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Oral history interview with Ethel L. Vaughters [Sound Recording 04]
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- 1981-07-03 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:08:32
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Ethel Lucille Vaughters, nee Richardson, was born in in Chicago, Illinois, in 1905. She was named Grace Elim Richardson at birth, but was baptized a month later as Lucille Ethel Richardson. Her family moved to Portland when she was two years old. Around 1926, she married and took the name Lucille Ethel Van Winkle; she had one child and soon divorced. In 1931, she and Richard Flowers Vaughters were married; they had later two children. She died in 1987.
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Tape 2, Side 2. This oral history interview with Ethel L. Vaughters was conducted by her son, Robert Vaughters, at Ethel L. Vaughters’ home in the summer of 1981. The interview was conducted in four sessions on two audiocassettes. These recordings are duplicates on four audiocassettes which were created in October 1988. In the second interview session, conducted on July 3, 1981, Vaughters continues discussing her early life in Portland, including her memories of civilian activities during World War I, radio programs her family listened to, and her neighborhood. She also talks about her social life. She briefly discusses her marriage to an unidentified man and their divorce a few years later. She talks about returning home to Portland with a young child and about the jobs she worked. She then speaks about her marriage to Richard Flowers Vaughters in 1931 and the death of his parents the same year.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.
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- English
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- Vaughters, Robert, 1929- (Contributor)