords: Bridges; Canals; Changes; Floods; Food; Great Flood of 1937; Meat; Ohio River Flood of 1937; Water

Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Depressions--1929; Floods--Ohio River; Ohio River; Railroads--Employees

Partial Transcript: I want to go back to your, your family. Um, so um, you went to school here.

Segment Synopsis: Lindsey talks about her sex education, witnessing her brother's birth and how this event sparked her later interest in nursing. She also discusses her work taking care of children.
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Keywords: Babies; Babysitting; Birth; Brothers; Cleaning; Housework; Jobs; Mothers; Sex education; Work

Subjects: Child care; Childbirth; Children; Nurses; Nursing; Sex instruction

Partial Transcript: I want to kind of come back and find out what happened from the time you were a teenager, to when you got married and...

Segment Synopsis: Lindsey briefly talks about her work taking care of children. She talks about her two marriages, how she met her first husband, and his later illness and death.
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Keywords: Babysitting; Bed sores; Death; Husbands; Illness; Love; Newport Steel Plant; Work

Subjects: Child care; Marriage; Widows

Partial Transcript: When you worked as a nurse, um, would you talk a little bit about that?

Segment Synopsis: Lindsey talks about working as a nurse, which she did until she married her second husband. She tells how she took care of her first husband, and discusses visiting his grave.
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Keywords: Husbands; Methodist Home (??); Patients; Reading

Subjects: Hospitals; Marriage; Nurses; Nursing; Older people

Partial Transcript: You've traveled a little bit.

Segment Synopsis: Lindsey describes some of the places she has traveled to. She talks briefly about living in Detroit, and mentions her childhood dreams.
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Keywords: Canada; Cars; Church meetings; Emancipation Day; Grandchildren; Homesickness; Sigma Kappa Maternity House (??); Work

Subjects: Alabama; Children; Detroit (Mich.); Marriage; Travel

Partial Transcript: When, when, um, when you had your children, would you talk a little bit about that?

Segment Synopsis: Lindsey describes her experiences of having children. She talks about her children and grandchildren, and her expected great-grandchildren.
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Keywords: Age; Babies; Doctors; Grandchildren; Great-grandchildren; Health; Medical care; Sisters; Stitches

Subjects: Childbirth; Children; Miscarriage; Pregnancy

Partial Transcript: The other day when I was making a movie for the United Way.

Segment Synopsis: Lindsey mentions some of her current (1990) activities, including playing bingo, being in a movie, and spending time with her family. She shares her views on acceptance and loving others, tying these into her religious views.
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Keywords: Acquaintances; Bingo; Boone Center; Friends; Grandchildren; Luncheons; Movies; Nutrition; Religious views; Smiling; St. John's

Subjects: Discrimination; Religion; United Way of America

Partial Transcript: When he (??) was so sick, how did you get away even to do the grocery shopping?

Segment Synopsis: Lindsey tells how she managed her husband's care, in addition to running errands and paying his medical bills. The interview is concluded.
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Keywords: Food stamps; Grocery stores; Insurance; Krogers; Laundry; Maids; Medical insurance; Medicine

Subjects: Grocery shopping; Home care services; Medical care; Public welfare