Interview with William Rogers Shelton Sr. and Rita Shelton

Interview with William Rogers Shelton Sr. and Rita Shelton

Agriculture

Autobiography

Boardinghouses

Family farms

Farm life

Rural families -- North Carolina, Western

Schools

Shelton family

Shelton, Rita -- Interviews

Shelton, William Rogers, Sr., 1920- -- Interviews

Tobacco farmers -- North Carolina -- Jackson County

Veterans -- United States

World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans

William Rogers Shelton is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. He talks about growing up in Jackson County and working on his father’s farm where he has lived since he was 6 years old and the changes that have taken place over the years, both in farming and in the county. He talks about joining the Navy in 1940 or 1941. And he talks about meeting Rita, his wife. Rita also participates in the interview.

Shelton, Rita

Shelton, William Rogers, Sr., 1920-

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

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

1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade); 2010s;

2015-05-01;

McRae, Elizabeth Gillespie

Miller, Helen

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application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

35700

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35700

2016-07-12

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Jackson County (N.C.)

Swain County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

Whittier (N.C.)

1:07:48 (sound recording)(duration)

14 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina