Project 1885-.1
POLKLORE
Spartanburg, Dist .4
July 26, 1937
Edi~ed by:
Elmer Turna~e
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SLAVERY R~Ifl‘~ IS OEI~I CES


	tu was raised in the wood across the road about 200 yards from here. I was very mischievous. My parents were honest and
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were Christians. I loved them very much. My father was William

Bevis, who died at the a~e of eighty. Miss Zelia Hames of Pea Ridge was my mother. My parents are buried at Bethlehem Meth.. odist Church. I was brought up in Methodism and f do not know anything else. I had two brothers arid four sisters. wiy twin sister died last April 1937. She was Fannie Holcombe. I was in bed with pneumonia at the time of her death and of course I could riot go to the i~uneral. For a month, I was unconscious.

	“When I was a little girl I played ‘Andy~.over‘ with a ball, in the moonlight. Later I went to parties and dances. Calico, chambric and gingham were the materials which our party dresses were made o~.

	?$My grandmother, Mrs. Phoebe Bevis used to tell Revolution..

ary stories and sing songs that were sung during that period. Grandmother knew some Tories. She always told me that old Nat Gist was a Tory ... that is the way he got rich.

	“Hampton was elected governor the morning my Pather went in his carriage to Joriesville to vote We all thought that H~impton was fine.

	“When I was a school girl I used the blue back speller. My sweetheart‘s name was Ben Harris. We went to Bethlehem to school. Jeff and Bill Harris were our teachers. I was thirteen.
mother died. for Hampton.