Interview with Edwin Coots

Description:	Edwin Coots, local undertaker and county coroner, was asked to take over as acting mayor during the weeks of the 1937 Ohio River Valley Flood that impacted Jeffersonville, Indiana. As acting mayor he worked closely with disaster relief organizations and the federal government to provide assistance to the local population. For images of what our interviewee experienced, copy the following link to Mud, Sweat, and Tears at the Indiana State Library in your web browser. (http://cdm16066.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p16066coll24/searchterm/MudSweatTears1937/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/order/title)
Origin:	1983
Created By:	Coots, Edwin; Day, Stephen
Contributor(s):	Winston, Vaughn, technical assistant; Jackson, Larry; Weidner, Jen, transcript
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll12/id/12
Collection:	Jeffersonville Township Public Library
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/;
Subjects:	Floods--Indiana--Clark County Floods--Ohio River Valley Floods Oral history

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