Oral History Interview with Rebecca Damron Biggs Forsythe

Kentucky Oral History Commission

Interview Log

Name of Interviewee: Rebecca Forsythe

DOB: 8/18/1895

Birthplace: Frost, KY

Occupation: Retired postmaster

Topics Discussed in Interview: Biographical information

Civil War stories told in her family

The Greenup Depot Fire

Entertainment (what children did when she was growing up) Clothing of the early 20th century

The 1937 Flood

Her job as postmaster

Schooling

Floods that have occurred in the area in addition to the '37 flood

Interviewer comments: Places & Names Discussed: Dodge Agency

William Biggs

Squire Holiday Waring Harris, on Waring Uncle Will Womack Mt. Sterling, KY Bigg House Hotel Portsmouth, Ohio Huntington, (WV) Cincinnati (Ohio)

E.K. Railroad Grayson

Ed Pollock

Judge Sowards

French Lick

Fred Vinson

Mr. Bates

Marshall University