Oral history with Irene McLendon audio part 2; 2003

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Oral history with Irene McLendon audio part 2; 2003

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Description: Oral history.; Interview conducted with Irene McLendon. Bonnie Irene McLendon was born to Isom Brown Buckley and Tina Mae Fortenberry outside of Pinola, MS in April 1919. McLendon grew up with four brothers. Her mother died when she was eight years old. McLendon went to school at Stonewall, located seven miles from Pinola, through the sixth grade. From seventh through twelfth she attended Pinola School. Irene married Douglas Jefferson McLendon the morning after graduating high school in April 1938 they celebrated their sixty-fifth wedding anniversary the day after the interview was recorded. Together they had two boys, one of whom passed away in 1991. Irene and her husband opened a service station in Pinola in 1956 and worked there for eight years. The McLendons own a farm of approximately eighty acres, producing cotton, cattle, peas, butterbeans, and corn. Irene worked at garment plants in Crystal Springs, Prentiss, and Hazlehurst. She retired from factory work in the early 1970s. Irene and Douglas reside in Pinola to this day.

Creator: McLendon, Irene; White, Joe

Date: 2003-04-28

Format: Digital reproduction of a 22-minute, 39-second oral history.

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Collection: Mississippi Oral History Project: Simpson County Historical & Genealogical Society

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Source: F 341.5 .M57 vol. 1217 pt. 20

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