Slave Narratives, Union County, South Carolina Genealogy Trails< >. Folklore. Spartanburg. S. 4. May 2. 7, 1. Edited by. R. My pa and ma. Scotts what libbed in Jonesville Township. Helio Courier - multi-purpose, photo, technical data, development history.When I got big. 'nough to work, I was gib to de youngest Scott boy. Soon atter dis. Sherman come through Union County. No ma'm, I nebber seed Sherman but I. Dat's de time I run off in de wood and not. I was till de dus' had done settled in de big. He stay mos' two weeks, kaize he drive two fine hosses to de buggy. De roads was real. Den in Columbia, he would have. Edited by: Elmer. Millie Bates. FOLK LORE: FOLK TALES. All de women. folks, both black as well as white wuz so glad to see 'em back dat we jus. Oh, Lawdy, God bless you.' When you would look. Den you would cry some widout lettin your. But Jane, de worsest time of all fer us darkies wuz. Ku Klux killed Dan Black. We wuz little chilluns a playin' in Dans. We didn't know he had done nothin' ginst de white folks. If you have absolutely no idea where Nagorno-Karabakh is, do not feel alone. So here is a brief run down from Wikipedia: Nagorno-Karabakh is a landlocked region in the South Caucasus, lying.
Us wuz a. playin by de fire jus as nice when something hit on de wall. Dan, he jump. up and try to git outten de winder. A white spooky thing had done come in. I was so scairt dat I could not git up. I had done. fell straight out on de flo'. When Dan stick his head outten dat winder. I crawles under de. When I got dar, all de other chilluns wuz dar to, lookin' as white as. Us peeped out and den us duck under de bed. Ain't no bed ebber done as much good as dat one. Den a whole lot of. De wuz all white and scairy lookin'. It still makes. de shivvers run down my spine and here I is ole and you all a settin'. A number of people have called me a hypocrite over the past week, regarding my latest tat (the one I got with my husband–you can read about it here) because the Bible tells us not to. Title: Dip 'em agin' preacher. On a cold January day down in Tennessee they were having a baptism in the river. Shouted one of the deacons - 'dip him agin. Kimberly Mamone Murphy is on Facebook. Join Facebook to connect with Kimberly Mamone Murphy and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to. Translations will (wil) noun 1. Dan Black. he wo'nt no mo' kaise dey took dat nigger and hung him to a simmon tree. He jus stayed dar till. Dar we would stay till dey wuz. Dem days wuz. worse'n de war. Yes Lawd, dey wuz worse'n any war I is ebber heard of. Chile, don't axe me. I seed. Atter all dat killin' and a burnin' you know you wuz bliged. I mean he don' come back hisself, but de spirit, it is. Course, it can't do nothin', so it jus. July 2. 6, 1. 93. Edited by: Elmer Turnage. SLAVERY REMINISCENCES. I. was very mischievous. My parents were honest and were Christians. I loved. them very much. My father was William Bevis, who died at the age of. Miss Zelia Hames of Pea Ridge was my mother. My parents are buried. Bethlehem Methodist Church. I was brought up in Methodism and I do not. I had two brothers and four sisters. My twin sister. died last April 1. She was Fannie Holcombe. I was in bed with pneumonia. I could not go to the funeral. For. a month, I was unconscious. Later I went to parties and dances. Calico, chambric and. Phoebe Bevis used to tell Revolutionary stories. Grandmother knew some. Tories. She always told me that old Nat Gist was a Tory .. Father went. in his carriage to Jonesville to vote for Hampton. We all thought that. Hampton was fine. My sweetheart's. name was Ben Harris. We went to Bethlehem to school. Jeff and Bill Harris. We went together for six years. The. Confederate War commenced. He had black eyes and. I had seven curls on one side of my head and seven on the. He was twenty- four when he joined the 'Boys of Sixteen'. He. kissed me good bye and went off to Virginia. He was a picket and was. Mars Hill. Bill Harris was in a tent nearby and. I went to the funeral. I have never. been much in- love since then. I did not feel especially sad during the war. During the war, there were three looms. Pa always went with me to the muster field. We had a delicious supper. Two darkies waited on our. Dorcas and Charlotte. A fire burned in our big fireplace. After supper was over, we all sat around. He was a carpenter and was building a warf on the river. He fell in. and was drowned in a whirlpool. County Home, Union, S. Edited by: Elmer Turnage. REMINISCENCES: THE RED SHIRTS. They met. at the courthouse. There were about 5. Red Shirts, besides others who. I remember four leaders who came from Union County. The company from the city was led by Capt. James Douglass and. Buck' Kelley from Pea Ridge was there with his company. The speakers of the day. Union were Squire Jeter and Capt. While they were speaking. Squire George Tucker from lower Fish Dam came with his company. Wade Hampton and old man Ben Tillman there. Jim Gregory, a blacksmith. The. wealthy landlords bought negroes. Jim Gregory was the blacksmith for. Johnny Meador and Aunt Polly, his wife. He told me that Uncle Johnny. Heath, for $3,5. 