Interview with Lois Beville Cone 8
March 30, 1995


C: Well, my earliest memories, I was thinking the other day. The street was unpaved, and once
 a week, Ms. Highsmith, who owned a dairy farm, she had a wagon with a top on it, and she would go all over town, pulled by horse, the wagon was, selling milk, cream, butter, eggs, and vegetables. And she had a big bell, a hand bell, that she would ring, and you could hear her coming. So you knew if you wanted something, you would go out on the front of the yard to get whatever you wanted from Ms. Highsmith. That was one, and then another, there was a tremendous oak tree in the road between the sidewalk, I do not remember if we had a sidewalk right there at that point, but we did later, and we had a bag swing which was made out of a croaker sack, filled with moss, and how much fun that was, playing with that. And then the Chautauqua would come once a year, and where they had the tent and all was not too far from our house, and we all looked forward to going to the programs there. My sister, Nathalie, had a horse, and it was kept in a barn across the street from us, and I never did ride the horse, but I always did admire her on the horse. We had, you know, nice neighbors,
 older people.

0: Can you remember some of the names of your neighbors?

C: Oh yes. On the corner of Arredondo and University, the Ludwigs lived, and then we lived,
 and then next door to us was Miss Millie Adamson and her brother, and she rented rooms out. And across the street on the corner of University and Arredondo, was the Dogan Stringfellow house, and back of the Stringfellow house on Arredondo lived her sister, Ms.
 Harper. And then next to Ms. Harper, the Hartfields lived. On the corner, going on past our house on Arredondo, on the, I guess now its 2nd Avenue, the Daughtry's lived. And across the street from them, the Evan's. and the Chittys, and Hewlett Anderson's mother and father lived two blocks down from us on the corner of Arredondo and I guess 2nd or 3rd Avenue.

0: Were there many children in the neighborhood that you could play with?

C: No. The Hartfield's had a boy, Frank, and of course the Chittys down on the corner, there
 was Margaret, and Virginia, and Henry. And the Evans, their son, Bill is the father of Dr.
 Evans who is a doctor in Gainesville.

0: Dr. William Evans?

C: Right. And then the Ramseys lived across from the Daughtry's. 0: Besides playing with your swing made out of moss, how did you entertain yourself? What
 games did you play?

C: I can remember when we were going to school over at Kirby Smith, I can remember that we
 skated to school, and we could not wait for recess to play jacks. I can remember playing jacks. And, you know, the games that people played back then, Drop the Handkerchief, and tennis, I was older, you know and in high school. Later on, when we still lived on Arredondo

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