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STATE—" Arkansas
NiJS OF WORKER— Bernice Bowden
Circumstances of Interview
iBDBESS— 1006 Oak Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
DATi— November 4, 1938
SUBJECT— Ex-slaves
1, Name and address of informant-- Sarah Sexton, Boute 4, Box 685, pine Bluff
2, Date and time of interview-- November 3, 1938, 10:00 a*m.
3, Place of interview— Boute 4, Box 685, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
4, Name and address of person, if any, who put you in touch with informant—
Georgia Caldwell, Route 6, Box 128, Pine Bluff, Arkansas*
5, Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you— None*
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6# Description of room, house, surroundings, etc.—Frame house, front porch
with two swings. Fence around yard* Chinaberry tree and Tree of Paradise,
Coxcomb in yard* Southeast of Norton-Wheeler Stave Mill just off Highway 65*
(Text of Interview
"Prewitt Tiller "bought my mother and I belonged to young master* In
slavery I was a good-si zed-young girl, mama said* Big enough to put the table
cloths on the best I could* After freedom I did all the cookin 1 and milkin f
and washin 1 •
*ilow listen, this young master was Prewitt f s son*
"Grandpa's name was Ned Peeples and grandma was Sally Peeples. My mother
was Dorcas* fell, iqy papa, I ain f t never seed him but his name was Josh Allen*
tou see, they just sold f em around* That's what I*m talkin f about—they went
ty the name of their owners*
"I f m seventy-eight or seventy-nine or eighty. Chat's what the insurance
san got me up*