Interview with Wells Black, undated

Partial Transcript: My lucky number...

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black talks about Cora Wilson Stewart and his father who taught in a Moonlight School.

Keywords: Education of children and adults

Subjects: Adult education--Kentucky; Adult students; Education; Farming; Moonlight schools; Rural schools--Appalachian Region

Partial Transcript: Ah, she, she, visited the schools you know and things like that...

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black gives a very positive assessment of Cora Wilson Stewart.

Keywords: Horse and buggy; Memories

Subjects: Rowan County (Ky.); Schools

Partial Transcript: I am the oldest one in the family though.

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black talks about his family and earlier days in Morehead.

Keywords: History of Morehead (Ky.)

Subjects: Family

Partial Transcript: Oh well my daddy taught school.

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black talks about the education in his family and other families in the community.

Keywords: Education leaders; School teachers

Partial Transcript: Some of our leaders would drank

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black mentions the use of alcohol by members of the community.

Subjects: Drinking alcohol

Partial Transcript: They were alright, yes mam

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black talks about the town and growing up in Morehead.

Keywords: Good people

Subjects: Community leaders

Partial Transcript: He said that my daddy go to Niagara Falls...

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black talks about the past.

Keywords: Community activity; Fatherhood; Henry Clay Black [H. C. Black]

Subjects: Education

Partial Transcript: Tell 'em about that one.

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black tells about the time his parents had a disagreement between his parents concerning Cora Wilson Stewart.

Keywords: Disagreement; Father hit in the head with dishpan

Subjects: Jealousy; Marriage

Partial Transcript: Going to leave you at home...

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black talks about the teasing he did with his father and other family members.

Keywords: Jokingly teasing

Subjects: Jokes; Story-telling

Partial Transcript: The Tolliver-Martin Feud...

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black talks about the stories that had been passed down about the Tolliver-Martin Feud in Morehead.

Keywords: Burying the dead; Tolliver-Martin ballads

Subjects: Feuds-Kentucky; Rowan County (Ky.)

Partial Transcript: Well, I relate it to way I took care of myself...

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black talks about living right, good health, and a long life.

Keywords: Bible verses; Staying healthy; Teasing

Subjects: Church of God; Health-Aged; Joking relationships

Partial Transcript: I have built all kinds of houses. I built eight or ten houses...

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black talks about never building himself a log cabin.

Keywords: Home building

Subjects: Log Cabins

Partial Transcript: Well, I was called to go but I was...

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black talks about his exemption from service, and the present military circumstances.

Keywords: Military draft and exemption

Subjects: Military

Partial Transcript: Was she neat or kind of messy, would you say?

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black thwarts the interviewers attempts to dig up dirt on Cora Wilson Stewart.

Keywords: Digging up dirt

Subjects: Child death; Friendliness; Neatness

Partial Transcript: All my life, just about...

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black talks about his wife and family and living a lifetime in Morehead, KY.

Keywords: Elizabeth Jones Black; Grace Truesberry Black; Married life 70 years

Subjects: Adult children; Homes; Morehead (Ky.)

Partial Transcript: No, I never none of them, like that...

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black talks about getting to school; and argues with a woman and talks about the Tolliver-Martin Feud.

Keywords: Election day violence; Riding horses to school; Tolliver-Martin Feud ballads and the fights they caused; Walking to school

Subjects: Ballads; Election Day; Feuds-Kentucky; Rowan County (Ky.)

Partial Transcript: Who else are your children?

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black talks on several subjects including Cora Wilson Stewart.

Keywords: Grant Carey, Cora Wilson Stewart's 1st husband; Grover Black, son; Jeremiah Wilson, Cora Wilson Stewart's father

Subjects: Stewart, Cora Wilson, 1875-1958

Partial Transcript: Do I remember any of them?

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black talks about the flooding in 1937 and his family and the community.

Keywords: High water in Morehead, Ky

Subjects: Death; Flooding; James, Jesse, 1847-1882.

Partial Transcript: My daddy was very educated man about everything.

Segment Synopsis: Wells Black talks about marriage and companionship and leaving Morehead, KY.

Keywords: Getting away from home; Getting married

Subjects: Marriage; Rowan County (Ky.)