Eunice Austin talks about growing up
Eunice Austin talks about growing up
Eunice Austin talks about growing up on a farm in Catawba County.
Transcript
Jacquelyn Hall
… your background, where you were born and where you grew up.
Eunice Austin
I was born in Catawba County, and I grew up on a farm. In 1936, I believe, is the first public work job I ever had.
Jacquelyn Hall
Where was the farm that you were living on?
Eunice Austin
In the Ball’s Creek section. We just had a small farm, and then we tended some of my relatives’ land. My daddy didn’t have enough land of his own, so we were sharecroppers on some of my aunts’.
Jacquelyn Hall
Did he own some land of his own?
Eunice Austin
Yes, he had about eleven acres. I had two maiden aunts, and they had a lot larger farm than we had, and so we were sharecroppers on their property.
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