oggin 176

Hannah Crasson 187

Bill Crump 207

Charlie Crump and Granddaughter 212

Harriet Ann Daves 232

Charles W. Dickens 254

Margaret E. Dickens 259

Rev. Squire Dowd 263

Jennylin Dunn 275

Tempie Herndon Durham 284

George Eatman 291

John Evans 298

Sarah Gudger 350

Sarah Harris 375

Essex Henry 393

Milly Henry 399

Joe High 409

Elbert Hunter 457

N. C. District: No. 2 [320152]
Worker: T. Pat Matthews
No. Words: 1384
Subject: Louisa Adams
Person Interviewed: Louisa Adams
Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt

[TR: Date Stamp "JUL 7 1937"]

LOUISA ADAMS

My name is Louisa Adams. I wuz bawned in Rockingham, Richmond County,
North Carolina. I wuz eight years old when the Yankees come through. I
belonged to Marster Tom A. Covington, Sir. My mother wuz named Easter,
and my father wuz named Jacob. We were all Covingtons. No Sir, I don't
know whur my mother and father come from. Soloman wuz brother number
one, then Luke, Josh, Stephen, Asbury. My sisters were Jane, Frances,
Wincy, and I wuz nex'. I 'members grandmother. She wuz named Lovie Wall.
They brought her here from same place. My aunts were named, one wuz
named Nicey, and one wuz named Jane. I picked feed for the white folks.
They sent many of the chillun to work at the salt mines, where we went
to git salt. My brother Soloman wuz sent to the salt mines. Luke looked
atter the sheep. He knocked down china berries for 'em. Dad and mammie
had their own gardens and hogs. We were compelled to walk about at night
to live. We were so hongry we were bound to steal or parish. This trait
seems to be handed down from slavery days. Sometimes I thinks dis might
be so. Our food wuz bad. Marster worked us hard and gave us nuthin. We
had to use what we made in the garden to eat. We also et our hogs. Our
clothes were bad, and beds were sorry. We went barefooted in a way.
What I mean by that is, that we had shoes part of the time. We got one
pair o' shoes a year. When dey wored out we went barefooted. Sometimes
we tied them up with strings, and they were so rag