Interview with Alice Rose Peyton

Description:	As a young woman, Alice Rose (later Peyton), worked for her father in his Coal Business. In January of 1937, she contracted the flu and was too ill to move by trains to another city. Her family sought refuge in the Jeffersonville Bakery. Both her home and her fathers business was impacted by the flood. 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 picture is from her high school yearbook. The brother of Alice Rose Peyton, Frank Rose, was also interviewed for this project
Origin:	1983
Created By:	Peyton, Alice Rose; Nelson, Earl
Contributor(s):	Winston Vaughn, Technical assistant; Jackson, Larry, technical assistant; Kuhlenschmidt, Eden, transcript
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll12/id/7
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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