Jo Ann Dozier - Changes in Marion

Published on June 14, 2017

https://www.samford.edu/departments/oral-history/projects/faces-of-marion/Jo-Ann-Dozier-Changes-in-Marion.mp3

Jo Ann Dozier discusses life in the country and her family’s move to Marion.

Transcript

Jo Ann Dozier: We lived out in the country, Scott’s Station, which is just
about ten miles from Marion...but I know when we lived out in the country, we
had this old mud and it was just black and the Black Belt has that prairie mud.
You get it on your shoes; if it gets dry it’s just like cement. It just
doesn’t come off. So that’s what the Black Belt’s always meant to me was
that mud. My dad was a merchant. He had a store, just a general store out in the
country and had cows and pigs and all that good things, chickens...I would help
my mother in the garden pick the vegetables and all that kind of thing. Just a
good country life. But then we moved to Marion I guess when I was in the fourth
grade. My daddy got rid of everything out there in the country and we moved to
Marion and he had what you call a rolling store. He would go up in the country
with just general store, you know, merchandise...Marion has always been a nice
place to raise children and grow up, you know, with your neighbors and friends.

Audio Information
Attribute	Value
Date	2013-10-22
Interviewer	Haley Rester
Interviewee	Jo Ann Dozier
Repository	Samford University Oral History Collection
Collection	STORI Collection
Accession	SUHist/Marion/008