Interview with Frances Beard

Description:	Miss Frances Beard spent her adult life teaching at Port Fulton School. In her earliest years, the school served as a Refugee Center for those who had fled their homes down in Jeffersonville, Indiana for the heights of the community east of downtown. Miss Beard was one of those refugees as her home was on Court Avenue. She lived with her cousins, the Elliotts, and helped at the Refugee Center located at Port Fulton School. 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) The thumbnail portrait of Miss Beard is her high school senior picture taken in 1931 from the Jeffersonville High School yearbook.
Origin:	1983.06.30
Created By:	Beard, Frances; Day, Stephen
Contributor(s):	Winston, Vaughn, technical assistant; Jackson, Larry, technical assistant; Kuhlenschmidt, Eden, transcription
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll12/id/5
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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