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near Biscoe, Arkansas
Age 60
"My parents was Neily and Amos Hamilton. They lived in Marshall County, about forty-eight miles from Memphis.
They belong to people by that same name.
"I heard than all say how they come to be way out in Mississippi. The Thompsons owned Grandma Diana and her
husband in South Carolina. Master Jefferies went there from Mississippi and bought grandma. They let all twelve of
her children go in the sale some way but they didn't sell grandpa. He grieved so till the same ran come back a long
time afterward and bought him. Jefferies was good to them. I was born in Mississippi. Grandma cooked all the time.
Mama and papa both worked in the field. I heard grandma say every one of her children was born in South
Carolina. Mr. Jefferies, one of the younger set, lived in Clarendon, Arkansas. Since I come to this country I seen
him. I lived over there pretty close by.
"I got no 'pinion worth telling about our young folks. They want to have a big time when they are young. All young
folks is swift on foot that way. Times is funny. Funniest times ever been in my life. Is times right now? Ain't no
credit no more. That one thing making times so hard. Money is the whole thing now'days."
(El Dorado District)
