Part !: The Cherokee Female Seminary.

Norbert: Grandma Gibbs, can you give us some inside and some information and maybe tell us a few stories about your youth and what it was like when you were growing up? Now I understand you grew up in Oklahoma, is that right?

Lizzie uhhu.

Norbert: Ok.

Lizzie: Well, I was borned in Oklahoma and raised in Oklahoma. When I, when I was twelve years old I attended the Cherokee Female Seminary, were it was just all girls and there was 365 girls.

Norbert: I see.

Lizzie: All girls.

Norbert; Yes, was that a particular religious denomination that ran the Seminary?

Lizzie: No, it was just for the, for the Cherokee Indians. No whites could go

Norbert: Uhhu. And your genealogy takes you back to the Cherokee tribe of the American Indians, doesn't it?

Lizzie: Yeah, an so I went there two years. An then they has a, had a Male Seminary, a Female and a Male Seminary, that was the Male Seminary was just for the boys.

Norbert: Uhhu,separate?

Lizzie: Yeah, an on Saturday, the boys come over to visit in the, in the school. An oh we'd have such a good time. They had a big reception area, an they called it parlors then in them days. An it was a beauty, it was all red inside, an there's were we'd go. An they'd play games an things. Then we'd play ball, get outside and play ball.

Norbert: Baseball?

Lizzie: Baseball, and they called me the referee.

Norbert: Referee?

Lizzie: Yeah.

Norbert: Cause you helped referee the games?

Lizzie: I had to help referee the game. See how they were doing

Norbert: I see, and you were born in 1883 so that would have been 198, in 1885 then.

Lizzie: Yeah.