Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#3709
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT PAPERS
Inventory
Abstract: W. T. Couch (b. 1901), while director of the
University of North Carolina Press, was also a part-
time official of the Federal Writers' Project of the
Works Progress Administration, as assistant and
associate director for North Carolina, 1936-1937, and
as director for the southern region, 1938-1939. These
papers include his correspondence related to the
project, and the life histories of about 1,200
individuals, written by about 60 members of the
project after one or more interviews with the
subjects. Persons interviewed, many of them African
Americans, described life in Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Tennessee, and Virginia. There is a partial index to
the many occupations of those interviewed. Also
included, on microfilm, are ghost stories, local
legends, etc., gathered in the project.
Online Catalog Terms:
African Americans—Southern States—Social conditions—20th
century.
Alabama—Biography.
Alabama—Social conditions—20th century.
Arkansas—Biography.
Arkansas—Social conditions—20th century.
Couch, William T. (William Terry), 1901- .
Federal Writers’ Project.
Florida—Biography.
Florida—Social conditions—20th century.
Folklore—Southern States.
Georgia—Biography.
Georgia—Social conditions—20th century.
Louisiana—Biography.
Louisiana—Social conditions—20th century.
New Deal, 1933-1939—North Carolina.
New Deal, 1933-1939—Southern States.
North Carolina—Biography.
North Carolina—Social conditions—20th century.
Oklahoma—Biography.
Oklahoma—Social conditions—20th century.
Oral history.
South Carolina—Biography.
South Carolina—Social conditions—20th century.
Southern States—Social conditions—20th century.
Tennessee—Biography.
Tennessee—Social conditions—20th century.
Virginia—Biography.
Virginia—Social conditions—20th century.
Size: About 12,000 items (15.0 linear feet).
Date Span: 1936-1940.
Provenance: Transferred from the office of William T.
Couch at the University of North Carolina Press in
1946.
Access: No restrictions.
Alternate Form of Material:
Microfilm copy of selected life histories available.
Reel 1 Folders 110-184
Reel 2 Folders 185-272 and 276-280
Reel 3 Folders 273-275 and 281-359
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copyright law.
Table of Contents:
Description
Folder List
Correspondence
Life Histories
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Miscellaneous
Additions
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
North Carolina
South Carolina
DESCRIPTION
William Terry Couch (b. 1901), director of the University of
North Carolina Press, 1932-1945; director of the University of
Chicago Press, 1945-1950; since 1950, editor and publisher with
encyclopedias and commercial publishers; lived in Palo Alto,
California; returned to live in Chapel Hill.
Couch was associated with the Federal Writers’ Project of the
Works Progress Administration on a part-time basis, 1936-1939, as
associate and assistant state director for North Carolina, 1936-
1937, and as regional director, 1938-1939. Boxes 1-8 of these
papers contain his correspondence and other papers related to his
work with the project. Boxes 9-33 of the papers contain life
histories written by members of the Federal Writers’ Project
after interviews with selected individuals. Selections from
these life histories were published in These Are Our Lives, as
told by the people and written by members of the Federal Writers’
Project of the Works Progress Administration in North Carolina,
Tennessee, and Georgia. (Chapel Hill, The University of North
Carolina Press, 1939. xx, 421 pp. Preface by W. T. Couch.) Box
34 contains a card index of the life histories, compiled by
Couch.
Later publication: Such as Us, Southern Voices of the
Thirties. Edited by Tom E. Terrill and Jerrold Hirsch. Chapel
Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1978.
FOLDER LIST
Correspondence
Folder
1-14 1936-March 1937
15-30 April 1937-July 1938
31-44 August-15 November 1938
45-59 16 November 1938-17 January 1939
60-71 18 January-29 March 1939
72-82 30 March-20 May 1939
83-92 21 May-31 August 1939
93-105 September 1939-1940
Life Histories
Abbreviations used: n.d. = no date given; n.p. = no place given;
and co. = county.
Format:
State in which interviews were done
Folder Interviewer Title (Interviewee, year of
birth, birthplace, race or ethnic group, occupation or
status at time of interview; place of interview, date
of life history)
ALABAMA
Folder
1 Barnard, George S. A Negro Cook’s Day (Rosa
Lee Johnson, ca. 1908, Waycross, Ga., black cook, Ozark,
n.d.)
2 Bowman, Annie L. The Hines (Mary
Hines, n.d., Monroe Co., black teacher,
Atmore, 2 January 1939)
3 Another version of the same interview
4 Cain, Maude. Julia Rhodes
(Julia Rhodes, ca. 1904, Tallapoosa Co.,
white mill worker, Alexander City, 11
October 1938)
5 Cain, Maude. Bertie Turner
(Bertie Turner, n.d., n.p., white boarding-
house operator, Alexander City, 30
December 1938)
6 Clark, Luther. Looking Around
with a Hay Farmer (Leonidas Cockrell, ca.
1867, n.p., white farm owner, McCainville,
14 September 1938
7 Coleman, Victoria. Soil Pipe Worker
(William Smith, ca. 1870, Ohio, white soil
pipe worker, Anniston, 31 January 1939)
8 Couric, Gertha. Sam Lynn,
Fisherman and River Rat [Famous for Fish]
(Sam Lynn, ca. 1879, n.p., black
fisherman, Eufaula, 11 January 1939)
9 Couric, Gertha. Mid-Wives are
Called “Grannies” (Aunt Granny [Lula]
Rousseau, 1861, Eufaula, black midwife,
Eufaula, 15 December 1938)
10 Couric, Gertha. Three Workers of
Cowickee Cotton Mill (Mrs. Lee Snipes,
n.d., n.p., white textile weaver; B. T.
Clements, n.d., n.p., white textile
fireman; Mrs. Champion, n.d., n.p., white
textile weaver, Eufaula, 13 October 1938)
11 Couric, Gertha. The Hughes Family
(James C. [Doc] Hughes, n.d., n.p., white
mill worker, Eufaula, 20 October 1938)
12 Couric, Gertha. The Sam
Andersons—Cotton Mill Workers (Sam
Anderson, n.d., n.p., white mill worker,
Eufaula, 20 October 1938)
13 Couric, Gertha. Mill Workers
(Nancy Nolan, n.d., n.p., white mill
worker, Barbour Co., 20 October 1938)
14 Couric, Gertha. Hand, Woodrow.
“Ed West-Installment Collector” (Ed West,
n.d., n.p., white installment collector,
Eufaula, 14 February 1939)
15 Couric, Gertha. My Time is Mighty
Nigh Out (Mrs. Lucy Thomas, 1859?, n.p.,
black washwoman, 14 February 1939)
16 Couric, Gertha. A Day on the Farm
(Mrs. Ola Titus, ca. 1867, n.p., white
farmer, Barbour Co., 20 January 1939; Mrs.
Annie Blair, ca. 1869, n.p., white farmer,
Barbour Co., 20 January 1939)
17 Another version of the same interview
18 Couric, Gertha. Fifty-Two Years in
the Cotton Mill (Tom Asobrook, ca. 1867,
n.p., white mill worker, Eufaula, 13
October 1938)
19 Diard, Francois L. Sharon Cousins,
Knight of the Road (Sharon Cousins, 1914,
Ellenburg, WS, white hobo, Mobile, 3
February 1939)
20 Dobson, Noma. Veteran
Newspaperman (Charles H. Geer, 1860,
Troupe Co., GA, newspaperman, Sylacauga,
19 December 1938)
21 Donigan, Charles M. C. F. Gerber,
Farmer (C. F. Gerber, Barton co., KA,
white farmer, Sheffield, 16 January 1939)
22 Evans, Lawrence. Story of a
Minister’s Family and Life (Dr. W. H.
Evans, ca. 1873, MS, white Baptist pastor,
Fairhope, 18 January 1939)
23 Evans, Lawrence. Master Cain,
of the Grover Cleveland, of Bayou la Batre
(E. J. Cain, n.d., Bayou la Batre, white
shrimp boat operator, 14 October 1938)
24 Evans, Lawrence. “A Small Town
Doctor” (Floyd L. Abernathy, n.d.,
Prattville, white doctor, Foley, 1
February 1939)
Another version, “A Plain Country Doctor,”
in folder 91
25 Evans, Lawrence. The Potter
(Ed Grace, n.d., n.p., white potter,
Daphen, 7 October 1938)
26 Evans, Lawrence. An Oysterman
(Lawrence Nelson, n.d., [Foley?], white
oysterman, Foley, 5 October 1938)
27 Evans, Lawrence. Sam, the
Turpentine Chopper (Sam Jackson, ca.
1916, n.p., black turpentiner, Stapleton,
21 September 1938)
28 Hall, Covington. The “Andrew
Jackson of Southern Labor” (Arthur Lee
Emerson, ca. 1881, Tennessee, white union
organizer, farmer, Mentone, 15 December
1938)
29 Hall, Covington. Mountain
Thinker and Experimenter (George Smith,
ca. 1900, n.p., white experimenter,
Mentone, 5 January 1939)
30 Hall, Covington. Mountain
Merchant-Farmer (Dan Smith, n.d., n.p.,
white merchant and farmer, Mentone, 7
December 1938)
31 Hall, Covington. Sam Cash,
Farmer-Miner (Sam Cash, ca. 1871, near
Mentone, white farmer-miner, Mentone, 7
December 1938)
32 Hand, Woodrow. Johnnie
Gates—Truck-Miner (John H. Gates, n.d.,
n.p., white truck-miner, Helena, 15
September 1938)
33 Hand, Woodrow. Gertha
Couric—Hotel Hostess—WPA Worker (Gertha
Couric, ca. 1896, Eufaula, white hotel
hostess, WPA worker, Eufaula, 31 January
1939)
34 Harper, Edward F. Hobbies, Pets, and
Children (Lloyd Wesley Lewis, 1912,
Elmore co., AL, white industrial
blacksmith, Ensley, 30 November 1938)
35 Hartley, Helen S. Shrimping on
the Schooner Berney Geneva (L. W. Robbie,
ca. 1900, n.p., white shrimp fisherman,
Bayou la Batre, 30 November 1938)
36 Heflin, Wilson L. I Wouldn’t Be
a Farmer (James McDaniel, ca. 1919,
[Winfield?], white college student,
Winfield, 10 August 1939)
37 Heflin, Wilson L. People Call Me
a Loan Shark (A. B. Way, Jr., n.d., n.p.,
white loan shark, Birmingham, 18 July
1939)
38 Klein, Preston. The Truitt
Family—Tenant Farmers (M. B. Truitt,
n.d., n.p., white tenant farmer, Opelika,
10 October 1938)
39 Kytle, Jack. . A Woman’s Like
a Dumb Animal (George Carter, ca. 1877,
n.p., white, logger, Talledega Springs, 25
July 1939)
40 Kytle, Jack.. River Drifter and
41 Bob Curtis: River
Drifter (Bob Curtis, n.d., n.p.,
[white?], fisherman, Talledega Springs, 17
July 1939, 23 September 1938)
42 Kytle, Jack. I’m Allus
Hungry (Orrie Robinson, 1891, Talledega
Springs, white, fisherman, Talledega
Springs, 4 August 1939)
Another version,
“Pattern of Ignorance,” is in Folder 48.
43 Kytle, Jack. Isaac Johnson:
Cajun Turpentiner (Isaac Johnson, n.d.,
Happy Hill Community near Chaton, Cajun,
turpentiner, Happy Hill Community near
Chatom, 29 November 1938)
44 Kytle, Jack Jim Lauderdale:
River Wreck (Jim Lauderdale, 1880, n.p.,
white river rat, Talledega Springs, 22
September 1938)
Another version, “A
Dead Convict Don’t Cost Nothing,” is in
Folder 50.
45 Kytle, Jack Dead Man of Coosa
River (Henry Kelly, ca. 1870, Sylaucauga,
white river rat, Talledega Springs, 21
September 1938)
46 Kytle, Jack “Uncle Bud” Ryland
the Coosa Fisherman (Charley “Uncle Bud”
Ryland, ca. 1870, n.p., white fisherman,
Talledega Springs, 21 September 1938)
47 Kytle, Jack. River Widow:
Portrait of Poverty (Neely “The Widow”
Williams, n.d., n.p., white widow,
Fayetteville, 21 September 1938)
48 Kytle, Jack Pattern of
Ignorance (Orrie Robinson, 1898,
Talledega Springs, white fisherman,
Talledega Springs, 23 September 1938)
Another version, “I’m
Allus Hungry,” is in Folder 42.
49 Kytle, Jack. By the Glory
of God (Harrison Waters, ca. 1881,
Talledega Springs, black farmer, Talledega
Springs, 21 October 1938)
50 Kytle, Jack. A Dead Convict
Don’t Cost Nothing (Jim Lauderdale, 1880,
n.p., white river rat, Talledega Springs,
8 August 1939)
Another version, “Jim
Lauderdale: River Wreck,” is in Folder
44.
51 McDonald, Nettie S. The Poseys (Gayle
Posey, n.d., n.p., white, weatherstrips
houses; Idella Posey, n.d., n.p., white
housewife, Birmingham, n.d.)
52 McDonald, Nettie S. Coal Miner (Sam
Brakefield, 1873, [Lamar co.?], white
miner, [Lamar co.?], n.d.
53 McDonald, Nettie S. Green Fields Far
Away (Joseph Davis, n.d., n.p., white
miner and farmer; Dera Davis, n.d.,
Tennessee, white teacher, North
Birmingham, 30 November 1939)
54 McDonald, Nettie S. Mary Worked in the
Mines in Belgium (Mary De Roy, n.d.,
Belgium, white housewife; August De Roy,
n.d., Belgium, white miner, Republic, 14
July 1939)
55 McDonald, Nettie S. Kytle, Jack. I’m
Crazy about Rats. (Bennie Amerson, n.d.,
n.p., white miner; Mary Amerson, n.d.,
n.p., white housewife, Republic)
56 Marshall, Bennett. Some Grow Old.
(Mrs. S. M. Davis, ca. 1875, Texas, white
boarding house operator, Birmingham, 7
October 1938)
57 O’Brien, Susie R. Ellawhite Mill
Village (Description of California Cotton
Mill, Uniontown, 28 September 1938)
58 O’Brien, Susie R. The Alexanders
(E. J. Alexander, n.d., n.p., white tenant
farmer, Marion, 20 October 1938)
59 Perry, Rhussus L. A Day with
Lula Wright (Lula Wright, 1868, Cotton
Valley, black tenant farmer, Tuskeegee, 18
January 1939)
60 Perry, Rhussus L. Isaac
Hathaway, Sculptor (Isaac Hathaway, n.d.,
Cincinnati [Ohio?], black sculptor,
Tuskeegee, 2 January 1939)
61 Perry, Rhussus L. At Father
Baker’s Home (Mother Baker, ca. 1855,
[Macon co.?], black, ex-slave, farmer,
Macon co.; Father Baker, ca. 1855, [Macon
co.?], Tuskeegee, 22 November 1938)
62 Petterson, Josephine. Life Story of
a Swedish-American (Josephine Petterson,
ca. 1871, Skogsby, Sweden, Swedish-
American, FWP worker, Mobile, 2 February
1939)
63 Prine, Ida B. Life in a
Shrimping and Oyster Shucking Camp (Joe
Vaughn, ca. 1861, Canada, white shrimp
factory worker, Bayou La Batre, 29
November 1938)
64 Prine, Ida B. Mandy Johnson,
Midwife (Mandy Johnson, 1867, Cottage
Hall, black midwife, Cottage Hall, 30
November 1938)
65 Prine, Ida B. Story of Auguste
Mollie (Auguste Mollie, ca. 1858,
Dauphine, France, white farm laborer,
Navcco, 21 December 1938)
66 Prine, Ida B. Kosaku Sawada,
Nurseryman (Kosaka Sawada, n.d., Osaka,
Japan, Japanese nurseryman, Mobile, 20
January 1939)
67 Prine, Ida B. It Ruins Oysters
to Wash Them (Raymond Barbour, 1869,
Dauphine Island, AL, white fisherman,
Bayou La Batre, 15 January 1939)
68 Prine, Ida B. Lena Cash,
Octogenarian (Lena Cash, 1850, New
Orleans, LA, white elderly woman,
Crichton, 5 January 1939)
69 Reese, Marie. “Holly House”
(“Bull” Elliott, n.d., n.p., white tenant
farmer, Loundesboro, 10 October 1938)
70 Rogers, Adelaide. Never No More
(Allen Turpin, ca. 1868, Creek-stand, AL,
black janitor, Montgomery, n.d.)
71 Rogers, Adelaide. Mrs.
Blanchard, Professional Mother (Ellen R.
Blanchard, n.d., [Montgomery?], white
housekeeper, Montgomery, 31 January 1939)
72 Rogers, Adelaide. “Gab’ul Chime
Dat Harp!” (Henry Raymore, n.d., n.p.,
black fortune-teller, Montgomery, n.d.)
73 Tartt, Ruby Pickens. Carry Dykes,
Midwife (Carrie Dykes, ca. 1870, Belmont,
black midwife, Belmont, 4 October 1938)
74 Tartt, Ruby Pickens. No Lawd, I
Ain’t Ready (Hester Frye, n.d., Tishabee,
AL, black maid, Livingston, 17 February
1939)
75 Another version of the
same interview
Another version,
“Hester Frye,” is in Folder 93
76 Tartt, Ruby Pickens. Seeking
Salvation (“Little Bit,” Hattie Amason,
ca. 1885, Livingston, 17 August 1939)
77 Waldrep, R. V. I Wanted to Keep a
Good Horse (Dr. Archie Waldrep, 1869, Red
Bay, white doctor, Red Bay, 20 July 1939)
78 Waldrep, R. V. Lord Loafer
(Liege Massey, n.d., n.p.,
white—occupation given, Red Bay, 17 August
1939)
79 Waldrep, R. V. Bony Winchester
(Bony Winchester, 1870, Red Bay, white
farmer, Red Bay, 17 August 1939)
80 Waldrep, R. V. It’s Hell to Be
Popular (Roberta Park, ca. 1921, n.p.,
white high-school student, Red Bay, 20
July 1939)
81 Waldrep, R. V. Pink Petree (Pink
Petree, ca. 1874, [Pleasant Site?], white
postman/owner country store, Pleasant
Site, 20 July 1939)
82 Waldrep, R. V. John F. Davis
(John F. Davis, [1880?], n.p., white
postman/farmer, Red Bay, 18 July 1939)
83 Waldrep, R. V. I’ll Be an Old Man
Tomorrow (W. W. Skeleton, ca. 1872,
Texas, white surveyor, Red Bay, 18 July
1939)
84 Waldrep, R. V. J. P. Epps and Son
(J. P. Epps, [1885], Golden, white
storekeeper, Red Bay, 21 July 1939)
85 Waldrep, R. V. Luke Warn: He
Ain’t Talkin (Luke Warn, [1870?], Red
Bay, black, occupation not given, Red Bay,
14 August 1939)
86 Waldrep, R. V. My Boys An’ Me
Died in the War (Oscar Falkes, 1869,
Village Springs, whit country-store
operator, Birmingham, 15 August 1939)
87 Waldrep, R. V. Jack Hodge (Jack
Hodge, n.d., n.p., white farmer, Red Bay,
14 July 1939)
88 Williams, Jennie Sue. Frank Coffee
(Frank Coffee, 1866, Fackler, black odd
job man, Bridgeport, 30 January 1939)
89 Williams, Jennie Sue. Isaac
Slaughter (Isaac Slaughter, Greensboro,
GA, black, ex-slave, Bridgeport, 17
January 1939)
90 Williamson, Keane. Emancipation (a
fictional piece, Pine Apple, AL, n.d.)
91 Evans, Lawrence F. A Plain Country
Doctor (Floyd Abernathy, Prattville,
n.p., white doctor, Foley, n.d.)
92 No author. Midwife and Farmer
(Josie Fleming, ca. 1876, Aswell, black
midwife, n.p., n.d.)
93 Tartt, Ruby Pickens. Hester Frye
(Hester Frye, n.d., Tishabee, black maid,
Livingston, n.d.)
Two other versions,
both entitled, “No Lawd I Ain’t Ready,”
are in Folders 74 and 75.
94 Rowland, Walter. “Ain’t Got No
Screens” (no name, n.d., n.p., black
tenant farmer, Arkansas, 6 June 1939)
95 Rowland, Walter. A North Little
Rock Hostess (no name, n.d., n.p., white
thief, North Little Rock, 12 May 1939)
96 No author. Honkytonk Hostess
(no name, n.d., n.p., white waitress,
n.p., n.d.)
FLORIDA
Browder, N. C. See Darsey, folder
102
97 Bryan, Lindsay M. “Jaydy” Abbin,
Florida Adventurer (J. B. Atkins, 1903,
Dade City, white mechanic, Tampa, 15
February 1939)
98 Back, Gladys. The Burns Family
(W. W. Woods, n.d., Grand Cayman Islands,
white housewife, Princeton, 30 December
1938)
99 Burnell, Elvira. The Stembler
Family (Tom Blake, n.d., n.p., white debt
collector, Miami, 30 January 1939)
100 Burnell, Elvira. Anna Alden
(Annie Alden, [1880?], n.p., white WPA
sewing room worker, Miami, 16 February
1939)
Cornwall, Robert. See Darsey, folder
102
101 Darsey, Barbara B. Lolly Bleu,
Florida Squatter (Mrs. Robert Eures,
[1889?], Texas, white squatter, Venus, 29
November 1938)
Another version,
“Lolly Bleu,” is in folder 1013.
102 Darsey, Barbara B.,
Veronica E. Huss,
Robert Cornwall,
and N. C. Browder. “We Do Victims,”
(Horace Thompson, n.d., on the Georgia
line near Blonts Ferry; black citrus
worker Cellie Thompson, n.d., on the
Georgia line near Blonts Ferry; black
citrus worker, Avon Park, 8 February 1939)
103 Darsey, Huss, and
Cornwall. Life History of
the Thomas Family, another version of the
above interview.
A third version,
“Topics and Observations Relative to Life
History, Harris Thomas,” is in folder
1013.
104 Darsey and Huss. Albert and
Anne Denman. (Bob Franklin, ca. 1894,
Geneva co. AL, white country store
proprietor, farmer, Hicoria, 7 February
1939)
Another version,
“Albert Denman and Family, Proprietor
Country Store,” is in folder 1013.
105 Darsey and Huss. Virginia
Suffolk (Madge Wetherbee, 1881, Bradford,
England, white poultry farmer, Avon Park,
14 February 1939)
106 Darsey and Huss. Mary Windsor
(Mrs. Senie Williams, ca. 1915, Hardee
co., white wife of sharecropper, Venus,
n.d.)
107 Darsey, Barbara B. Frank and Ella
Merryvale (Cornelia Mitchell, ca. 1913,
Lakeland, white citrus worker; Willard
Mitchell, ca. 1915, Oakland, GA, white
citrus worker, Sebring, 8 February 1939)
108 Darsey, Barbara B. Maria Gonzales,
Florida Squatter (Mrs. Texas Morgan, ca.
1896, [Hardee co.?], white squatter-
farmer, Venus, 7 February 1939)
Another version, with
the same title, is in folder 1013.
109 Darsey and
Stetson Kennedy Henry and Rosa
Maddox (Ed Moore, n.d., n.p., white
squatter farmer, Venus, 22 November 1938)
110 Darsey and Kennedy A Florida Squatter
Family—Jason and Lily Iby (W. B. Lundy,
ca. 1898, Pasco co., white squatter-
farmer, Venus, 8 December 1938)
Another version,
“Jason and Lily Iby, Squatter Farmers,” is
in folder 1013.
111 Darsey and Kennedy. Florida Squatters
(Sectional descriptions of Florida
squatters, December 1938)
112 Diggs, Paul,
Veronica Huss, and
Evelyn Werner. E. J. and Mattie
Marshall, Overseer of Tenants (E. J.
Marshall, 1869, Edgefield, SC, black
overseer of tenants; Mattie Marshall,
1872, Tampa, black housewife, Plant City,
15 February 1939)
113 Diggs and Huss. I Don’t Do No
Votin’ (Lula Gray, ca. 1902, Manna, SC,
black housewife; Rich Gray, 1888,
Robertsville, SC, black turpentine
foreman, Carters, n.d.)
Another version, “Rich
and Lula Gray,” is in folder 116
114 Diggs and Werner. George and Bessie
Derrick (George Derrick, 1886, Kingston,
Jamaica, black tenant farmer; Bessie
Derrick, n.d., n.p., black tenant farmer,
Plant City, 10 February 1939)
115 Diggs and Huss. William and
Corneal Jackson (William Jackson, Ocala,
1903, black, phosphate miner; Corneal
Jackson, 1908, Key West, black, housewife,
Lakeland, 20 January 1939)
116 Diggs and Huss. Rich and Lula Gray
(Rich Gray, 1888, Robertsville, SC, black,
turpentine foreman; Lula Gray, 1902,
Manna, SC, black, housewife, Carters, 27
January 1939)
Another version, “I
Don’t Do No Votin’,” is in folder 113
117 Dowda, Bill, and
Evelyn Werner. Earl Guenther
(Earl Guenther, 1897, Dayton, OH, white,
barber, Palatka, n.d.)
