FOLKLORE SUBJECTS Name of interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Subject: Signs and Superstitions Story--Information (If not enough space on this page, add page) "In slavery times you us...
Project #1655 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. FRANK ADAMSON EX-SLAVE 82 YEARS OLD. "I 'members when you was barefoot at de bottom; now I see you a settin' dere, gittin' bare at de top...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Hettie Mitchell (mulatto) Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 69 "I am sixty-nine years old. I was raised in Dyersburg, Tennessee. I can t...
N.C. District: 2 Worker: Mary Hicks No. Words: 260 Subject: MR. BELL'S PLANTATION Reference: Jacob Thomas Editor: George L. Andrews [TR: Date stamp: AUG 6 1937] MR. BELL'S PLANTATI...
Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A. District #6 Marion County Anna Pritchett 1200 Kentucky Avenue FOLKLORE JOE ROBINSON--EX-SLAVE 1132 Cornell Avenue Joe Robinson was born in Ma...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lewis Chase; Des Arc, Arkansas Age: 90? [TR: Some word pronunciation was marked in this interview. Letters surrounded by [] re...
VALMAR CORMIER was born a slave to Duplissent Dugat, a small slave-holder of Lafayette, Louisiana. He tells his story in a mixture of English and French. As far as he knows, he is...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Enoch Beel; Green Grove, Hazen, Arkansas Age: 79 "Yes maam I was born a slave, born in slavery times. I wer born in Hardman Co...
CHRISTIAN CO. (Mamie Hanbery) [HW: Ky 3] Story of Easter Sudie Campbell, (age about 72, Webber St., Hopkinsville, Ky.) Born in Princeton, Caldwell Co., Kentucky, her parents were s...
FOLKLORE INTERVIEW CARRIE NANCY FRYER 415 Mill Street Augusta, Georgia Written by: Miss Maude Barragan Federal Writers' Project Residency #13 Augusta, Georgia An angular, red-skinn...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Frank Larkin 618 E. Fifteenth, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 85 "I was somewhere 'bout twelve years old when the Civil War ended. I...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mary Allen Darrow, Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 74 "I was born at Monticello, Arkansas at the last of the Cibil (Civil) War. My...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Nely Gray 821 E. 18th Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 84 Occupation: Does a little quilting "Yes ma'm, I was sold from Richmo...
Name of Interviewer: Martin-Barker Subject: Ex-Slave Story--Information (If not enough space on this page add page) This information given by: Frank Larkin Place of Residence: RFD...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Frank Larkin 1126 W. Second Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 77 "Yes ma'm, I was born in slavery times, right about 1860. I wa...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Isom Starnes, Marianna, Arkansas Age: 78 "I was born in Marshall County, Alabama near Guntersville. Father belong to the Starn...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Lyttleton Dandridge 2800 W. Tenth Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 80 "I was told I was born in '57 in East Carroll Parish, Lo...
Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Marguerite Perkins West Sixth and Catalpa Streets, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 81 "I was born in slavery times, Miss. I was born in So...
Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Virginia Sims 1121 N. Magnolia Pine Bluff, Ark. Age: 93 Occupation: Retired Midwife "I was born in 1844. I was twenty when peace was...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 712 Subject: CELIA ROBINSON Story teller: Celia Robinson Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt CELIA ROBINSON 611 E. Cabarrus St. "My n...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Jennie Ferrell, West Memphis, Arkansas Age: 65 "I was born in Yellowbush County, Mississippi close to Grenada. Grandmother com...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: John W. H. Barnett, Marianna, Arkansas Age: 81 "I was born at Clinton Parish, Louisiana. I'm eighty-one years old. My parents...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Nannie P. Madden West Memphis, Arkansas Age: 69 "I am Martha Johnson's sister. I was born at Lake Village, Arkansas. I am 69 y...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Elizabeth Brannon, Biscoe, Arkansas (Packed to move somewhere else) Age: 40 plus "I was born in Helena, Arkansas. Grandma rais...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Leonard Franklin Temporary: 301 Ridgeway, Little Rock, Arkansas Permanent: Warren, Arkansas Age: 70 [HW: Mother Whipped Overseer]...
MILLIE FORWARD, about 95 years old, was born a slave of Jason Forward, in Jasper, Texas. She has spent her entire life in that vicinity, and now lives in Jasper with her son, Joe M...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: William Porter 1818 Louisiana Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 81 Occupation: Janitor of church "Yes'm I lived in slavery time...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Felix Street 822 Schiller Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 74 I was born in Dickson County, Tennessee, fifty miles north of Nash...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Joe Tillman W. 10th and Highway No. 79 Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 79 "I was born in 1859 down here at Walnut Lake. The man what...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Liza Moore Tanner, Helena, Arkansas Age: 79 "I was born in north Georgia. It was not fer from Rome. We belong to Master Belton...