
Tape number: V25
Name: William Eugene Mattingly
Location: Annandale, VA
Date of Birth: August 3, 1896
Date of Recording: 1/27/1991
Recorded By: Grayson and Suzanne Mattingly
Log Sheet by: Grayson Mattingly
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Title 1 | ||
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1/00 | ST | William describes getting to Dividing Creek from Baltimore by the steamer Piankatank. Took train from Washington, DC to Baltimore and steamer to Dividing Creek, VA. |
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3/06 | ST | Describes the dining and sleeping facilities - Dinner $1.25 - all you could eat. State rooms also $1.25. State room had bunk beds. |
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5/07 | ST | Describes return trip and how livestock and other items were loaded aboard to take to Baltimore to sell. The bellowing of the young calves continued throughout the entire trip. Barrel of oysters, crabs, corn some of the other items taken to Baltimore. |
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8/00 | L | William provides a detailed, fascinating account of getting to Ditchley, VA via automobile in the early 1900s. Mostly dirt road, taking 12 hours. Broke down in Fredericksburg, roads all muddy. |
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14/00 | L | Story about Mr. Kent and the basket of eggs. |
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17/38 | L | Story about Captain Brown chopping electric line. |
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Title 2 | ||
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00/5 | L | Williams story about the Clopman Diamond. |
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Title 3 | ||
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00/15 | L | Galleger story about the pig |
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2/07 | L | Galleger story about eggs |
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4/25 | F | Story about girls playing tricks on boys |
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7/00 | F | William talks about his grandmother's family connections to Aquia Creek. His great grandfather Peter Grayson Daniel Hedgman from Rosehill was one of the founders of Aquia Church and his name is in the Church. |
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9/31 | F | Talks about great grandfather who dated a Miss Mitchell that lived on the other side of the Potomac. He would have his slaves row him across to a place near La Platte, Md. Hedgeman had three daughters one of which was fathers grandmother. another of the daughters was William's wife's grandmother. |
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13/17 | F | Describes how wife's family got to the Northern Neck. |
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14/22 | F | William's wife's great grandfather was injured in the Civil War - was hit in the check by a mini ball. The battle of Travillians. |
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18/34 | F | William tells his Penguin joke. |
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00/00 | F | b-roll William with his granddaughter Marybeth Mattingly. |
