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STATE"* Arkansas
SAME OF WORKER—* Bernice Bowden
4DJ2BESS-- 1006 Oak Street, Pine Bluff
DAIE" November 4, 1938
SUBJECT— Enslaves
Personal History of Informant
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tm AND ADDRESS OP INSORMAJHT— Sarah Sexton, Boute 4, Box 685, pine Bluff, Ark.
1. Ancestry—Grandfather, Fed Peeples; grandmother, Sally Peeples; Mother,
Dorcas Peeples; Father, Josh Allen.
2, Place and date of birth—On Saline River, Selma, Arkansas. No date.
2# Faxnily-^Two daughters and granddaughter.
4. Places lived in, with dates—Desha County, Walnut Lake, Nohle Lake, (Arkansas)
Poplar Bluff, Missouri. No dates.
5# Education, with dates—Three days, "after freedom*. Attends government school
now.
6* Occupations and accomplishments, with dates—Parmwork, cooking, laundry work
until 1936.
7. Special skills and interests—Cooking.
8. Comiramity and religious activities—Member of Palestine Baptist Church.
9» Description of informant--Jfedium height, plump, light complexion and gray hair.
10• Other points gained in interview*-Injured in auto wreck seven years ago.