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	September 3, 1983 - Interview with Eunice Dean Lord Hunt, Dean Lake

 

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September 3, 1983 - Interview with Eunice Dean Lord Hunt

Conducted and recorded by Dean Lake

Where were you born?

"...Westminster, SC April 23, 1906...I didn't live there long enough to remember, we went to Atlanta...I was the next to the oldest ...there were four of us and uh, right now there are only two of us living...she's in Columbia, I seldom see her, we just ...don't have enough in common you know ...Beatrice Smith...she sent a spray to grammy's (Ethel Hunt) funeral, you know, surprised us, we didn't know she knew about it...When I was in grammar school I moved to Columbia, cause of family problems at home, you know divorce, that kind of thing, before I was old enough to go to school. I really don't know the reason why except that my father drank a good bit and in that condition he was away from home, and married some person and uh, you don't want all this recorded ...anyway the person that he married found out about it, he was a kind of a wanderer you know, wasn't at home very much, but uh, the person that he married found out that he was married and got my mothers address and wrote her and told her that they had been married ...without a divorce so My mother had to get a divorce then. But he was a fine person he loved us children."

Why did she get the divorce why didn't she make the other one get a divorce? Where was the other woman?

" Oh you could never put your finger on where he was, he was just here and there and everywhere ...I really don't know, I think she (the other wife) was South Carolina though."

What was your fathers name? Mothers name? This was going on in Westminster?

"Richard Carlton Lord...Nola Ellen Dillard Lord, and then she was married the second time, Loggins...no, this was going on after we moved to Atlanta, but I hadn't, still hadn't started school when the divorce, when she got the divorce from him. But uh, anyway then I, My mother was having it pretty hard you know, back then by herself with four children...she worked at a plant near, nearby, I didn't know much about it. Then I went to live with an aunt in Columbia, Emily Dick, an unmarried person, in fact there were two aunts, I was in Grammar school I've forgotten what age. And then I went to Chicora, old Chicora College for women in Columbia."

What about when you were a little girl, too? Where about's did you live in Atlanta?

Tell me about the three other kid's...

"My brother, (Otis) the baby in the family, was overcome by heat in Kansas City (Above John M. Dillard lists his place of death as South Dakota) I think it was, and died...he was, he was in his early, i late forties or early fifties then, it was during a big heat wave we were having ...railroad tracks he walked that kind of thing..."

"...Senate Street (in Columbia) it started in Grammar school and later on I went to Chicora...but every summer we'd go to Asheville and go to a camp up there...camp Alide...from Columbia to Asheville...then I went from Chicora to Columbia Bible College, and was in the first graduation class from Columbia Bible College...Aunt Emily, the aunt I lived with, was the founder of that camp, she was also founder of Columbia Bible College."

Tell me about your other Sister...

"My older sister was three years older than I, and she married very young, married a Baptist minister, the Baptist later married you grandfather and me at another aunts home in Asheville and my brother-in-law performed the ceremony. Grace Justice, the one in Asheville, they were living in Asheville at the time, but being a ministers wife they moved from place to place, but they've been in Atlanta most of the time."

And these aunts, they were your Mothers Sisters?

"On that side, uh huh...

A bunch of Dillard's?

"(laughs) something like that ...I still like to go..."

What was your Aunt's name in Asheville?

"Emily Dick"

Again? She moved from Columbia to Asheville?

"She didn't move she just went up there to camp every summer."

The aunt's house in Asheville where you were married, who was that?

"That was another Aunt...she was related on my grandmothers side to the Wilburns, and uh, she married a Lord...he wrote a book about the about the gold, his, 'bout the gold rush and I think, it, I used to have it, she gave me a copy of it and Richard my brother-in-law wanted it so I let him have it and I don't know whatever happened to it. You know about the experiences they had on it during the gold rush when they ride out there you know in covered wagons...

...(Fathers parents) they lived in and around Commerce Georgia, my paternal grandmother was born in Mayesville not far from Commerce and the old family home is still there, it has been renovated but there's a picture of it in there on the coffee table, it was beautiful old colonial place...and I don't remember too much about them because they died when I was still young, but he was tall and his name, my paternal grandfather his name was Nimrod, so you know he was born during the , which war is that? civil war I guess...or was it further back than that... and they had a large family, my father was the youngest of that family. You know when I go to visit relatives in Commerce Georgia, commerce is just full of Lords and they are all related."

What did your father do for a living?

"He was a sort traveling salesman of sorts and at one time he had a job on trains, he did something with trains, had a job on trains, traveled a great deal."

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