Q: How did the Depression change your life?

A: Well my childhood was where money was short. When I was a kid I did not think about it, didn’t worry me back then but it would worry me now, because I don’t have any work now.

Q: How did the World War effect your childhood?

A: It had an effect on me when my dad left and went to camp.   He did not even serve, and they sent him home, and I heard him telling my family about camp in stories .

Q: When you were a kid, how was Lottridge?

A: I did not know of Lottridge when I was a kid because I lived in West Virginia.  I worked in the coal mines until World War II took me out of there .

Q: Were there any deaths in the coal mines?

A: Yes, some of them are my distant family that died in the coal mines. There are seventeen bodies in the coals that was never been found. We did not know half of the people died in the mines. Then World War II took me out of the mines.   I moved to Lottridge around 1942 because I did not want to go back to West Virginia when I got here, it was all farm land and only two people owned the land.

Q: Did you get in any trouble when you was a kid?

A: Yes! I was like any other kid. I got around like any other kid and I got into trouble like any other kid. My dad understood me doing stuff like that, getting into trouble.

Q: Did you ever get in trouble with the law?

A: No, I didn’t get in trouble with the law. I only pulled pranks on my friends' houses.

Q: Did you have a lot of chores around the house?