N. C. District: No. 2 [320115] Worker: Mary Hicks No. Words: 462 Subject: PLANTATION LIFE IN GEORGIA Reference: Midge Burnett Editor: George L. Andrews [TR: Date Stamp "AUG 6 1937"...
Interviewer: Mary D. Hudgins. Person Interviewed: Mrs. Lou Fergusson Aged: 91 Home: With daughter Mrs. Peach Sinclair, Wade Street. [Jan 29 1938] Zig-zaging across better than a mi...
FOLKLORE SUBJECTS [HW: Ex-slave, Texarkans Dist.] Name of Interviewer: Mrs. W. M. Ball Subject: Folk Tales. Information given by: Preston Kyles Place of Residence: 800 Block. Laure...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person Interviewed: Thomas Ruffin 1310 Cross Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 82 or 84 "I was born in North Carolina, Franklin County, near Raleigh....
Iris Cook District 4 Floyd County STORY OF GEORGE MORRISON 25 East 5th St., New Albany, Ind. Observation of the writer (This old negro, known as "Uncle George" by the neighbors, is...
Ex-Slave stories District #5 Vanderburgh County Lauana Creel JAMES CHILDRESS' STORY 312 S.E. Fifth Street, Evansville, Indiana From an interview with James Childress and from John...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: James Spikes 2101 Bell Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 91 "Good morning. Yes'm I remember the Civil War. I was a soldier. I w...
District: No. 2 [320158] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 1554 Subject: Joe High Person Interviewed: Joe High Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 1 1937"] [HW: intere...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Pauline Howell Nickname Pearl Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 65 or 70? "I was born in Paris, Tennessee and come to Arkansas when I wa...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Tom Stanhouse R.F.D. Brinkley, Ark. Age: 74 "I was born close to Greenville, South Carolina. I lived down close to Spartanburg...
JAMES BROWN, 84, blind for the last 12 years and now living alone in a shack at 408 W. Belknap, Fort Worth, Texas, was born a slave of Mr. Berney in Bell Co., Texas, in 1853. While...
#653 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Jennie Wormly Gibson Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 49 "Gran'ma was Phoebe West. Mama was Jennie West. Mama was a little girl when...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Virginia (Jennie) Davis Scott Street, Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 45 or 47 "This is what my father, Isaac Johnson, always told...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Ivory Osborne Route 5, Box 158, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 85 "Know about slavery? Sho I do--I was born in '52. Born in Arkansas...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Lewis Mann 1501 Bell Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 81 "As nigh as I can come at it, I was bout five or six time of the war....
LOUIS CAIN, 88, was born in North Carolina, a slave of Samuel Cain. After Louis was freed, he came to Texas, and has farmed near Madisonville over sixty years. "I knows I's birthed...
LESLIE CO. (Viola Bowling) McIntosh was a very progressive farmer and had a large supply of food, being a Rebel of the Rebel Army camped at the mouth of this creek near his home wh...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Dinah Perry 1800 Ohio Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 "Yes ma'am, I lived in slavery times. They brought me from Alabama,...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Dinah Perry 1002 Indiana, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 [TR: Appears to be same as last informant despite different address.] "I...
HARRISON BOYD, 87, was born in Rusk County, Texas, a slave of Wash Trammel. Boyd remained with his master for four years after emancipation, then moved to Harrison County, where he...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 669 Subject: HENRY ROUNTREE Person Interviewed: Henry Rountree Editor: G.L. Andrews HENRY ROUNTREE Henry Rountree, 103 years o...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320157] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 341 Subject: WHEN THE YANKEES CAME Story Teller: John Beckwith Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] WHEN T...
WILL ADAMS was born in 1857, a slave of Dave Cavin, in Harrison Co., Texas. He remained with the Cavins until 1885, then farmed for himself. Will lives alone in Marshall, Texas, su...
Pine Bluff District FOLKLORE SUBJECTS Name of Interviewer: Martin & Barker Subject: Ex-Slaves--Slavery Times This Information given by: Maggie Perkins Place of Residence: W. 6th. S...
INTERVIEW WITH: MIRRIAM McCOMMONS, Age 76 164 Augusta Avenue Athens, Georgia Written by: Miss Grace McCune Research Worker Athens, Georgia Edited by: Mrs. Sarah H. Hall Athens John...
Interviewer: Zillah Cross Peel Information given by: Aunt Susie King, Ex-slave. Residence: Cane Hill, Arkansas. Washington County. Age: about 93. Across the Town Branch, in what is...
Interviewer: Mrs. Annie L. LaCotts Person interviewed: Harriett McFarlin Payne Dewitt, Arkansas Age: 83 "Aunt Harriett, were you born in slavery time?" "Yes, mam! I was big enough...
Maryland [--]-22-37 Rogers JAMES WIGGINS, Ex-slave. Reference: Personal interview with James Wiggins, ex-slave, at his home, 625 Barre St. "I was born in Anne Arundel County, on a...
Interviewer: Mary D. Hudgins Person Interviewed: John Elliott Age: 80 Home: South Border (property of brother's estate) As told by: John Elliott "No, ma'am. I ain't got no folks. T...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: John H. Smith 2602 W. Twelfth Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 81 "I reckon I was here, I member seein' the smoke from the gun...