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This is the second of a two-part recording. Albert Bailey starts this part by telling a story he learned from his high school woodworking teacher about former medical school students who used the classroom benches to cheat on their examinations. At 3:38, Rachel Elizabeth tells a joke about a boy selling newspapers. Then at 4:13, Lula Anderson remembers a man and woman walking who oddly resembled her deceased great-grandparents. At 8:26, she tells a ghost story about Mad Anthony Wayne (1745-1796), an officer in the American Revolutionary War, riding on horseback through the fields of Wayne County, Georgia, on moonlit nights. At 9:59, she concludes the recording by telling another ghost story in which her friend, who had supposedly gone to sleep, was standing in the closet of her room.
William Archie Chapman (1896-1977) was born in Lithonia, Georgia, to William H. Chapman (1869-1945) and Rachel Wilson Chapman (1874-1969); he had four siblings: Vera Rachel Chapman Cheney (1899-1974), Louise Chapman McCurdy (1903-1989), Vachel Virgil Chapman Sr. (1909-1995), and Agnes Cornelia Chapman McCrary (1911-2007). He married Mae Treadwell Chapman (1907-1993). Lula Lamar Anderson (1902-1999) was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, to Irving Proctor (1868-1946) and Nell Lamar Proctor (1873-1918). Her family moved to Covington, Georgia, where she married James Carter Anderson Sr. (1900-1957). They had three children: Nell Robertine (1927-2013), Ann Louise (1923-2014), and James Carter Jr. (1920-2011). Lula Anderson worked as the manager of a drug store in Lithonia, Georgia. In 1950, Nell Robertine Anderson married William Bill Ray Whitworth (1926-?), who was born in Marietta, Georgia, and later lived in Jackson, Mississippi; Nashville, Tennessee; and Lithonia. In 1944, he enlisted in the United States Army and in 1951, he received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Nell and Bill Whitworth had two children: Amy Whitworth (approximately 1952- ) and John Anderson Whitworth (1959- ), who attended Lithonia High School. In 1949 Ann Louise Anderson married Albert Wright Bailey Sr. (1925-1985). Bailey was born in Augusta, Georgia, to Paul Baxter (1896-1937) and Edith Wright Bailey (1896-1991); he had one brother, Henry Wright (1925-2010). Albert Bailey served in the United States Navy during World War II. Afterward, he graduated from Emory University and the Medical College of Georgia, worked as a pathologist in Sumter, South Carolina, and later as a professor at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. Anderson and Bailey had three children: Edith Proctor Laetsch, Frances Nell Bailey (1950- ), and Albert Wright Bailey Jr. Bailey Sr. spent his later years in Woodbury, Georgia, where he belonged to the Woodbury United Methodist Church. Rachel Elizabeth (approximately 1925-?) was born in Lithonia, Georgia. Additional biographical information has not been determined.
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Professor John Burrison founded the Atlanta Folklore Archive Project in 1967 at Georgia State University. He trained undergraduates and graduate students enrolled in his folklore curriculum to conduct oral history interviews. Students interviewed men, women, and children of various demographics in Georgia and across the southeast on crafts, storytelling, music, religion, rural life, and traditions.
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