Edward, Robert. See Lillian
Stedman, folder 127
118 Huss, Veronica E. Izzelly Haines
(Izzelly Harding, n.d., Bahamas, Conch,
midwife, Riviera, October 1938)
119 Huss, Veronica E. Wilbur Edwards
Roberts, A Riviera “Conch” (Wilbur
Edwards Roberts, ca. 1855, Bahamas, Conch,
fisherman, sponger, turtler, Riviera, 14
November 1938)
120 Huss, Veronica E.,
and S. Kennedy The Riviera Conchs
(sectional description) Immigrants from
Bahamas of White-Negro ancestry,
fishermen, Riviera, November 1938)
Huss, Veronica E. See also Darsey,
folders 102-117; Diggs, folders 112-113;
and Stedman, folder 127
121 Kennedy, Stetson. All He’s Living
For, [Enrique and Amanda] (Adelpha
Pollato, n.d., [Key West?], Cuban, cigar-
maker, Ybor City, 3 January 1939)
122-123 Two versions of the same
interview
124 Kennedy, Stetson. Pedro and Estrella
(Evelio Andur, n.d., n.p., Cuban cigar-box
maker, Ybor City, 1 January 1939)
125 Kennedy, Stetson. Mister Homer
(Homer Jordan, n.d., Dinsmore, white
salesman and installment collector,
Jacksonville, 3 February 1939)
Kennedy, Stetson See also
Darsey, folder 109; and Stedman, folder
134
126 Sheperd, Rose. Martin Cross, Wood
and Fuel Dealer (Montgomery Corse,
[1865?], [VA?], white, wood and fuel
dealer, Jacksonville, 2 February 1939)
127 Stedman, Lillian,
Veronica Huss, and
Robert Edwards. Reverend W. C.
Sale (Reverend W. C. Sale, n.d., AL,
white, clergyman, Jacksonville, n.d.)
128 Stedman and
Evelyn Werner. George Harmon
Kirby (James Kerby Ward, n.d., Togo,
white, bus driver, Jacksonville, n.d.)
Another version,
“James Kirby Ward,” is in folder 131
129 Stedman and Werner. A Greek
Restauranteur (James Kivelos, n.d., n.p.,
Greek, Restauranteur, Jacksonville, 20 May
1939)
130 Stedman and Werner. Ceceilia
Patrourtsa (Cecelia Janes Lazos Poulos,
n.d., Greece, Greek, wife of a
restaurateur, Jacksonville, 21 April 1939)
131 Stedman and Werner. James Kerby Ward
(James Kerby Ward, n.d., Togo, white, bus
driver, Jacksonville, 17 February 1939)
Another version,
“George Harmon Kirby,” is in folder 128
132 Stedman and Werner. Mayselle Sweat
Green (Mayselle Sweat Green, ca. 1917,
n.p., white, cigar factory worker,
Jacksonville, 20 February 1939)
133 Another version of the
same interview
134 Stedman and
Stetson Kennedy. Robert Smith
(David Smith, ca. 1901, n.p., white,
sharecropper, elevator operator in a pulp
mill, Jacksonville, 22 December 1938).
Note: Folders 135-138 and 140-147 contain material from the
Federal Emergency Relief Administration Sociological Survey,
Ybor City, 1935.
135 Valdes, F. Pedro Barios
(Pedro Barrios, 1881, Cerro, Havana, Cuba,
Cuban, cigar-maker, cigar factory reader,
Ybor City, 1935)
136 Valdes, F. Dr. M. Santos
(Dr. M Santos, 1888, Sagua la Grande,
Cuba, Cuban, cigar-maker, optometrist,
Ybor City, 1935)
137 Valdes, F. Enrique Pendas,
Introduction (Enrique Pendas, 1865,
Asturias, Spain, Spanish, owner cigar
factory and chairman of Manufacturers’
Association, Ybor City, 1935)
138 Valdes, F. Enrique Pendas
(same as above)
Werner, Evelyn. See Diggs, folders
108-112, and 114; Dowda, folder 117; and
Stedman, folders 130-132
139 Wood, Dorothy. The Miller Family
(Bob Lapham, ca. 1907, n.p., white,
artist, Miami Beach, 15 February 1939)
140 No Author. John Cacciatore
(John Cacciatore, 1860, Sicily, Italian,
cigar-maker, Ybor City, 1935)
141 No Author. Fernando Lemos
(Fernando Lemos, 1870, Havana, Cuba,
Cuban, cigar-maker, Ybor City, 1935)
142 No Author. Domingo Ginesta
(Domingo Ginesta, 1865, Havana, Cuba,
Cuban, cigar-maker, Ybor City, 1935)
143 No Author. Fermin Souto
(Fermin Souto, 1858, Ferrol de Galicia,
Spain, Spanish, cigar-maker and secretary
Spanish Club, Ybor City, 1935)
144 No Author. Note on
autobiography of Gerardo Cortina (Gerardo
Cortina Pinera, 1912, Havana, Cuba, Cuban,
unemployed cigar-factory reader, Ybor
City, 1935)
145 No Author. Gerardo Cortina
Pinera (same as above)
146 No Author. Jose Ramon
Sanfeliz (Jose Ramon Sanfeliz, 1870,
Havana, Cuba, Cuban, cigar-maker and
bartender, Ybor City, 1935)
147 No Author. B. M. Balbontin
(B. M. Balbontin, 1863, Rumorose, Spain,
Spanish, bartender, Ybor City, 1935)
GEORGIA
148 Adams, Morris. Turnips Today,
Turnips Tomorrow (George Carter, 1842,
VA, black, ex-slave, Savannah, 17 January
1939)
149 Barie, A. G. Guess We Had
Moving Fever (David Melvin, n.d.,
[Pickens co., NC?], white, tenant farmer,
Powder Springs, 12 December 1938)
150 Another version of the
same interview
A third version, with
the same title is in folder 241
151 Barie A. G. From around the
World to a Georgia Farm (Ernest Gerber,
ca. 1883, Langnou, Switzerland, white
farmer, Marietta, 25 February and 25 May
1939)
152 Another version of the
same interview
153 Bonner, Bessie. The Relief Lady
(Nell Pentecost, n.d., n.p., white, county
relief director, Carrolton, 1 July 1939)
Booth. See Bradley, folder
158; Hornsby, folders 164, 168-171, 173,
177-182, 185-191, 193-195, and 200-201;
McCune, folders 205-209, 213-214, 216-217,
219, 221-222, 224-225, 227, 232, 234-235,
and 237
154 Bradley, Leola T., and
Maggie B. Freeman. Right Livin’
(Evie Louvenia Robinson, ca. 1881,
Oglethorpe co., white, practical nurse WPA
Housekeepers Project, Athens, 1 November
and 22 November 1939)
155 Bradley and Freeman. Reverses
(Hazel Hoff, n.d., Chattanooga, TN, white,
district manager Avon products, Athens,
11, 16, and 24 November 1939)
156 Bradley and Freeman. Julia
Nickerson (Mattie Julia Nichols, n.d.,
Gum Springs, white, WPA librarian, Athens,
16 October, and 9 November 1939)
157 Bradley and
Rudene Hix. A Self Made Man (L.
L. Jordan, n.d., Mecklenburg co., N.C.,
white, painter, Athens, 13 and 29
September 1939)
158 Bradley and
John N. Booth. “De Luck is in De
Lawd” (Minnie Davis, ca. 1861, [Greene
co.?], black, teacher, Athens, 23 and 28
August, and 29 November 1939)
Browder, N. C. See Hornsby,
folders 198-199; McCune, folder 239; and
Rice, folder 241)
159 Conway, George. Captain X
(Captain Allan F. Leigh, n.d., Hull,
England, English, sea captain, Athens, 17
January 1939)
160 Fowler, Carrie. The Piano Salesman
(Fred Trammel, n.d., n.p., white,
salesman, Athens, 4 January 1939)
Another version, “Just
a Traveling, Rambling Man That Settled
Down in a Athens Town,” is in folder 1018.
Freeman, Maggie B. See Bradley,
folders 154-156
161 Ginsberg, Freda. Papa (Nathan
Wild, [1897?], Yvey, Poland, Jewish,
grocer, Savannah, 16 January 1939)
Hall, Sarah H. See Hornsby,
folders 164-171, 173, 177-190, 192-197,
and 200-201; McCune, folders 204-209, 211,
213-214, 216-217, 219, 221-222, 224-227,
231-235, and 237-238
Harris, Leila T. See Hornsby,
folders 177, 188, and 192; McCune, 204,
227, and 238
162 Hawkes, Ina B. It Wasn’t So Easy
(Mrs. Jake Bower, n.d., n.p., white, hotel
operator, Savannah, 24 September 1939)
163 Hawkes, Ina B.,
and Grace McCune. A Visit to the
Country (Fannie Busbin, ca. 1849, n.p.,
white, farmer, Winterville, 9, 14
September 1939)
Hix, Rudene. See Bradley,
folder 157
164 Hornsby, Sadie B.,
Sarah Hall, and
John Booth “I’ve Took in
Sewing Fifty Years” (Sarah Frances
Fellows, [1863?], n.p., white, seamstress,
Athens, 7, 11, and 26 July 1939)
165 Hornsby, Sadie B. Life of a Retired
Mill Worker (James Herring, 1871, n.p.,
white, retired mill operator, Athens, 10
January 1939)
166 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. I Ain’t No
Midwife (Mary Willingham, 1880, Clarke
co., black, practical nurse, Athens, 14
and 24 March , 29 May, and 9 June 1939)
167 Another version of the
same interview
168 A third version of the
same interview
169 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. “I Maids for
Co-Eds” (Odelia Lester Anderson, 1902,
Eatonton, Black, maid, Athens, 14, 16, and
27 March 1939)
170 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. I Don’t Know
What’s the Matter (Edward J. Bacon, n.d.,
Athens, black, brick mason, Athens, 31 May
and 14 June 1939)
171 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. The Wandering
Beautician (R. W. Welch, 1896, Maxeys,
white, beautician, Athens, 17 May and 6
June 1939)
172 Hornsby, Sadie B. Life History of
Mrs. Ann Waldrop (Ann Waldrop, 1861,
Athens, white, retired mill worker,
Athens, 3 January 1939)
173 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. A visit to the
Jail (Mrs. George Nash, n.d., n.p.,
white, wife of jailer, Athens, 26 April
and 4 May 1939)
174 Hornsby, Sadie B. Life on Happy Top
(Leila Bramblett, 1878, Princeton factory,
white, textile worker, Athens, 17 January
1939)
175 Hornsby, Sadie B. Principal of
Grammar School Thirty-Three Years (Mary
Wright Hill, 1881, Greenville, NC, black,
school principal, Athens, 27 July 1939)
176 Hornsby, Sadie B. Carpenter of
Lickskillet (Emmett Johnson, ca. 1880,
Sparta, black, carpenter; Maggie Johnson,
1880, n.p., black, wash woman, Athens, 12
May 1939)
177 Hornsby, Hall, Booth,
and Leila Harris. The Washwoman
(Sarah Hill, [1874?], Elberton, black,
wash woman, Athens, 1, 27 February, 13
March 1939).
178 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. A Visit to a
Laundry and Dry Cleaning Plant (L. S.
Whitehead, n.d., n.p., white, laundry
operator; Mrs. L. S. Whitehead, n.d.,
Clarke co., white, laundry operator,
Athens, 9, 10, and 24 March 1939)
179 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. From Farm to
Filling Station (Robert Leo Smith, 1912,
Banks co., white gas station operator,
Athens, 22 March, 4 April 1939)
180 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. Kay’s Shop
(Kathryn Jiles, n.d., Carrollton, white,
milliner, Athens, 9 March, 4 April 1939)
181 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. The Poppy Lady
(Moina Michael, 1869, Walton co., white,
teacher, Athens, 8 and 9 February 1939)
182 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. The Three
Sisters (Jane Campbell Buggs, 1867,
Maxeys, black, wash woman; Mary Campbell,
1875, Maxeys, black, wash woman; Delah
Campbell, 1885, Maxeys, black wash woman,
Athens, 8 and 9 February, and 1 March
1939)
183 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. Edward Walcott
(George Shaw Crane, [1870?], Athens,
white, landlord, Athens, 23 and 26
January, 1 February, 8 March, and 25 May
1939)
184 Another version of the
same interview
185 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. “I Cater to
Colored People” (Lorenzo W. Reed, 1863,
Athens, black, barber, Athens, 19 and 20
June 1939)
186 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. I’ve Been
Drifting (Roy Clinton Hale, ca. 1897,
Athens, white, shoe salesman, Athens, 21
July, and 4 August 1939)
187 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. “I’ve Been
Preaching Ever Since I Could Talk”
(Harold Irving Bearden, 1910, Atlanta,
black, preacher; Mrs. Bearden, n.d.,
Austell, black, preacher’s wife, Athens,
17 July, and 1 August 1939)
188 Hornsby, Hall, Booth,
and Harris. The Wrighton
Sisters (Mattie Creighton, ca. 1860,
[Athens?], white, elderly woman; Ida
Creighton, ca. 1870, [Athens?], white,
quilt maker, Athens, 28 and 29 June, and
15 July 1939)
189 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. “How Many Days
Have I Regretted” (Mildred Lattrell
McKinney, 1911, Madison co., white,
boarding house operator, Athens, 23 June
1939)
190 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. “...Maybe
We’ll Save a Little Money” (Nicholas
Chivilis, 1885, Arvanlokerasser, Greece,
Greek, candy kitchen operator; Pete
Nicholas Chivilis, n.d., Jackson co.,
white, candy kitchen operator, Athens, 8
February, 11 and 25 July 1939)
191 Hornsby and
Grace McCune Grocery Store (O.
J. Coffer, 1899, Jefferson, white, grocer,
Athens, 3 August 1939)
192 Hornsby, Hall, Harris. A W.P.A.
Worker (Janie B. Harris, 1900, Clarke
co., white, WPA worker, Athens, n.d.)
193 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. The Barbecue
Stand (Robert Walker, n.d., Warrenton,
black, barbecue stand operator; Gladys
Walker, Bogart, black, barbecue stand
operator, Athens, 10 and 19 April 1939)
194 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. The Poro
Beauty Shop (Mrs. L. A. Crane, ca. 1903,
Watkinsville, black, beauty shop operator,
Athens, 4 and 5 April 1939)
195 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. The Red,
White, and Blue Barber Shop (Henry T.
Brunblett, 1875, Gwinnet co., white,
barber, Athens, 30 March 1939)
196 Hornsby and Hall. An Air Minded
Family (Omie Williams, Neese, white,
widow, Athens, n.d.)
197 Hornsby and Hall. Mildred Lawson
(Sue S. White, ca. 1897, South Georgia,
white, beautician, Athens, n.d.)
198 Hornsby and Browder. A Negro
Insurance Executive (A. W. Parker, 1900,
Georgetown, black, insurance executive, 13
April 1939)
199 Another version of the
same interview
200 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. The Life of a
Lawyer (Joseph Eliot Web, 1907, middle
Georgia, white, lawyer, Athens, 16 and 23
February, and 6 March 1939)
201 Hornsby, Hall, Booth. I Got My
Education the Hard Way (James W. Davis,
1871, Athens, black, mail carrier, school
teacher, music teacher, bandmaster,
Athens, 16 May, and 28 June 1939)
202 Jenkins, William. ...And Hopes
‘At Somebody Will Come Along To Talk To
(Archie George, ca. 1889, Lithonia, black,
cripple, Atlanta, 17 November 1939)
203 McCune, Grace. Day in a
Department Store (Abe Link, proprietor,
and various salespersons: Maud Elliott, B.
F. McEntire, Mell McCurrdy, Athens, 24
January 1939)
204 McCune, Hall, Harris. A Farming
Preacher-Prophet (Nick Waller, ca. 1874,
n.p., black, farmer-preacher, Athens, 6,
7, and 17 March 1939)
205 McCune, Hall, Booth. Mammy (Annie
Grady Emerick, [1880?], n.p., white,
Athens, 20 December 1938, and 6 January
1939)
206 McCune, Hall, Booth. A Visit with
Aunt Jerry (Josephine Wood, 1861, Barnett
Shoals, white, housewife, Athens, 13
January and 16 February 1939)
207 McCune, Hall, Booth. A Session of
the City Court (Vincent Mathews, [1880?],
Athens, white, judge, Athens, 10, and 17
April 1939)
208 McCune, Hall, Booth. Negro
Fraternal Insurance (R.B. Harris, n.d.,
n.p., insurance executive, Athens, 13 and
24 April 1939)
209 McCune, Hall, Booth. Bus Drivers
(F.A. Taylor, n.d., n.p., white, manager
city bus-line, Athens, 10 and 13 April
1939)
210 McCune, Grace. A Versatile
Craftswoman (Margaret Davis, 1887,
Princeton, white, tailor, Athens, n.d.)
Another version of
this interview, “The Tale of a Tailoress”
is in folder 212.
211 McCune and Hall . Coffins and
Caskets (W. P. Hopson, n.d., n.p., black,
undertaker, Athens, n.d.)
212 McCune, Grace. The Tale of a
Tailoress (Margaret Davis, 1887,
Princeton, white, tailor, Athens, 9
December 1939)
Another version of
this interview, entitled “A Versatile
Craftswoman” is in folder 210.
213 McCune, Hall, Booth. Maid of All
Work (Julia Hicks, 1887, Athens, black,
housemaid, laundress, nurse, Athens, 16
and 23 March 1939)
214 McCune, Hall, Booth. A Negro
Dentist (Dr. S. S. Jackson, n.d., Athens,
black, dentist, Athens, 14 March 1939)
215 McCune, Grace. I Lak’s a Good
Livin (Cornelia Peterson, n.d., Morgan
co., black, sewing room, Athens, n.d.)
216 McCune, Hall, Booth. All I Do is
Just Heads (Daisy M. Johnson, n.d., n.p.,
black, beautician, Athens, 26 April and 4
May 1939)
217 McCune, Hall, Booth. Oldest Barber
in Town (R. M. Davis, 1893, [Athens?],
white barber, Athens, 28 March and 4 April
1939)
218 McCune and Hall. The Woman Dentist
(Dr. Ida Mae Hiram, [1895?], Athens,
black, dentist, Athens, n.d.)
219 McCune, Hall, Booth. Waiting Room
in a Bus Station (W. T. Sullivan, n.d.,
n.p., white, bus-station manager; Mrs. W.
T. Sullivan, white, bus-station manager,
Athens, 27, 29 March, and 6 April 1939)
220 McCune, Grace. The City
Blacksmith (John Henry Middlebrooks,
[1880?], Oconee co., black, blacksmith,
Athens, 8 June 1939)
221 McCune, Hall, Booth. The Bargain
House (J. Buford Dudley, 1887, Combs,
white, merchant, Athens, 16 February, and
2 March 1939)
222 McCune, Hall, Booth. The Lilac
Beauty Shop (Farrie Emerick, n.d., n.p.,
white, beautician; Edna Seagraves, n.d.,
n.p., white beautician, Athens, 1 and 18
February 1939)
223 McCune and Hall. The Boarding House
Operator (Texie Gordon, n.d., n.p.,
white, boarding house operator, Athens,
n.d.)
224 McCune, Hall, Booth. The Capital
City Insurance Company (J. H. Robertson,
1905, South Georgia, black, insurance
company manager, Athens, 14 and 27 April,
6 June, 7 and 10 July 1939)
225 Another version of the
same interview
226 McCune, Hall, Booth. You Have To
Get It While They’re Cryin’ (Lamar J.
Johnson, [1922?], n.p., black, embalmer;
Tom Johnson, n.d., n.p., black,
undertaker, Athens, n.d.)
227 McCune, Hall, Harris,
and Booth. A Patent Medicine
Vendor (Grace Crowder, n.d., n.p., white,
patent medicine vendor, Athens, 28
February and 14 March 1939)
228 McCune, Grace. Cindy Wright
(Mariah Jackson, 1861, Notasluga, black,
midwife, Athens, 13 December 1938)
Another version, “A
Funeral Service By Brother Gresham,” is in
folder 1020.
229 McCune, Grace. A Visit to A
Flower Shop (Willow Jones, n.d., n.p.,
white, flower shop proprietor, Athens, 12
March 1939)
Another version,
“Woman Florist,” is in folder 239
230 McCune, Hall, Booth. A Negro
Funeral Home Director (James Mack, n.d.,
n.p., black, undertaker, Athens, 9 and 23
March 1939)
231 McCune, Hall, Booth. “Yes, Lord,
I’se Done Tried to Serve You Faithful”
(Isaiah Hunter, 1868, White Hall, black,
preacher, Athens, 12 and 27 July 1939)
232 McCune, Hall, Booth. Old Shoe
Comfort in New Shoe Appearance (Luther
Holcomb, n.d., Athens, white, shoemaker,
Athens, 5, 19 June, and 15 July 1939)
233 McCune, Hall, Harris. “A Customer is
Always Right” (Samuel August Sheats,
1912, Athens, black, grocery store and
barbershop proprietor, Athens, 7 July and
3 August 1939)
234 McCune, Hall, Booth. Veterinarian,
Poet, and Politician (Dr. W. M. Burson,
1874, Ohio, white, veterinarian, Athens,
29 June and 18 July 1939)
235 McCune, Hall, Booth. “I Like
America” (Mamie Lewis, 1896, Beirut,
Syria, Syrian, part owner dry goods store,
Athens, 10 and 25 July 1939)
236 McCune and Hall. Madame Lucy
(Annie Mains, n.d., between Watkinsville
and Athens, black, beautician, Athens,
n.d.)
237 McCune, Hall, Booth. Susie Ray
(Jannie Favors, 1892, Rayle, black,
restaurant proprietor, Athens, 23 June
1939)
238 McCune, Hall, Harris. The Fishermen
(J. H. Emerick, ca. 1864, n.p., white,
fisherman, Athens, n.d.)
239 McCune and
N. C. Browder. Woman Florist
(Willie Jones, n.d., n.p., white, flower
shop proprietor, Athens, 21 February 1939)
Another version, “A
Visit to a Flower Shop,” is in folder 229
McCune, Grace. See Hawkes, folder
163; Hornsby, folder 191
240 Phillips, W. B. Wood Engraver in
Paradise (C. W. Stambaugh, n.d., n.p.,
white, wood engraver, Demorest, 1 February
1939)
241 Rice, M. D.,
A. G. Barie, and
N. C. Browder. Guess We Had
Moving Fever (David Melvin, [Pickens
co.?], white, tenant farmer, Power
Springs, n.d.)
Two other versions
with the same title are in folders 149 and
150
242 Rose, Annie A. Clairvoyant
(Prof. W. L. Harris, 1907, Birmingham,
Ala., white, clairvoyant, Macon, 20
January 1939)
243 Rose, Annie A. Untitled (W. L.
Keenan, [1898?], Georgia, white,
saleslady, Macon, 20 January 1939)
244 Rose, Annie A. Janice (Carolyn
Ball, n.d., Moultrie, white, WPA typist,
Macon, 19 January 1939)
245 Rose, Annie A. Untitled (Lizzie
Mercer, n.d., n.p., black, unemployed,
Macon, 1 May 1939)
246 Rose, Annie A. So We Can Have
Things Like Other Folks (Sarah Myers,
[1900?], Macon, white, textile worker,
Macon, 5 May 1939)
247 Rose, Annie A. Untitled (Sarah
Howard, n.d., n.p., black, housemaid,
Macon, 28 February 1939)
248 Russell, Maurice. Homer L. Pike
(Homer L. Pike, 1901, Fort Moultrie, Ala.,
white, textile worker, Atlanta, n.d.)
249 Russell, Maurice. Night Watchman
(no name given, ca. 1873, n.p., white,
night watchman, Atlanta, n.d.)
250 Russell, Maurice. Life History
(Mrs. Same E. Whelchel, ca. 1905, Banks
co., white, housewife, Atlanta, n.d.)
Another version, “The
Family of an Automobile Worker,” is in
folder 262.
251 Russell, Maurice. Untitled
(Mrs. Joe P. Stroh, ca. 1914, Cobb co.,
white, housewife, Atlanta, n.d.)
252 Sieg, Gerald Chan. Laundryman (Chung
Tai-pan, [1870?], China, Chinese, laundry
operator, Atlanta, 20 January 1939)
253 Thorpe, Virginia. Root Doctor
(“Ma” [Liza] Williams, ca. 1836, n.p.,
black, root doctor, Atlanta, 13 January
1939)
254 Tonsill, Geneva. I Managed To
Carry On (Eugenia Martin, n.d., n.p.,
black, WPA worker, housekeeping aide,
Atlanta, November 1939)
255 Tonsill, Geneva. I’s Still
Traveling ‘Cause I got Faith in God
(Benjamin Johnson, ca. 1843, Troupe co.,
black, ex-slave, Atlanta, September 1939)
256 Tonsill, Geneva. Untitled
(Lucy Reeves, n.d., Clarke co., black,
teacher, Atlanta, 21 June 1939)
257 Tonsill, Geneva. Unable to
Stage a Comeback (F. Hodge, n.d., n.p.,
black, WPA worker, librarian government
housing project, Atlanta, 27 October
1939)\
258 Tonsill, Geneva. The Voice of
God Spoke to Me (Jibson Littlejohn, 1855,
Union co., SC, black, preacher, Atlanta,
November 1939)
259 Tonsill, Geneva. The ‘Lil Black
Girl (Annie Jackson, 1904, Thomson,
black, maid, Atlanta, n.d.)
260 Tonsill, Geneva. The Lord was
with Me (G. L. Beasley, ca. 1897,
Tennessee, black, preacher, Atlanta, n.d.)
261 Tonsill, Geneva. I’se Always
Had a Hard Time (Julia Brown [Aunt
Sally], ca. 1852, Commerce, black, ex-
slave, Atlanta, n.d.)
262 Upshaw, Jacques. The Family of
an Automobile Worker (Mrs. Same E.
Whelchel, ca. 1905, Cobb co., white,
housewife, Atlanta, n.d.)
