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00:09:00M1: Your camera mic is on (inaudible).
JAMIE STONE: Say when, we're rolling.
M1: Ok
REX SANDERS: This is Riverdale Cemetery, this is where my father and his mother
and father and aunt are buried. I spent a lot of time when I was a child here, cleaning out the grave, plus other graves. Uh, I hadn't been here in a pretty good while, I thought we had perpetual care arranged but I, I see that uh, we 00:10:00got to talk to somebody about it Uh.GEORGE STONEY: Hold it I'm sorry. We need to do that again. I need to get
over to your fath—[break in video]
SANDERS: This is Riverdale Cemetery, this is where my father and his father and
mother and my aunt are buried. I spent a lot of time as kid with my grandmother, weather permitting, cleaning up the graves I thought that after she died we had perpetual care arranged, I see we got to talk to somebody about it. They're not doing their job. That's my father's grave there, that's my aunt's, and that's my grandfather and grandmother there. I see the flowers 00:11:00are gone. It's really not in that bad of a shape, really. Probably who—GEORGE STONEY: Go, go over to the other side and walk back.
SANDERS: Over here?
GEORGE STONEY: No the other side of the grave. Just pan him across with the
graves. So you just he's feet and the graves.JAMIE STONEY: Ok.
GEORGE STONEY: Hold it, hold it Jamie. Start in back with the corner please.
When you're ready Jamie.JAMIES TOENY: Ready.
00:12:00GEORGE STONEY: Ok. Pull a weed there.
SANDERS:My, my grandfather he shot himself in 1937. Uh he was real despondent
after my daddy got shot. He never recovered. My grandmother, she never got over it. So that's—GEORGE STONEY: Back to Reuben's grave. I mean—sorry.
00:13:00JAMIE STONEY: Mmm-hmm. (inaudible)
SANDERS: Is that—
JAMIE STONEY: Could you just come around from the other side here? No,
(inaudible) could you just come around from and talk to me. Say what you were saying about perpetual care again.SANDERS: Well, I, I thought that we had perpetual care arranged, but apparently
somebody is not doing what they're supposed to do, so will have to—It looks like they did it for a while and then quit. I hadn't been down here in years. But I guess I'll have to check on it more often. But I spent a lot of time here as a kid with my grandmother, practically every week. When it wasn't raining. But always walked down here and borrow the equipment from the 00:14:00maintenance man here at the cemetery he was always real nice to my grandmother and kept us from having to bring the stuff with us. She always, she always had to visit here once a week if she could. 00:15:00JAMIE STONEY: I just want to get a few cut a ways of the actual stuff.
GEORGE STONEY: you can take the mic off.
JAMIE STONEY: you can take the radio off.
GEORGE STONEY: I know you have to leave so, you were going to take your mother
to the doctor weren't you?SANDERS: Well, my sister, but I need, I need to go anyway.
GEORGE STONEY: Ok
SANDERS: Unless y'all need me for something.
GEORGE STONEY: No, no, that's—
JAMIE STONEY: (inaudible) bring your (inaudible) and I'm gonna grab.
GEORGE STONEY: Thank you very much for this—
JAMIE STONEY: Back over there, I just want to grab some hand held.
SANDERS: Ok.
GEORGE STONEY: we don't need to go to the factory.
SANDERS: If I can help you any other way with anything—
GEORGE STONEY: I appreciate it.
00:16:00SANDERS: I hope you have good luck with it. Been a pleasure.
GEORGE STONEY: You've been very helpful. Jamie?
JAMIE STONEY: Yeah?
GEORGE STONEY: (inaudible)
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00:17:00GEORGE STONEY: ok, that may be (inaudible).
JAMIE STONEY: What I want to do, is starting at this rather sad little basket—
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M1: Fresh battery and two tapes.
JAMIE STONEY: How long do you want this shot to be?
GEORGE STONEY: 10 seconds.
JAMIE STONEY: About that long?
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ETTA MAE ZIMMERMAN: It started off with my Grandpa Zimmerman's record.
GEORGE STONEY: ok
ZIMMERMAN: I think. No this is—
GEORGE STONEY: Ready?
JAMIE STONEY: we're rolling.
GEORGE STONEY: Ok, Etta Mae just look up to camera and say I'm going to be
showing you an album of the Zimmerman family way back to the middle of the 19th century.ZIMMERMAN: I'm gonna show you the family album of the Zimmerman family that
dates back into, into some of the 18th century. Is that right?GEORGE STONEY: Do it again and don't say is that right. Just start turning through.
M1; 19th.
GEORGE STONEY: Middle of the 19th century.
00:20:00ZIMMERMAN: I just start to say—
GEOGRE STONEY: Ok.
