Interview with William Corpew O'Neal 6
February 22, 1996



 one of us hid behind the board fence between our homes and sassed Jar, and when Jar came over the fence, we both initiated him. And he learned that he could without much difficulty whip either one of us, but if he did, he had to whip both of us. We, therefore,
 became sort of immune and friends.

C: Are you talking about four year old boys?

0: Four and five year old boys. I started at school at age five.

C: Now did those two fellows stay in Gainesville and go on through school with you?

0: Yes, ma'am. J.R. wound up in the Canadian Army and also the Canadian penal system,
 not as an employee.

C: So you sort of lost track of J.R. but Will stayed on.

0: Will stayed on and graduated from P.K. Yonge High School. There were many students
 who couldn't pass G.H. S. who went to P. K. Yonge.

C: You'd better not say too much bad about P.K.

0: Why?

C: I went there. Well, let me tell you. There were some smart fellows who went there,
 namely Hart Stringfellow, a brilliant young man, George A. Dell, Yvonne Cody Dell,
 lots of bright people went there.

0: Right. Lots of people went there, graduated from P.K. It was several years after I
 graduated from G.H.S. and I was definitely not a brilliant student in high school. But Will, who graduated from P.K. became interested in farming. His father owned a farm among other enterprises and Will became partners with a gentleman from Archer in the farming business and essentially became one of the, if not the most prominent cattle
 farmer in the Archer area.
C: Well, let's go back to your Grade School. You went to Grade School over at Eastside,
 now Kirby Smith? Right?

0: Yes, ma'am. When I started there, it was the only school in Gainesville. It was on the
 corner of what is now 7th St. and University Avenue. There were two buildings. One contained Grades 1 through 6 and the other, the remaining grades. The red building, on West University Avenue on the spot that now is a parking lot for the Alachua General
 Hospital, that became the second school.

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