Only been sick once
in seventy years.
"I belong to the Baptist church. God is my boss now. He has brought me
this far and He's able to carry me across"
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden
Person interviewed: Eliza Frazier
2003 Saracen Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Age: 88?
"I don't know when I was born or 'zackly how old I is, but I was born in
South Carolina and come here before the War.
"I belonged to Wiley Mosley and he brought me and my mother and my
sister here to Arkansas. I don't 'member it at all 'cause I was a baby,
but I know what Wiley Mosley and my mother told me.
"Settled in Redland Township. That's what they called it. He bought a
plantation there. There was three brothers come to this country and they
didn't live very far from each other.
"I 'member hearin' 'em talk 'bout the War and one time I heered the guns
a poppin'. They said they was just passin' through. I was just a small
girl but I 'member it. I seed the Yankees too. I 'member they'd come up
in the yard on hosses and jump down and go in the smokehouse and take
the meat and go to the dairy house and get the milk.
"Old master was gone to the War. I 'member when he was gwine and I
'member when he come back.
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