Interview with William Corpew O'Neal 2
February 22, 1996




C: My name is Mary Ann Coffin. I am interviewing William Corpew O'Neal for the Oral
 History Program at the Matheson Historical Center, on February 22, 1996, at 141 N.W.
 46th Street, Gainesville, Florida. Will you please state your full name and birthdate for
 the tape, please.

0: William Corpew O'Neal, born December 20, 1915. C: How do you spell Corpew? I want that on the tape. 0: C-o-r-p-e-w.

C: Corpew, okay. Is that a name for some relative? 0: Yes. My grandfather's name was William Corpew. At eighty years, I've been trying to
 figure out what your Christian name is and what your other kind of name is, and I still
 don't know what Corpew is.

C: That was a William Corpew O'Neal, your grandfather on your father's side? 0: On my mother's side. C: Oh, on your mother's side, so it was a surname, you think? You don't know? 0: Whatever your surname is. C: Were your grandparents on your mother's side from Florida? 0: No.

C: You didn't know any of them then? 0: Yes I did my mother's mother. C: She was living in Gainesville when you knew her? 0: I knew her before we moved to Gainesville. C: And where was that? 0: Valdosta, Georgia.

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