Another version, “Life
History,” is in folder 250
263 Upshaw, Jacques. The Man Who
Lives in the House By the Side of the Road
(E. J. Tull, ca. 1839, [Georgia?], white,
teacher, Ellgay, December 1938)
264 Vining, Mary. The Story of
Selina W. (Sara Wolf, 1885, Rocky Ford,
white, housewife, Savannah, 19 January
1939)
265 Deleted
266 No Author. “Let Me Live”
(Carlmon Hamilton, 1913, Norwood, Alabama,
black, student, Macon, n.d.)
267 No Author. Nannie Hawkins
(Nannie Hawkins, ca. 1914, Macon, black,
cook, Pine Mountain Valley, n.d.)
268 No Author. Untitled (various
individuals at WPA experimental farm
community, Pine Mountain Valley, Georgia,
July 1939)
269 No Author. Not a Life Story
(Mr. Antipodes, n.d., Mllst, Greece,
Greek, operator Ice Cream plant, Atlanta,
n.d.)
LOUISIANA
270 Breaux, Hazel. Settled Down
(Granville Brooks, [1879?], Charleston,
Alabama, black, cook, New Orleans, n.d.)
271 McKinney, Robert. My W.P.A. Man
(Marguerite Clark, n.d., New Orleans,
black, cook, New Orleans, n.d.)
272 McKinney, Robert. Chimney Sweeper’s
Holiday (John Simms, n.d., New Orleans,
black, chimney sweep, New Orleans, n.d.)
273 No Author. A Shrimp Fisherman
(no name given, n.d., New Orleans, shrimp
fisherman, New Orleans, n.d.)
NORTH CAROLINA
274 Abbitt, Louise L., and
Claude V. Dunnagan. Reckin’ I’ll Be
Washin’ an Ironin’ Till I Drop Daid (Matt
Wall, [1869?), Middleton, black,
washwoman, Walnut Cove, 4 April 1939)
275 Abbitt and Dunnagan. Life History
of Mrs. Jim Shelton (Mrs. McCabe, n.d.,
Peters Creek near Danbury, Virginia,
white, widow, Walnut Cove, 23 January
1939)
276 Abbitt, Louise L. Holiness
Preacher (Robah Bowden, n.d., n.p.,
white, janitor, holiness preacher; Lola
Bowden, n.d., n.p., white, housewife, Pine
Hill, 3 January 1939)
277 Abner, John H., and
George L. Andrews. Cotton in the
Blood (Wade Hampton Taylor, 1883,
Memphis, Tennessee, white, hotel manager
and cotton man, Gastonia, 23 January 1939)
278 Abner, John H. and
Edwin Massengill. The Photographer.
(Hubert W. Johnson, 1905, n.p., white,
photographer, Gastonia, 5 March 1939)
279 Abner, Massengill,
and W. J. Sadler. A Quiz Kit? A
Casket? (Samuel Barnwell, 1875, Alamance
Co., white, casket finisher and interior
decorator, Gastonia 27 February 1938)
280 Abner, Massengill,
and Sadler. The Knitter (Ed
Rutledge, 1912, Fort Worth Texas, white,
knitter, Burlington, 18 December 1938)
281 Abner, John H. Three Bibles
(Joseph A. Michaels, 1868, Burke co.,
white, cotton mill worker, Burlington, 2
December 1938)
282 Abner, John H. Up and Down
(Walter Corbett, 1876, Alamance co.,
black, tobacco farmer, Burlington, 2
December 1938)
283 Abner and Massengill. Tom Levine,
Tailor (Sam Slatkin, 1892, Russia,
Jewish, tailor, Gastonia, 10 February
1939)
284 Abner and Massengill. A Gambler’s
Philosophy (no name given, white,
gambler, n.p., 5 May 1939)
285 Anderson, George,
and Massengill. Through A Glass
Darkly (Henry Brandon, n.d., n.p., white,
vagrant, Yanceyville, n.d.)
Andrews, George L. See Abner, folder
277; Hatch folder 510; Vaughan, folders
772 and 774.
286 Bailey, Loretto C. “We Have No Slums”
(Description of Greensboro slums, n.d.)
287 Beaman, James S.,
and Massengill. A Life at Sea
(Captain Otto Olsen, ca. 1883, Norway,
Norwegian, dredge boat operator, New Bern,
4 May 1939)
288 Beaman and
Massengill Turkey Raising
(Pearl Arnold, ca. 1875, Benter, white,
poultry farmer, New Bern, 15 May 1939)
289 Beaman and
Massengill The Cabinet Maker
(Otis Griffin, 1880, Leesport, white,
cabinet-maker, New Bern, 17 May 1939)
290 Beaman, James S. The Family Hickman
Colored (Needham Hickman, ca. 1885, n.p.,
black, farmer, Croatan, n.d.)
291 Bennett, Cora. Ups and Downs
(Arthur Moore, n.d., n.p., black, pressing
club operator, Charlotte, 14 July 1939)
292 Bennett, Cora, and
Mary R. Northrop. “I’ve Seen These
States” (John Lowery, n.d., SC, black,
Pullman porter, Charlotte, 20 June 1939)
293 Bennett and Northrop. “A Race Man
Th’ough and Th’ough (Ned Davis, 1897,
Hartsville, SC, black, beauty shop owner,
Charlotte, 3 May 1939)
294 Bennett and Northrop. Batchelor
Mother (Odessa Polk, 1898, Charlotte,
black, cook, Charlotte, 9 May 1939)
295 Bennett, Cora. Untitled (James
Adams, n.d., n.p., black, “Odd-Job” Negro,
Charlotte, 8 August 1939)
296 Bennett, Cora. “We Never Did Git
Nowhere (John Benton, n.d., Union co.,
black, disabled laborer, Charlotte, 5 June
1939)
297 Bennett and Northrop. “We’ll Git
Along Somehow” (Leathy Lightsey, n.d.,
n.p., black, WPA Project worker,
Charlotte, 6 July 1939)
298 Bennett and
Dudley W. Crawford. Untitled (J. R.
Glenn, n.d., n.p., black, minister,
Charlotte, 26 July 1939)
299 Bjorkman, Edwin. Hugh McCrae,
Builder of Human Happiness, A Study in
Agricultural Engineering (Hugh McCrae,
ca. 1874, Carrbonton, white, manager farm
colonies, n.p., n.d.)
Bjorkman, Edwin. See also Mabry,
folder 602, and Stevens, folder 761.
Browder, N. C. See Hicks, folder
535, and Vaughan, folder 770.
300 Brown, Emmett R.,
and E. Massengill. The McClennys
(June A. McClenny, n.d., n.p., white,
automobile painter, Goldsboro, 27 December
1938)
301 Brown, Mary Pearl. Anybody Not in
Debt Ain’t Worth Nothing (Nora J. Oates,
n.d., n.p., white, tourist house operator,
Charlotte, 23 June 1939)
302 Brown and Northrop. “Praise the Lord!”
(Estell Stancill, n.d., [Anderson, SC?],
white, WPA worker, Charlotte, 16 May 1939)
303 Brown, Mary Pearl. Untitled (George
Burris, 1905, SC, black, servant,
Charlotte, August 1939)
304 Brown, Mary Pearl. Untitled (Ollie
Farrington, n.d., n.p., white, textile
worker, Charlotte, 27 July 1939)
305 Brown, Mary Pearl. Untitled (J. H.
Reynolds, n.d., n.p., white, textile
worker, Charlotte, 25 May 1939)
306 Brown and Northrop. “Labor Can’t Fight
Capital” (Betty McCoy, 1902, Charlotte,
white, textile worker, Charlotte, 25 May
1939)
307 Brown and Northrop. “I Used To Be a
Bad Nigger” (Mattie Johnson, n.d., n.p.,
black wash woman, Charlotte, 23 May 1939)
308 Brown and Northrop. Glad to Work
(Mrs. M. C. Campbell, ca. 1880, n.p.,
white, textile worker, Charlotte, 19 May
1939)
309 Cannady, Beth. John Fleming: A
Southern Gentleman (John Fleming, 1864,
Wake co., white, businessman, Milton, 9
December 1938)
310 Cannady, Beth, and
E. Massengill. Old Josh Dover
(Ed Currin, ca. 1857, Granville co.,
white, retired farmer, Oxford, 14 January
1939)
311 Cannady, Massengill,
and W. J. Sadler. Another
version of the same interview
312 Carter, Douglas. Perrenial
Contestant (W. D. Long, ca. 1889, NC,
white, accountant, Asheville, 10 March
1939)
313 Carter, Douglas. Ex-Soldier
(J. D. Mashburn, 1893, NC, owner of tire
shop, Asheville, 16 February 1939)
314 Carter, Douglas. Hellos in
America (A. G. Alexander, ca. 1894,
Turkey, Turkish, cafe owner, Asheville, 16
March 1939)
315 Carter, Douglas. Mushroom
Grower (Caleb Carter, 1893, Montvale,
white, mushroom grower, Asheville, 18
April 1939)
316 Carter, Douglas. Craftsman Born
(Hal H. Nerbovig, 1876, Winona, MN,
Norwegian, watchmaker, Asheville, 13
February 1939)
317 Carter, Douglas. The Clubhouse
(Mary Miller, 1874, Asheville, black,
bootlegger, Asheville, 9 February 1939)
318 Carter, Douglas. Neurotic
(Lola Roberts, ca. 1896, GA, white, widow,
Asheville, 21 February 1939)
319 Carter, Douglas. The Inventor
(J. H. Marshall, 1905, n.p., white,
inventor, Cashiers, n.d.)
320 Carter, Douglas. A Good Time in
the Army (John M. Thomason, ca. 1889, NC,
white, lumberman, Hendersonville, 23
February 1939)
321 Cobb, Pitts. James Joseph
Florian (William Oscar Torain, n.d.,
n.p., black, janitor, Greensboro, 21
December 1938)
322 Cobb, Pitts. Second Hand
Merchant (Norman T. Banks, [1875?], [New
Orleans?], white, proprietor second hand
store, Greensboro, 12 March 1939)
323 Combs, Stanley, and
Massengill. Education is the
Thing (William Edward Bardin, n.d.,
white, mechanic, Wilson, 5 April 1939)
324 Combs and
Massengill. Women Are Best
(Georgia Crockett Aiken, 1872, n.p.,
white, housekeeper, ex-school teacher,
Wilson, 25 April 1939)
325 Combs and
Massengill. Liquor Will Ruin
You (Zelda Williamson, n.d., n.p., white,
plumber, Wilson, 1 June 1939)
326 Combs and
Massengill. An Old Farmer (S.
P. Boykin, ca. 1863, Wilson, white,
farmer, Wilson, n.d.)
327 Combs and
Massengill. A Blind Mattress
Maker (W. Mose Holleman, 1897, n.p.,
white, mattress maker, Wilson, 15 July
1939)
328 Combs and
Massengill. One of Them Might
Be President (W. H. Etheridge, n.d.,
n.p., white, tobacco stemery worker,
Wilson, 20 May 1939)
329 Combs and
Massengill. Some People Are
Never Destined to Have Anything (F. B.
Brewer, n.d., n.p., white, tenant farmer,
Wilson, 28 June 1939)
330 Combs and
Massengill. A Citizen of
Misfortune (S. A. Lamm, 1892, n.p.,
white, merchant, Wilson, 1 July 1939)
331 Corley, Harriet W. The Family of
Isaac Bobbitt (Newton Owen, n.d., n.p.,
white, farmer, steel worker, Greensboro,
January 1939)
332 Corley, Harriet W. The Davis Family
(Carl Davis, n.d., n.p., white, farmer,
upper Moore co., 30 November 1938)
333 Crawford, Dudley W. Untitled (Rose
Martin, [1892?], [Rutherford co.?], white,
textile worker, Spindale, 28 July 1939)
Crawford, Dudley W. See also Bennett,
folders 294-295 and 298; Deal, folders 343-
345, 349-351, and 353-354; Merrick,
folders 642 and 647-648; Wilson, folders
786-787
334 Crowell, Henry L.,
Massengill, and
W. J. Sadler. Spinster By Choice
(Clara Raynor, n.d., Guilford co., white,
bank clerk, Roxboro, 10 January 1939)
335 Darrow, Omar
and Massengill. It’s a Family
Affair (“Aunt Hassie” Fletcher, 1870,
n.p., white, housewife, Durham, 16 May
1939)
336 Darrow and
Massengill. I Live My Own Life
(Fred Tatum, n.d., n.p., white, landlord,
Durham, 12 January 1939)
337 Darrow and
Massengill. Sim Parsons (Sim
Parsons, n.d., Redwood Community, Durham
co., [white?], lumber truck driver,
Durham, n.d.)
338 Darrow and
Massengill. Trusting to God
(John Lee White, 1879, n.p., black,
pastor, Durham, n.d.)
339 Darrow and
Massengill. I Love My Home
(Omar Darrow, 1893, n.p., white, Federal
Writers’ Project interviewer, Durham, 1
and 11 May 1939)
340 Another version of the
same interview
341 Darrow and
Massengill. We’ll Get Along
Some Way (Marada Wiggins, n.d., n.p.,
white, unemployed knitter, Durham, 29 June
1939)
342 Darrow and
Massengill. Free Advice
(Beulah Parson Davis, n.d., n.p., white,
fortuneteller, Durham, 5 June 1939)
343 Deal, Ethel, and
Dudley W. Crawford. Untitled (Fannie
Icord, [1889?], Caldwell co., black,
washwoman, Newton, 14 July 1939)
344 Deal and Crawford. Untitled
(Charlise Pope, ca. 1910, Hickory, white,
textile mill worker, Hickory, 5 August
1939)
345 Deal and Crawford. Untitled (John
Lancaster, ca. 1890, Rutherford co.,
white, tenant farmer, Newton, 22 August
1939)
346 Deal and Crawford. Untitled (Mrs.
Robert Deal, ca. 1899, Catawba co., white
housewife, Newton, n.d.)
347 Deal, Ethel, and
Mary R. Northrop. “Maybe Some Day I
Can Read To Myself” (Mrs. Walter Rowe,
n.d., McDowell co., white, mill worker,
Newton, 19 June 1939)
348 Deal, Ethel. Untitled
(Rosa Kanipe, 1887, Newton, white,
housewife, Newton, 29 June 1939)
349 Deal and Crawford. Untitled (Bertie
Williams, n.d., n.p., white, farm girl,
Newton, 9 August 1939)
350 Deal and Crawford. Untitled (Violet
Freeze, ca. 1912, n.p., white, textile
worker, Kannapolis, 7 August 1939)
351 Deal and Crawford. Untitled (Herbert
Crow, ca. 1914, n.p., white, prison guard,
[Burke co.?], 25 August 1939)
352 Deal and Crawford. From Post to
Pillar (Lulu Spencer, 1873, [Alexander
co.?], white, on relief, Newton, 16 June
1939)
353 Deal and Crawford. Untitled
(Mrs. M. A. Matheson, 1873, Henderson co.,
white, invalid, Newton, 26 July 1939)
354 Deal and Crawford. Untitled (Wilma
Cline, ca. 1899, Gaffney co., white,
textile worker, Henry River, 19 July 1939)
355 Deal and Northrop. “I’m a Good Nurse”
(Earl M. Lasker, 1899, n.p., white, nurse
and weaver, Newton, 14 June 1939)
356 Deal, Ethel. Untitled
(Della Benfield, ca. 1882, n.p., white, on
relief, Newton, 12 June 1939)
357 Deal, Ethel. Untitled
(Jennie Chambers, n.d., n.p., white,
housewife, Newton, 10 June 1939)
358 Deal, Ethel. Untitled
(Merton Rhodes, n.d., n.p., white, farmer,
Startown, 10 July 1939)
359 Dunnagan, Clalee,
and Claude. “Ole in Broke”
(Mandy Long Roberson, [1855?], Yadkin co.,
black, ex-slave, housekeeper, landowner,
county home inmate, Yadkinville, 6 April
1939)
360 Dunnagan, Clalee,
and Claude. People Can’t Get
Nowhere” (Early Dull, n.d., n.p., white,
tenant farmer; Mrs.
Early Dull, n.d., n.p., white, tenant
farmer, Yadkinville, 27 February 1939)
361 Dunnagan, Clalee,
and Esther S. Pinnix. The Old Mill
(Laura Kimball, 1858, Yadkin co., black,
ex-slave, housekeeper, Booneville, n.d.)
362 Dunnagan, Clalee,
and Claude. Horse and Buggy
Doctor (Dr. Solucious Lycurgus Russell,
n.d., n.p., white, doctor, 11 February 1939)
363 Dunnagan, Clalee,
and Claude. Free Lance
Preacher [Luther Comer and Wife] (Luther
Comer, n.d., n.p., white, self-styled
preacher; Sally Comer, 1904, n.p.,
housewife, Yadkinville, n.d.)
364 Dunnagan, Clalee, Hoke and Lu Coy
(Lillian Holbrook, n.d., n.p., white,
tenant
and Claude. farmer; Early
Holbrook, n.d., n.p., white, tenant
farmer, mill worker, laborer, Jonesville,
28 November 1938)
365 Dunnagan, Claude. Life Story of Mr.
and Mrs. Exie Hardin, Tenant Farmers of
Yadkin County (Exie
Hardin, n.d., n.p., white, tenant farmer;
Mrs. Exie Hardin, n.d., n.p., white,
tobacco basket maker, Yadkinville, 10
November 1938)
Another version, “Mr.
and Mrs. Truman Barger, Beachtown, N. C.,”
is in folder 371
366 Dunnagan, Claude
and Massengill. A Lot of Punishin
(Delia Underwood, n.d., n.p., white,
farmer, Yadkinville, 29 March 1939)
367 Dunnagan, Claude. The Story of Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Childress, Farm Tenants in
Yadkin County (Joe Childress, n.d., n.p.,
white, farm tenant; Mrs. Joe Childress,
n.d., n.p., white, farm tenant, Yadkin
co., 3 November 1938)
368 Dunnagan, Claude. Life Story of Lula
and Allison Sizemore (Lula Sizemore,
n.d., n.p., white, tenant farmer; Allison
Sizemore, n.d., n.p., white, tenant
farmer, Longtown, 8 November 1938)
369 Dunnagan, Claude. Totalitarian
Jetsom (Mike Solokopis, 1885, n.p.,
Greek, restaurateur, n.p., 14 February
1939)
370 Dunnagan, Claude. The Wandering
Magician (Frank Hageman, n.d., n.p.,
white, magician, New York, 28 February
1939)
371 Dunnagan, Claude. Mr. and Mrs.
Truman Barger, Beachtown, N.C. (Exie
Hardin, n.d., n.p., white, tenant farmer;
Mrs. Exie Hardin, n.d., n.p., white,
tenant farmer, Yadkinville, 10 November
1938)
Another version, “Life
Story of Mr. and Mrs. Exie Hardin, Tenant
Farmers of Yadkin County,” is in folder
365
372 Dunnagan, Claude. When Spring Comes
(No name given, n.d., n.p., [white?],
prostitute, n.p., 13 June 1939)
Dunnagan, Claude. See also Abbitt,
folders 274-275; Clalee Dunnagan, folders
359-360, and 362-364; Mabry, folder 604;
and Pearson, folder 690
Edwards, Lucille B. See Harris,
folders 508-509
373 Fain, Harry. Eliza Grant,
Midwife (Eliza Grant, ca. 1881, n.p.,
black, midwife, Raleigh, 20 March 1939)
374 Fain, Harry. Saturday’s Pay Day
(No names given, n.d., n.p., black, day
laborers, Raleigh, 1 May 1939)
375 Fain, Harry. Hobart Boswell,
Editor (Robert Gray, n.d., n.p., white,
editor, former lawyer, Raleigh, 20
February 1939)
376 Fain, Harry. Horse Trader
(Kemp P. Hill, 1867, n.p., white, horse
and mule trader, Raleigh, 20 March 1939)
377 Fain, Harry. Bonnie, the
Hairdresser (Bonnie Baste, 1899,
[Louisburg?], white, manager of a beauty
parlor, Raleigh, 2 January 1939)
378 Fain, Harry. A Day with the
Galloways (W. J. Galloway, ca, 1864,
n.p., white, farm tenant; Mrs. W. J.
Galloway, ca. 1874, [Stanley co.?], white,
farm tenant, Raleigh, 12 November 1938)
379 Forster, William O. Thomas Mason
Forrest (Thomas Mason Forrest, 1884,
[Chapel Hill?], white, farmer, Durham,
n.d.)
380 Forster, W. O. Ellis Stone
(Ellis Stone, ca. 1898, Four Oaks, white,
tenant farmer, Durham, 29 October 1938)
381 Forster, W. O. Jim Long (Jim
Long, ca. 1876, n.d., n.p., tenant farmer,
Chapel Hill, 6 December 1939)
382 Forster, W. O. Joe Beck (Joe
Beck, n.d., Durham County, tenant farmer,
Chapel Hill, 6 December 1938)
383 Forster, W. O. John Elliott
(John Elliott, 1876, n.d., n.p., white,
tenant farmer, Orange co., 11 February
1939)
384 Forster, W. O. Sycamore Hill
(Mrs. Brown, ca. 1893, n.p., white, tenant
farmer, Durham, n.d.)
385 Forster, W. O. Willie Roberts, A
Negro Laborer-Mechanic (Willie Roberts,
n.d., n.p., black, farmer-mechanic,
Durham, n.d.)
386 Forster, W. O. Five Year Lease
[Jack Milligan] (Jack Milligan, n.d.,
n.p., white, tenant farmer, Durham, n.d.)
387 Forster, W. O. Amos Mitchell
(Durham co., Durham, n.d.)
388 Forster, W. O. James Terrill, Man
of All Work (James Terrill, ca. 1884,
Danville, VA, white, barber, Carrboro,
n.d.)
389 Forster, W. O. John Shaw (John
Shaw, ca. 1879, n.p., black, tenant
farmer, Durham, n.d.)
390 Forster, W. O. Mrs. John Cates
(Mrs. John Cates, ca. 1885, n.p., white,
tenant farmer, Durham, n.d.)
391 Forster, W. O. Tom Hearst (Tom
Hearst, n.d., n.p., white, farmer, Durham,
n.d.)
392 Forster, W. O. John Gauss (John
Gauss, n.d., n.p., black, tenant farmer;
Mrs. John Gauss, black, tenant farmer,
Durham, n.d.)
393 Forster, W. O. David Stephens,
Colored Tenant (Dave Stephens, n.d.,
n.p., white, tenant farmer, New ton Grove,
22 October 1938)
394 Forster, W. O. Watkins Abernathy
(Watkins Abernathy, 1873, n.p., white,
tenant farmer, Newton Grove, 22 October
1938)
395 Forster, W. O. John and Sarah
Autrey (John Autrey, ca. 1914, n.p.,
white, tenant farmer; Sarah Autrey, ca.
1914, n.p., white tenant farmer, Clinton,
20 September 1938)
396 Forster, W. O. Sallie Johnson
(Sallie Johnson, n.d., n.p., black, tenant
farmer, Clinton, 1 November 1938)
397 Forster, W. O. Dick Striker, Farm
Laborer (Dick Striker, ca. 1876,
Goldsboro, white, farm laborer, Clinton,
12 October 1938)
Another version with
the same title is in folder 1028.
398 Anonymous I Am A Country Editor
(W. O. Saunders, Country Editor, Elizabeth
City, N.C.)
399 Forster, W. O. Mary Allen (Mary
Allen, [1879?], n.p., white, farmer; John
Allen, [1879?], n.p., white, farmer,
Clinton, 16 September 1938)
400 Forster, W. O. Facing Ahead
(Anthony Gibbs, 1875, Carrboro, white,
mechanic, Carrboro, 29 August 1939)
401 Forster, W. O. Hubert Smith
(Hubert Smith, n.d., n.p., white, tenant
farmer; Mrs. Hubert Smith, ca. 1889, n.p.,
white, tenant farmer, Chatham co., 24
September 1939)
402 Forster, W. O. B. F. Cates (B.
F. Cates, ca. 1872, Swepsonville, white,
farmer, textile worker, Carrboro, 14
November 1939)
403 Forster, W. O. Henry Howard
(Henry Howard, ca. 1885, n.p., white
farmer, Elizabeth Howard, ca. 1889, n.p.,
white, farmer, Chapel Hill, n.d.)
404 Forster, W. O. Henry Wicker
(Henry Wicker, n.d., n.p., Sanford, white,
tenant farmer, Chapel Hill, n.d.)
405 Forster, W. O. Ed and Margaret
O’Neal (Ed O’Neal, 1870, Chatham co.,
white, farmer; Margaret O’Neal, 1885,
n.p., white, farmer, Chapel Hill, 4
October 1938)
Another version, “Ed
and Margaret O’Neal,” is in folder 1028.
406 Forster, W. O. Ed Jones, A Farmer
Who Tries a Comeback (Ed Jones, n.d.,
n.p., white, tenant farmer, Chapel Hill,
n.d.)
407 Forster, W. O. Virgil Johnson, An
Old School Colored Farmer (Virgil
Johnson, 1871, n.p., black, tenant farmer,
Chapel Hill, 22 November 1938)
408 Forster, W. O. Jim Jeffrey (Jim
Jeffrey, n.d., Oconee co., GA, white,
tenant farmer, Durham, 10 June 1939)
409 Forster, W. O. Parish and Judith
Lassiter (Parrish Lassiter, ca. 1899,
n.p., white, tenant farmer; Judith
Lassiter, n.d., Clayton Township, white,
tenant farmer, Four Oaks, 18 September
1938)
410 Forster, W. O. Cisco Mayes
(Cisco Mayes, n.d., n.p., white, tenant
farmer, Durham, April 1939)
Another version, with
the same title, is in folder 1028.
