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Excerpt from Oral History Interview with Thomas Samuel Hudson and Elberta Pugh-Hudson, December 18, 1999. Interview K-0283. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) See Entire Interview >>

God sent the waters to flood White Stocking

The interviewer asks Thomas and Elberta Hudson what role they think God played in the flooding. Thomas thinks God sent the water, but that people made the mistakes that led to dam overflow and flooding. Elberta thinks that God played a more direct role in the flooding: she believes God sent the flood to teach those affected lessons about materialism.

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Oral History Interview with Thomas Samuel Hudson and Elberta Pugh-Hudson, December 18, 1999. Interview K-0283. 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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