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[Identification of item], in the Eau Claire Music Club Collection #70089, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Processed by: Anne Wells and Meredith Kite, October 2020

Encoded by: Anne Wells, October 2020

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• Crumpler, Martha Boozer.
• Eau Claire Music Club (Columbia, S.C.)
• Folk songs, English--South Carolina.
• Newberry County (S.C.)--Songs and music.
• Richland County (S.C.)--Songs and music.
• Singers--South Carolina.
• Snyder, Mary Crumpler, 1922-1987.
• Snyder, Susan Harriet.
• Songs, English--South Carolina.
• South Carolina--Songs and music.
• Women singers--South Carolina.

• Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025

Mary Isla Crumpler Snyder (1922-1987) was born in Latta, Dillon County, S.C. in 1922. She was married to Robert Johnston Snyder (1922-2003) in 1954. Mary Crumpler Snyder's mother, Martha Boozer Crumpler, and daughter, Susan Harriet Snyder, were members of the Eau Claire Music Club, a women's music club of Columbia, S.C.

In 1937 a group of women from the Eau Claire community of Columbia, S.C. formed the Eau Claire Music Club. Their "aim and purpose were to promote better music and to contribute to the cultural life of the community." In 1940, the Eau Claire Music Club became a member of the National Federation of Music Clubs and thereby of the South Carolina Federation of Music Clubs. Soon the membership branched out past the Eau Claire area to include individuals from the larger Columbia area.

1/4" open reel audio recording of folk songs performed by Martha Boozer Crumpler and Susan Harriet Snyder, both white women affiliated with the Eau Claire Music Club of Columbia, Richland County, S.C. Martha Boozer Crumpler is the maternal grandmother of Susan Harriet Snyder. The songs they perform on the recording were handed down to them by their families in Newberry County, S.C., dating back to the mid and late 1800s. Mary Crumpler Snyder (1922-1987), the daughter of Martha Boozer Crumpler and mother of Susan Harriet Snyder, made the recording at a meeting of the Eau Claire Music Club, for the "Family Participation Program", on 14 May 1963. The collection also contains supporting documentation, including a collection cover sheet prepared by former library staff, sheet music for the song, "My Father Was A Spanish Merchant", and a letter from Mary Crumpler Snyder containing information about the performance and the history of the songs, "My Father Was A Spanish Merchant" and "Madam, I Have a Court Engaged" or "The Courting Cage."

• Audiotape (FT-1223)
• Field Notes (Folder 543), Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025