411 Forster, W. O. Catherine and Will
Jones (Catherine Jones, ca. 1894, n.p.,
white, tenant farmer; Will Jones, ca.
1894, n.p., white, tenant farmer, Chatham
co., 14 September 1938)
412 Forster, W. O. Saunders Johnson
(Saunders Johnson, ca. 1884, n.p., black,
sawmill worker, Smithfield, 10 October
1938)
413 Forster, W. O. Ed and Mary
Johnson (Ed Jackson, ca. 1893, n.p.,
white, tenant farmer, Chapel Hill, 27
September 1938)
414 Forster, W. O. Mary Miller (Mary
Miller, n.p., OH, white, tenant farmer,
Durham, 4 October 1938)
415 Forster, W. O. The Bill Barbees
(Bill Barbee, n.d., NC, white, tenant
farmer, Durham, 10 November 1938)
416 Harris, Bernice Kelly. Jim Parker
Hopes Ahead (Jim Parker, ca. 1877, VA,
black, tenant farmer, Seaboard, 7 June
1939)
417 Harris, Bernice K. The Algae Jordans
(Algie Jordan, ca. 1880, Seaboard, white,
on relief; May Jordan, ca. 1880, Seaboard,
white, on relief, Seaboard, 13 July 1939)
418 Harris, Bernice K. Cloud By Day (An
adult education class, Seaboard, 9
November 1938)
419 Harris, Bernice K. Sharecropping’s
the Best (Roland Maddrey, ca. 1889, n.p.,
white, farmer, Seaboard, n.d.)
420 Harris, Bernice K. Rosa Irving (Rosa
Irving, 1865, n.p., white, widow,
Seaboard, 3 November 1938)
421 Harris, Bernice K. One Jump Ahead
Every Time (No name given, n.d.,
Seaboard, black, tenant farmer, Seaboard,
n.d.)
422 Harris, Bernice K. Circle Number III
Meets (Meeting church circle, Seaboard,
12 June 1939)
423 Harris, Bernice K. A Southern
Gentleman (No name given, n.d.,
[Seaboard?], white, landlord, Seaboard, 31
March 1939)
424 Harris, Bernice K. A. K. Harris,
Undertaker (A. K. Harris, ca. 1874,
Seaboard, black, undertaker, Seaboard,
n.d.)
425 Harris, Bernice K. Molly Harding,
Negro (Molly Harding, ca. 1887, n.p.,
black, tenant farmer, Pleasant Hill, 6
January 1939)
426 Harris, Bernice K. Mariah and Berle
Barnes, Ex-Slaves (Mariah Barnes, ca.
1856, [Gaysburg?], black, ex-slave; Berle
Barnes, n.d., n.p., black, ex-slave,
Seaboard, 9 March 1939)
427 Harris, Bernice K. Minnie Moody,
Negro Farmer (Minnie Moody, ca. 1884,
[the Neck?], black, farmer, Seaboard, 25
November 1938)
428 Harris, Bernice K. Will There Be Any
Stars (Lucy James Railey Britt, 1844,
Gates co., white, elderly woman, Seaboard,
28 March 1939)
429 Harris, Bernice K. To This End (Miss
Pat, ca. 1859, n.d., n.p., white, elderly
lady, Seaboard, 27 July 1939)
430 Harris, Bernice K. No Stick Leg
(Lettice Joyner, ca. 1829, Bryant
Plantation, the Neck, black, ex-slave,
Seaboard, 3 May 1939)
431 Harris, Bernice K. Sisters in the
Lord (Lucy Ivory, ca. 1861, Woodland,
black, ex-slave, Seaboard, 27 July 1939)
432 Harris, Bernice K. Joe Fielding (Joe
Fielding, ca. 1879, Concord, white, tenant
farmer, Seaboard, 21 October 1938)
433 Harris, Bernice K. Lewis Little:
Sharecropper (Lewis Little, n.d., n.p.,
white, tenant farmer, Seaboard, 29 October
1938)
434 Harris, Bernice K. Richard Lloyd,
Minister (Richard Lloyd, 1889, Newton,
Wales, Welsh, minister, Jackson, 17
January 1939)
435 Harris, Bernice K. John Wesley
Parker, MD (John Wesley Parker, n.d.,
n.p., doctor, white, Seaboard, 28 January
1939)
436 Harris, Bernice K. I Am Sick
O’Farming ([?] Little, ca. 1889,
Seaboard, white, farmer, Seaboard, 21 June
1939)
437 Harris, Bernice K. Hart Thomas, Negro
(Hart Thomas, 1859, n.p., black, tenant
farmer, Seaboard, 30 November 1938)
438 Harris, Bernice K. The Hattie
Duggers, Negroes (Hattie Dugger, n.d.,
n.p., black, tenant farmer, Pleasant Hill,
28 December 1938)
439 Harris, Bernice K. You Can’t Take the
Country Out of a Man (Charlie Hart, n.d.,
n.p., white, tenant farmer, Seaboard,
n.d.)
440 Harris, Bernice K. The Lees (Josie
Taylor Lee, ca. 1886, n.p., white, tenant
farmer; Steve Lee, ca. 1883, Severn,
white, tenant farmer, Seaboard, 10
December 1938)
441 Harris, Bernice K. Dona Balmer Male
(Dona Balmer Male, ca. 1896, n.p., white,
tenant farmer, Pleasant Hill, 10 January
1939)
442 Harris, Bernice K. Molly Jordan:
Mulatto Farm Woman (Molly Jordan, 1867,
Southampton co., VA, black, tenant farmer,
Pleasant Hill, 1 November 1938)
443 Harris, Bernice K. Aaron and Mary
Montgomery, Negroes (Aaron Montgomery,
[1866?], Vaughan, black, tenant farmer;
Mary Montgomery, ca. 1881, black, tenant
farmer, Pleasant Hill, n.d.)
444 Harris, Bernice K. The ‘Portugese,’
Fannie Wiggins (Fannie Wiggins, ca. 1880,
n.p., ‘Portugese,’ tenant farmer; Charles
Wiggins, ca. 1879, n.p., ‘Portugese,’
tenant farmer, Northampton co., 22 March
1939)
445 Harris, Bernice K. “I’ve Kept
Rentin’” (Paula Parks, n.d., [Gunberry?],
white, tenant farmer, Seaboard, 17 July
1939)
446 Harris, Bernice K. Christine Poole,
Speaking (Christine Poole, n.d., n.p.,
white, teacher, Seaboard, 13 January 1939)
447 Harris, Bernice K. The Drapers, White
Sharecroppers (Bob Draper, ca. 1878,
n.p., white, tenant farmer, Seaboard, 2
August 1939)
448 Harris, Bernice K. W. A. Suiter, Part-
time Employee (S. A. Suiter, ca. 1892,
n.p., black, part-time employee, Seaboard,
31 July 1939)
449 Harris, Bernice K. Rosa Faison, Negro
(Rosa Faison, [1860?], Margaretsville,
black, farmer, Margaretsville, 10 December
1938)
450 Harris, Bernice K. Fanny Bowers
Maddrey and Her Husband (Fanny Bowers
Maddrey, 1892, Gumberry, black, tenant
farmer, 8 August 1939)
451 Harris, Bernice K. “I’d Like to Have
a Coca Cola” (Pattie Debrow, ca. 1878,
[Merrytops on the Neck], black, elderly
woman, Gumberry, 1 July 1939)
452 Harris, Bernice K. Never Weary on the
Way (Sallie Jordan, n.d., [Seaboard?],
black, chore woman, Seaboard, n.d.)
453 Harris, Bernice K. “I’ve Had Good
Landlords” (Ernest Flythe, ca. 1893,
Conway, white, tenant farmer, 19 July
1939)
454 Harris, Bernice K. The Clipping Goes
to Mrs. Jordan (Mrs. Peter Jordan, ca.
1867, n.p., white, elderly woman, Pleasant
Hill, 17 November 1938)
455 Harris, Bernice K. “If It Wa’nt For
the Sewing Room” (Mrs. Hargraves, ca.
1897, n.p., white, WPA worker, Seaboard, 5
July 1939)
456 Harris, Bernice K. Jennings and
Merriam, Cotton Ginners (Jennings, ca.
1866, Six Springs, white, cotton ginner;
Merriam, n.d., n.p., white, cotton ginner,
Seaboard, 27 February 1939)
457 Harris, Bernice K. Roger T.
Stevenson, Justice of the Peace (Roger T.
Stevenson, ca. 1869, Midvale, white,
justice of the peace, Seaboard, 10
February 1939)
458 Harris, Bernice K. Eric Norfleet,
Judge of Recorder’s Court (Eric Norfleet,
n.d., Roxebel, white, lawyer, Seaboard, 11
February 1939)
459 Harris, Bernice K. Mrs. Jennie
Wheeler (Jennie Wheeler, ca. 1883, n.p.,
white, tenant farmer, Margaretsville, 2
December 1938)
460 Harris, Bernice K. I’m Mighty Lucky
(Eddie Davis, ca. 1900, n.p., white,
basket-maker, Seaboard, n.d.)
461 Harris, Bernice K. Hard Luck Harry
(Harry Allen, n.d., n.p., white, WPA
worker, Seaboard, 5 April 1939)
462 Harris, Bernice K. The Drapers ‘Set’
Till Bed Time (Ada Draper, n.d., n.p.,
white, tenant farmer; Ada Balmer, n.d.,
n.p., white, tenant farmer, Seaboard, 12
November 1938)
Another version,
untitled, is in folder 447.
463 Harris, Bernice K. Amos Long, Ex-
Slave (Amos Long, ca. 1839,
[Northampton?], black, ex-slave, Seaboard,
22 February 1939)
464 Harris, Bernice K. I’s Laughed Some
([Nellie Blythe?], [1847?], Gayersburg,
black, ex-slave, Seaboard, 28 June 1939)
465 Harris, Bernice K. The Grizzards
(Mr. Grizzard, 1861, Greensville co.,
white, elderly man; Corrie Grizzard, n.d.,
Homersville, white, elderly lady,
Seaboard, 11 July 1939)
466 Harris, Bernice K. The Mack Faisons
(Mack Faison, ca. 1891, Pleasant Hill,
white, tenant farmer, Pleasant Hill, 31
December 1938)
467 Harris, Bernice K. Preacher Goode,
Negro (Preacher Henry Goode, ca. 1865,
n.p., black, preacher, Seaboard, 6
December 1938)
468 Harris, Bernice K. The Willie McLongs
(Willie McLong, ca. 1861, n.p., white,
truck farmer, Seaboard, 13 December 1938)
469 Harris, Bernice K. Tank Valentine
Daughtry (Tank Valentine Daughtry, ca.
1865, n.p., Mecklenburg co., VA, black,
farmer, Seaboard, 22 December 1938)
470 Harris, Bernice K. No Scrap Pile Yet
(Alice Kee, 1867, Cedar Rock, black, farm
laborer, Pleasant Hill, 6 May 1939)
471 Harris, Bernice K. Nelly Hargraves
(Nelly Hargraves, n.d., Seaboard, black,
Margaretsville, 14 August 1939)
472 Harris, Bernice K. Precinct Chairman
(Name not given, 1898, Martin co., white,
railroad agent, Gumberry, n.d.)
473 Harris, Bernice K. Just A Plain Two-
Horse Farmer (James Hillyer, 1873,
[Pleasant Hill?], white, farmer, Pleasant
Hill, 15 March 1939)
474 Harris, Bernice K. The Landlord Has
His Troubles (Name not given, n.d., n.p.,
white, landlord, Seaboard, 5 March 1939)
475 Harris, Bernice K. Ethel Vassar, Cook
(Ethel Vasser, n.d., n.p., black, cook,
Seaboard, 23 February 1939)
476 Harris, Bernice K. The Boones (Mrs.
Boone, n.d., [Charlotte?], white, tenant
farmer, Seaboard, 25 October 1938)
477 Harris, Bernice K. Rosa Warwick,
Farmer (Rosa Warwick, n.d., Pleasant
Hill, white, tenant farmer, Pleasant Hill,
21 March 1939)
478 Harris, Bernice K. Henry Calhoun
Weathers (Henry Calhoun Weathers, 1889,
Wake co., white, landlord, Seaboard, 1
March 1939)
479 Harris, Bernice K. The Ethel
Whiteheads (Ethel Whitehead, [1893?],
Seaboard, white, farmer, Seaboard, 17
December 1938)
480 Harris, Bernice K. “I Ain’t Lost
Heart” (Richard Branch, 1875, Enfield,
black, tenant farmer, Seaboard, 14 June
1939)
481 Harris, Bernice K. The Misses Hodges
(Aunt Sue Hodges, ca. 1861, [Lesker?],
farmer, elderly woman; Tommie Hodges, ca.
1883, n.p., farmer, Pleasant Hill, 17
March 1939)
482 Harris, Bernice K. The John Basses
(John Bass, ca. 1873, n.p., white, tenant
farmer, Seaboard, 20 October 1938)
483 Harris, Bernice K. The B. D. Bass
Household (B. D. [Boss] Bass, n.d., n.p.,
white, farmer, Seaboard, 18 October 1938)
484 Harris, Bernice K. Mrs. Wright Jordan
(Mrs. Wright Jordan, ca. 1882, n.p.,
white, on relief, Seaboard, 26 October
1938)
485 Harris, Bernice K. Jackson Bullitt,
Small Landlord (Jackson Bullitt, n.d.,
Juniper, VA, white, landlord, Seaboard, 11
March 1939)
486 Harris, Bernice K. Forty-Six Years A
Merchant (No name given, ca. 1867,
Creeksville, white, merchant, Seaboard, 4
February 1939)
487 Harris, Bernice K. A Sharecropper’s
Saturday Night ([?] Harris, ca. 1870,
Edgecombe, SC, white, tenant farmer,
Seaboard, 23 November 1938)
488 Harris, Bernice K. Red Steer’s A
Great Career ([?] Howell, 1913, Seaboard,
white, fertilizer salesman, Seaboard, 1
May 1939)
489 Harris, Bernice K. A Cross-Roads
Store (Grover C. White, n.d., n.p.,
white, country store operator, Seaboard, 1
February 1939)
490 Harris, Bernice K. Sam Sets It Down
(Sam T. Vassar, 1890, n.p., black,
unemployed, Seaboard, n.d.)
491 Harris, Bernice K. Plow Beans for
Pills (Walter Raleigh Parker, n.d.,
Beoman co., white, doctor, Woodland, 24
January 1939)
492 Harris, Bernice K. Saturday Afternoon
Street Scene (street scene, Seaboard, 3
April 1939)
493 Harris, Bernice K. The Miller and the
Fourth (No name given, 1867, n.d., n.p.,
white, miller, Seaboard, 7 July 1939)
494 Harris, Bernice K. Rev. C. Herman
Trueblood (C. Herman Trueblood, n.d.,
Elizabeth City, white, preacher, Seaboard,
16 February 1939)
495 Harris, Bernice K. Ruth Vick Everett
Speaking (Ruth Vick Everett, n.d., n.p.,
white, teacher, Seaboard, 8 February 1939)
496 Harris, Bernice K. “I Can’t Sing Like
I Used To” (Uncle John Pebbles, [1848?],
Creeksville, black, ex-slave, Creeksbille,
26 May 1939)
497 Harris, Bernice K. “Not To Be
Trampled On” ([Miss Pat?], 1859, n.p.,
white, elderly woman, Pleasant Hill)
See also, “To This End,” folder 430
498 Harris, Bernice K. Sharecropping’s
All Right (Mrs. Will Comer, ca. 1884,
Bertie, white, day laborer, tenant farmer;
Will Comer, 1879, Bertie, white, day
laborer, tenant farmer, Emporia, VA, 22
May 1939)
499 Harrison, Willis S. Red Thomas Sawmill
Worker (William Thomas, ca. 1897,
Coropeake, white, sawmill worker, Windsor,
8 November 1938)
500 Harrison, Willis S. Marsh Taylor,
Landlord (J. B. Fearing, n.d., n.p.,
white, landlord, Windsor, 19 November
1938)
501 Harrison, Willis S. Tom Pugh, Tenant
Farmer (Tom Pugh, 1889, n.p., black,
tenant farmer, Windsor, 11 November 1938)
502 Harrison, Willis S. William Carter,
Negro Merchant and Farmer (William
Carter, 1863, n.p., black, merchant,
farmer, Windsor, 9 November 1938)
503 Harrison, Willis S. Arthur Roberson of
Doodle Hill (W. A. Roberson, ca. 1889,
Bear Grass, white, country store operator,
Williamston, 7 November 1938)
504 Harriss, Frances L. Ann Page
Millworker (Ann Williamson, ca. 1867,
n.p., white, mill worker, Williamson, 14
January 1939)
505 Another version of the
same interview
506 Harriss, F. L., Sadler,
and Massengill Fisherman’s Widow
(Mrs. Richard Farrow, ca. 1893, [Masonboro
Sound?], white, WPA worker, Masonboro
Sound, 27 December 1938)
507 Harriss, Frances L. Martha Turner, The
Half-breed (Martha Turner, ca. 1843,
Bladen co., Indian, cotton mill worker,
Wilmington, 20 December 1938)
508 Harriss, Frances L.,
Lucille B. Edwards,
and Massengill A Family of Dry
Dock (John Solomon Hales, ca.1882, white,
dredge boat operator, Wilmington, 23
January 1939)
509 Harriss, Edwards,
and Massengill “Granny of
Elvidor” (Warren Edwards, 1877,
Wilmington, white, carpenter; Harriet
Edwards, 1882, SC, white, housewife,
Wilmington, 16 February 1939)
510 Hatch, Henry D., and
George L. Andrews Red Cap (Doc
Mormon, 1878, Philadelphia, black, station
porter, Hamlet, 10 January 1939)
511 Hatch and Massengill “Front,
Johnnie!” (William Hitt, ca. 1911, [GA?],
white, gas station operator, Hamlet, 27
January 1939)
512 Hennessee, Wm. E. The Magistrate
(Clarence Fesperman, 1872, Hamerton,
white, justice of the peace, Salisbury,
n.d.)
513 Hennessee, Wm. E. The Doctor
(Camilius Lanier, [1850?], [Mecklenburg
co., VA?], white, doctor, Davie co., March
1939)
514 Hennessee, Wm. E. Counsellor at Law
(Robert Lee Wright, n.d., n.p., white,
lawyer, Salisbury, February 1939)
515 Hennessee, Wm. E. A Day in Court
(Judge T. G. Farr, n.d., n.p., white,
judge, Salisbury, 5 April 1939)
516 Hicks, Mary A., and
Massengill Crazed by Fear
(Ernest Foster, ca. 1880, n.p., white,
farmer, Selma, n.d.)
517 Hicks and Massengill The Turning
Point (Mrs. Odell McNeil, n.d., n.p.,
white, bag maker, Salisbury, 2 May 1939)
518 Hicks and Massengill If I Had More
Education (William Bagwell, n.d., n.p.,
white, mechanic, Apex, 9 May 1939)
519 Hicks, Massengill,
and Sadler The Hunter Family
(Valentine Hunter, ca. 1906, n.p., white,
housewife; Delbert Hunter, ca. 1896,
Tampa, FL, white, carpenter, Raleigh, 28
December 1938)
520 Hicks and Massengill War Minded
(Mabry Shaw, n.d., n.p., black, sawmill
worker, Raleigh, 29 March 1939)
521 Hicks and Massengill Head of a
Family (N. G. Blake, n.d., Raleigh,
white, bus driver, Raleigh, 9 March 1939)
522 Hicks and Massengill Just a Mormon
at Heart (N. E. Ward, ca. 1876, n.p.,
white, farmer and lawyer, Spring Hope, 23
March 1939)
523 Hicks and Massengill A Full Life is
Best (Mary Whitley, n.d., n.p., white,
seamstress, Rocky Mount, 24 July 1939)
524 Hicks and Massengill Air Castles of
Young Love (Barney J. Medlin, ca. 1915,
n.p., white, Civilian Conservation Corps,
Durham, 14 February 1939)
525 Hicks, Massengill,
and Sadler The New Generation
(Vernon Moore, ca. 1919, n.p., white,
farmer, Selma, 19 January 1939)
526 Hicks and Massengill The Happy
Farmhand (John Blunt, [1884?], n.p.,
black, farm hand, Raleigh, n.d.)
527 Hicks, Mary A. The Thompson
Family (Mary Thompson, 1902, n.p., white,
housewife, Raleigh, 13 December 1938)
528 Hicks, Mary A. Carpentering Am a
Job (Andrew King, n.d., Barton, white,
carpenter, Cary, 3 February 1939)
529 Hicks and Massengill The Artis
Simpson Family (Lonnie Williams, 1902,
Raleigh, white, printer, Cary, 5 February
1939)
530 Hicks, Massengill,
and Sadler A Waitress (Eva
Truelove, ca. 1912, Hartnell co., white,
waitress, Raleigh, 1 January 1939)
531 Hicks and Massengill Everything is
Intended (Mrs. Highsmith, ca. 1915, n.p.,
white, seamstress, Raleigh, 14 July 1939)
532 Hicks and Massengill Self-Denial
(Peter B. Bowers, ca. 1888, white, farmer
and teacher, Raleigh, 2 February 1939)
533 Hicks and Massengill A Rough Route
(Leroy Hicks, ca. 1872, Johnston co.,
white, farmer, Cary, 26 November 1938)
Another version, “The
Hicks Family,” is in folder 544
534 Hicks, Mary A. The Charles Medlin
Family (Mattie Medlin, n.d., n.p., white,
occupation not indicated; Mary Medlin,
n.d., n.p., white, occupation not
indicated; Charles Medlin, n.d., n.p.,
white, engineer, Raleigh, 1 December 1938)
535 Hicks and Browder Another version of
the same interview.
536 Hicks and Massengill Righteous and
Ready to Go (Ida Maynard, ca. 1880, n.p.,
white, flower agent, Raleigh, 9 February
1939)
537 Hicks and Massengill Story of a
Washwoman (Valley Perry, 1901, n.p.,
black, laundress, Cary, 28 February 1939)
538 Hicks and Massengill My Mistakes
(Ida Fleming, n.d., n.p., white, WPA
clerical worker, Raleigh, 21 March 1939)
539 Hicks and Massengill Bad Bargains
Are Sometimes Good (Lily Brewer, n.d.,
n.p., white, teacher and seamstress,
Justice, 20 March 1939)
540 Hicks, Mary A., and
Willis P. Harrison The Owens Family
(William J. Owen, ca. 1885, white, tenant
farmer, Wilson, 25 November 1938)
541 Hicks and Massengill The “It” Man
(E. L. Thomas, n.d., n.p., white, bus
driver, Raleigh, 16 March 1939)
542 Hicks and Massengill He Knows It
Doesn’t Pay (Charlie Mitchell, ca. 1899,
Lenoir, white, railroad fireman, Raleigh,
23 March 1939)
543 Hicks, Mary A. The Medlin Family
(Richard Medlin, ca. 1862, Crabtree Creek,
white, farmer, Raleigh, 15 November 1938)
544 Hicks, Mary A. The Hicks Family
(Leroy Hicks, ca. 1872, Johnston co.,
white, farmer, Cary, 26 December 1938)
Another version, “A
Rough Route,” is in folder 533
545 Hicks and Massengill Facing a Tough
Future (Ed Roland, n.d., n.p., white,
mechanic, Raleigh, n.d.)
546 Hicks and Massengill From Farmer to
Merchant (William R. Hobby, n.d., n.p.,
white, merchant, Raleigh, 7 February 1939)
547 Hicks and Massengill Bread Alone
(Wiley Rogers, n.d., n.p., black, steel
worker, state highway commission employee,
Method, 7 April 1939)
548 Hicks, Massengill,
and Sadler “Don’t You Envy
Me?” (Dora Hardy, n.d., Wake co., white,
clerk, Raleigh, 13 January 1939)
549 Hicks, Mary A. The Hamilton
Family (Zebulon Hawkins Hamilton, ca.
