- Collection:
- Allen Thomas Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Boysie Hall on February 1, 1977
- Creator:
- Hall, Boysie,December 9, 1882-April 7, 1980
- Contributor to Resource:
- Thomas, Allen
- Date of Original:
- 1977-02-01
- Subject:
- Dublin (Ga.)
Genealogy
Education
Medicine - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Laurens County, 32.46366, -82.92224
United States, Georgia, Laurens County, Dublin, 32.54044, -82.90375 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
sound recordings - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Abstract: In an interview on February 1, 1977, Miss Boisy Hall talks about her childhood memories growing up in Laurens County. Subjects include early childhood education, the specific schools in Dublin, and the expectations of her and other girls at that time to marry, which she never did. She shares family genealogy going back to England and memories of her father, who was a Civil War prisoner in Illinois and became a respected doctor in Dublin. She talks as well of the city of Dublin before the turn of the twentieth century. Synopsis: Hall, born 9 December 1882, recalls her earliest memories of snow in Laurens County and going to the Lee School in the New Bethel Community. She remembers that she was eventually homeschooled by her father, a college professor who had a "finished education" and worked as a doctor until the year before he died at eighty-four years old. | Hall remembers attending the Lee School, where pupils weren't separated by grade but attended class in one large room from 8:30 to 4:00. She tells a story about competing in a "spelling match" against students in a more advanced grade. | Hall talks about where she grew up, on a farm "five miles out Bellevue Road" in Laurens County that was sold when her mother died in 1899. She speaks on a number of things, including her mother and father again, and talks about her siblings and cousins being married "by the time they got in long pants," and seeking large households with many children that never interested her. She recounts her sister's five boys and one daughter and their interests in Dublin. | Hall talks about Laurens County as she remembers it as a child, a city with no paved streets, but regularly visited by riverboats, excited for the arrival of the MD&S Railroad. She talks about her family's farm and her mother, who loved having all manner of livestock, and community gatherings at their home and near "Turkey Creek." | Hall recalls that her mother always feared "tramps" and "hobos" who begged at their house for food, which her father provided. His medical practice serviced a large area, which he traveled on horseback, but patients also came to the house. | Hall discusses her family's genealogy, which she was told spans back to Henry VIII of England, recalling that her side of the Hall family immigrated to Philadelphia in 1776. She discusses the origin of the name "Hartley" and stories relating to her father, who served during the length of the Civil War and was a prisoner of war in Illinois, at Camp Douglas, along a river. She touches on the lives of some of her other family living in Florida, from Ft. Lauderdale to Orlando and the location where many are buried.
- Metadata URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:zhe_atohc_zhe-atohc-007-hallboisy
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:zhe_atohc_zhe-atohc-007-hallboisy
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Hall, Boysie. "Oral history interview with Boysie Hall on February 1, 1977." Interviewed by Allen Thomas. Allen Thomas Oral History Collection, Laurens County Library, Dublin, GA.
- Extent:
- 1 audio interview : 41 min., 32 sec., sd.
- Original Collection:
- Allen Thomas Oral History Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Oconee Regional Library System
- Rights:
-
