Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A. District #6 Marion County Anna Pritchett 1200 Kentucky Avenue FOLKLORE MRS. LIZZIE JOHNSON 706 North Senate Avenue, Apt. 1 Mrs. Johnson's fat...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lizzie Johnson, Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 65 "I was born at Holly Springs, Mississippi. My mother was fifteen years old when the s...
#748 Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Mary Jane Hardrige 1501 W. Barraque, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 79 "Well, I don't believe in signs much. My sister was sick...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Belle Buntin, Marianne, Arkansas Age: Up in 80's "I never was sold. I was born in Oakland, Mississippi. My master said he want...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Frank Kennedy, Holly Grove, Arkansas Age: 65 or 70? "My parents' name was Hannah and Charles Kennedy. They b'long to Master Jo...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Jake Goodridge Clarendon, Arkansas Age: 97? 87 is about correct Born August 4, 1857 "I was born close to Jackson, Tennessee in...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: James Henry Nelson 1103 Orange, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 82 Occupation: Gardener "I member all about the war--why of cose. I s...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lettie Nelson St. Marys Street, Helena, Arkansas Age: 55 or 56? "Grandma was Patsy Smith. She said in slavery they had a certa...
LIZZIE HUGHES, blind Negress of Harrison County, Texas, was born on Christmas Day, 1848, a slave of Dr. Newton Fall, near Nacogdoches. Lizzie married when she was eighteen and has...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Claiborne Moss 1812 Marshall Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 81 "I was born in Washington County, Georgia, on Archie Duggins' p...
Project #1655 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. JESSE DAVIS EX-SLAVE 85 YEARS OLD. Jesse Davis, one of the fast disappearing landmarks of slavery times, lives with his wife and son, in...
Interviewer: Mrs. Annie L. LaCotts Person interviewed: Jonas Boone, St, Charles. Arkansas Age: 86 Most any day in St. Charles you can see an old Negro man coming down the street wi...
[Martha J. Jones:] In an interview with Mrs. Martha J. Jones, she reminisced of the old Civil War days as follows: "I was born in Buckingham County, Virginia, and later during the...
ELI DAVISON was born in Dunbar, West Virginia, a slave of Will Davison. Eli has a bill of sale that states he was born in 1844. His master moved to Texas in 1858, and settled in Ma...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Frank Greene 2313 Saracen Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 "Yes'm, I can remember the Civil War and the Yankees, too. I can...
Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A. District #8 Marion County Anna Pritchett 1200 Kentucky Avenue FOLKLORE MRS. HARRIET CHEATAM--EX-SLAVE 816 Darnell Street Interviewer's Commen...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Katherine Clay, Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 69 "I was born in West Point, Mississippi. My folks' owners was Master Harris and...
Project #1655 W. W. Dixon, Winnsboro, S. C. NELSON CAMERON EX-SLAVE 81 YEARS. Nelson Cameron and his wife, Mary, together with a widowed daughter, Rose, and her six children, live...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 May 25, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "I was born in Fairfield County, S.C. near Broad River. I was de son of Joh...
Project 1885-1 Folklore Spartanburg, Dist. 4 Dec. 15, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage [~HW: (Caldwell~] STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "I own a little farm, about 22 acres, and I live on it...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Milton Ritchie R.F.D., Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 78 "I was born in Marietta Hotel at Marietta, Georgia. The hotel belong to Milt...
CHARLEY HURT, 85, was born a slave of John Hurt, who owned a large plantation and over a hundred slaves, in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Charley stayed with his master for five year...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: George Braddox, Hazen, Arkansas Age: 81 Most of the old songs were religious. I don't remember none much. When the war broke o...
PLANTATION LIFE JASPER BATTLE, Age 80 112 Berry St., Athens, Ga. Written by: Grace McCune [HW: (White)] Athens Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens Leila Harris Augusta and John N. Boot...
=Code: Folk-Lore= =Project 1885 -1-= =District #4= =Spartanburg, S.C.= =May 26, 1937= =FOLK-LORE: EX-SLAVES= Aunt Mary Williams stated she remembered slavery times, for she was a g...
Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person Interviewed: Shepherd Rhone 10th and Kentucky Pine Bluff, Ark. Age: 75 "Yes ma'am, I was bred and born in 'sixty-three in Phillips County, Arkans...
Project 1885-1 Folklore Spartanburg, Dist. 4 Oct. 15, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES OF EX-SLAVES "I live in a little two-room house beyond Helena where I work a little patc...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) J.M. Johnson, Field Worker John A. Simms, Editor Chaseville, Florida August 28, 1936 WILLIAM SHERMAN In Chaseville, F...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Carrie Bradley Logan Bennet, Helena, Arkansas Age: 79 plus "I was born not a great piece from Mobile but it was in Mississippi...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves "UNCLE" GEORGE G. KING Age 83 yrs Tulsa, Oklahoma "Prayers for sale.... Prayers for sale...." Uncle George chants in sing-song fashion as he roa...