1862, Wake co., blacksmith, state highway
commission employee, Raleigh, 25 November
1939)
550 Hicks and Massengill The Stake of
Life (William Batts, n.d., n.p., black,
tobacco packer, Wilson, 1 June 1939)
551 Hicks, Mary A.,
Ed Massengill, and
Frank McDonald The Thurman
Hamiltons (Mrs. Thurman Hamilton, n.d.,
n.p., white, wife of a truck driver, Cary,
14 December 1938)
552 Hicks, Mary A. The Stultz Family
(Carey Stultz, ca. 1893, Moore co., white,
day laborer, Cary, 5 December 1938)
553 Hicks, Mary A. The House Family
(William House, n.d., n.p., white, driver
city street sweeper, Raleigh, 22 December
1938)
554 Hicks, Massengill,
and Sadler The Cally Reaves
Family (Lela Reaves, ca. 1903, Wake co.,
white, wife of a driver for a transfer
company, 2 January 1939)
555 Hicks and Massengill The Boss of
the Rolling Squad (Henry Garner, n.d.,
n.p., white, WPA foreman, Cary, 18 May
1939)
556 Hicks and Massengill Easier Ways
(Leonard Warwick, n.d., n.p., white,
farmer, Selma, 10 July 1939)
557 Hicks and Massengill ‘Backer
Barning (Ransome Jackson, n.d., n.p.,
white, tobacco farmer, Smithfield, 19 July
1939)
558 Hicks, Mary A. The Emmett Allen
Family (Mrs. Allen, n.d., n.p., white,
wife of a carpenter, Raleigh, 3 July 1939)
559 Jordan, Travis Life in Erwin Mill
Village (Group of textile workers,
Durham, 21 December 1938)
560 Jordan, Travis Martha Hinton, A
Good Woman (Martha Hinton, ca. 1859,
Pearson co., white, rooming house keeper,
Durham, 9 December 1938)
561 Jordan, Travis Hazel Wicker
(Hazel Wicker, ca. 1914, Angier, white,
occupation not indicated, Durham, 9
November 1938)
562 Jordan, Massengill,
and Sadler John Lincoln (No
name given, ca. 1894, [SC?], white,
insurance salesman, Durham, 9 January
1939)
563 Jordan and
Massengill I’ll Have
Something Yet (Pearl Phillips, ca. 1916,
Eastern NC, white, WPA worker, Durham, 20
July 1939)
564 Jordan, Travis Bud Taylor, Tenant
Farmer (Bud Taylor, n.d., n.p., white,
tenant farmer, Bahama, 14 December 1938)
565 Jordan, Travis Bill Saunders,
Landowner (Bill Saunders, n.d., n.p.,
white, landowner, Bahama, 21 December
1938)
566 King, Robert O. Lee Anderson
Stanley (Lee Anderson Stanley, Raleigh,
N.C., 13-16 June 1939)
567 King, Robert O. Sherwood Upchurch
(J. Sherwood Upchurch, 1870, Raleigh,
white, retired politician, Raleigh, 6-8
March 1939)
568 King, Robert O. Frank Goldie Moore
(Frank G. Moore, 1879, Rocky Mount, white,
shoemaker, Raleigh, 7, 12, and 13 August
1939)
569 King, Robert O. The Moore Family
(John Moore, ca. 1892, Franklin co.,
black, barber, Raleigh, 14 November 1938)
570 King, Robert O. Miss Lettie Mason
(Lettie Mason, 1885, Fuquay Springs,
white, beautician, Raleigh, 1-4 February
1939)
571 King, Robert O. Laurence M. Waring
(Laurence M. Waring, 1878, Raleigh, white,
justice of the peace, Raleigh, 10, 13, and
14 March 1939)
572 King, Robert O. Mrs. Mattie Gill
Olive Mial (Hattie G. Olive Mial, 1878,
n.p., white, widow, Raleigh, 20-24 March
1939)
573 King, Robert O. Moses Thompson
(Moses Thompson, 1880, Raleigh, black,
jockey, Raleigh, n.d.)
574 King, Robert O. Roy Woods and
Family (Roy Woods, n.d., Raleigh, black,
farm laborer, Raleigh, 28 December 1938)
575 King, Robert O. Clarence E.
Mitchell (Clarence E. Mitchell, 1886,
Raleigh, white, printer, 9-13 February
1939)
576 King, Robert O. Guy L. Bunch (Guy
L. Bunch, 1866, Raleigh, white, mechanic,
Raleigh, 3-6 April 1939)
577 King, Robert O. John Wesley Wynne
(John Wynne, 1864, Raleigh, white, circus,
Raleigh, 11-14 April 1939)
578 King, Robert O. Mrs. Nancy Gill’s
Lodging House (Nancy Gill, ca. 1854, Wake
co., white, boarding house operator,
Raleigh, 20-24 November 1938)
579 King, Robert O. William Peterson
and Family (Bill Peterson, n.d., n.p.,
black, bell-hop, Raleigh, 28 November
1938)
580 King, Robert O. Mrs. Ruth Jordan
Williamson (Ruth Jordan Williamson,
white, housewife, Raleigh, 29 April-3 May
1939)
581 King, Robert O. Reverend James
Wynetorte Smith (James Wynetorte Smith,
1893, Cherokee co., SC, black, minister,
Raleigh, 19, 22, 24 May 1939)
582 King, Robert O. The Pace Family
(Lucy Pace, ca. 1892, Chatham co., white,
textile worker, Raleigh, 8 November 1938)
583 King, Robert O. “Aunt” Della
McCullers’ Boarding House (Della
McCullers, Raleigh, 1874, black, boarding
house operator, Raleigh, n.d.)
584 King, Robert O. The Cheeks
(Margaret Bradburn Cheek, n.d., Madison
co., white, waitress, Raleigh, 15 November
1938)
585 King, Robert O. The Johnsons
(William “Red” Johnson, ca. 1917, Raleigh,
white, elevator operator, Raleigh, 9
November 1938)
586 Long, A. W. If I Couldn’t Talk I’d
Bust (Ophelia Mull, ca. 1908, Connestee,
white, houseworker, Brevard, 26 June 1939)
587 Long, A. W. Judge Sidney Taylor
(William F. Harding, white, eastern NC,
white, judge, Charlotte, 22 July 1939)
588 Long, A. W. Jack Gallup: Meat
Clerk (Spencer Mull, [1906?], Brevard,
white, meat clerk, Brevard, 14 May 1939)
589 Long, A. W. Schoolmaster and
Explorer (Samuel P. Verner, n.d., n.p.,
white, schoolmaster, Brevard, 14 May 1939)
590 Long, A. W. Life in a Small
Mountain Town (Life in a small mountain
town, Brevard, 12 April 1939)
591 Long, A. W. Up Hominy Creek
(Morrison Baynard, n.d., Brevard, white,
farmer and huntsman, Brevard, 12 January
1939)
592 Long, A. W. Janitor and Odd Job
Man (Ossie Bailey, [1879?], Brevard,
black, janitor and odd job man, Brevard,
15 February 1939)
593 Mabry, Luline L. Mrs. Foster
Ricks (Mrs. Earl Marshall, n.d., Dana,
white, farmer, Dana, n.d.)
594 Mabry, Luline, and
Frank Massimino Desolate Breed
(Mrs. Walter Steadman, n.d., n.p., white,
dressmaker, Hendersonville, 14 and 26
January 1939)
595 Mabry, Luline, and
Douglas Carter “Washin’ Foh White
Fo’ks” (Josephine Johnson, 1870, Gifford
Station, SC, black, washwoman, Laura
Summey, [1863?], SC, black, washwoman,
Hendersonville, 14 April 1939)
596 Mabry, Luline L. The
Satterfields (Mrs. Fred L. Satterfield,
n.d., SC, white, wife of a mill worker,
Hendersonville, n.d.)
597 Mabry & Massimino Bees in Her Bonnet
(Mrs. Raymond Pace, ca. 1908,
Heightsville, white, florist,
Hendersonville, 20 December 1938, and 19
January 1939)
598 Mabry & Carter “Every Penny
Counts” (Mrs. D. E. Greer, ca. 1882,
Hendersonville, white, domestic servant,
Hendersonville, 10 April 1939)
599 Mabry, Luline L. The Rosses
(Mrs. Ross, n.d., SC, white, seamstress,
Hendersonville, n.d.)
600 Mabry & Massimino “Orphans Two”
Robert H. Delvechio, n.d., n.p., white,
stone mason, bricklayer, Hendersonville,
18 August 1939)
601 Mabry & Massimino Her Ungodly
Grandson (Mrs. J. W. Thompson, n.d.,
n.p., white, housewife, Hendersonville, 4
August 1939)
602 Mabry, Massimino,
and Ed Bjorkman Laughing at
Poverty (L. C. Pearson, ca. 1899, n.p.,
white, preacher, Hendersonville, 1
February 1939)
603 Mabry & Massimino A Negro in
Business (Robert Quinn, n.d., Greenville,
SC, black, electrical contractor,
Hendersonville, 5 April 1939)
604 Mabry, Massimino,
and Claude Dunnagan James T. Dunlap,
Ex-Industrialist (J. T. Whitlock, ca.
1883, Union, SC, white, salesman,
Hendersonville, 27 February 1939)
605 Mabry & Massimino Stella Dean:
Waitress (Mrs. Albert Gresham, n.d., KA,
white, waitress, Hendersonville, 21 July
1939)
606 Massengill, Edwin An Evening at
Buster Sparks’ (Archie Johnson, n.d.,
n.p., white, farmer, Angier, n.d.)
Massengill, Edwin See also Abner,
folders 278, 280, 283-284; Anderson,
folder 285; Beaman, folders 287-289;
Brown, folder 300; Cannady, folders 310-
311; Combs, folder 323; Crowell, folder
334; Darrow, folders 335-342; Claude
Dunnagan, folder 366; Harriss, folders
506, 508-509; Hatch, folder 511; Hicks,
folders 516-526, 529-533, 536-539, 541-
542, 545-548, 550-551, 554-557; Jordan,
folders 562-563; Matthews, folders 616-
617, 619-623, 626, 652; Phillips, folders
693-697; Rogerson, folder 719; Sedberry,
folders 742-746; Summey, folder 765;
Taylor, folders 766-767, 769; Vaughan,
folders 770-771, 773.
607 Massimino, Frank. The Deever
Taylors, Balfour, North Carolina (Deever
Taylor, n.d., n.p., white, textile worker,
Hendersonville, 10 October 1938)
608 Massimino, Frank. Two Sides to a
Story (Oscar Vaughan, n.d., n.p., white,
bootlegger, Hendersonville, 9 December
1939)
609 Massimino, Frank. An Irascible Negro
(Jim Mitchum, 1894c., Outman S.C., black,
chauffeur-mechanic, Hendersonville, 1 May
1939)
610 Massimino, Frank. John Leard:
Ploughman. (Quay Corn, n.d., n.p., white,
farmer, Hendersonville, 19 June 1938)
611 Massimino, Frank. Claude J.
Davidson. (Claude J. Davidson, 1908,
n.p., white, chainstore employee,
Hendersonville, 12 January 1939)
612 Massimino, Frank Doctor Gray. (Dr.
James Stevens Brown, n.d., n.p., white,
doctor, Hendersonville, 11 January 1939)
613 Massimino, Frank. The Elmer Rays
(Elmer Ray, n.d., n.p., white, odd jobs,
Hendersonville, 17 November 1938)
614 Masssimino, Frank Uncle Ulysses:
Relief Client. (Winslow Mills, n.d.,
n.p., black, laborer, Hendersonville, 11
July 1939)
615 Massimino, Frank. Roy Corn,
Blockade. (Roy Corn, n.d., n.p., white,
blockader, Hendersonville, 19 December
1938)
Massimino, Frank. See also Mabry,
7866-7875, 7891-7906, 7925-8012
616 Matthews, T. Pat,
and Edwin Massengill. From Farm
Tenant to Plumber. (Robert Matthews,
n.d., n.p., white, plumber, Raleigh, n.d.)
617 Matthews and
Massengill. I Was Born That
Way. (Noah Abraham Peterson, 1883, n.p.,
white, peddler, Raleigh, 29 May 1939)
618 Matthews, T. Pat. We Make
Plenty. (Matthew Luke Matthews, 1881,
n.p., black, farmer, Lillington, 27
November 1938)
619 Matthews and
Massengill Rooming House.
(Sarah Parish, 1873, Johnston Co., white,
rooming house proprietor, Raleigh, 20
January 1839)
620 Matthews and
Massengill Heading the Wrong
Way. (Flonnie Barbour, 1909, Bloomberg,
white, sporting woman, Raleigh, 4 February
1939)
621 Matthews and
Massengill. A Life of Toil.
(Fred Gouch, 1891c., n.p., white, metal
worker, Raleigh, 3 May 1939)
622 Matthews and
Massengill. A Tight Place.
(Sarah Strickland Faison, 1874c., n.p.,
white, merchant and housewife, Clayton, 9
May 1939)
623 Matthews and
Massengill. Bryan Outlaw.
(Zebedee Matthews, 1858, n.p., white,
farmer, Varina, 25 November 1938)
624 Matthews, T. Pat. The Wood
Family. (Patricia Ozelle Wood, 1912c.,
Clinton, white, housewife, Lillington, 25
November 1938)
625 Matthews, T. Pat. John Sylvester
Hinson. (Walter Ingram Butts, 1881, n.p.,
white, farmer, Lillington, 29 November
1938)
626 Matthews and
Massengill. Amos Abner Cotton.
(Robert Dotson Glenn, 1850, Orange County,
black, farmer, Raleigh, 11 January 1939)
627 McDonald, Frank H. Georgia Negro.
(Aaron Jackson, 1910c., Washington Ga.,
black, janitor, Raleigh, 28 November-3
December 1938)
628 McDonald, Frank H. Pinie and George.
(Pinie Stewart, 1909c., Belmont, white,
textile worker, Raleigh, 15 December 1938)
McDonald, Frank H. See also: Taylor,
folder 768.
629 McKee, Henry. Afraid to Belong
to a Union. (Charles Humphrey, 1890,
n.p., white, cotton mill worker, East
Lumberton, 15 February 1939)
630 Merrick, Adyleen G. The Ruffs. (Mrs.
Joe Ruff, n.d., n.p., white, tenant
farmer; Joe Ruff, n.d., n.p., white,
tenant farmer, East Lumberton, 14 November
1938)
631 Merrick, Adyleen G. No Title. (Mary
Green, n.d., n.p., white, occupation not
given, Lynn Township, 28 July 1939)
632 Merrick, Adyleen G. Blue Diamonds.
(Jim McDowell, n.d., n.p., black, WPA
laborer, Tryon, 6 April 1939)
633 Merrick, Adyleen G. Another version of
the same interview.
634 Merrick, Adyleen G. Husbands Are a Lot
of Trouble. (Ollie Foster Green, 1910c.,
Columbus, white, WPA worker, Columbus, 22
March 1939)
635 Merrick, Adyleen G. Alice Smith.
(Alice Smith, 1862, Mills Spring, white,
basket weaver, Mills Spring, 11 November
1939)
636 Merrick and Mary
Northrop. The Schmidts’.
(Ernest Gotthelf Volmer, 1884, Wurzburg,
Germany, German, vinyardist, Valhalla, 13
January 1939)
637 Merrick and Northrop. Untitled.
(Judge Samuel Early, 1876, Coleyville,
white, magistrate, Tryon, 6 January 1939)
638 Merrick and Northrop. Another
version of the same interview.
639 Merrick and Northrop. Waitin’ For
Night to Come. (Mary Stanton Jones, n.d.,
Saluda, black, midwife and weaver, Saluda,
28 April 1939)
640 Merrick and Northrop. Women Have to
Keep Strivin’. (Addie Gaines, 1861,
Tenn., white, dairy farmer, Saluda, 16
June 1939)
641 Merrick, Adyleen G. Untitled.
(Frank Nesbeth, n.d., Bollman Place,
Pacolet River, black, bootblack, Tryon, 12
February 1938)
642 Merrick and Crawford. Untitled.
(John Ralph Moore, 1913c., n.p., white,
woodcarver, Tryon, 10 June 1939
643 Merrick and Northrop. Washin’s Fool
Work For a Man. (John Ellis Mills, n.d.,
April Creek Holloway Gap Road, black,
washer, Lynn, 1 June 1939)
644 Merrick and Northrop. Elizabeth
Rhodes. (Elizabeth Rhodes, n.d., Green
River Cove, white, shopowner, Tryon, 25
November 1938)
645 Merrick and Northrop. Another
version of the same interview.
646 Merrick, Adyleen G. Youth Cries Out.
(Norman Julian Mills, 1916, n.p., white,
footer in hosiery mill, Tryon, 15 July
1939)
647 Merrick and Crawford. Untitled.
(Noble Hannon, n.d., n.p., black,
houseman, Tryon, n.d.)
648 Merrick and Crawford. Untitled.
(Melinda Grumble, 1870, n.p., white,
caretaker of wildlife preserve, Saluda, 7
June 1939)
649 Merrick, Adyleen G. James Walker
Heatherly. (James Walker Heatherly,
1869c., white, telegraph operator, Saluda,
2 December 1938)
650 Merrick and Northrop. Flowers Sweeten
the Road. (Selema Mills, n.d., n.p.,
black, cook and maid, Tryon, 20 April
1939)
651 Merrick, Adyleen G. Street-Sweeper
and Tonic Maker. (Thomas Sizemore, 1861,
Brevard, white, sanitary department
employee, Tryon, 8 June 1939)
652 Miller, Harold H.
and Massengill They Are Still
Coming. (Mary Bloomberg, n.d., n.p.,
white, wife of an automobile mechanic, New
Bern, 25 January 1939)
653 Moore, Ida L. Almeda Brady.
(Almeda Brady, 1874c., Randolph County,
white, millworker, Balfour, 7 March 1939)
654 Moore, Ida L. Description of a
Mill Village. (Balfour Mill, Balfour, 3
November 1938)
655 Moore, Ida L. Description of a
Mill Village (Royal Cotton Mill.) (Royal
Cotton Mill, Wake Forest, 20 September
1938)
656 Moore, Ida L. The Sanders.
(Sally Dunne, 1873c., n.p., white, ties
tobacco sacks, West Durham, 12 July 1938)
657 Moore, Ida L. The Artificial
Leg. (Carrie Scott, n.d., VA, housewife,
Spray, 20 December 1938)
658 Moore, Ida L. The Haithcocks
(The Hathaways). (The Haithcocks, white,
textile workers, Durham, 7 July 1938)
659 Moore, Ida L. John Pierce.
(John Pierce, 1883c., Warren County,
white, millworker, Wake Forest, 22
December 1938)
660 Moore, Ida L. Good Name for
Feedin’. (Mrs. Godwin, 1874c., white,
boarding house operator, Spray, 23
September 1938)
661 Moore, Ida L. A Boy at the
Conley Boarding House. (No name given,
[1918?], Marshall, white, wife of a mill
worker, Landgrove, 14 November 1938)
662 Moore, Ida L. One Afternoon in
November. (Rachel Lester, n.d., n.p.,
white, widow millworker family, Spray, 9
November 1938)
663 Moore, Ida L. A Day on Factory
Hill. (No name given, n.d., n.p., white,
wife of a mill worker, Landgrove, 10
August 1938)
664 Moore, Ida L. One Family in the
Stream of Time. (Will Westbrooks, 1860,
n.p., white, mill worker, Greensboro, 15
December 1938)
665 Moore, Ida L. The Wilsons.
(Mamie Wilson, n.d., Canton, wife of a
mill worker, Marion, n.d.)
666 Moore, Ida L. Clarence Byrd.
(Clarence Byrd, [1909?], n.p., white, mill
worker, Marion, n.d.)
667 Moore, Ida L. When A Man
Believes. (James Evans, n.d., n.p.,
white, mill worker, Rudd, 29 July 1939)
668 Moore, Ida L. Hester.
([Hester?] 1879c., n.p., white, Spray, 15
November 1939)
669 Moore, Ida L. Clara Layton.
(Clara Layton, n.d., Liberty, white, wife
of a mill worker, Greensboro, n.d.)
670 Moore, Ida L. John Vinson.
(John Vinson, n.d., Guilford County,
white, mill worker, Greensboro, 8 October
1938)
671 Moore, Ida L. Untitled. (Rena
Austin, n.d., n.p., white, mill worker,
Asheville, 12 July 1939)
672 Moore, Ida L. There’s Always
Judas. (David Cooke, [1897?], n.p.,
white, preacher, Asheville, 28 January
1939)
673 Moore, Ida L. Interview with
Captain Smythe, President. (Captain John
Smythe, 1847, n.p., white, mill owner,
Balfour, n.d.)
674 Moore, Ida L. A Day at Mary
Rumbley’s House. (Mary Rumbley, [1875?],
n.p., white, textile worker, Burlington,
31 October 1938)
675 Moore, Ida L. Description of a
Mill Village. (Description of a mill
village, West Durham Cotton Mill, West
Durham, 17 September 1938)
676 Moore, Ida L. Description of a
Mill Village. (Description of a mill
village, Asheville Cotton Mill, Asheville,
22 August 1938)
677 Moore, Ida L. Description of a
Mill Village—Spencer. (Description of a
mill village, Spencer Mill Village,
Spindale, 30 September 1938)
678 Moore, Ida L. East Durham Mill
Village. (Description of a Mill Village,
East Durham Mill Village, East Durham, 12
September 1938)
679 Moore, Ida L. Old Man Dobbin and
His Crowd. (Frank Martin, 1870c., n.p.,
white, textile worker, Greensboro, n.d.)
680 “Pay Day” by Virginia
Stevens, a radio play script of the above
interview.
681 North, Albert. Untitled. (Vesta
Huffman, 1896c., white, on relief,
Greensboro, 28 December 1938)
682 Northrop, Mary. Untitled. (Alfred
Stamey, 1908c., n.p., Tenn., white, on
relief; Clara Stamey, 1913c., Ducktown,
Tenn., Charlotte, 11 January 1939)
683 Northrop, Mary. Hillbilly
Broadcast. (Bill Carlisle, n.d., Briar
Ridge, Ky., white, radio hillbilly,
Charlotte, 8 February 1939)
Northrop, Mary. See also:
Bennett, 3900-3937, 3952-3958; Brown, 4056-
4071; Deal, 4669-4681, 4736-4744;
Northrop, 8329A-8350, 8367-8426, 8442-
8467, 8506-8519; Robert V. Williams, 10314-
10341, Mary P. Wilson, 10376-10385.
684 Overton, Frank L.
And W. O. Saunders. “Hold Hell. I’ve
Got to Have Money Now.” (Horatio Seymour,
n.d., n.p., white, tenant farmer, Camdan,
n.d.)
[Variant form may be
found in Thaddeus S. Ferree papers
(#4258)]
685 Palmer, John B. An Estate By
Entirety. (Sam Hite, 1851c., VA, black,
farmer; Mary Hite, 1853c., VA, black,
farmer, Warren Plains, 26 February 1939)
686 Palmer, Katherine B. Lucy Wade.
(Lelia Wade, n.d., n.p., white, textile
worker, Pomona, 30 December 1939)
687 Palmer, Katherine B. The Country
Store. (Frederick Moore, n.d., n.p.,
white, storekeeper, Harper’s Crossroads,
14 February 1939)
688 Palmer, Katherine B. Life of a
School Teacher. (Mrs. Robert Dorset,
n.d., n.p., white, schoolteacher, Siler
City, March 1939)
689 Palmer, Katherine B. The Markham
Family. (Delke Markham, n.d., n.p.,
white, farmer; Lydia Markham, 1903c.,
white, farmer, Mount Vernon Springs, 8
December 1938)
690 Pearson, James Larkin
and Claude V.
Dunnagan Music is Lost in
the Mails. (J.E. Foster, n.d., n.p.,
white, mail carrier, Ferguson, 27 January
1939)
691 Pearson, James Larkin
and Dunnagan. What is Left of a
Family. (Jane McNeill, n.d., n.p., white,
farmer, Boomer, 5 January 1939)
692 Pearson, James Larkin. The Story of
David Franklin and Family. (Rufus
McNeill, n.d., n.p., white, farmer, WPA
worker; Lindy McNeill, n.d, n.p., white,
farmer, Boomer, 14 January 1939)
693 Phillips, Mary M., and
Massengill. Loss of Faith.
(Roy Harris, n.d., n.p., white, rural
carrier, New Bern, 10 June 1939)
694 Phillips, Mary M.,
Massengill,
and Sadler. Sophia Braxton
Talking. (Florence Matthews, [1889?],
farmer housewife, Vanceboro, 10 January
1939)
695 Phillips, Mary M.,
Massengill, and
Sadler. Another version of the
same interview.
696 Phillips, Mary M., and
Massengill. It’s Fun to Fish.
(Susan Cobb, [1860?], n.p., white,
housewife, Vanceboro, 20 May 1939)
697 Phillips, Mary M., and
Massengill. Contracting the
Mails. (Thurmond Bennett, n.d., n.p.,
white, mail carrier, New Bern, 8 February
1939)
698 Pinnix, Esther Searle. Aunt Lucy
Minnisit. (Sarah Garner, n.d., n.p.,
black, infant and maternity, nurse,
Gibsonville, 27 February 1939)
Pinnix, Esther Searle. See also:
Clalee Dunnagan, 4782-4784.
699 Rapport, Leonard. Clyde Thompson,
Millworker. ([Custer Daniels?] n.d., n.p.,
white, millworker, Durham, 10 May 1939)
700 Rapport, Leonard. John L. Walters,
Tattoo Artist. (John L. Walters, n.d.,
Danville, Va., white, tattooer, Durham, 25
February 1939)
701 Rapport, Leonard. Frank Wallace,
Counterman. (Frank Wallace, n.d., Durham,
white, counterman, Durham, 18 November
1939)
702 Rapport, Leonard. John Messick,
Peanut Man. (John Messick, 1879c.,
Pittsburgh, white, peanut vendor, Durham,
28 February 1939)
703 Rapport, Leonard. Alton Poe,
Dairyman. (Alton Poe, 1896c., Carteret,
white, dairyman, Beaufort, 21 November
1938)
704 Rapport, Leonard. John Rogers,
Produce Trucker. (John Rogers, 1905c.,
Orange County, white, produce trucker,
Durham, 19 September 1938)
705 Rapport, Leonard. Tobacco
Market—Durham. (Tobacco market, Durham,
10 October 1938)
706 Rapport, Leonard. Phillip Cohen,
Peddler. (Phillip Cohen, 1871c.,
Philadelphia, Pa., Jewish, peddler, 1
December 1938)
707 Rapport, Leonard. Bill Jordan,
Speculator. (Bill Jordan, n.d., n.p.,
white, speculator, Durham, 1 December
1938)
708 Rapport, Leonard. Jim Eubanks; Horse
and Cow Trader. (Jim Eubanks, 1878c.,
white, horse and cow trader, Durham, 3
February 1938)
709 Riddick, Ruth L.
And Saunders. Nellie Carter.
(Susie Decker, 1912c., n.p., white,
textile worker, Durham, 20 November 1938)
710 Riddick, Ruth L. Life Story of
a Negro Washwoman. (Betty Staton, 1890c.,
Wilmington, black, washwoman, n.d.)
