Tape number: V7A
Name: Ruby Lee Norris
Location: Topping, Virginia
Date of Birth: 12/16/15
Date of Recording: 11/06/03
Recorded By: Talking Across the Lines
Log sheet created by: Grayson Mattingly
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3/16 | SW,F | Talks about house built by father in Topping near Mill Creek steamboat landing |
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4/06 | SW | Describes wharf with cart used to transport items to and from ss |
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5/40 | G | Describes father's business (store), what the steamboat would bring him |
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7/33 | G | Describes what was brought in by steamboat and what was taken out to Baltimore |
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8/15 | ST | Tells how steamboat cris-crossed the Rappahannock River, trip to Tappahannock |
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10/29 | L,F | Tells how town got name of Topping, used to be called Sandy Point. Descries father's store |
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13/20 | SW | Talks about riding with father in horse drawn cart to ss wharf |
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15/29 | SW | Tells about swimming off steamboat wharf |
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20/15 | SW | Talks about freight carried by steamboat, watermelons etc. |
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22/00 | H, BH | Talks about Burhans at Locusville, about underground railroad, cave in cliff that was used to hide slaves |
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29/00 | H | Reads story from magazine about Roosevelt leaving from North End steamboat wharf near Deltaville |
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31/22 | E,ST | Talks about Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg - getting there by SS - tells "steamboat wharf" story, trip took 5 to 6 hours |
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36/14 | ST | talks about "paddle wheel" on steamboat |
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37/47 | GW | Talks about "clerking" in her father's store at 14 years old. Different tasks, about products that came on ss (cheese, molasses, sugar etc.), talks about prices of items, gun for protection, merchants telephone network to report robberies, tells about Gypsies that tried to rob store, bartering |
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47/51 | F | Talks about her father, who he was, how he got into merchant business, talks about visiting father's family in Lancaster County, her mother who was a Hall whose father built the house she is living in, teaching job, mother sewed all her cloths up through collage |
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52/20 | SW,L | Talks about James Adams floating theater |
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58/20 | SC | Talks about steamboat captain - Cropper |
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01/01/45 | L | Talks about gathering place at Topping store |
