Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg--Dist. 4 May 18, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "White folks. I sho nuff did ride wid de 'Red Shirts' fer Marse Hampton. D...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: William J. Stevens, Brinkley, Arkansas Age: Up in 70's "I was born in Pleasant Hill, Alabama. My owners were Haley and Missour...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Mandy Thomas, 13th and Pearl Streets, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 Occupation: Laundress "I know my sister told me I was five w...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Matilda Bass 1100 Palm Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 80 "Yes ma'am, I was eight years old when the Old War ceasted. "Honey,...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mike Thompson, Widener, Arkansas Age: 79 "I was born near Honey Grove, Texas. I remember my grandparents on both sides--they w...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 901 Subject: EX-SLAVE STORIES Person Interviewed: Ophelia Whitley Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt EX-SLAVE STORIES An Interview by...
Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, October 21, 1937 SYLVIA DURANT Ex-Slave, 72 Years "Well, I tell you just like it been. Dat was an unexpect...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Warren Taylor 3200 W. Seventeenth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 74 My people are all from Richmond, Virginia. I was just four...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320160] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 466 Subject: EX-SLAVE STORY Story Teller: George Eatman Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 1 1937"] EX-...
Joana Owens: The following is the life and traditions of Joana Owens, 520 E. Breckinridge St., Louisville, Kentucky, an old negro mammy who was born during slavery. "My mother and...
Interviewer: Mrs. Carol Graham Person interviewed: Marion Johnson "Howdy, Missy, glad to see you again. As you sees I'm 'bout wound up on my cotton baskets and now I got these chai...
Interviewer: Carol Graham (Add.) Person interviewed: Marion Johnson El Dorado, Ark. Age: ? "Dar's golden streets and a pearly gate somewhars, Dar's golden streets and a pearly gate...
Interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lacy Person interviewed: Sam Miller, Morrilton, Arkansas Age: 98 "I is ninety-eight years old, suh. My name's Sam Miller, and I was born in Texas in 1840...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320154] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 670 Subject: EX-SLAVE STORY Story Teller: Elbert Hunter Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 1 1937"] EX-...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Frozie Moss (dark mulatto), Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 69 "When my grandma whut raised me got free she and grandpa come to Memphi...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320187] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 382 Subject: JENNYLIN DUNN Person Interviewed: Jennylin Dunn Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] JENNYLIN...
FOLKLORE SUBJECTS Name of Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Subject: Superstitions Story:--Information This information given by: Jesse Meeks Place of residence: 707 Elm Street, Pin...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Jesse Meeks 707 Elm Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 76 Occupation: Minister "I am seventy-six. 'Course I was young in slavery...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Joseph Samuel Badgett 1221 Wright Avenue, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 72 [HW: Mother was a Fighter] "My mother had Indian in her. S...
=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =MARY RAINES= =EX-SLAVE 99 YEARS OLD.= Mary Raines is the oldest living person, white or black, in Fairfield County. If she survives...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Rosa Simmons 823 West 13th Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 85? "Yes mam, I was here during that Civil War. I was fifteen year...
SIMP CAMPBELL was born January 1860, in Harrison County, Texas, He belonged to W.L. Sloan and stayed with him until 1883, when Simp married and moved to Marshall. He and his wife l...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: William Harris DeValls Bluff, Ark. Age: 75 or 80 "I was born in Chetam County close to Nashville, Tennessee. Our master was na...
FOLKLORE SUBJECTS [HW: Ex-slave, Texarkana Dist., 9/5/31] Name of Interviewer: Cecil Copeland Subject: Apparition and Will-o'-the-Wisp. Story--Information: Information given by: Pr...
=Project #-1655= =Phoebe Faucette= =Hampton County= =FOLKLORE= =ELIZA SCANTLING EX-SLAVE= =87 Years= "If you wants to know about de slavery times," said old Aunt Eliza, "you'se sur...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Emmett Augasta Byrd, Marianna, Arkansas Age: 83 "I was born in Washington County, Missouri. I'm eighty-three years old. Mothe...
Name of Interviewer: Irene Robertson Subject: Ex-Slave--History This information given by: Jack Boyd Place of Residence: Hazen, Arkansas Occupation: Light jobs now. AGE: 72 [TR: In...
N. C. District: No. 3 [320279] Worker: Travis Jordan Subject: Mary Wallace Bowe Ex-slave 81 Years Durham County Home Durham, N. C. [HW: Lovely story about Abraham Lincoln] [TR: Thi...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: William Lattimore 606 West Pullen Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 "Yes'm I was a slave--I was born in 1859 in Mississippi....
Interviewer: S. S. Taylor Person interviewed: Henry Banner County Hospital Little Rock, Ark. Age: ? [HW: Forty Acres and a Mule] "I was sold the third year of the war for fifteen y...