711 Robinson, Nancy T. “A Waitress
Confesses.” (Wilsie Beale, 1910c.,
Raleigh, black, waitress, Raleigh, 5 May
1939)
712 Robinson, Nancy T. If ‘Tis God’s
Will. (Lula Garner, [1886?], n.p., black,
charwoman, Raleigh, 23 May 1939)
713 Robinson, Nancy T. Up through
Handicaps. (Edith Rance Harris, n.d.,
n.p., black, student, Raleigh, 8 May 1939)
714 Robinson, Nancy T. Trouble and More
Trouble. (Mildred Thompson, n.d., n.p.,
black, WPA, Raleigh, 7 July 1939)
715 Robinson, Nancy T. Work, Luck,
and Play. (Gretchen Branch, 1913c.,
[Fayetteville?], black, teacher,
Fayetteville, 30 May 1939]
716 Robinson, Nancy T. At Least We Have a
Roof. (Frank Freeman, 1858c., [Wake
County?], black, pensioner, Raleigh, 22
June 1939)
717 Robinson, Nancy T. Young Dr. Edward
Roundtree. (Dr. Ross, 1910, N.Y., white,
doctor, Raleigh, 14 July 1939)
718 Robinson, Nancy T. Till Death Do Us
Part. (Everlina Jane Cotton, n.d., Cary,
black, housewife, Cary, 9 June 1939)
719 Rogerson, Anna Belle W.
And Massengill. A Late Education.
(Reverend E. C. Shoe, 1895, China Grove,
N.C., white, minister, Robersonville, 18
January 1939)
[Variant form may be
found in Thaddeus S. Ferree papers
(#4258)]
720 Sadler, William J. Mrs. Will Casteem.
(J. W. Sadler, 1870, Raleigh, white,
housewife, Raleigh, 25-30 November, 1939)
Sadler, William J. See also: Abner,
folders 2790280; Cannady, folder 311;
Crowell, folder 334; Harriss, folder 506;
Hicks, folders 519, 525, 530, 548, 554;
Jordan, folder 562; Phillips, folders 694-
695; Sedberry, folders 742-743, 745-746;
Taylor, folder 767.
721 Saunders, W. O. Untitled. (Isaac
O’Neal, 1864c., n.p., white, retired
merchant, Ocracoke, n.d.) [Two variant
forms may be found in Thaddeus S. Ferree
papers (#4258)]
722 Saunders, W. O. “When a Good
Coffin Cost Only $4.50.” (G. Riley
Swindall, 1859c., Gum Neck, white,
carpenter, Elizabeth City, 25 November
1938) [Variant form may be found in
Thaddeus S. Ferree papers (#4258)]
723 Saunders, W. O. A Taskmaster in
the Vineyard of the Lord. (Reverend Carey
Miles Cartwright, 1864, n.p., black,
minister, Elizabeth City, n.d.) [Variant
form may be found in Thaddeus S. Ferree
papers (#4258)]
724 Saunders, W. O. “Women Can Take
More Punishment Than Men.” (Dr. H.S.
Willey, [1883?], n.p., white, dentist,
Elizabeth City, 21 January 1939)
725 Saunders, W. O. A Fisherman and
His Luck. (J.C. Curles, 1896c., n.p.,
white, fisherman, Duck, n.d.)
726 Saunders, W. O. Women Don’t Know
Their Men’s Pockets. (G. M. Cooper, n.d.,
n.p., white, dry cleaner and presser,
Elizabeth City, 3 February 1939)
727 Saunders, W. O. Hopes It Will Be
Twins. (No name given, n.d., n.p.,
[white?], housewife, n.p., n.d.)
728 Saunders, W. O. Business is a
Pleasure. (George A Twiddy, n.d., n.p.,
white, merchant, Elizabeth City, 12
January 1939) [Variant form may be found
in Thaddeus S. Ferree papers (#4258)]
729 Saunders, W. O. Just Stays Home
and Minds His Own Business. (John H.
Bunch, 1875c., Perquimans County, black,
saw mill hand, Elizabeth City, 6 April
1939) [Variant form may be found in
Thaddeus S. Ferree papers (#4258)]
730 Saunders, W. O. “...And Set Me Up
a Hell Buster.” (Ino W. Twiford, n.d.,
East Lake, white, ex-moonshiner, East
Lake, 14 June 1939) [Variant form may be
found in Thaddeus S. Ferree papers
(#4258)]
731 Saunders, W. O. “We’ll Never See
Peace In Our Time.” (Miles Jennings,
n.d., n.p., white, blacksmith and waste
materials dealer, Elizabeth City, 27
January 1939)
732 Saunders, W. O. Seven Hundred
Dollars A Year. (Dr. Arthur Graham
Harris, n.d., n.p., white, doctor,
Fairfield, n.d.) [Variant form? may be
found in Thaddeus S. Ferree papers
(#4258)]
733 Saunders, W. O. Why So Many Greek
Restaurants? (Constantin Geraris, n.d.,
Dervenion, Greece, Greek, restauranteur,
white, Elizabeth City, n.d.)
734 Saunders, W. O. “Where Toime is
Koind.” (Morris Beasley, [1870?], n.p.,
white, Collingtin Island, 9 December 1938)
[Variant form may be found in Thaddeus S.
Ferree papers (#4258)]
735 Saunders, W. O. Story of Joe
Singleton, Barber. (Joe Singleton,
1891c., Sumter, S.C., black, barber,
Elizabeth City, 30 May 1939) [Variant form
may be found in Thaddeus S. Ferree papers
(#4258)]
736 Saunders, W. O. H. Perry Davis,
Justice of the Peace. (H. Perry Davis,
1888c., Pocomo City, white, justice of the
peace, Elizabeth City, 24 July 1939)
737 Saunders, W. O. S. Brill. As Told
to W. O. Saunders. (S. Brill, 1878c.,
Russia, white, merchant, Elizabeth City,
n.d.)
738 Saunders, W. O. The Driscolls.
(William M. Overtsons, n.d., n.p., mill
worker, white, Elizabeth City, 3 November
1938)
739 Saunders, W. O. He Never Wanted
Land Till Now. (A. D. Pool, 1868c., n.p.,
white tenant farmer, Elizabeth City, 10
November 1938)
740 Saunders, W. O. “I Didn’t Raise My
Children to Want Meat.” (Georgia Rice,
1888c., Bertie County, black, widow,
Elizabeth City, n.d.) [Variant form may be
found in Thaddeus S. Ferree papers
(#4258)]
741 Saunders, W. O. Untitled. (Tom
Burnett, n.d., n.p., black, scavenger,
Elizabeth City, 15 June 1939)
Saunders, W. O. See also: Foster,
folder 398; Overton, folder 684.
742 Sedberry, W. B.,
Massengill, and
Sadler Aunt Roxie Dann.
(Roxie Dann, 1856, Scotland Neck, black,
maid, Raleigh, 14 December 1938)
743 Sedberry, W. B.,
Massengill, and
Sadler The Town Peddler.
(Jessie Powell, n.d., n.p., white,
businessman, Raleigh, 18 January 1939)
744 Sedberry, W. B.,
and Massengill Rolling Pills.
(Marvin Edward Dizer, n.d., n.p., white,
pharmacist, Raleigh, 15 March 1939)
745 Sedberry, W. B.,
Massengill, and
Sadler Mack, the Con Man.
(J. Harry Hopkins, 1897, Parkton, Va.,
white, clerical worker, Raleigh, January
13, 1939)
746 Sedberry, W. B.,
Massengill, and
Sadler John Wheedbee Cox.
(John Wheedbee Cox, 1870, Hertford, white,
shoe salesman, Raleigh, 12 December 1938)
747 Sedberry, W. B. A.T. and Rachel.
(A.T. Stewart, n.d., n.p., white, truck
driver; Mrs. A.T. Stewart, 1911,
Henderson, white, housewife, Raleigh, 11
December 1938)
748 Stevens, Anne Winn,
and Carter. Time for Milking.
(Mrs. Harry Grover, 1862c., Woodward,
white, dairy farmer, Georgetown, 16 March
1939)
749 Stevens, Anne Winn,
and Carter. Another version of
the same interview.
750 Stevens, Anne Winn. “All of Our Folks
Was Farmers.” (Lester Garren, 1884, n.p.,
white, tenant farmer; Mrs. Garren, 1894c.,
n.p., white, tenant farmer, Fletcher, 27
March 1939)
751 Stevens, Anne Winn. Share Them
Weekdays; Save Them Sundays. (Enoch Ball,
n.p., n.d., white, mill worker, barber,
preacher, West Asheville, 1 August 1939)
752 Stevens, Anne Winn,
and Carter. Gone to Seed.
(Billy Gilbert, n.d., n.p., white, farmer,
Leicster, 13 March 1939)
753 Stevens, Anne Winn,
and Carter. Tenant Trouble.
(W.J. Thompson, n.d., n.p., white,
landlord, Asheville, n.d.)
754 Stevens, Anne Winn. The Meadow. (Edna
Meadows, n.d., n.p., white, domestic help,
West Asheville, 12 January 1939)
755 Stevens, Anne Winn,
and Carter. Prayers That
Worked. (Mrs. T. C. Ingle, 1894c., n.p.,
white, housewife, Weaverville, 28 February
1939)
756 Stevens, Anne Winn, The Ledfords.
(Charles Mitchell, 1861, Mitchell County,
white, unemployed, Asheville, 6 December
1939)
757 Stevens, Anne Winn,
and Carter. Mountain Farming
At Its Best. (David M. Smelson, 1887c.,
Leicester, white, dairy farmer, Leicester,
27 February 1939)
758 Stevens, Anne Winn,
and Carter. Another version of
the same interview.
759 Stevens, Anne Winn,
and Carter. Begging Reduced to
a System. (Carl T. Garrison White, n.d.,
n.p., white, WPA worker, West Asheville,
n.d.)
760 Stevens, Anne Winn,
and Carter. Public School
Teachers. (Junius Allison, n.d.,
Wheatville, white, schoolteacher, West
Asheville, 14 February 1939)
761 Stevens, Anne Winn,
and Bjorkman. Mrs. Georgia
Lunsford. (Mrs. Georgia Lunsford, 1894c.,
Lakes James, white, laundress, West
Asheville, 29 December 1938)
762 Stevens, Anne Winn. The Farlows.
(Mrs. Albert Farlow, 1872, n.p., white,
housewife, Asheville, 16 December 1938)
763 Stevens, Anne Winn,
and Carter. Mountain
Sharecroppers. (Jack Mack, n.d., n.p.,
white, day laborer, tenant farmer, Emma,
16 February 1939)
764 Stevens, Anne Winn. The Lawrences.
(Mrs. J.C. Lawrence, 1873c., Turkey Neck,
white, housewife, Asheville, 16 January
1939)
Stevens, Virginia. See: Moore,
folder 680.
765 Summey, H. O. and
Massengill. The Jamison
Family. (H.O. Summey, n.d., n.p., white,
WPA worker, Hillsboro, 5 January 1939)
766 Taylor, Christine,
and Massengill. A Country
Physician. (Dr. W. W. Whittington, 1860,
n.p., white, doctor, Snow Hill, 20 January
1939)
767 Taylor, Christine,
Massengill, and
Sadler. Kinfolks Onten’t to
Get Married. (Courtney Murphey, n.d.,
Snow Hill, white, farm laborer, Snow Hill,
12 January 1939)
768 Taylor, Christine,
and McDonald. Callie Hines.
(Callie Hines, n.d., [Wilson?], white,
widow, Snow Hill, 20 December 1938)
769 Taylor, Christine,
and Massengill. The Baxters.
(Sybil Mumford, n.d., n.p., white, tenant
farmer, Snow Hill, n.d.)
770 Vaughan, William L.,
Massengill,
and [N.B.?] The Bachelor
Preacher. (Reverend J.R. Everett, 1892,
Edgecombe County, NC, white, minister,
Washington, 31 January 1939)
771 Vaughan, Massengill,
and [N.B.?] Another version of
the same interview.
772 Vaughan, William L.,
and Andrews. Hard Beset.
(William L. Vaughan, n.d., n.p., white,
WPA worker, Washington, 20 February 1939)
773 Vaughan, William L.,
and Massengill. An Unreconstructed
Rebel. (Hallet Sydney Ward, n.d., n.p.,
white, lawyer, Washington, 8 June 1939)
774 Vaughan, William L.,
and Andrews, Joseph Mandell.
(John A. Mayo, 1893, Washington, white,
lawyer, Washington, 25 January 1939)
775 Vaughan, William L. From Poverty to
Plenty. (E.W. Faucette, [1884?], n.p.,
white, farmer, Chocowinity, 12 May 1939)
776 Williams, Robert V. The Mathis Family.
(Miles Mathis, 1921, Lincoln County,
white, millworker, Dessie Mathis, n.d.,
Great Smoky Mountains, white, mill worker,
Charlotte, 1 November 1938)
777 Williams, Robert V. The Belks. (John
Belk, n.d., [Union County?], white, mill
worker; Grandpa Payne, 1875c., n.p.,
white, mill worker, Charlotte, 8 December
1938)
778 Williams, Robert V.,
and Northrop. Shouting For
Heaven. (Church of God ministers, all
names and places fictitious, n.d.)
779 Wilson, Mary P. Married to a Sorry
Man. (Catherine Jones, n.d., n.p., white,
housewife, Huntersville, 6 June 1939)
780 Wilson, Mary P. Stage Struck.
(Elizabeth Callicutt, n.d., n.p., white,
mill worker, Huntersville, 22 June 1939)
781 Wilson, Mary P. “I Don’t Aim to
Complain None at All.” (I. J. Fulham,
n.d., n.p., white, farmer, Huntersville,
28 June 1939)
782 Wilson, Mary P. Untitled. (Henry
Durham, n.d., n.p., black, laborer,
Huntersville, 12 July 1939)
783 Wilson, Mary P. Seller of Pills.
(S. I. Mullen, [1865?], n.p., white,
merchant, Huntersville, 12 July 1939)
784 Wilson, Mary P. The Old
Blacksmith. (George Cornelius Chandler,
1866, n.p., black, blacksmith,
Huntersville, 14 June 1939)
785 Wilson, Mary P.,
and Northrop. “Always Used to
Drinking Liquor.” (J.F. Jones, n.d.,
n.p., white, farmer, Huntersville, 5 June
1939)
786 Wilson, Mary P.,
and Crawford. Untitled. (Mattie
J. Wilson, 1870c., white, n.p., widow,
Huntersville, 5 June 1939)
787 Wilson, Mary P. Mrs. J.C. Helms.
(Mrs. J.C. Helms, n.d., n.p., white,
textile worker, Huntersville, 20 July
1939)
788 Wilson, Mary P.,
and Crawford. Untitled. (Mrs.
Charles Forter, n.d., n.p., white,
housewife, Charlotte, n.d.)
789 Wolff, Muriel L. Calvary
Lutheran Church. (Description of Calvary
Lutheran Church, Concord, 2 October 1938)
790 Wolff, Muriel L. Songs.
(Church songs, Concord, 2 October 1938)
791 Wolff, Muriel L. Forest Hills
Methodist Church. (Description of Forest
Hills Methodist Church, 25 September 1938)
792 Wolff, Muriel L. Alice Caudle.
(Alice Caudle, 1891c., n.p., white,
textile worker, Concord, 2 September 1938)
793 Wolff, Muriel L. Jones I.
Freeze. (Jones I. Freeze, 1879c., n.p.,
white, textile worker, Concord, 26
September 1939)
794 Wolff, Muriel L. The Fletchers.
(The Fletcher Family, n.p., n.d., white,
textile workers, Concord, 3 September
1939)
795 Wolff, Muriel L. Untitled.
(Description of Concord Tabernacle camp
meeting, Concord, 3 September 1939)
796 Wolff, Muriel L. Janie Solomon.
(Janie Solomon, 1903, Rock Hill, S.C.,
white, textile worker, Concord, 7
September 1938)
797 Wolff, Muriel L. Miss Emma
Willis (Called Aunt Emma). (Emma Willis,
1857c., Gold Hill, retired textile worker,
Concord, 21 September 1938)
798 Wolff, Muriel L. Elvira Barbee.
(Elvira Barbee, n.d., n.p., white, textile
worker, Concord, 14 September 1938)
799 Wolff, Muriel L. Roberta Mill.
(Florence Starnes, n.d., Stanley County,
white, textile worker; Cora Yates, n.d.,
Concord, white, textile worker, Concord,
10 & 12 October 1938)
800 Wolff, Muriel L. First Church
of God. (Description of First Church of
God, Concord, 18 September 1939)
801 Wolff, Muriel L. The Tabernacle
(Formerly Four Square Gospel Temple).
(Description of the Tabernacle, Concord,
18 September 1938)
802 Wolff, Muriel L. Bettie and
Lottie Walter. (Bettie Walter, 1896,
Cabarrus County, white textile worker;
Lottie Walter, 1892, Cabarrus County,
white, textile worker, 12 September 1938)
803 Wolff, Muriel L. Terra Ceia.
(Interviews with Various individuals,
Terra Ceia, n.d.)
804 Wolff, Muriel L. Castle Hayne.
(Description of Castle Hayne, Castle
Hayne, n.d.)
805 Wolff, Muriel L. Life at Castle
Hayne. (Interviews with various
individuals, Castle Hayne, n.d.)
806 Wolff, Muriel L. Penderlea.
(Interviews with various individuals,
Penderlea, n.d.)
807 No author. The Baileys.
(Mr. Bailey, 1878, n.p., white, textile
worker, Greensboro, n.d.)
808 No author. Lil Pepper. (Lil
Pepper, 1884, n.p., white, textile worker,
Greensboro, 14 March 1939)
809 No author. Untitled.
(Clara Cates, n.d., n.p., white, textile
worker, Greensboro, n.d.)
810 No author. Dr. Rufus Samuel
Vass. (Dr. Rufus Samuel Vass, 1887,
Raleigh, black, doctor, Raleigh, 7-12 July
1939)
OKLAHOMA
811 DeWitt, Ned. The Machinist.
(No name given, 1895, McManus, TX, white,
oil machinist, Oklahoma, n.d.)
812 Garrison, Daniel M. The Casinghead
Plant. (Interviews with various workers,
Oklahoma, n.d.)
813 Garrison, Daniel M. The Casinghead
Plant (cont.). (Interviews with various
workers, Oklahoma, n.d.)
814 Garrison, Daniel M. Rigbuilders Marry
Women. (Joe Haskins, [1897?], Pa., white,
rigbuilder, Oklahoma, 16 May 1939)
815 Hope, Welborn. See No author,
folder 822.
816 Thompson, Jim. The Drilling
Contractor. (No name given, n.d., n.p.,
white, drilling contractor, Oklahoma,
n.d.)
817 No author. The Oil Field
Cook. (Sadie Duggett, n.d., n.p., white,
oil field cook, Oklahoma, n.d.)
818 No author. The Rig-builder.
(No name given, [1895?], n.p., white,
rigbuilder, Oklahoma, n.d.)
819 No author. The Rig-builder #2
(No name given, 1901, n.p., white,
rigbuilder, Oklahoma, n.d.)
820 No author. The Roughneck.
(No name given, [1915?], n.p., white,
roughneck, Oklahoma, n.d.)
821 No author. Four Ball in the
Side Pocket. (Jackson Roger Murell, n.d.,
n.p., white, pool hustler, Oklahoma, n.d.)
822 No author. Spudder Man. (No
name given, n.d., n.p., white, wild
catter, Oklahoma, 9 June 1939)
823 [Hope, Welborn?] Supply Salesman.
(Sam Barkley, [1888?], n.p., white, oil
supply salesman, Oklahoma, n.d.)
824 No author. The Pumper. No
name given, n.d., n.p., white, pumper,
Oklahoma, n.d.)
825 No author. The Pipeliner.
(Billy Bates, 1913, Webster County, Mo.,
white, pipeliner, Oklahoma, n.d.)
SOUTH CAROLINA
826 Atwell, Donald F. “There’s No Money
in Hawgs.” (Daniel Wilkes, 1891c., n.p.,
white, dirt farmer, Dillon, 15 January
1939)
827 Atwell, Donald F. Another version of
the same interview.
828 Atwell, Donald F. I Am a Negro.
(Walter Coachman, 1898, n.p., black,
pastor, Bennettsville, 15 March 1939)
829 Atwell, Donald F. In Abraham’s
Bosom. (Emaline Oliver, 1889c.,
Charleston, black, field worker, Dillon, 7
February 1939)
830 Cogburn, L.E. Conyers Elliott
Frasier. (Conyers Elliott Frasier,
1891c., Clarendon County, black, teacher,
preacher, farmer, Columbia, 6 December
1938)
831 Cogburn, L.E. “I Like To Farm.”
(Another version of the above interview)
832 Cogburn, L.E. No Pension Wanted.
(Randolph Smith, 1868c., n.p., black,
farmer, Columbia, 16 December 1938)
833 Davis, Anne Ruth. The Skippers.
(Willie Marlowe, 1884, Marion, white,
tenant farmer; Sally Marlowe, n.d., n.p.,
white, tenant farmer, Marion County, 19
January 1939)
834 Davis, Anne Ruth. Gary Davis. (Gary
Davis, 1873c., Tabernacle, black, farmer,
day laborer, Marion County, 14 December
1938)
835 Davis, Anne Ruth. Hester Barnes.
(Mrs. D.B. Stone, n.d., n.p., white,
widow, Marion County, 5 January 1939)
836 Davis, Anne Ruth. Mr. John Black’s
Experiences on the Farm. (Wilbur White,
1892, Centenary, white, farmer, 27
December 1938)
837 Davis, Anne Ruth. Tenant to the
Taxpayer. (Another version of the above
interview)
838 Davis, Anne Ruth. Mamie Collins.
(Mamie Collins, 1881, n.p., white,
housewife, Marion, 8 December 1938)
839 Davis, Anne Ruth. There’s No Place
Like Home. (Another version of the same
interview)
840 Davis, Anne Ruth. She’s Just Done
Well. (Agnes Harrell, n.d., Number 6
Township, Georgetown County, white,
housewife, Marion County, 24 February
1939)
841 Davis, Anne Ruth. Anna Gales.
(Anna Gales, n.d., Columbia, white, widow,
Marion, 29 November 1938)
842 Davis, Anne Ruth. I’ve Seen Better
Days. (Carrie Godbold, 1861, Wahee
section, Marion County, white, maid and
nurse, Marion, 7 March 1939)
843 Dixon, W. W. Samuel T. Clowney.
(Samuel T. Clowney, 1862, Buckhead, white,
retired farmer, politician, Winnsboro,
n.d.)
844 Dixon, W. W. Kate O’Bear.
(Kate O’ Bear, 1852, n.p., white, widow,
Winnsboro, n.d.)
845 Dixon, W. W. Eloise Davis Ruff.
(Eloise Davis Ruff, 1860, Longleaf
Plantation, white, widow, Winnsboro, n.d.)
846 Dixon, W. W. Catherine T.
Smith. (Catherine T. Smith, 1859c.,
Winnsboro, white, widow, Winnsboro, n.d.)
847 Dixon, W. W. Rebecca V.
Woodward. (Rebecca V. Woodward, 1853,
n.p., white, widow, Winnsboro, n.d.)
848 Dixon, W. W. Jane Lemmon.
(Jane Lemmon, 1856, Winnsboro, white,
spinster, Winnsboro, n.d.)
849 Dixon, W. W. Mrs. Gabrielle C.
Harris. (Gabrielle C. Harris, 1848,
Batesburg, white, widow, Columbia, n.d.)
850 Dixon, W. W. John L. Ratteree.
(John L. Ratteree, 1857, Rock Hill, white,
carpenter, Columbia, n.d.)
851 Dixon, W. W. Henry Elliott
Ketchin. (Henry Elliott Ketchin, 1860,
Malvern Hill, white, Winnsboro, n.d.)
852 Dixon, W. W. Dr. John Creighton
Buchanan. (Dr. John Creighton Buchanan,
1862, Winnsboro, white, doctor, Winnsboro,
n.d.)
853 Dixon, W. W. Samuel F. Castles.
(Samuel F. Castles, 1860, Winnsboro,
white, farmer, Winnsboro, n.d.)
854 Dixon, W. W. John Means Harden.
(John Marden, 1861, Winnsboro, white,
former livery stable operator, Winnsboro,
n.d.)
855 Dixon, W. W. Mary Rawls.
(Mary Rawls, 1847, Columbia, white,
resident of a home for the elderly,
Columbia, n.d.)
856 Dove, John L. A Pile of Sawdust.
(Lee Peake, 1880, Kershaw County, white,
tenant farmer, Pontiac, n.d.)
857 Farmer, John P. The Experience of
a Farm Owner. (Ernest Boney, 1890,
Blythewood, white, farmer, Blythewood,
n.d.)
858 Faucett, Phoebe. See
miscellaneous.
859 Henderson, Ruth P. Spartanburg’s
Chinatown. (Joe Shing, 1893c., Polp,
China, Chinese, laundry proprietor,
Spartanburg, 24 December 1938
860 Jones, Mattie T. You Can Do
What You Want To. (Mrs. Callie Croft,
n.d., n.p., white, preacher, Columbia, 12
December 1938)
861 Jones, Mattie T. Lazarus, Mary,
and Martha. (Reverend Andrew Hartley,
n.d., n.p., white, preacher, Columbia, 12
December 1938)
862 Jones, Mattie T. Ain’t It So,
Corrie? (John William Prosser, n.d.,
Florence County, white, textile worker,
Columbia, 6 February 1939)
863 Jones, Mattie T. The Moore
Family. (Fannie Miles, 1880c., Wadesboro,
white, textile worker, Columbia, 1
December 1938)
864 Jones, Mattie T. The Crofton
Family. (Another version of the above
interview, “You Can Do What You Want To”)
865 Jones, Mattie T. The Thornton
Family. (Susannah Thornton, 1887c., n.p.,
white, textile worker, Columbia, 10
November 1938)
866 Jones, Mattie T. The Kellys on
William Street. (Reverend Charles M.
