N. C. District: No. 2 [320246] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 936 Subject: SUSAN HIGH Story Teller: Susan High Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] SUSAN HIGH 519 Hay...
Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A. District #6 Marion County Harry Jackson WILLIAM M. QUINN (EX-SLAVE) 431 Bright Street, Indianapolis, Ind. William M. Quinn, 431 Bright street...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320230] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 942 Subject: GEORGE W. HARRIS Story Teller: George W. Harris Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] GEORGE...
Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: J.H. Beckwith 619 North Spruce Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 68 "No ma'm I was not born in the time of slavery. I was sixty-eigh...
LORENZA EZELL, Beaumont, Texas, Negro, was born in 1850 on the plantation of Ned Lipscomb, in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Lorenza is above the average in intelligence and r...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 652 Subject: MELISSA WILLIAMSON Story teller: Melissa Williamson Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt MELISSA WILLIAMSON Ex-Slave Story...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Railroad Dockery 1103 Short 13th, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 81 "Railroad Dockery, that's my name. I belonged to John Dockery an...
UNION CO. (Ruby J. Girten) A Bill of Sale: This indenture, made and entered into this 5th day of June 1850, by and between Joseph W. Cromwell and Martha Cromwell, his wife, of the...
Pine Bluff District FOLKLORE SUBJECTS Name of Interviewer: Martin & Barker Subject: Negro Customs This information given by: Sarah Smiley (Colored) Place of Residence: Humphrey, Ar...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Vera Roy Bobo (Mulatto, almost white) Holly Grove, Arkansas Age: 62 "My parents come from Macon, Georgia. My mother was Margar...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Fannie Dorum 423 W. Twenty-Fourth Street North Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 94 [TR: Some word pronunciation was marked in this inter...
Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person Interviewed: Laura Hart Eleventh & Orange St., Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 85 "I just can't tell you when I was born cause I don't know. My mother...
Oklahoma Writer's Project Ex-Slaves BETTY ROBERTSON Age 93 yrs. Fort Gibson, Oklahoma I was born close to Webber's Falls, in the Canadian District of the Cherokee Nation, in the sa...
FANNIE BROWN, aged Negro of Waco, Texas, does not know her age. She was born near Richmond, Virginia, a slave of the Koonce family. They sold her to Mrs. Margaret Taylor, of Belton...
FRANK BELL, 86, was a slave of Johnson Bell, who ran a saloon in New Orleans. Frank lives in Madisonville, Texas. "I was owned by Johnson Bell and born in New Orleans, in Louisiana...
Interviewer: Mary D. Hudgins Person interviewed: Henry Long Home 112 East Grand Age: c. 71 "Yes, 'um, I owns my own home--and what's more it's on the same street with the Mayor's h...
INTERVIEW ELLIS KEN KANNON 328 5th Avenue N. St. Mary's Church Nashville, Tennessee "I dunno jes how ole I ez. I wuz bawn in Tennessee as a slave. Mah mammy kum frum Virginia. Our...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Sophie D. Belle, Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 77 "I was born near Knoxville, Georgia. My mother was a professional pastry cook....
N. C. District: No. 2. [320148] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 652 Subject: CHARLIE CRUMP Person Interviewed: Charlie Crump Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "--- 11 193...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Clarice Jackson Eighteenth and Virginia, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 82 "I was six or seven when they begin goin' to the Civil Wa...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Clarice Jackson 1738 Virginia Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 84 "Was I here in slavery days? Well, I remember when the soldi...
Maryland 9/14/37 Guthrie PHILLIP JOHNSON, An Ex-Slave. Ref: Phillip Johnson, R.F.D. Poolesville, Md. The subject of this sketch is a pure blooded Negro, whose kinky hair is now whi...
Iris Cook Dist 4 Floyd Co. SLAVE STORY THE STORY OF ALEX WOODSON 905 E. 4th St. New Albany, Ind. Observation of Writer Alex Woodson is an old light skinned darkey, he looks to be b...
PLANTATION LIFE AS VIEWED BY EX-SLAVE CALLIE ELDER, Age 78 640 W. Hancock Avenue Athens, Georgia Written by: Sadie B. Hornsby Athens Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens Leila Harris Au...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Joe Mayes, Madison, Arkansas Age: ? "I was born a slave two years. I never will forget man come and told mother she was free....
Last Wolf: [HW: KY4] On January 20, 1910, a famous gray wolf was seen in Christian County and killed by a man named Tyler. This wolf seemed to be the last wolf seen in this County....
[TR: date stamp MAY 8 1937] SLAVERY DAYS AS RELATED BY: =SNOVEY JACKSON= Ruth A. Chitty--Research Worker Aunt Snovey Jackson, crippled and bent with rheumatism, lives in a cabin se...
--- 1- 1937 Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Tom Haynes 1110 W. Second Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: "I was six years old when the war ended--the day we was...
#790 FORM A Circumstances of Interview STATE--Arkansas NAME OF WORKER--Samuel S. Taylor ADDRESS--Little Rock, Arkansas DATE--December, 1938 SUBJECT--Ex-slave 1. Name and address of...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Emma Hulett Smith; Hazen, Arkansas Age: 66 "I was the first colored baby born here or very near here. There was only three hou...