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Rose Braun Chilcott (1902-1981) oral history

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Transcription: RBC: Will this go into this thing that I'm giving this information? BM: Yeah. OK. Now, would you tell me your name, and what your maiden name was and where you live now. RBC: Yeah. Well, I'm Rose Chilcott, and I, umm, my maiden name was Braun, and I live at 706 Illinois Road. That's what you wanted? BM: All right. Mrs. Chilcott, would you tell me about your grandparents and what you remember about them and their home? RBC: Well, I remember that they lived at 728, and shall I say that - 728 Illinois Road. And, um, I remember my - did I start out with that? Oh, you don't want this. I didn't mention my Grama and Grampa at all, did I? BM: No. RBC: Oh, you just want me to start that I live at 728 Illinois Road, like that? BM: No, you live at 706 Illinois Road. RBC: I was born at - in 706. BM: You were born in 706. RBC: In 1902. You want that? BM: Yeah. RBC: I was born here at 706 Illinois Road in nineteen hundred and two, and my grandparents -- Bernard and Emma Braun? Rose Braun Chilcott, cont. 2 BM: Good. RBC: - lived at 728 Illinois Road and - BM: Were they farming it at the time? RBC: They were farming it at the time and also they cleared the woods. You know, I mean, they did clearing of their property. The trees and things. And they farmed here and had quite a few cows which were taken down to some property they owned where the Indian Hill Golf Course is located now, on Locust Road. They had 4 acres there and that's where they took their cattle to graze. And they were taken down in the morning and brought back at night. And I can remember the great big old barn and the house they lived in and my father was born there in, umm, 1867. BM: All right. Can we - do you want to tell me about your grandparents? RBC: Yeah, I don't remember too much about Grandfather Braun, uh, but I do remember more about my grandmother. Oh, I used to run errands for her to the store, and on the way -- we had wooden sidewalks in those days, and uh, come home from school and do little things for her and she was always out feeding chickens or something like that and she had a beautiful flower garden, and she worked in her flower garden and then they had grapes - grapevines and Rose Braun Chilcott, cont. 3 things -- and she was picking grapes and, and she'd come up here. This is the thing I remember more about her than anything -- is when she used to come up here in the winter time and help us - Uh, well I wouldn't say it was winter time, when the beans were picked, she'd come up here and we would, uh, cut beans, French style. And they were put up in crocks for use, and she would come up here and help. And, boy, she was good. Really cut those beans. And, uh, she was always doing things for us. We were close to her here and we spent a lot of time clown wit:h her and -- BM: Did she have other children besides your father? RBC: There were, umm, oh, -- [pause] -- these must have been - [pause, talking in background] - there must have been 11 children - BM: Do you want to say that a little bit louder, because I don't think we're picking that up. RBC: I didn't know if you wanted it all. BM: Yes, I want it all.
Creators: Chilcott, Rose Braun, 1902-1981, Interviewee; Maselli, Briggs
, Interviewer
Media Type: Audio; Text; Genealogical Resource
Item Type: Audiocassettes
Description: Interview of Rose Braun Chilcott by Briggs Maselli in Wilmette, Illinois, 1979.

Abstract:

Truck farming at Illinois Rd. and Lake Ave.

Travel to South Water St. market, 1867-1942

Occupations of 11 Braun siblings

Household tasks

Gross Point Band

Chicago Fire

Family activities

Schools described
Place of Publication: Wilmette, Illinois
Date of Original: 1979
Subject(s): Farmers
Oral histories
Gross Point (Ill.) — History
Personal Name(s): Chilcott, Rose Braun
Local identifier: R 977.31 CH
Language of Item: English
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Copyright Holder: Wilmette Public Library
Copyright Holder Contact Information: 1242 Wilmette Ave.
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Recommended Citation: Chilcott, Rose Braun, and Briggs Maselli. Rose Braun Chilcott. Wilmette, Ill: Wilmette Public Library District, 1979.
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