Oral History with Ms. Frances E. Joyner

              Oral History with Ms. Frances E. Joyner
F341.5 . M57 vol. 746, pt. 1
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Biography
Ms. Frances Elkin Joyner was born on November 23, 1909, in Tupelo, Mississippi, the daughter of a physician, Dr. T. F. Elkin. She was graduated from Tupelo High School in 1928 and then attended National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Maryland. She married Ernest Love Joyner Jr. on October 14, 1936, just months after the worst tornado in Tupelo's history. She and her husband owned and operated manufacturing plants in Mississippi that made shirts for New York markets.
The Joyners became the parents of three children; Ms. Joyner currently has eight grandchildren and two great- grandchildren. She is a member of the Presbyterian faith; served as the treasurer of the Red Cross; and has volunteered in service work for her community in Tupelo throughout her life there.
Table of Contents
I. Childhood
II. T. K. E. Drugstore
III. T and S in downtown Tupelo
IV. The City of New Orleans
V. The Frisco from Tupelo to Memphis
VI. Husband, Mr. Ernest Joyner
VII. Children
VIII. Neighborhood of childhood at Church and Jefferson, Tupelo
IX. Physicians in Tupelo, early 1900s
X. Tupelo tornado of 1936
XI. Home talent shows
XII. The Fair
XIII. Tupelo's Chatauqua
XIV. City- wide revival
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