Dora Holmes
From:
More Arkansas
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor
Person interviewed: Dora Holmes [HW crossed out: (light brown)]
1500 Valentine St., Little Rock, Ark.
Age: 60?
Occupation: Housewife
"My father's half brothers were white. They all fought in the army. They
were Confederate soldiers. Once during the war when they came home, they
brought my mother the goods for two dresses,--twenty yards of figured
voile, ten yards for each dress. The cost of the whole twenty yards was
fifty dollars ($50.00).
"I still have the dresses and some petticoats and pantaloons which are
nearly as old. I have ironed these things many a time until they were so
stiff they stand straight up on the floor."
Interviewer's Comments
Mary Ann King, mother of Dora Holmes, was the original owner of the
dresses. She died at the age of ninety-eight two or three years ago. One
of the dresses is still in the possession of the daughter. It has a
skirt with nine gores and a twelve-inch headed ruffle.
The petticoat is of white muslin with a fifty-two yard lace ruffle in
sixteen tiers of lace with beading at the top. It was worn just after
the Civil War.
There are also a baby dress and a baby petticoat fifty-six years old.
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