00:00:45 - Born May 16, 1906 at home around Church Point, LA; Received all the sacraments and got married at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Church Point; Father Roger(?) from France; Went to the Savoy School then
00:02:15 - Went to the Savoy School then another school by Myrtle's house; Students were lucky if they got to go to school for three months; Summer school; They walked to school, no school buses; Reading, arithmetic, and spelling all in english; Not allowed to speak french at school; Her dad spoke english and french; He was the only one around who could read and write;
00:06:20 - She spoke french to her children; Her parents were Dominic Ledoux and Amanda Guidry; Her paternal grandparents were Francois Ledoux and Josephine Leger;
00:07:40 - The main thing she remembers about her mother was that she was always sewing; She would sew for her five daughters; She had friends that would come over and talk; Her mother and sister made a lot of quilts later in life after she got married;
00:10:00 - Meals; They ate a lot of poultry; Sweet dough pies; Her mother was a good cook;
00:10:45 - Her mother taught them how to sew scraps for quilts when they were small children; Dolls and toys for Christmas; Birthdays weren't much back then;
00:12:20 - Siblings; 3 brothers and 4 sisters; They always had a garden; Irish potatoes, onions, cabbages;
00:13:19 - Her father was a farmer and worked on the garden on the side; Chickens, cattle, guineas, geese; Used feathers to make beds;
00:14:40 - Her husband; They went to school together, he was three years older; Parties;
00:15:50 - Got married when he was almost 22 and she was 18 in Church Point; Friends came over after; Her mother made her wedding dress with Spanish lace; Her whole outfit cost $21; At Con's (?) department store in Rayne; Long dress with a veil; Long gloves; No honeymoon;
00:19:25 - Stayed at his dad's house for a few weeks; She knew how to cook; Typically rice, meat, and vegetables;
00:20:30 - Her garden; She'd work in it as early as she could; It was relaxing for her;
00:22:20 - Canning; Corn, blackberries; Syrup pie recipe; Baking pies and bringing them to St. Agnes in Eunice (Now St. Thomas Moore);
00:25:00 - They got married in 1924 and moved to Richey in 1927; Farming the land; Rice, cotton, sweet potatoes; She picked a lot of cotton throughout her life;
00:28:45 - Rice harvest; She didn't help with the rice in the field; She'd make lunch for her husband;
00:30:15 - Her first child was stillborn; Her other children were Myrtle, Allen, Shelton, and Rupert; Allen died; They helped pick cotton; Her daughter learned how to sew; She'd buy fabric in Church Point and Rayne; Oscar Guidry's store; She'd make all of her kids clothes;
00:34:45 - Her kids went to school in Iota; House dances and get togethers; Shoo fly;
00:37:35 - They would go to church on Sundays; Her mom would stay home from church and cook; Guinea gumbo with sausage; In the afternoons, they would read the rosaries; People who couldn't go to church would go see them;
00:40:30 - Dr. Titi Chacheres (?) and Dr. Harry Jenkins; Typhoid; Fever lasted up to five weeks sometimes; Her uncle had it;
00:44:20 - Traiteurs; Treatment for sun stroke, burns;
00:45:30 - Mardi gras; Making costumes; She doesn't remember people chasing chickens; The mardi gras stole salt from her mother and they later found it in a field; About ten riders;
00:48:00 - Pointe Noire; Where Paul Daigle lives; She was at a house dance one time and a Melancon from Coulee Croche shot at somebody, missed, and hit a lady's leg who was sitting down; F. Richard had a store and he got cut at a dance;
00:52:20 - Musicians from the area; Angelas Lejeune; He'd play at different houses;
00:53:00 - Jayhawkers; Buried treasure;
00:55:35 - Easter; They used to pacque eggs; They would dye the eggs with coffee grinds and leaves; Sometimes they had goose eggs; Story about her uncle;