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Biscoe, Arkansas
"I was born in Brownsville, Tennessee. My nother died when I was real young, and I had no father. Pike Sutton was
mother's master. He was my old grandfather. He owned a big farm. Tove Sutton was his son and my father. Mother
was light but not as light as I am. I had a sister older then I am I lived with. I never lived among white folks except
in a town with then. I don't know a thing about my people to tell. I don't know my age. I give myself a birthday. I
don't know the day nor month I was born. But I'm old. I can count back enough to tell that.
"I work in the sewing room. I'm the oldest woman in there at De Valls Bluff. I get twenty-one dollars and this
month I an to get twenty-seven.
"If you don't have work times are not good. I know that. I don't hardly know the young generation. Of course I see
them but that is all. They hurrying their way and I'm going my way."
Interviewer Mrs. Bernice Bowden"
