Stepney Underwood; from the Library of Congress Collection |
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Age: 91
Interview Place: Hempstead, TX
Interview Date: November 18, 1941
Interviewer: John Henry Faulk
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HS: Jim Smith? JHF: Uh, oh, Jim Smith. HS: Hmmm. JHF: Was he a church man? HS: Yes, he was JHF: What happened HS: Church man, church man, an' politics man too. JHF: Oh you were, y'all voted in those days. HS: Yes. My husban' was uh, he was known by white folks. He was well, uh, when he got kill them white folks was just crazy about him. He'd gone through ... That boy that killed my husban', I nursed him when he was a baby. JHF: How come him to kill your husband? HS: Well he just mean, just mean you know an' he, they didn' like people up to date you know. An' course there jus' thirteen months in the difference in my husban' kill and his brother. Stole JHF:Killed your husband's brother? HS: Uh huh. He'd been to church. I think he went to gin that night to carry a bale of cotton. An' this Walter Byers sat down on a seat an' a whole passel of them was settin down talkin. An' when the time to come to his cotton, they killed him an', an' they killed my brother -- my husban' on the way from the cedar break. I could go right to the spot now nearly where he was killed at. JHF:Shot him or cut him HS:Shot him, shot him on the way from the cedar. See, we have a cedar break at home, at the ol' home... Shot him on the way from the cedar break. |
Gaston,
Alice (AL) | Hughes,
Fountain (MD) | McCrea,
Billy (TX) | McDonald,
Joe (AL) | Moseley,
Isom (AL) | Smalley,
Laura (TX), beating | Smalley,
Laura(TX), child care
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Harriet (TX) |
Faulk, John Henry (interviewer) | Epilogue |
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