Kentucky Oral History Commission
Interview Log
Name of Interviewee: Orville Howerton
DOB: 7/9/1915
Birthplace: Flat Hollow, KY
Occupation: Pipefitter & newspaper photographer
Topics Discussed in Interview: Family history; life history; lifestyle;
Fullerton, Kentucky, businesses, personalities; and making moonshine whiskey
Flat Hollow community, schools, automobiles, horses, buggies, drugstores, ferry boats,
Cutting corn, founding of South Shore and James Hannah,
Indianola Street, Indian graveyard, doctors
World War I and World War II,
Preachers, county officials finding a corpse,
1921-1922 tornadoes
Millwork and apprenticeship,
Grocery deliveries, barbershop humor, and differences in quality of life.
Interviewer comments: “Clock ticking in the background. Used pause button.”
Places & Names Discussed: Perry Howerton
Major
Willie Boyle
James Hannah
A.T. Peck
Howerton Morris
Mildred Burris or Burrows
Herman McDonald
McKinley Vanover
Dennis Boggs
Ernest Dunaway
Preacher Kline
Flat Hollow (Ky.)
Fullerton (Ky.)
Portsmouth (Ohio)
Harrison Street
Taylor Brick Yard
Pond Ridge
Wheeling Steel, New Boston (Ohio)
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