Osteen's older sister gave up mill work to care for the family home
Osteen's sister Mamie was a weaver at the textile mill until she had to take over the household duties from her deceased aunt.
Citing this Excerpt
Oral History Interview with Letha Ann Sloan Osteen, June 8, 1979. Interview H-0254. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- ALLEN TULLOS:
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And so now, Mamie, what about her?
- LETHA ANN SLOAN OSTEEN:
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Well she lived over here at Monegan. She . . .
- GEORGIA:
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She was a textile worker. Her and Mama stuck to it and Uncle John. I knew
John and Mama and I reckon was theonly three
that was in textiles, out of the bunch.
- LETHA ANN SLOAN OSTEEN:
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Yeah.
- ALLEN TULLOS:
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And did she start to work here in the Poe Mill, Mamie, when she started
working?
- LETHA ANN SLOAN OSTEEN:
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Yes, she learned to weave. But after Aunt Hattie died, my aunt, she had
to keep house. She was the oldest girl.
- GEORGIA:
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Well she went to work down here in the weave shop.
