Eunice Austin - farm life
Eunice Austin - farm life
Eunice Austin talks about the work she and her sisters did on the farm, often work that would ordinarily be done by boys
Transcript
Eunice Austin
…I was the oldest. I had to be boy and girl.
Jacquelyn Hall
What do you mean?
Eunice Austin
I had to do work that a boy would ordinarily do, because my daddy didn’t have any other help to do that.
Jacquelyn Hall
What kind of work did you have to do?
Eunice Austin
I hauled hay and shocked wheat and just anything that was to do. I didn’t do much plowing. He never did think that was a woman’s place, and I didn’t do much of that. But I would always help plant the crop and do a lot of hoeing.
Jacquelyn Hall
What about your sisters?
Eunice Austin
They helped some, but I have a couple sisters that their health has never been good, so they couldn’t work like I did. They just wasn’t able to do it.
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