Kelly, 1908c., n.p., white, preacher,
Columbia, 4 January 1939)
867 Kennedy, E. Fronde. John Kelly
Edwards. (John Kelly Edwards, 1868, Union
County, black, retired, Spartanburg, 6
February 1939)
Kennedy, E. Fronde. See also: Sims,
folder 900.
868 Lea, Verner. Silas Harmon.
(Silas Harmon, 1854c., Dutch Fork, black,
handyman, Columbia, n.d.)
869 Lea, Verner. Daisy White.
(Corrie Wingard, 1907c., Dutch Fork,
black, domestic servant, Columbia, 12
December 1938)
870 Lea, Verner. Untitled.
(Gertrude Hall, 1894c., n.p., black,
domestic servant, Columbia, 1 December
1938)
871 Lea, Verner. Joe and Sallie
Jones. (Estelle Williams, n.d., n.p.,
black, cook; Joe Williams, n.d., n.p., CWA
garden worker, Columbia, 5 January 1939)
872 Long, A.W. Sarah Norman,
Spinster. (Alice Washburn, [1864?], New
England, white, retired office secretary,
Aiken, 10 July 1939)
873 Mann, Muriel. The Coffee Grounds
Woman. (Mrs. Charles B. Fickling, 1896c.,
n.p., white, fortune teller, Charleston,
21 December 1938)
874 Martin, Chlotilde R. Midwivery Not
What It Used To Be. (Lavinia McKee,
[1875?], n.p., black, midwife, Beaufort,
27 January 1939)
875 Martin, Chlotilde R. The County
Health Nurse. (Mattie Ingram, n.d., South
GA, white, county health nurse, Beaufort,
31 January 1939)
876 Martin, Chlotilde R. Another
version of the same interview.
877 Martin, Chlotilde R. The Levines in
the Melting Pot. (Elizabeth Rabinowitz,
1879, Vilna, Poland, Jewish, merchant,
Beaufort, 20 January 1939)
878 Martin, Chlotilde R. The Johnsons
Build a House. (Mrs. Johnson, 1885c.,
Colleton County, white, housewife,
Beaufort, n.d.)
879 Matthewes, David A. Miss Lucy. (Lucy
Rice, 1884, Cashier’s Valley, white,
housewife, Clifton, 14 December 1938)
880 Matthewes, David A. Another version of
the same interview.
881 Moore, Ida L. Irene. (Irene
Tucker, n.d., n.p., white, unwed mother,
Greenville, n.d.)
882 Moore, Ida L. Elvira Hawkins.
(Elvira Hawkins, n.d., n.p., white,
textile worker, Greenville, 12 April 1939)
883 Moore, Ida L. All My Life I’ve
Loved A Song. (Beatrice Reeves, n.d.,
n.p., textile worker, Greenville, 12 April
1939)
884 Moore, Ida L. Lula Burnett.
(Lula Burnett, n.d., n.p., white, textile
worker, Anderson, 17 March 1939)
885 Moore, Ida L. Sallie Jane
Stephenson. (Sallie Jane Stephenson,
1890c., Anderson, white, textile worker,
Greenville, 25 March 1939)
886 Moore, Ida L. May Is A Lonesome
Time. (Ella [?], n.d., n.p., white,
textile worker, Greenville, 25 March 1939)
887 Moore, Ida L. The Fighting
McConnells. (Family portrait, textile
workers, Greenville, 1 June 1939)
888 Murray, Chalmers. Memoirs of Eberson
Murray. (Eberson Murray, 1858c.,
Edingsville, n.d.)
889 Murray, Chalmers. Mistress of
Magnolia Hall. (Julia La Roche, 1856c.,
Edisto, white, manager cotton plantation,
5 January 1939)
890 Murray, Chalmers. Another version of
the same interview.
891 Murray, Chalmers. Etiwan Island and
Its People. (Description of Etiwan Island
and its people, Etiwan Island, 12 December
1938)
892 Murray, Chalmers. Got to Go Crik.
(Edward Simmons, n.d., n.p., black,
fisherman, Edisto Island, 8 February 1939)
893 Murray, Chalmers. Fish, Hominy and
Cotton; or July Geddes, Negro of Etiwan.
(George Brown, n.d., Etiwan Island, black,
farmer and day laborer, Edisto Island, 13
January 1939)
894 M., G.A. [full name
given] Mae Willis. (Mae
Willis, 1893, [Burnsville?], white,
textile worker, Campobello)
895 Scruggs, Jules M. Life of a
Fireman. (Thomas C. Zobel, 1881,
Columbia, white, fisherman, Columbia, 6
February 1939)
896 Shuler, Helen. Untitled. (Granny
Padgett, 1864, Timmonsville, white,
textile worker, Columbia, 2 December 1938)
897 Shuler, Helen. Mattie Hammond
Harrell. (Mattie Hammond Harrell, n.d.,
[Eastover?], black, tenant farmer,
Blythewood, 12 November 1938)
898 Shuler, Helen. Not Showing
Skeletons. (Abel Starnes, 1895c.,
[Lexington County?], white, textile
worker, Columbia, 9 January 1939)
899 Shuler, Helen. Living on His
Knees. (Michael Haigler, n.d.,
[Columbia?], black, peanut vendor, 3 March
1939)
900 Sims, Caldwell,
and Kennedy. A Peddler’s
Progress. (Nathan Schapiro, n.d., Russia,
white, merchant, Union, 6 March 1939)
901 Sims, Caldwell. Fred Alexander.
(Fred Alexander, n.d., n.p., Black Rock,
white, mechanic, Whitmire, 8 December
1938)
Smith, G. P. See miscellaneous.
902 Turnage, Elmer. The Summe
Family. (Susie Simmons, 1873, Hawkins
County, Tenn., white, housewife,
Spartanburg, 6 January 1939)
903 Turnage, Elmer. Why the Simmons
Family Went from the Coal Fields to the
Cotton Mill. (Another version of the same
interview)
904 Turnage, Elmer. Mr. Kerensky
Becomes a Barber. (John R. Queen, 1873,
Burke County, white, barber, Spartanburg,
20 January 1939)
905 Turnage, Elmer. How Mr. Queen
Became “King” of the Barber Business.
(Another version of the same interview)
906 Wilkinson, Margaret. Companionship
on Etiwan Island. (Ben Williams, n.d.,
n.p., white, lumber man and paramour,
Edisto Island, 15 December 1938)
Williams, R. V. See entries after
Workman.
907 Workman, Rose D. Mother Heart.
(Anne Griffin Cattle, n.d., Windsor Place,
white, housewife, Charleston County, 21
March 1939)
908 Workman, Rose D. “We Follow the
Sea” (Thelma Wingate, n.d., n.p., white,
steno-clerk, Charleston, 1 March 1939)
909 Workman, Rose D. Mary Watkins and
Her Family. (Alph Kinard, n.d., n.p.,
white, department store clerk, Charleston,
13 January 1939)
910 Workman, Rose D. Another version of
the same interview.
911 Workman, Rose D. The Story of
Ellen. (Janie Smith, 1898c., Charleston,
white librarian in children’s reading
room, 30 December 1938)
912 Workman, Rose D. How Mrs. Redmond
Came to be in the Apartment House
Business. (Mrs. S. C. School, n.d., Fla.,
white, apartment house keeper, Charleston,
8 December 1938
913 Workman, Rose D. Growing Up with
the Automobile. (Marion Jennings, 1889c.,
Hamburg County, white, mechanic,
Charleston, 10 February 1939)
914 Workman, Rose D. Mrs. Brown’s
Diamond Ring. (Jose Jones, n.d., St.
John’s County, Fla., white, dressmaker,
Charleston, 8 December 1938)
915 Workman, Rose D. Another version of
the same interview.
916 Williams, Robert V. John B.
Culbertson. (John B. Culbertson, 1890,
Campobello, white, farmer, Campobello, 27
January 1939)
917 Williams, Robert V. Roger B. Chalmers.
(Another version of the same interview)
918 Williams, Robert V. Will Boozer,
Reformed Boozer. (Will Boozer, 1882,
White Stone, black, storage (ice) man,
Spartanburg, 29 December 1938)
919 Williams, Robert V.,
and J. J. Murray. The Greeks
Have A Word. (George Mehales, 1892,
Athens, Greece, Greek, part owner of a
restaurant, Spartanburg, December 1938)
920 Williams, Robert V.,
and J. J. Murray.
George Mehales. (Another version
of the same interview)
Miscellaneous, South Carolina Folklore
921 Faucette, Phoebe. Memoirs of My
Father and Bygone Days. (William A.
Lawton, n.d., n.p., white, occupation not
indicated, South Cowhie, n.d.)
922 Faucette, Phoebe. Mrs. Alice
Nettles Britton. (Alice Nettles Britton,
1862c., n.p., white, occupation not
indicated, Estill, n.d.)
923 Faucette, Phoebe. Mrs. E.G. Willingham.
(Mrs. .G. Willingham, 1865c., n.p.,
race not indicated, occupation not
indicated, Estill, n.d.)
924 Smith, G. P. Suggestions for an Anecdoted
History.
925 No author. Pockets in America, The
Turks in Sumter County, S.C.
926 No author. Pockets in America,
Croatans.
927 No author Pockets in America, Coosaw
Island, S.C.
928 No author. Pockets in America, Catawba
Indians.
TENNESSEE
Agee, L. See after Aswell entries.
929 Aswell, James. Talking is My Life. (Aunt
Tobe Easterly, 1873, Big Ivey,
white, elderly gossip, Big Ivey, n.d.)
930 Aswell, James. I’d Rather Die. (John
Campbell, n.d., n.p., white, overall
factory worker, Nashville, n.d.)
931 Aswell, James. Little Eight John.
(Little Eight John, n.d., n.p., black,
child, Tenn., n.d.)
Aswell, John. See also: Clark,
folders 933, 935, 938, 940, 941, 943;
Love, folder 948-949; Newman, folders 954,
957-960; Toler, folders 962-966, 971-974;
Yoe, folders 975-980, 983-984.
932 Agee, L. Every Morning
about Five-Thirty. (A.C. Jones, 1876c.,
Smith County, white, motorman, Nashville,
6 January 1939)
Agee, L. See also: Yoe,
folder 975.
933 Clark, Ruth,
and Aswell. Too Old to Work,
or Ol’ Mistress. (No name given, [1859?],
Dukedom, Ky., black, ex-slave, Paris,
n.d.)
934 Clark, Ruth. Pay or No Pay.
(Dr. Henrietta Veltman, n.d., Lincoln,
Nebr., white, doctor, Paris, 28 January
1939)
935 Clark, Ruth,
and Aswell. Finits Evitts (“So
We Played Along”). (Finits Evitts,
[1876?], Calvert City, Ky., white, tenant
farmer, Puryear, 10 November 1938)
936 Clark, Ruth, and
Jenette Edwards. Solid Time. (Fleta Cole,
n.d., n.p., white, industrial worker,
Puryear, 7 November 1938)
937 Clark, Ruth. We Started Out the
Poor Way. (Idella Woods, 1883, North
Folk, white, tenant farmer, Whitlock, 20
December 1938)
938 Clark, Ruth,
and Aswell. Like a Shadow That
Declineth. (William Olive, Union, 1845,
white, preacher, Cottage Grove, 3 March
1939)
939 Clark, Ruth. Nippity Tuck.
(Santifee Paschal, n.d., n.p., white,
housewife, Puryear, 11 November 1938)
940 Clark, Ruth,
Aswell, and
Edwards. Sorry Living.
(Ella Paschall, n.d., n.p., white, wife of
a job painter, carpenter, and mason,
Puryear, 17 November 1938)
941 Clark, Ruth,
and Aswell. Our Times and
Seasons. (Aunt Tobe Easterly, 1873, Big
Ivey, white, elderly gossip, Big Ivey,
n.d.)
942 Clark, Ruth. Moving Again.
(Leanna Lee, n.d., n.p., white, tenant
farmer, Paris, 27 October 1938)
943 Clark, Ruth,
Lena Lipscomb,
and Aswell. Once I Was a
Pretty Girl. (Carrie Black, n.d., n.p.,
white, washwoman, Cottage Grove, 17
October 1938)
944 C. E. (Full name
not given) And Then I’d
Travel. (James Hubert Woodside, [1877?],
DeKalb County, white, janitor, n.p.,
January 1939)
945 Edwards, Jeannette. Tombstone Maker.
(A. J. Gourley, 1871, n.p., white,
tombstone maker, Duersberg, 10 November
1938)
Edwards, Jeannette. See also: Clark,
folders 936-940; Foster, folder 946;
Newman, folders 954-959; Toler, folders
965-966; Yoe, folders 979, 981-982, 985.
946 Foster, Ruth, and
Edwards. It’s A Christian
Factory. (Jesse Grant, 1921c., n.p.,
white, factory worker, Knoxville, n.d.)
947 H[umphries], R[ay] R. I Can Read and
I Can Write. (James Pearson, 1885c.,
n.p., black, railroad worker, Knoxville, 5
October 1938)
Lipscomb, Lena. See: Clark,
folder 943; Love, folders 948-949; Newman,
folder 957; Toler, folders 960, 971; Yoe,
folders 975, 977, 980.
948 Love, Lillian,
Aswell, and
Lipscomb. Nothin’ Too Hard
Fo’ the Lord. (Henry Clay Abernathy,
1861, Bordeaux, black, carpenter,
Nashville, 10 December 1938)
949 Love, Lillian,
Aswell, and
Lipscomb. So Shall It Come
to Pass. (Henry Slaughter, 1873,
Brentwood, black, stone mason, Nashville,
19 December 1938)
950 Love, Lillian. Didn’t Keep a
Penny (Work for One and Catch Another).
(Samuel Dean, 1880, Flat Creek, black,
casual laborer, Nashville, n.d., 2
November 1938)
951 Love, Lillian. Another version of
the same interview.
952 Miller, E. E. Saturday on
Commerce Street. (E. E. Miller, 1913c.,
n.p., white, neon technician, Nashville,
26 January 1939)
953 W.M. Mamie Berryman.
(Mamie Berryman, n.d., n.p., white,
canning factory worker, Dyersburg, 5
January 1939)
954 Newman, Dean,
Edwards, and
Aswell. From the Mountains
Faring. (Calvin Lola, [1889?], Knoxville,
white, repairman, Knoxville, n.d.)
955 Newman, Dean. Lived Too Long.
(Pa Carnes, [1875?], Marion County, white,
mountain farmer, Pigeon Forge, n.d.)
956 Newman, Dean. For Those Who
Love. (No name given, n.d., n.p., white,
boarding house operator, Knoxville, 28
October 1938)
957 Newman, Dean,
Aswell, and
Lipscomb. Saved and
Sanctified. (Leander Huskey, n.d., n.p.,
white, farmer, Pigeon Forge, n.d.)
958 Newman, Dean,
and Aswell. Strictly Mutual
Benefit. (G.R. Weaver, 1879c., n.p.,
white, farmer, Pigeon Forge, n.d.)
959 Newman, Dean,
Aswell, and Edwards. Easier Ways.
(Ned Daniels, n.d., n.p., black, odd job
man, black, Knoxville, 17 October 1938)
960 Toler, Nellie Gray,
Lipscomb, and Aswell. We’ve Done the
Best We Could. (No name, 1903, n.p., race
not indicated, face powder factory worker,
Paris, n.d.)
961 Toler, Nellie Gray. You’ve Got to Live
with Post Holes. (James Hillary Greer,
n.d., n.p., white, former school teacher,
Paris, 10 November 1938)
962 Toler, Nellie Gray,
and Aswell. My Joy in Life.
(Pete Fox, 1905c., Henry County, white,
chain grocery manager, Paris, n.d.)
963 Toler, Nellie Gray,
and Aswell. No Grunt Coming.
(Imogene Coleman, n.d., n.p., white,
waitress, Paris, 6 January 1939)
964 Toler, Nellie Gray,
and Aswell. Dub. (William
David Wrather, [1889?], Wade, white,
casual laborer, Paris, 19 October 1938)
965 Toler, Nellie Gray,
Aswell, and Edwards. A Man Like Me.
(Dr. John Atkins, 1869c., [Puryear?],
white, veterinarian, Puryear, n.d.)
966 Toler, Nellie Gray,
Aswell, and Edwards. A Mighty
Comedown. (Uncle Charlie Lewis, 1855,
n.p., white, elderly man, Paris, 12
January 1939)
967 Toler, Nellie Gray. Weary Willie.
(Robert E. Maynard., 1919c., n.p., white,
CCC, Paris, 7 October 1938)
968 Toler, Nellie Gray. Untitled. (Family
of Robert E. Maynard, Paris, 30 May 1939)
969 Toler, Nellie Gray. Bessie Mae
Boatwright. (Pretty lady, 1919c., white,
prostitute, Paris, 8 October 1938)
970 Toler, Nellie Gray. Another
version of the same interview.
971 Toler, Nellie Gray,
Aswell, and Lipscomb. Pride or No
Pride. (Jim Ramsey, 1872c., n.p., white,
farmer on relief, Paris, 11 January 1939)
972 Toler, Nellie Gray,
and Aswell. Waywandering Man.
(B.E. Cokes, n.d., Bardwell, Ky., white,
tramp, Paris, 19 January 1939)
973 Toler, Nellie Gray,
and Aswell. On The Road to
Sheriff. (Eldon Graham, n.d., n.p.,
white, sheriff, Paris, 9 November 1938, 2
January 1939)
974 Toler, Nellie Gray,
and Aswell. Outcast in the
World. (No name given, n.d., Middlesboro,
Ky., race not indicated, no occupation
given, Knoxville, n.d.)
975 Yoe, Della,
Aswell, Lipscomb,
and Agee. Sometimes I Get
Ashamed. (Mrs. Foster Ramsey, n.d., n.p.,
white, saleswoman, Knoxville, n.d.)
976 Yoe, Della,
and Aswell. Stopping the
Leaks. (No name given, n.d., n.p., white,
female executive President of CCS laundry,
Knoxville, 25 January 1939)
977 Yoe, Della,
Aswell, and
Lipscomb. Clara Garber.
(Clara Garber, n.d., n.p., white,
bootlegger, n.p., 19 December 1938)
978 Yoe, Della,
and Aswell. Always Did Love
Babies. (Mrs. Bruce W. Kennedy, n.d.,
n.p., white, proprietor of nursing home,
Knoxville, 2 December 1938, 11 January
1939)
979 Yoe, Della,
Aswell, and
Edwards. Them That Needs.
(Arlie G. Lane, n.d., n.p., white, welfare
department worker, Knoxville, 15 November
1938)
980 Yoe, Della,
Aswell,
and Lipscomb. Ain’t Borrowing No
Worries. (Myrtle Cunningham, 1907,
Knoxville, white, industrial worker, 23
January 1939)
981 Yoe, Della,
and Edwards. Sorghum from Sand
Mountain. (Arlie Lee, n.d., n.p., white,
curb market huckster, Knoxville, 5 October
1938)
982 Yoe, Della,
and Edwards. Snappy Feeding.
(Margaret Chambers, n.d., n.p., white,
fountain manager, Knoxville, 5 October
1938)
983 Yoe, Della,
and Aswell. The Grand Ways.
(Ella Carpenter, 1919, S.C., black,
housemaid, Knoxville, 29 December 1939)
984 Yoe, Della,
and Aswell. Papa Got Pride.
(Lucy Reed, 1881c., n.p., black, WPA
worker, Knoxville, n.d.)
985 Yoe, Della,
and Edwards. Till the River
Rises. (Fan Flannigan, 1892c., n.p.,
white, unemployed, Knoxville, n.d.)
VIRGINIA
Collins, Carleton. See: Venable,
folder 991.
986 Davidson, Anne,
and Anne Heaton. Beulah Handly.
(Beulah Handly, 1898c., Jonesville, white,
farmer, Jonesville, 21 January 1939)
Heaton, Anne. See: Davidson,
folder 986; Smith, folder 990.
987 Jeffries, Margaret. Fleety Dodson.
(Fleety Dodson, Rappahannock County,
white, tenant farmer, Culpepper, 21
January 1939)
988 Morrissett, Pearl. Untitled.
(Mary Abbott, 1892, Guilford County, N.C.,
white, cotton mill spinner, Danville, 21
February 1939)
Richardson, Eudora
Ramsey. See: Venable, folder
991.
989 Morrissett, Pearl
and Edna Stevens. Untitled. (Della
Connor, n.d., N.C., white, cotton mill
spinner, Danville, 5 May 1939)
990 Smith, Essie,
and Heaton. Untitled. (James
Perdue, 1883, W. Va., white, country
merchant, Rocky Mount, 30 April 1939)
Stevens, Edna. See: Morrissett,
folder 988.
991 Venable, Mary S.,
Collins, and
Richardson. Untitled. (“Cucumber
John” Tyler, n.d., n.p., black, odd job
man, Reehmon, 3 January 1939)
992 No author. Untitled.
(Archie Davidson, [1885?], [Danville?],
black, tenant farmer, Whaleyville, n.d.
MISCELLANEOUS
993 Hayden, Kate Warren. Bringing in
the Sheaves. (Fictional account of a
bootlegger, n.d., n.p.)
994 No author. A Greek American
Wife. (Mrs. Nik Morris, n.d., n.p.,
white, restaurant owner, n.p., n.d.)
ADDITIONS:
ALABAMA
995 Baker, Benjamin D. “Recalls Days
When Ice Came Down from Maine by Ships”
(John Dorgan, n.d., n.p., white, freighter
captain, Mobile County, 6 November 1939)
996 O’Brien, Susie R. Mrs. Ira
Reynolds. (Mrs. Ira Reynolds, n.d.,
Uniontown, white, farmer, Uniontown, 15
March 1939)
Bowman, Annie L. Mr. And Mrs. W. D.
Owens. (Mr. W. D. Owens, n.d., Chipley,
Fla., white, turpentine operator; Mrs. W.
D. Owens, n.d., Chipley, Fla., white,
housewife, Atmore, 14 December 1939)
Perry, R.L. Life Story of Mary
Simpson of Mt. Zion Community. (Mary
Simpson, 1876, Mt. Zion, black, farmer,
Mt. Zion, 24 August 1939)
FLORIDA
997 Shepherd, Rose. Mrs. Isabel
Barnwell, School Teacher. (Mrs. Isabel
Barnwell, 1854, Fernandina, no race
indicated, early school-teacher, Nassau
County, 6 February 1939)
998 Shepherd, Rose. Jacksonville
(Suburbs). (Dr. E.H. Armstrong, n.d.,
Rhode Island, suburb owner and developer,
Riverview, 7 April 1939)
Shepherd, Rose. St. Elmo W.
Acosta. (St. Elmo W. Acosta, n.d.,
Jacksonville, former Jacksonville park
commissioner, Jacksonville, 27 March 1939)
Shepherd, Rose. St. Elmo W. Acosta
(Additional). (Addition to the above
interview, 17 July 1939)
999 Shepherd, Rose. Early Florida
Orange Groves. (Mrs. Isabel O. Barnwell,
1854, Fernandina, no race indicated, early
school-teacher, Jacksonville, 6 December
1941)
Shepherd, Rose. Personal
Interview. (Mrs. Isabel Bacon (O’Neill)
Barnwell, Fernandina, no race indicated,
Life-long resident of Florida,
Jacksonville, 13 February 1936)
Shepherd, Rose. “War Between the
States.” (Mrs. Ruth (Bardin) Hanes, n.d.,
n.p., white, no occupation indicated,
Jacksonville, 30 November 1936)
1000 Shepherd, Rose. Personal Interview.
(Mr. M. A. Brown, n.d., Mandarin, white,
Life-long resident of Duval County,
Jacksonville, 19 February 1936)
Shepherd, Rose. Personal
Interview. (Mrs. Mary D. (Bernard)
Burroughs (Mrs. J.H.), n.d., Jacksonville,
white, Life-long resident of Jacksonville,
5 March 1936)
Shepherd, Rose. Julien Philip
Benjamin. (Julien Philip Benjamin, n.d.,
Ocala, Construction and Drainage Engineer,
white, Jacksonville, 15 May 1939)
1001 Shepherd, Rose. Mrs. Katherine
(Wilson) Fitzgerald. (Mrs. Katherine
(Wilson) Fitzgerald, n.d., Duval County,
white, no occupation indicated,
Jacksonville, 10 September 1936)
Shepherd, Rose. Jacksonville’s
First Automobile. (John Eining, n.d.,
n.p., white, son of inventor,
Jacksonville, 5 March 1937)
Shepherd, Rose. Early Jacksonville
and River Transportation. (John E. Clark,
n.d., Jacksonville, white, son of
transportation worker, Jacksonville, 25
March 1936)
1002 Shepherd, Rose. William F. Hawley.
(William F. Hawley, n.d., New Orleans,
La., white, retired railroad worker, 26
June 1940)
Shepherd, Rose. Life History of
A.G. (Gus) Hartridge, Jacksonville Lawyer.
(A.G. Hartridge, 1869, Jacksonville,
white, retired lawyer, 28 February 1939)
Shepherd, Rose. Thomas James Grey.
