ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Delia Long SandersCOLLECTION: 4700.1186

IDENTIFICATION: Gillis Long=s aunt

discusses her grandson=s career as a UPS driver; being interviewed for a television about shortly after Gillis=s death; her grandson learns of Gillis=s death; Gillis=s funeral arrangements; birth of her daughter; viewed Gillis as the son she never had; giving Gillis health advice; Gillis telling people in Washington stories about her; discusses Gillis=s father Floyd; picking cotton with Gillis; describes her nephew=s visits to her; Gillis=s desire to be a lawyer; discusses her brother Floyd=s poverty; discounts story that Gillis lived in a chicken coop as a child; Earl Long and Pea Patch Farm; gives directions to Pea Patch Farm; Earl Long as governor; Earl Long=s generosity and kindness; poverty of the Long family