) I work all the time washing and ironing. (She has
washed for the same families years and years. She is a light
mulatto--ed.)
"Young folks is lost respect for the truth. Not dependable. That is
their very worst fault, I think.
"No-oom, I wouldn't vote no quicker 'en I'd smoke a cigarette. But I
haben never smoked narry one."
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden
Subject: Ex-Slaves
Story:--Information
This information given by: Winnie Davis (C)
Place of residence: 304 E. Twenty-First Street
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Occupation: None
Age: 100
[TR: Personal information moved from bottom of first page.]
"Katie Butler was my old missis 'fore I married my husband. His name
David Davis. I cooked for Jeff Davis and took care of his daughter,
Winnie. I stayed with old missis, Jeff Davis' wife, till she died. She
made me promise I'd stay with her. That was in Virginia."
(I have made three trips trying to get information and pictures of
Winnie Davis. Her granddaughter said that a good many years ago when
Winnie's mind was good, she was down town shopping and that when she
gave her name, the clerk said, "Were you named after Jeff Davis'
daughter?" and that Winnie replied, "She must have been named after me
'cause I cooked for Jeff Davis 'fore she was born.
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