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Circumstances of Interview

STATE~ Arkansas

i~A1v1E OF ~JBKER~ Blanche Edwards ADDRESs~--‘ Lonoke, Arkansas

~	~ October 20, 1938 3UBJECT~ An Old Slave

1.	I~atne and address of informant~‘ Mrs. John G. High, living nine miles north of Lonoke, Arkansas,

2~ Date and time of interview-~ October 20 ‚ 1938

3,	Place of interview“-‘ At the home of Mrs. John G. High, nine miles north of Lonoke.
4.	Name snd~ ad~dress of person, if any, wh p~zt you in touch with informant-—

5.	Naine and address of person, 1f any, accompanying you-—

6.	Description of room, house, surroundings, etc.


Text of Interview

	F»iiline Wadciell, a fartuer slave of the L. W. Wadd.ell family, lived to be 106 years old, and was active up to her death.

	She was born a slave in 1826 at Raben county, Georgia, a slave of Claybourne Wad.d.ell, who emigrated to Brownsville, in 1851, in covered wagons, oxen drawn.

	Her “white folks“ were three weeks making the trip from the ferry across the Mississippi to old Brownsville; after traveling all day through the bad and. boggy Woods, at the end. of their rough journey at eventide, the movers dismounted and began hasty preparations for the s While the men were feeding the stock and. providing temporary quarters, the women assisted the slaves in preparing the evenIng meal, of hoe—cake, fried. venison and coffee. Then the women and children would sleep in the wagons while the men kept watch for wild life.
~RMA 13A