SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

"Grandma was a Molly Glaspy woman. She had straight wavy
hair, small eyes. She was a small woman. Grandpa was a tall
big man. He was a full blood Indian.
"My mother called whiskey 'jagger' - I don't know why.
"After Mr. Redman died, Miss Mary married Mr. Badgett.
Me and George and Sissy all growed up together. My mother was
married twice too. She had two of us by her first husband and
eight children by her last husband,
"I heard them say they lived in Crittenden County, Arkan-
sas during the Civil War. They lived in west Tennessee not far
from Memphis when I was a child. Mrs. Badgett lived in Memphis
after she got old. Mary's mother visited her long as she lived.
I did too. She has been dead several years. She give me a
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sugar bowl when I was twelve years old - I still got it. I won't
sell it. I'll give it to my girl.
"I don't know about the Ku Klux. I never heard a great '
deal about them.
"I don't vote - not interested.
"Well, I sewed till the very day I was 65 years old. The
foreman said I was too old now, but sign up for the pension. I
am crippled. I did. I get commodities, but no money.
"I washed, ironed, cooked. I worked at Mrs. Jim Gunn's
and I cooked nine years for Mrs. Dora Cregg. I work whenever I
can get work to be done. I like to sew but they cut me off,"