Oral memoirs of Hallie Jenkins Singleton

Abstract

interviewed by Tommye Lou Whittenburg on 6 occasions from 17 February to 26 March 1976 in Waco, Texas.

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269 pages; index

Hallie Jenkins Singleton was a member of a prominent Baptist family and wife of Gordon G. Singleton; family history; recollections of aunt, Georgia Jenkins Burleson, uncle, Rufus C. Burleson, and grandfather, Joseph Speight; sister Josephine's marriage to George W. Truett; recollections of Truett; organization of First Baptist Church, Waco; sister Annie Jenkins Sallee's call to China mission and marriage; Eugene Sallee's importation of cows into China; Sallee's fund-raising and death; return of Annie Sallee to China; evacuation of missionaries from China, World War Two; recollection of brother Warwick Jenkins, sister Sarah Jenkins Graves, George Berry Graves, and nephew George Berry Graves, Jr.; Sarah's marriage to Thomas J. Watts; recollections of sister Martha Jenkins Marchman and brother James R. Jenkins; James R. Jenkins's handicap; recollections of brother Speight Jenkins; influence of sister Sarah and Willie Dawson; private music study, Waco; meeting husband; courtship; organization of Young Women's Auxiliaries in Texas; husband's World War One service; illness in influenza epidemic of 1918; entertaining at Camp MacArthur, Waco; medical treatment of pneumonia following influenza; clothing fashions before World War One; elementary education, Sul Ross school; substitute teaching, Third Street School, Waco; recollections of A. J. Armstrong; Sunday activities; home Bible study; recollections of B. H. Carroll; father's spiritual life; Sunday-school teaching, First Baptist Church, Waco; family music and prayers; early automobiles; learning to drive; Texas Cotton Palace; father's work for Prohibition and woman's suffrage; engagement; marriage; life in Athens, Georgia; living in Georgia small towns; creation of young people's church organizations, Cordele, Georgia; director of young people's work, Second Baptist Church, Atlanta; husband's doctorate, Columbia University; president, Columbia Dames; voice study, New York; New York theater; experience of Southerners in New York; decision not to become professional singer; volunteer work with Kiwanis; family ties to Mercer University; husband's teaching, Mercer; husband's selection as president of Mary Hardin-Baylor College (MH-B); campus social life; weddings on campus; Young Women's Auxiliary and Girls' Auxiliary house parties; visiting Baptist encampments; obligations as president's wife; speaking engagements; move to Baylor; sponsorship, Kappa Theta sorority, Baylor; MH-B receptions for Fort Hood soldiers; Woman's Missionary Union work; substitute teaching for Willie Dawson.