#3
Interview With [obscured] April 24, 1924
Ivan E. McDougle and Gwendolyn Watson
[obscured] Black. Aunt of [obscured]. Supposition is that father of [obscured] was [obscured] who was killed during the war.
[obscured]
Considered the best one to work. Mighty mean nigger. Ran off to Johnson City because the colored people got after him for beating his children.
[obscured]
No account.
[obscured]
A straight negro. Very mean. Killed three [obscured]. Mother white. [obscured] known to kill the fellow he took his name from. Lived around here after he came out of the penitentiary for killing [obscured].
[obscured]
Called her old aunt [obscured]. Little brown skinned negro - nearly full blood
[obscured]
Brother of [obscured], married [obscured]. No children. Just a yellow negro.
[obscured]
Brother of [obscured]. Had a negro for a wife.
[obscured]
Just like the others. Half negro. Half white.
[obscured]
Son of [obscured], sister of [obscured]. Half white.
[obscured]
Kind of a yellow fellow. No account. His wife was a white woman to look at.
[obscured]
Chop wood and that's about all. Not fit for anything. When Abraham Lincoln freed the negroes in the South he never freed a sorrier one. Looks like a black negro.
[obscured]
Sorry negro but he would work alright. His wife [obscured] was a sister of [obscured].
[obscured]
Married [obscured] who was one fourth white but was very black. [obscured] always went with the negroes.
[obscured]
Decided he would go out to Ohio to be a
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