(Thomas James Grey, 1854c., Boston, Mass.,
white, retired naval officer, 30 April
1937)
Shepherd, Rose. Frank Sowersby
Gray. (Frank S. Gray, 1863, Marcus Hook,
Pa., white, retired hardware executive,
Jacksonville, 28 April 1939)
1003 Shepherd, Rose. Abram Bellamy, Florida
Pioneer. (Judge Miles W. Lewis, n.d.,
n.p., white, judge, Jacksonville, 6 May
1940)
Shepherd, Rose. Villa Alexandria,
Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, South
Jacksonville. (Mrs. Charles (Mollie
Gibson) Lenoir, n.d., Mich., white,
Secretary of Women’s Club of Jacksonville,
Jacksonville, 19 July 1939)
Shepherd, Rose. Villa
Alexandria, Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, South
Jacksonville (additional). (2nd interview
with Mrs. Lenoir, 21 July 1939)
1004 Shepherd, Rose. Mrs. Florrie Towers
Martin (Mrs. William G.). (Mrs. Florrie
Towers Martin, n.d., Quincy, white,
artist, Jacksonville, 10 March 1936)
Shepherd, Rose. Mrs. Phena
(Hudnall) Love. (Mrs. Phena (Hudnall)
Love, n.d., Locarno, white, no occupation
indicated, South Jacksonville, 20 March
1936)
Shepherd, Rose. “Villa
Alexandria”. (Mrs. Phena Hudnall Love,
n.d., Locarno, white, no occupation
indicated, South Jacksonville, 25 August
1936)
1005 Shepherd, Rose. William A. Platt.
(William A. Platt, 1855, Liverpool,
England, white, Former caretaker, 3 March
1939)
Shepherd, Rose. Villa Alexandria
and Jacksonville. (Mr. David Mitchell,
n.d., Jacksonville, white, lawyer,
Jacksonville, 7 July 193?)
1006 Shepherd, Rose. Mulberry Grove
Plantation. (Mrs. Sarah Louise (Pearson)
Richardson, 1879, Mulberry Grove
Plantation, white, widow, Jacksonville, 1
April 1939)
Shepherd, Rose. John Reese and
Morris Moore. (John Reese, 1880, Black
Point, black, farmer; Morris Moore, 1862,
n.p., black, farmer, Yukon, 19 May 1939)
1007 Shepherd, Rose. Sadler’s Point. (Mrs.
J.C. (Violet T. Snead), 1869, n.p., white,
housewife, Jacksonville, 10 May 1939)
Shepherd, Rose. Henrietta
Elizabeth Sellers. (Henrietta Elizabeth
Sellers, 1879, n.p., black, cook,
Jacksonville, 19 May 1939)
1008 Shepherd, Rose. Mr. Wilbur W. Swaim.
(Mr. Wilbur W. Swain, 1854, Montgomery,
white, furniture merchant, Jacksonville,
28 August 1836)
Shepherd, Rose. Mr. W.C.B. Sollee.
(Mr. W.C.B. Sollee, n.d., Savannah, white,
no occupation indicated, Jacksonville, 27
February 1936)
Stedman, Lillian. Lee E.
Bigelow. (Lee Eugene Richard Bigelow,
1872, Okolona, white, historian,
Jacksonville, n.d.)
1009 Clark, Susan. Mr. and Mrs. Nick
Anthony. (Mr. and Mrs. Nick Anthony,
n.d., Greece, Greek, retired, Miami, 14
November 1939)
Clark, Susan. Mrs. Angelo Kays.
(Mrs. Angelo Kays, n.d., Nassau, Greek,
fish merchant, Miami, 6 November 1939)
Clark, Susan. Michael Rakis.
(Michael Rakis, 1894, Smyrna, Asia Minor,
Greek, printer, Miami, 1 November 1939)
1010 Francis, Mabel B. (Mrs.) Catina Manos.
(Mrs. Catina Manos, 1891, n.p., Greek,
mother, Miami, 16 January 1940)
Francis, Mabel B. Mrs. John
Colozoff. (Mrs. John Colozoff, 1906,
Metylene, Greece, Greek, seamstress,
Miami, 29 November 1939)
Francis, Mabel B. Christopher
Beller. (Christopher Beller, 1894,
Sparta, Greece, Greek, real estate broker,
Miami, 24 October 1939)
1011 Taylor, Cora Mae. Mrs. Esther P. Demos.
(Mrs. Esther P. Demos, 1902, Laconia,
Greece, member of Eastern Star of Coral
Cables, Miami, 6 February 1940)
Taylor, Cora Mae. Nicholas Hangis.
(Nicholas Hangis, 1890, Patras, Greece,
Greek, restaurateur, Miami, 18 January
1940)
Taylor, Cora Mae. Mrs. Georgia
Captain. (Georgia Captain, 1910, Laconia,
Greece, Greek, restaurateur, Miami, 31
January 1940)
1012 Taylor, Cora Mae. (Mrs.) Mary Ponticos.
(Mary Ponticos, 1904, Turkey, Greek,
widow, Miami, 17 January 1940)
Taylor, Cora Mae. Nicholas P.
Petrou. (Nicholas P. Petrou, 1900,
Cyprus, Greek, teacher, Miami, 5 February
1940)
Taylor, Cora Mae. Mrs. Mary G.
Manos. (Mrs. Mary G. Manos, 1905, New
York, Greek-Italian, nurse, Miami, 7
February 1940)
Taylor, Cora Mae. Theodore
Hatzopulos. (Theodore Hatzopulos, 1880,
Constantinople, Greek, restaurateur, 13
February 1940)
1013 Darsey, Barbara Berry. Life History of
Albert Denman and Family. (Bob Franklin,
19-20 January 1939)
Darsey, Barbara Berry. Jason and Lily
Iby. (Jason and Lily Iby, 18 October 1938)
Darsey, Barbara Berry. Harris Thomas.
(Horace Thompson, 1 February 1939)
Darsey, Barbara Berry. Maria Gonzales.
(Mrs. Texas Morgan, 7 December 1938)
Darsey, Barbara Berry. Lolly Bleu.
(Mrs. Robert Eures, 29 November 1938)
Comstock, Bertha R. Hannah Taylor.
(Hannah Taylor, 13 January 1939)
1014 Burnell, Elvira E. The Haskins Family.
(Paul Anthony Haskins, 1 March 1939)
No author. Mr. John C.
English, a Pioneer Resident of Lee County.
(Mr. John C. English, 20 January 1939)
Burnell, Elvira E. The Stembler
Family. (The Blake Family, 30 January
1939)
1015 DeLamater, Walter D. The Newton Family.
(John Newton Blair, 14 December 1938)
DeLamater, Walter D. Jane Clayton.
(The Grant Family, 15 January 1939)
1016 Johnson, Alberta. The Olsen’s (A
Shrimper’s Family). (The Olsen Family, 21
February 1939)
Johnson, Alberta. T. J.
Marshall. (T. J. Marshall, 16 February
1939)
1017 Shepherd, Rose. Mrs. Elizabeth
Dismukes. (Mrs. Elizabeth Dismukes, 11
May 1939)
Shepherd, Rose. Mrs. Mattie
Jackson. (Mrs. Mattie Jackson, 10 May
1939)
Wood, Dorothy. The Wade Family.
(The Roof Family, 20 January 1939)
Johnson, Alberta. The Bennett
Family. (The Bennett Family, 28 February
1939)
Shepherd, Rose. Dennis Potinos,
(Greek). (Dennis Potinos, 20 August 1939)
GEORGIA
1018 Fowler, Carry. Mrs. J.C. Jackson.
(Mrs. J.C. Jackson, 16 December 1938)
Fowler, Carry. Just a Traveling,
Rambling Man That Settled Down in Athens
Town. (Mr. Fred Trammell, 4 Jamuary 1939)
1019 Hornsby, [Sarah]. Mrs. Lelia
Bramblett. (Mrs. Lelia Bramblett, 17
January 1938)
1020 McCune, [Grace]. A Funeral Service by
Brother Gresham (fragment). (Mariah
Jackson, 6 Feb 1939)
McCune, [Grace]. Mrs. Margaret
Davis. (Mrs. Margaret Davis, 18 January &
9 December 1939)
LOUISIANA
1021 Scott, Jeanne
deLavigne. A Red Comb in Her
Hair. (Mrs. Margaret Davis, 27 April
1939)
Scott, Jeanne
deLavigne. Uranus And I Are
Pretty Good Friends... (Eugene Reuben
Mumford, 16 May 1939)
Scott, Jeanne
deLavigne. “People Plant Too
Damn Much...” (Louis Huber, 17 May 1939)
Scott, Jeanne
deLavigne. The Cook
Household. (James Cook, 3 January 1939)
1022 Scott, Jeanne
deLavigne. And There Was A
Man... (Lois Lapiene, 2 May 1939)
Scott, Jeanne
de Lavigne. Untitled.
(Bernard Trondle, 12 December 1938)
Scott, Jeanne
de Lavigne. I Got All Day for
Everything... (Joseph Landry, 28 April
1939)
1023 McKinney, Robert. “Ah Got Religion.”
(Moses Alexander, 28 February 1939)
McKinney, Robert. “Religion in de
Dreams.” (Theodore Bricks, 8 March 1939)
McKinney, Robert. “Sinning for
Security.” (Marie Brown, 21 March 1939)
McKinney, Robert. “How I Got
Religion.” (Moriath Butler, 14 February
1939)
1024 McKinney, Robert. “Peddlin’ Jerry.”
(Jerry Coleman, 19 May 1939)
McKinney, Robert. Mary Davis. (Mary
Davis, 23 December 1938)
McKinney, Robert. Queen of Fish
Fries (Elizabeth Henry, 11 January 1939)
McKinney, Robert. Once Was But Ain’t
No More. (Another version of the same
interview)
1025 McKinney, Robert. John Anderson Hill.
(John Anderson Hill, n.d.)
McKinney, Robert. The Vampire Sugar
Cane Cutter. (Peter Jackson, 21 June
1939)
McKinney, Robert. The Life History
of a Sugar Cane Worker. (Emile Ward, 12
July 1939)
1026 McKinney, Robert. “This Boy Gets Lacking
Souls.” (Jim White, 4 August 1939)
McKinney, Robert. Untitled. (Moses
Williams, 23 August 1940)
McKinney, Robert. James Willis, the
Sugar Cane Man. (James Willis, 20 July
1939)
No author. Pride of Heritage.
(Emiline Wilson, 6 June 1940)
NORTH CAROLINA
1027 Moore, Ida L. The Hollifields. (The
Hollifield family, n.d.)
Moore, Ida L. Nina Boone. (Nina
Boone, 26 September 1938)
Moore, Ida L. Bill Branch.
(Bill Branch, 1 August 1938)
Moore, Ida L. Ima Buckner. (Ima
Buckner, 17 August 1938)
Moore, Ida L. The Jackson
Family. (The Jackson Family, 14 September
1938)
Moore, Ida L. Nannie Ruth Parks.
(Nannie Ruth Parks, 7 September 1938)
Moore, Ida L. The Renns. (The
Renn Family, 19 July 1938)
Moore, Ida L. “Four Families of
Reservoir Street” (Residents of Reservoir
Street, East Durham, 23 August 1938)
Moore, Ida L. Ellie Robertson.
(Ellie Robertson, 28 September 1938)
Moore, Ida L. Jennie. (Jennie
Robinson, 15 August 1938)
Moore, Ida L. Mary Smith. (Mary
Smith, 15 July 1938)
Moore, Ida L. Elsie Wall.
(Elsie Wall, 27 July 1938)
Moore, Ida L. Sarah Wall. (Sarah
Wall, 25 July 1938)
Moore, Ida L. Josephine Wallace.
(Josephine Wallace, n.d.)
Moore, Ida L. The Wilkins
Family. (The Wilkins Family, 12 September
1938)
Moore, Ida L. Lucille Hicks.
(Lucille Hicks, 12 August 1938)
1028 Foster, W. O. “Dick Striker, Farm
Laborer” (Dick Striker, ca. 1875, near
Goldsboro, N.C., farm laborer, Clinton,
N.C., 12 September 1938)
Foster, W. O. “Ed Oneal and
Margaret Oneal” (Ed Oneal, n.d., Chatham
County, N.C., and Margaret Oneal, n.d.,
Orange County, N.C.,, Chapel Hill, N.C., 4
October 1938)
Foster, W. O. “Cisco Mayse”
(Cisco Mayse, ca. 1909, Orange County,
N.C., carpenter and farmer, Orange County,
N.C., 13 April 1939)
Harris, Bernice K. “Mrs. Althy Cooke”
(Althy Cooke, n.d., n.p., wife of
sharecropper, Pleasant Hill, N.C., 6
December 1938)
Harris, Bernice K. “Shelter Against
All Evil” (Carter Taylor, n.d., n.p.,
sharecropper, Seaboard, N.C., 15 November
1938)
Mabry, Luline L. “Miss Emma
Hood and mother Mrs. Melissa Hood” (Emma
Hood, n.d., n.p.; Melissa Hood, n.d.,
n.p.; Hendersonville, N.C., 18 November
1938)
1029 Memorandums regarding the study “Greeks in
America”
1030 No author. Greeks in Asheville.
Carter, Douglas. Gambler.
(John Anaxagoras, n.d.)
Carter, Douglas. Living on
Butter and Eggs. (“Charlie” (last name
not given), n.d.)
Carter, Douglas. Joe Drosinis.
(Joe Drosinis, n.d.)
1031 Crawford, D. W. The Greeks in
Charlotte.
Crawford, D. W. I Am A Radical.
(Anthony English, 14 July 1939)
Crawford, D. W. Discovering
America in a Hospital. (Mrs. Thomas
Kalaveris, 26 July 1939)
Crawford, D. W. Loui. (L.
Kastakapaulos, 14 July 1939)
Crawford, D. W. It Come Out OK.
(Mike Kofinas, 13 July 1939)
Crawford, D. W. Gus McKene
(Kantantinos Kokens). (Kantantinos
Kokens, 26 July 1939)
Crawford, D.W. My Greek Husband.
(Mrs. Chris Pappas, 7 August 1939)
Rupert, Frank B. Holy Trinity,
Greek Orthodox Church.
Rupert, Frank B. Charlotte
Chapter of Sons of Pericles.
Rupert, Frank B. Charlotte
Chapter of The Women’s Club of the Greek
Church.
Rupert, Frank B. Greek Sensus.
Rupert, Frank B. Greek Food.
Rupert, Frank B. Tom Condus (Church
Janitor). (Tom Condus, 25 September 1939)
1032 Holmes, Robert W. The Greeks in Davidson
County.
Saunders, W.O. Others Who Have
Prospered.
Saunders, W. O. Personal Mention.
Saunders, W. O. Why So Many Greek
Restaurants? (Gus Constantin Geraris,
n.d.)
Saunders, W. O. Untitled.
(Nicholas Harry Polus, n.d.)
Speak, Joseph H. Greek Orthodox
Church in Gaston County. (from handbook
of Gaston County, 1936)
1033 No author. The Greeks in Rowan
County.
Hicks, Mary A. Greeks in Raleigh.
Hicks, Mary A. Why She Sold Her
Jewels. (Paul Manos Appollonia, n.d.)
Hicks, Mary A. George N. Ellison,
Proprietor of Raleigh Diner. (George N.
Ellison, n.d.)
Hicks, Mary A. A Lamp That Shines
for Her. (Peter Gournas, n.d.)
Hicks, Mary A. The Land of
Promise. (Steve Loomis, n.d.)
Hicks, Mary A. John Popajohn.
(John Popajohn, n.d.)
Hicks, Mary A. James A.
Stathacos. (James A. Stathacos, n.d.)
Hicks, Mary A. James
Tehodorakakas. (James Tehodorakakas,
n.d.)
1034 Harris, Frances L. Greeks in Wilmington.
Harris, Frances L. Nick Poulas.
(Nick Poulas, n.d.)
Harris, Frances L. Famous Greek-
Americans. (Dr. George Patterson, n.d.)
Harris, Frances L.,
and Lucille B.
Edwards. Nickolas and
Tassie Costello. (Nickolas and Tassie
Costello, n.d.)
Harris, Frances L.,
and Lucille B.
Edwards. Tony and Gus
Mavronickolas. (Tony and Gus
Mavronickolas, n.d.)
Harris, Frances L.,
and Maurice B.
Haskett. Teacher and
Waiter. (Alexander Beztios, n.d.)
Harris, Frances L.,
and Maurice B.
Haskett. Jimmy’s Negro
Customer. (Jimmy Patellos, n.d.)
Harris, Frances L.,
and Mrs. George
Peschau. Nickolas Patellos.
(Nickolas Patellos, n.d.)
Peschau, Mrs.
George L., and
Haskett. Mrs. Pete
Patellos. (Mrs. Pete Patellos, n.d.)
Peschau, Mrs.
George L., and
Haskett. John and Anastasia
Ponos. (John and Anastasia Ponos, n.d.)
Peschau, Mrs.
George L., and
Haskett. Antonios Roondos.
(Antonios Roondos, n.d.)
No author. Zacharias
Mavrikis. (Zacharias Mavrikis, n.d.)
1035 Jones, Sidney F. The Greeks in
Winston-Salem.
SOUTH CAROLINA
1036 Atwell, F. Donald. “Small Town Doctor.”
(Dr. Cameron, 18 February 1939)
Atwell, F. Donald. The Man Who Was--.
(John Remington, 1 February 1939)
Atwell, F. Donald. Registered Nurse.
(Mrs. Remington, 20 January 1939)
Atwell, F. Donald. Beef Stew. (Mr.
Arthur B. Myers, 28 March 1939)
1037 Cogburn, L.E. A Community Man.
(T.J. Oliver, 30 January 1939)
Cogburn, L.E. Better A Tent Than
A Mortgage. (Walter Strother, 28 February
1939)
1038 Davis, Annie Ruth. Tom Bird. (Tom
Bird, 10 February 1939)
Davis, Annie Ruth. Agnes Harrell.
(Agnes Harrell, 24 February 1939)
Davis, Annie Ruth. The Back-Date
Buggy. (Berkeley Lawrimore, 23 March
1939)
Davis, Annie Ruth. Wilbur White.
(Wilbur White, 27 December 1938)
Davis, Annie Ruth. Tenant to
Taxpayer. (Another version of the same
interview)
1039 Dixon, W. W. Mrs. Jennie Isabel
Coleman. (Mrs. Jennie Isabel Coleman,
n.d.)
Dixon, W. W. From Parking to
Politics. (Sam T. Colin, 17 March 1939)
Dixon, W. W. Judge Walter L.
Holley. (Judge Walter L. Holley, n.d.)
Dixon, W. W. Oliver Johnson, D.
D. (Oliver Johnson, n.d.)
Dixon, W. W. Alexander W.
Matheson. (Alexander W. Matheson, n.d.)
1040 Dove, John L. Flowing On. (Jake
Philpot, 15 March 1939)
Dove, John L. The Clouds Beyond.
(Ham Cloud, 15 February 1939)
Dove, John L. A Tie That Bound.
(Another version of the same interview)
Dove, John L. Windmill Orchard.
(Ed Leightsey, 12 January 1939)
Dove, John L. Always Agin It.
(Oscar Staub, 24 January 1939)
Dove, John L. Fighting Ben.
(Ben Thorp, 3 March 1939)
1041 Farmer, John P. Aunt Sally Raines.
(Aunt Sally Raines, 16 December 1938)
1042 Farmer, John P. How Grady Weldon Came
to Be in the Insurance Adjusting Business.
(Grady Weldon, 20 January 1939)
1043 Ford, Lucile Clark. In-Laws and T.B.’s.
(Jane Carrol, 9 March 1939)
Ford, Lucile Clark. Living on the
Richards’ Farm. (Caroline B. Richards, 7
February 1939)
Ford, Lucile Clark. An Evening in the
Smith Home. (Mr. & Mrs. Tally Smith, 14
February 1939)
1044 Henderson, Ruth D. The Collins Family.
(Jules and Jim Collins, 2 January 1939)
Jones, Mattie T. Did He Love
Adventure? (William McAllister, 9 March
1939)
Jones, Mattie T. No, I’m Not
Lonesome. (Mrs. Mary Moore, 1 December
1938)
Jones, Mattie T. A Day with the
Pattons. (Bert Patton, 9 January 1939)
Jones, Mattie T. The Greatest
of These is Charity. (Another version of
the same interview)
Jones, Mattie T. Daring the
Devil. (William Wiley, 16 January 1939)
Jones, Mattie T. A Happy
Family. (Another version of the same
interview)
1045 Lea, Verner. A Belated Rest. (Dave
Thomas, 7 February 1939)
Lea, Verner. Mary Gunnaway.
(Mary Gunnaway, 10 November 1938)
Lea, Verner. Miss Sallie’s
Cook. (Ruby Childs, 2 March 1939)
Lea, Verner. Sally’s
Premonition. (Sally Jones, 5 January
1939)
Lea, Verner. Silas Harmon.
(Silas Harmon, 23 November 1938)
1046 Mann, Muriel A. Mamie Brown,
Librarian. (Mamie Brown, 11 January 1939)
Mann, Muriel A. The Hardy Family.
(Mrs. Hardy, 7 March 1939)
Mann, Muriel A. WPA Road.
(Charles Seabrook, Arthur W. Bailey, &
F.W. Johnston, 31 January 1939)
Mann, Muriel A. Mrs. Martin,
Public Health Nurse. (Mrs. R. N. Martin,
10 February 1939)
1047 Murray, Chalmers S. Martha Joint,
Occasional Servant. (Martha Joint, 3
March 1939)
Struggs, Stiles M. A Veteran
Negro Janitor. (Walter M. Hughes, 17
December 1938)
Struggs, Stiles M. Walter M.
Hughes. (Another version of the same
interview)
Russell, D. A. Robert Joseph
Gantt. (Robert Joseph Gantt, 15 February
1939)
Russell, D. A. William Donald
Mitchell. (William Donald Mitchell, 22
February 1939)
1048 Struggs, Stiles M. How Branson’s
Bulldog Courage Won. (Raymond E. Branson,
28 February 1939)
Struggs, Stiles M. A Merchant
Wizard. (John Randall, 6 March 1939)
Struggs, Stiles M. Jason C. Nye.
(Jason C. Nye, 7 January 1939)
Struggs, Stiles M. Always
Flowers. (Another version of the same
interview)
Struggs, Stiles M. Reece N. Wood.
(Reece N. Wood, 22 November 1938)
1049 Shuler, Helen. Allan Cook, Farmer.
(Allan Cook, 23 November 1938)
Shuler, Helen. Living by Faith.
(W. A. and Susie Holmes, 26 January 1939)
Shuler, Helen. Delma Todd
Culclasure. (Susan Jones, 16 December
1938)
Shuler, Helen. Sallie Spitfire.
(Sallie Spitfire, 28 December 1938)
Shuler, Helen. Tricked by
Gypsies. (Nick and Janie Fuller, 1
February 1939)
1050 Sims, Caldwell. How Mr. W.S. McLure
Came to Be in the Real Estate Business.
(W.S. McLure, 16 February 1939)
Sims, Caldwell. Bessie Reed.
(Bessie Reed, 9 January 1939)
Sims, Caldwell. “Singin’ Praises
Dats My Life, Lawd.” (Emma Sanders, 17
February 1939)
Sims, Caldwell. I Wouldn’t
Exchange. (Mrs. Bess Long Wilburn, 31
January 1939)
1051 Summer, G. Leland. The Clarys. (The
Clarys, 20 December 1938)
Summer, G. Leland. The Edward
Fulmers. (Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fulmer, 28
December 1938)
Summer, G. Leland. Mrs. Hattie
Hudson. (Mrs. Hattie Hudson, 9 January
1939)
Summer, G. Leland. The Huffstetlers.
(The Huffstetlers, 19 December 1938)
Summer, G. Leland. Elizabeth P.
Jackson. (Elizabeth P. Jackson, 15
December 1938)
Summer, G. Leland. John Harrison
Summer. (John Harrison Summer, 2 February
1939)
1052 Von Ohsen, Charles A. Ben Adams. (Ben
Adams, 22 March 1939)
Von Ohsen, Charles A. A Hell Hole
Farmer. (Jimmie Green, 31 March 1939)
Von Ohsen, Charles A. Gabriel
Washington. (Gabriel Washington, 22
February 1939)
1053 Williams, R. V. Sam Lewis. (Sam
Lewis, 28 February 1939)
Wilkinson, Margaret. The Street.
(Robert Carter, Sarah Carter, John
Sanders, Bessie Sanders, Sundown, Eva
Bellows; March 1939)
1054 Dixon, W. W. Thomas C. Camak.
(Thomas C. Camak, n.d.)
Dixon, W. W. Nina Rabb Castles.
(Nina Rabb Castles, n.d.)
Dixon, W. W. Thomas M.
Cathcart. (Thomas M. Cathcart, n.d.)
Dixon, W. W. Cynthia M.
Coleman. (Cynthia M. Coleman, n.d.)
Dixon, W. W. Elizabeth
Vanderville Darby. (Elizabeth Vanderville
Darby, n.d.)
Dixon, W. W. Kate Flenniken.
(Kate Flenniken, n.d.)
Dixon, W. W. Warren Harvey
Flenniken. (Warren Harvey Flenniken,
n.d.)
Dixon, W. W. Longstreet Gantt.
(Longstreet Gantt, n.d.)
Dixon, W. W. Ella E. Gooding &
Robert C. Gooding. (Mr. & Mrs. Robert C.
Gooding, n.d.)
1055 Dixon, W. W. Dr. Samuel B. Lathan.
(Dr. Samuel B. Lathan, n.d.)
Dixon, W. W. Joseph Stewart.
(Joseph Stewart, n.d.)
Dixon, W. W. Alice Buchanan
Walker. (Alice Buchanan Walker, n.d.)
Dixon, W. W. Judge J.H.
Yarborough. (Judge J.H. Yarborough, n.d.)
1056 Index.