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Marshall Dial Collection, The Stories They Tell: Abigail Hyde interview transcript

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Part of a collection of interviews between Marshall Dial and various residents of the Bootheel for Dial's radio show, ""Stories They Tell.""CA6033_CD42_Abigail Hyde 1 Interviewer: Welcome to The Stories They Tell. We’re back in Lake County, Tennessee, this week in the City of Ridgely. In fact, we would like to welcome you to Lake County. Any time you think about coming over, they have a lot of nice eating places over here. And we’re visiting today with someone I’ve known for quite a while and it seems like I’ve known her forever because she knows about people that I know about in Lake County and her name is Abigail Hyde. But your name was not always Abigail Hyde, right? Abigail Hyde: No, I was born Abigail Rice and my first husband was a Czech. My children are Czech and he died in 1954. Interviewer: And the Rice family is an old Lake County family, okay? Abigail Hyde: Yes. Interviewer: And you are connected to one of the very first pioneers of Lake County, Wyatt Mooring. Abigail Hyde: Yes, we had…I had an uncle, two uncles that married into the Mooring family so we had connections there. My grandfather was a merchant, out at Mooring and, of course, Wyatt Mooring died in, oh, 1872 and then later…it was much later than that, of course, my grandfather had the store at the same village called Mooring. Interviewer: I think that Wyatt Mooring must have been a very colorful figure. Tell us a...

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Keywords

  1. History, Local
  2. Hyde, Abigail
  3. Missouri
  4. Missouri Bootheel
  5. Oral Histories
  6. Oral History

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