Collection Title: Jackson Purchase Oral History Project – World War II
Series Number: OH146
Interviewee: Lewis, Mae Evelyn, 1913-
Interviewer: Parrent, Jay
Date interviewed: December 7, 1997
Processed by: Benjamin J. Drake
Date processed: November 2, 2011
Description: 1 sound disc (22 minutes)
Abstract: Mae Evelyn Lewis details her experience during the Second World War. She describes life in the Jackson Purchase area of Kentucky during the late 1920s and 1930s. She provides detail into rationing during the Second World War and the way it impacted the region.
Biographical / Historical note: Mae Evelyn Lewis was born in Lyon County, Kentucky in 1913. She worked at a hosiery mill in Calloway County, Kentucky from 1927 until the end of the Second World War.
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Subject Headings / Descriptors:
Lewis, Mae Evelyn, 1913-
Fielder, Dorothy
World War, 1939-1945 – Kentucky – Calloway County.
Calloway County (Ky.) – History.
Lyon County (Ky.)
