Anna Bruton and Anna Rodriguez
Recorded
January 7, 2010
40:11 minutes
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Id:
ATL000150
Description
Anna Rodriguez (37) interviews her grandmother Anna Bruton about being raised by her grandmother, having TB and raising a big family with 7 children, 19 grandchildren 13 great-grandchildren and countingSubject Log / Time Code
Anna B was raised by her grandparents- Frederick from TN and Anastasia from Poland
Anna B. once said she wished she could have a big family, which her husband found funny since she had 7 children
Anna B. says her husband was a great father
She had Tuberculosis as an adult and spent a year in the hospital
Anna B. spent a week in the hospital with a “covered wagon” over her belly to help her have healthy twins.
She thinks she has 19 grandkids and 13 great-grandkids, “unless they’ve had another since we’ve been here she jokes.”
on their walks, her grandmother use to pick up sticks that were laying on each other forming a cross and kiss them, so Anna B would run ahead and lay the sticks out that way
Anna R. tells Anna B that she too has a great grandmother
Participants
- Anna Bruton
- Anna Rodriguez
Venue / Recording Kit
Tier
Keywords
- Albuqueque
- birth of first child
- Catholic
- Cherokee
- Communion
- Convent
- family characters
- family expressions
- family naming and nicknames
- Great grandparents
- illness
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- native american
- Nun
- personal experiences
- religious beliefs and practices
- school bus
- school day memories
- Spouse
- Toledo, Oh
- tuberculosis
- twins
- vows
- walking