ZIMMERMAN: That I was wrong. This—I'm going to show you a picture album of
the Zimmerman family that dates back to the 19th century.GEORGE STONEY: Ok. Jamie we can go over her---
JAMIEL STONEY: Ok. If you want to have her flip a few pages—
GEORGE STONEY: Just turn a few pages.
JAMIE STONEY: Can you just look down at the book.
GEORGE STONEY: Keep going.
ZIMMERMAN: It starts with, uh, our Grandfather, some woman, Grandpa, Grandmother Barker.
GEORGE STONEY: Turn more pages please.
00:21:00ZIMMERMAN: This is Momma and Poppa, and my oldest brother and my second oldest
brother. This is my mother and father later on in life.GEORGE STONEY: Who are those?
ZIMMERMAN: This is a really good picture of my two sisters during the First
World War And they went to Newnan and had their pictures made. This is some of 00:22:00the earlier pictures too. This is three of my brothers where you had to be in your teens before you could wear long pants. So my youngest brother in the center has on short pants. This is me and two of my sisters, Leona and Velma, when we wore black stockings. On this page is painted pictures of all the girls in the family.[break in video]
GEORGE STONEY: (inaudible)
JAMIE STONEY: Rolling.
00:23:00GEORGE STONEY: Okay now turn the page.
ZIMMERMAN: First page.
GEORGE STONEY: Ok now tell me what we're seeing.
ZIMMERMAN: Well this—
F1: The first page.
ZIMMERMAN: Well this on the first page is dedicated to my mother and father.
This is an album of the Zimmerman family. The first page is dedicated to my mother and father and sisters and brothers. And over on the next page is our family record. And it starts with my Grandma and Grandpa Zimmerman. And over on this page is my grandp—- Grandfather and Grandmother Barker.GEORGE STONEY: Lay that flat a –
JAMIE STONEY: Lay the left page flat.
ZIMMERMAN: Ok.
00:24:00GEORGE STONEY: Just let him go in on that. Could you lay your hand across it?
Let's see—JAMIE STONEY: Dad, hold on lets cut for a second. Um do we have something—
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ZIMMERMAN: -- the Zimmerman, our Zimmerman family. And the first page is
dedicated to my mother and father, and sisters and brothers. The next page has our family record on it. With this page starts with my Grandfather Zimmerman and my Grandmother Zimmerman. And over on the next page is my Grandfather Barker and my Grandmother Barker. And on through the book—GEORGE STONEY: Who's this over here? Let's start over Jamie.
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JAMIE STONEY: Rolling.
ZIMMERMAN: This is my Grandfather Barker and my Grandmother Barker. But over
00:25:00here on this page is my father's family, and this was made in the 20s. And this is some of the older pictures. There's Poppa, Momma, and oldest boy and second oldest boy. This is my mother and father on this page. This starts with my oldest brother and my oldest sister. I can't see. But this is some pictures made at East Newnan of my three brothers and me and my two other sisters. And 00:26:00this is a group picture of two of my older sisters and some friends. One of the them is a first cousin, (inaudible) Barker.GEORGE STONEY: Who is that now?
ZIMMERMAN: This is my two sisters. Uh
GEORGE STONEY: Did they work in the cotton mill?
ZIMMERMAN: Yes.
F1: That's two of your sisters.
ZIMMERMAN: Carrie was 18, oh, no Lovella is about 4 years older than she was.
GEORGE STONEY: Just move your head out of the way just a moment.
F1: 22
ZIMMERMAN: I think – I think—
GEORGE STONEY: Turn it—
ZIMMERMAN: I think that one of them is about 22, and this is my second oldest
00:27:00sister and there is one between these two children, he's a boy. But Carrie was 18. Over here is a picture of Leander the day he left for the First World War. And there's my brother Reuben, Austin, Eugene. But this is showing my 5 brothers.GEORGE STONEY: Just hold it, just hold it just a moment. Just say that again,
this is showing my five brothers.ZIMMERMAN: This is showing my five brothers. On this page. That was the day
00:28:00Leander left, made the day Leander left going to the Army, World War I.GEORGE STONEY: Next page.
JAMIE STONEY: We just blew the main.
M1: Oh dear.
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GEORGE STONEY: Lets roll.
JAMIE STONEY: Ready (inaudible). Let me know when you're ready.
M1: Ok
JAMIE STONEY: Rolling
GEORGE STONEY: OK next page please. Ok tell us about this page.
ZIMMERMAN: This is my 3 brothers, Arthur, Reuben, and Eugene. But you had to be
about grown before you wore long pants, so the youngest on has on knee pants. 00:29:00Over here is me and my 2 sisters and we have on white midi blouses and black stockings. This is my brother Reuben and Carrie, they were just 14 months apart. They buddies all their life. Over here is the 5 sisters.GEORGE STONEY: Just hold it. Over here is the 5 sisters. And tell us the names
of each of them.ZIMMERMAN: Lovella, Carrie.
GEORGE STONEY: Just a moment point them --