Tela Shedd: "We Used to Make Rag Dolls"

Tela Shedd remembers when she and her sister Etta would make baskets and clothing from grass and leaves and broom straw when they were little girls. Listen. Next.

Bernice Bishop: "Now Mother Wasn't A Healthy Person"

Bernice remembers. Next.

Carl Bishop: "Mama Stayed Sick For About Three Years"

I don't remember too much about her. I remember her being sick and I remember when she died.
I remember some things that happened while Mama was a-livin'. Like when we were going from Douglasville up to Haralson County and having flat tires. It was a crazy thing. We had a flat tire one time and there was a big old buzzard sitting on the fence, right there on the pasture post. I thought that was the dangdest thing. Daddy went and thrown something at him that made him fly.
See, Mama stayed sick for about three years. Doctor said it was pellagra. Of course, I don't know. It could’ve been cancer, far as I know. Back in them days, you know, they didn't know too much about diseases. Back in 1924.
That's the year she died. I remember when Omie-Florence was born on the 14th day of March, 1924. We lived down there in Grandma's house. It snowed that night.
Mama died that summer. Next.