S-260-264-N Project #1885 Augustus Ladson Charleston, S.C. No. Words: 1195 EX-SLAVE 101 YEARS OF AGE HAS NEVER SHAKEN HANDS SINCE 1863 WAS ON KNEES SCRUBBING WHEN FREEDOM GUN FIRED...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320280] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 789 Subject: Cornelia Andrews Story Teller: Cornelia Andrews Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 7 1937"...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mattie Fannen, Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 87 "My mother was named Silla Davis. She had four children. Her owners was Jep Davi...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 740 Subject: ELLEN TRELL Person Interviewed: Ellen Trell Editor: G.L. Andrews [TR: Date stamp: SEP 10 1937] ELLEN TRELL Age...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Louis Johnson 721 Missouri Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 86 "My father said I was fifteen when peace was declared. In slave...
=Code No.= =Project, 1885-(1)= =Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis= =Place, Marion, S.C.= =Date, June 2, 1937= =NANCY WASHINGTON= =Ex-Slave, 104 years.= "Come in child. Jes set right der...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Evelina Morgan 1317 W. Sixteenth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: App. 81 [TR: Original first page moved to follow second page p...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Frank Cannon R.F.D., two miles, Palestine, Arkansas Age: 77 "I was born three miles west of Starkville, Mississippi on a prett...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Oscar James Rogers, Wheatley, Arkansas Age: Up in 70's "I come to dis state in 1885. I run off from my parents back in North C...
=Project 1885-1= =Folklore= =Spartanburg, Dist. 4= =Feb. 4, 1938= =Edited by:= =Elmer Turnage= =STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES= "March 15, 1862 is de date I allus takes when folks axes how...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320281] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 386 Subject: JOHN DANIELS Story Teller: John Daniels Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] JOHN DANIELS Ex-...
Interviewer: S.S. Taylor Person interviewed: Robert Barr 3108 West 18th St. Little Rock, Ark. Age: 73 Occupation: Preaching [HW: A Preacher Tells His Story] "I am a minister of the...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320212] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 914 Subject: Ex-Slave Story Story Teller: Willie Cozart Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] EX-SLAVE STOR...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320165] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 1430 Subject: Days on the Plantation Person Interviewed: Uncle David Blount Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Sta...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Pauline Fakes, Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 74 "My mama come from Virginia. Her owner was Moses Crawford. He had a bachelor son Pri...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Charlie Jones 1303 Ohio Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 76 "I was borned in '61 in the State of Mississippi August the 15th....
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 Sept. 22, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "I was born near the village of Maybinton, and lived on old Squire Kenner...
Project 1885-1 District #4 Spartanburg, S. C. May 31, 1937 FOLKLORE: EX-SLAVES "I was born on the other side of Maybinton, in Newberry County, South Carolina. Old Squire Kenner was...
Project #1655 Stiles M. Scruggs Columbia, S. C. AN EX-SLAVE WHO CLIMBED UP WITH WHITE FOLKS. Tom Chisolm, a sixty-two year old bricklayer, 11 Railroad Street, Columbia, S. C., is a...
Interviewer: Miss Bailie C. Miller Person interviewed: Mag Brown, Clarksville, Arkansas Age: 85 "I was born in North Carolina and come South with my white folks. They was trying to...
NANCY JACKSON, about 105 years old, was born in Madison Co., Tennessee, a slave of the Griff Lacy family. She was married during slavery and was the mother of three children when s...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320182] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 339 Subject: VINEY BAKER Story Teller: Viney Baker Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] VINEY BAKER Ex-Sla...
EX-SLAVES Interviewer: Pernella Anderson [HW: Hicks, Will] "I was born in Farmerville, La., I don't know what year. I was about three or four years at surrender. I lived with my mo...
Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A. District #6 Marion County Anna Pritchett 1200 Kentucky Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana FOLKLORE MRS. JULIA BOWMAN--EX-SLAVE 1210 North West Str...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lizzie Dunn, Clarendon, Arkansas Age: 88 "I was born close to Hernando, Mississippi. My parents was Cassie Gillahm and Ely Gil...
Mary Wright: Mary Wright, 204 W. Fourth St., Born August 1, 1865. "I was born at Gracey, Kentucky on Mr. James Colemans far, in a log cabin wid a dirt floor en a stick chimney. "Fo...
EX-SLAVE MILDRED HEARD. The following interviews were obtained from Mildred Heard, a young woman who has lived in the country most of her life and might easily be described as a ch...
Interviewer: Beulah Sherwood Hagg Person interviewed: Mrs. Cora Gillam 1023 Arch Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 86 [HW: [Scratching Pacified Master.]] "I have never been entire...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Emmett Beal, Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 78 "I was born in Holloman County, Bolivar, Tennessee. Master Dr. Jim May owned my set er f...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: George Johnson 814 W. Ninth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 75 "I was born in Richmond, Virginia, September 28, 1862, and came...