SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson
Person interviewed Jerry Sims (Indian and Negro)
Brinkley, Arkansas
A&e Born 1859
"I was born in 1859 close to Natchez, Mississippi. Chief Sims was my
grandpa* He was Indian, full blood* His wife was a Ghoctaw Indian. Grand-
pa was a small red Indian. They kept my pa hid out with stock nearly all
time of the Civil War* Both my mas f parents was nearly all Indian too but
th9y was mixed* I f m more Indian than anything else# I heard pa talk about
staying in the cane brake s* Mighty few cane brakes to be found now* I come
with my grandpa and grandma to Arkansas when I was five years old*
"My ma belong to Quill and Sely Whitaker* I at and slept with Hattie
end Bud and Hob Whitaker* Quill Whitaker was a Union surgeon in the Civil
War*
tt I don f t think any of my folks was ever sold* They was of a porer
class and had to have a living and sorter become slaves for a living* I
never heard ma say how she got in bondage. Pa stayed with John Rob bout
like a slave*
n I am a farmer* I am not on the PS?A* Times for me is hard* You see
some has so much and others hardly can live at all*
"It is not for me to say about the young generation^ I have mighty
little to do with any of them*
n I have voted but not lately* I never did understand voting*"