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CLIFF KUHN:

How about your children? Where were they born?

JOSEPHINE GLENN:

They were born in the country, in Alamance County.

CLIFF KUHN:

In which years were they born?

JOSEPHINE GLENN:

Twenty-seven, '29, '30, and '33.

CLIFF KUHN:

What did they end up doing?

JOSEPHINE GLENN:

Two of them are in textiles. One of them's a mechanic. One lives in Swepsonville. He works at Gibsonville. He runs a slasher.

CLIFF KUHN:

He drives all the way from Swepsonville to Gibsonville every day?

JOSEPHINE GLENN:

Yes. And one lives in Gibsonville. He works for the City of Burlington.

CLIFF KUHN:

And what do their children do? Are their children still working in textiles?

JOSEPHINE GLENN:

No, none of them's children work in textiles.

CLIFF KUHN:

Why do you think that is?

JOSEPHINE GLENN:

They went to school and prepared themselves for a better job.

CLIFF KUHN:

Did you want that of your children, or what did you want? Did you want your children to follow what you had done or kind of work?

JOSEPHINE GLENN:

I'd rather they'd make up their own minds as to what they think they . Now my youngest son, he lives in Charlotte and he's a mechanic. My daughter lives in Des Moines, Iowa. She's not able to do anything. She had a stroke this past .

CLIFF KUHN:

How did she end up in Des Moines?

JOSEPHINE GLENN:

She married a man from there.

CLIFF KUHN:

How did someone from Alamance County meet a man from Des Moines?

JOSEPHINE GLENN:

He was in service.

CLIFF KUHN:

At Fort Bragg?

JOSEPHINE GLENN:

No, it must have been Camp Lee. She was working in the bus station someplace in Virginia and met him.