Unified Committee for Afro-American Contributions Oral History Documentation Project--Mary Agatha Coates Somerville's oral history; Unified Committee for Afro-American Contributions Oral History Documentation Project--Mary Agatha Coates Somerville's oral history

Oral History

St. Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown, MD

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2009.002.0074

Scope and Content

1 compact disk ; 4 11/16" in diameter Mary Agatha Coates Somerville's oral history interview on September 24 and 25, 1996. She grew up on Trent Hall on the Patuxent River. Her father was a farmer and waterman and her mother did laundry. She described her childhood, but her parents both died when she was twelve, so she went to Baltimore to live with a sister. She was in Chaptico in the summers where she met her husband. They married when she was 16. She had ten children in quick succession. One child was murdered by a schoolmate, one died of pneumonia, and one was killed in a car accident. There is no data sheet with the interview. The interview is on two disks and in a black plastic container with a cream label on the spine. NOTE: Digitized transcript for this object covers material stored on hard copy on this Object (2009.002.0074) and on Object 2009.002.0075. As such, the digitized transcripts for both objects are the same, and can be accessed through both PastPerfect catalog records. This object contains: 2009.002.0074&.0075.0001--Transcript of Mary Agatha Coates Somerville's oral history

Collection

Unified Committee for Afro-American Contributions Oral History Collection

Oral History Details

Primary Language

English

Location

UCAC Oral Histories, Box 4, Unknown

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Lewis, Robert

Person or Organization

Somerville, Mary Agatha Coates

Person or Organization

Taylor, Meredith

Web Links and URLs

https://stmaryshistory.org/docs.ashx?id=1563662