Interview with Dorothy Watson Hooper

Dublin Core

Title

Interview with Dorothy Watson Hooper

Subject

Autobiography
Hooper family
Jackson County (N.C.)
Vendetta -- North Carolina -- Jackson County -- History
Watson family -- Anecdotes
Watson, Dorothy Hooper -- Interviews

Description

Dorothy Watson Hooper discusses the Hooper-Watson feud, its origins in conflicting loyalties during the Civil War, escalation from minor fights and vandalism to murder, and how a couple of generations later the feud dwindled with the Hooper and Watson children and grandchildren even getting married to each other.

Creator

Hooper, Dorothy Watson

Source

WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574

Publisher

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

Date

1860s; 1940s; 1900s;
2014-11-05

Contributor

Coggins, Jason M.

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Format

audio/mp3; application/pdf;
sound recordings
interviews

Language

eng

Type

Sound

Identifier

35605
https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35605

Date Created

2015-03-03

Rights Holder

All rights reserved. For permissions, contact Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina U, Cullowhee, NC 28723;

Spatial Coverage

Jackson County (N.C.)

Extent

01:16:07 (sound recording)(duration)
11 pages (transcript)(duration)

Is Part Of

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina

Citation

Hooper, Dorothy Watson, “Interview with Dorothy Watson Hooper,” OAI, accessed May 1, 2025, https://sadc.qi-cms.com/omeka/items/show/35605.