OH116 Hazel Locke Oral History
Collection Title
Jackson Purchase Oral History Project - Lifestyles
Series Number
OH116
Interviewee
Locke, Hazel
Interviewer
Pasco, Kathryn
Date Interviewed
January 28th, 1980
Processed by
Tara Marcum
Date Processed
June 27th, 2011
Description
1 sound disc (54 minutes)
Abstract
Hazel Locke discusses her childhood in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and early adulthood in Paducah, Kentucky. She recalls attending a one-room schoolhouse as a child until the eighth grade and describes her household chores such as carrying wood, feeding livestock, housework and making lye soap. She mentions her childhood dream was to become a nurse. She stated the Great Depression as being "hard times" and many feared starvation. She recalls attending "play parties," which were parties with games, square dancing and live music. Locke told of her brother serving in the United States Navy and being stationed at Pearl Harbor during Japanese attack. She describes a "Brush Arbor Meeting"which was a revival under a brush pavilion constructed by the church members.
Biographical/Historical Note
Hazel Locke was born in 1906 in Boot Hill, Missouri. Her family moved to Bollinger County when she was seven. Her father cut timber for a living and made railroad ties. She stopped attending school after the eighth grade and married at age seventeen. Her husband was a World War II veteran who worked as a carpenter. In 1950, her husband was hired by the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant near Paducah, Kentucky. They relocated to Coldwater, Kentucky.
General Information
No user access to original recordings. Use audio user copies, digital derivatives, transcripts, and/or tape indexes. This collection may be protected from unauthorized copying by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code). Permission for reproduction must be requested from Murray State University.
Subject Headings/Descriptors
Locke, Hazel, 1906-
Boot Hill (Mo.) – History.
Bollinger County (Mo.) – History.
Lutesville (Mo.) – History.
Paducah (Ky.) – History.
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (Paducah, Ky.)
Coldwater (Ky.)
Recommended Citation
Pasco, Kathryn, "OH116 Hazel Locke Oral History" (2025). Lifestyles. 30.
https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/oh-lifestyles/30
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