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Object Name |
Recording, Audio |
Scope & Content |
Interview by Blaine Anders of Clarence S. Hendricks (1899-1993), son of Abram & Ella Smith Hendricks Digital copy available--loud background noise --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Start time Subject 00:00:00 parents, siblings 00:01:12 jobs, hobbies 00:02:39 early cars ("I remember well when there wasn't a car to be seen", top speed 50 mph) 00:08:44 school (no high school) 00:11:20 Great Depression, World War 1 (milk was plentiful) 00:14:39 courtship (dates to camp meeting) 00:16:22 past versus present (more time versus convenience) 00:18:02 church 00:19:49 marriage (married 58 years, "it doesn't feel that long") 00:22:42 worked in North Wales with older brother, walked trolley tracks from Souderton to Hatfield at night, almost got struck by a trolley 00:30:36 church activities (gifts for memorizing scripture) 00:32:42 travel (relied on horse, no snow plows, plowed by hand) 00:37:46 snow plow couldn't get to their house, road near house made differently than most, no potholes |
Date |
1981 |
Object ID # |
2013.25.461 |
Length of Interview |
00:41:02 |
Manuscript Collection # |
z.Audio |
Notes |
Obituary: Hendricks, Clarence S., 94, Telford, Pa. Born: June 30, 1899, Perkasie, Pa., to Abram H. and Ella Smith Hendricks. Died: Nov. 10, 1993, Quakertown, Pa. Survivors - children: David G., James G., Titus G., Ruth H. Moyer; sister: Naomi Cassel; 5 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren. Predeceased by: Martha Gross Hendricks (wife) and an infant son. Funeral and burial: Nov. 15, Franconia Mennonite Meetinghouse, by John M. Ehst, Russell M. Detweiler, and Floyd M. Hackman. (Gospel Herald, Dec. 14, 1993) |
Source |
Gift of S. Duane Kauffman |
People |
Hendricks, Clarence S., 1899-1993 |