Nettie Hopson
From:
More Arkansas
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson
Person interviewed: Nettie Hopson
Helena (home--Poplar Grove), Arkansas
Age: ?
"I don't know how old I is. I am old. I been here so long. I feel my age
now right smart. I want to do things and give out. I know I'm old. I
look old. I was born in Alabama.
"Mother was sold to Bud Walls at Holly Grove. Papa bought her and
brought us to this state. My father died seven months before I was born
my mother told me. She married ag'in. She was the mother of ten
children. We all lived and do better than we do now. Mother was light.
She worked in the field ever since I come to know 'bout things. Her name
was Martha Foster. I don't know my father's name but Foster. The rest of
the family was called Walls. Whether they wanted to be called that, they
was called Walls' niggers 'fore and after freedom both.
"My husband is living. My daughter died first day of March. It sorter
addled me."
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