00. He also bought Heath's wife, Morrow, for. Aunt Polly, but I don't know what he paid. The Meador house is just this. Simstown. Aunt Polly's father, Triplett Meador, built that. The brick were made in a home kiln which was near the house. Aunt. Polly was a little girl when the house was built. While the brick for the. Polly step on each. So those foot prints in. Aunt Polly's when she was five years old. She grew up. there and married, and lived there until her death. Thompson lived there first. Billy Sims married Dr. The old post office was known as Simstown, and I believe it was up. Nat Gist mansion. Simstown was the name for the river community. Sims settled there and they were equally or more. Thompsons and Gists in that community. All the Sims men. Gregory got all the sheet iron used on the Meador and Gist. Sims and Thompson plantations. Plows were. made in his blacksmith shop from 1. The sheet was heated. After cooling, the tools could be. Horse and mule shoes were made from slender iron rods, bought. They were called 'slats', and this grade of iron was. The shoe was moulded while hot, and beaten into the. Those old shoes fit much better. The horseshoe nails were. In fact, every farm implement of iron was made from flat. Ma sewed them for me, and wove and. She made the thread that they were sewed. I made cloth for all my shirts. I wore home- made. Of course my. winter clothes were heavier. Wool was taken to the factory at. Bivensville and there made into yarn. Often, cotton was swapped for yarn. Then ma ran it off on spools for her loom. She would not allow. She never had an overseer on her place, either. Neither did she let. Uncle Johnny do the whipping. Those two dogs held them and she did her own. One night she went to the quarter and found old 'Bill Pea Legs'. He crawled under the bed when he heard. Aunt Polly coming. Those dogs pulled old 'Pea Legs' out and she gave him a. She whipped the woman, also. Morg used to sit on the meat block and cut. Aunt Polly to give out. Morg would eat her three pounds of. Uncle Johnny asked her what she would do all the. Saturday for more. They tore up everything. We heard that they were. We. hid them so well that we could never find some of them ourselves. Wheeler. and 3. 6 men stopped on the Dick Jeter place. I think that was in 1. The. Jeter place touched Miss Polly's plantation. The Jeter place was right. Neal Shoals on Broad River. Jeter had the biggest gin house in. Dick was at home because he was too old to go. Pa was still in the war then, of course. Ma and I and one of. They. began to ransack immediately. Wheeler gave some orders to his men and. The negroes ran but ma and I stayed in the. Wheeler rode up in front of the door and spoke to my mother. He. said that he had to feed his men and horses and asked her where the corn. She told him that the gin house and the crib which contained the corn. At that he. ordered his men to remove a log from the crib. By this means they broke. They then ransacked the house and took. They tore out the big cog wheel in the gin. Next morning they set fire to the gin and. Jeter's big gin had gone up in flames. They. took all of our corn and all of the fodder, 2. John Boyd, County Home, Union, R. D. Interviewer. Caldwell Sims, Union, S. Folklore. Spartanburg, Dist. Edited by: Elmer Turnage. STORIES FROM EX- SLAVES. She go by. Rice. She sont fer me to cure her misery. First, I went from my. Cross Keys, across de Enoree, to see Maria. When I reached. dar whar she stay, dey tell me dat her daughter over to Tosch. Done come. and got her. I is gwine straight over. Maria and rid her of dat misery dat she sont word. Don't make no diff'uns whar you. De Bible say so, dat's why it be true. Ain't. gwine to tell you nothing but de truth and de whole truth, so help me. Jesus. Gone 6. 5 years, I is been born agin dat long; right over in. Padgett's Creek church, de white folks' church, dat's what de Lawd tuck my. His blood. Dat's why I allus sticks. I does. I 'longed to Marse Jesse Briggs. Did you know dat it was two Jesse. Briggs? Yes sir, sho was two Jesse Briggses. My marster was called 'Black Jesse', but de. Jesse. Now dat's jes' fer your own light and. He was de blacksmith fer all de Cross. Keys section, and fer dat very thing he got de name by everybody, 'Black. Jesse'. I allus 'longed to dat man and he was de kindest man what de. Ain't never left de county but once in my life, and if. Lawd see fitten, I ain't gwine to leave it no mo', 'cept to reach de. Promise Land. De Promise Land, dat's whar I is gwine when I. Union County. Dey carried me a hundred miles to cure a sick woman. I ever left Union County. I loves it and I is fit throughout. Yankees tried to git de county, to save it. What. is I gwine to leave it fer? Perrin and all de white folks is good to. And he is waiting. Missie to see me agin. He hear. every word dat I gwine to tell you. Folks fergits dat when dey talks real. I put my hand on any 'flux' man or woman and. I don't tell nothing but de. I was born on Gist Briggs' plantation in Union County, in de lower. Cross Keys. Marse Sexton and all dem good folks in lower Keys. I sho is 8. 8. Give my name right flat, it's George Briggs; giving. George Mc. Duffie Briggs. My papa's name was Ike. Wilburn, and my mother's name was Margaret Briggs. Pa 'longed to Marse. Lige Wilburn. Mama 'longed to Jesse (Black Jesse) Briggs. Dey both born. and raised in Union County. Dese was my brothers and sisters, coming in de. Charlie, Dave, Aaron, Tom, Noah. Charlotte, Polly, Fannie, Mattie, Horace, Cassie. I'm de oldest, and. Cassie and me lives in Union County. Fannie and Mattie lives in. Asheville, and de rest is done journeyed to de Promise Land. Yes Lawd. to de Promise Land. Missus name was Nancy.
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