- Interviewed in
- Texas
- Age when photographed
- 77
Biography · formerly enslaved
Mary Ellen Johnson
A biography drawn from Mary's own account is being prepared. Their own words are below.
ter J, Jackson, James Jackson, Maggie Jackson, Martin Jackson, Nancy Jackson, Richard Janes, John Johns, Thomas Johns, Mrs. Thomas Johnson, Gus Johnson, Harry Johnson, James D. Johnson, Mary Johnson, Mary Ellen Johnson, Pauline,and Boudreaux, Felice Johnson, Spence Jones, Harriet Jones, Lewis Jones, Liza Jones, Lizzie Jones, Toby 180 182 185 187 193 195 198 201 205 208 212 216 219 223 225 228 231 237 241 246 249 Kelly, Pinkie Kilgore, Sam Kinchlow, Ben Kindred, Mary King, Nancy King, Silvia 253 255 260 285 288 290 ILLUSTRATIONS Facing page Anderson and Minerva Edwards 5 Ann J. Edwards 10 Mary Kincheon Edwards 15 John Ellis 21 Lorenza Ezell ,. 25 Betty Farrow 33 Sarah Ford 41 Louis Fowler 50 Orelia Alexie Franks 60 Priscilla Gibson 66 Andrew Goodman 74 Austin Grant 81 James Green 87 0. W Green and Granddaughter 90 William Green, (Rev. Bill) 96 Pauline Grice 98 Mandy Hadnot 102 William Hamilton 106 Felix Haywood 130 Phoebe Henderson 135 Albert Hill 137 Eliza Holman 148 Bill Homer 153 Scott Hooper 157 Facing page Alice Houston 159 Moses Hursey 169 Charley Hurt 172 Wash Ingram 177 Carter J. Jackson 180 James Jackson 182 Martin Jackson 187 Richard Jackson 195 John James 198 Gus Johnson 208 James D. Johnson 216 Mary Ellen Johnson 223 Pauline Johnson and Felice Boudreaux 225 Spence Johnson 228 Harriet Jones 251 Harriet Jones with Daughter and Granddaughter 231 Lewis Jones 237 Lizzie Jones 246 Sam Kilgore 255 Ben Kinchlow 260 Mary Kindred 285 420*385 Si-SUlVE ST0SI2S (fexas) Page One > flLUS EASTER, 35, was bora near Nacog&oches, Texas, He does not know the name of his first master, Frank Sparks brou^it Willis to Bosqueville, Texas, when he was two years old. Willis believes firmly in Hconjure^ient, and ghosts, and wears several charms for protection against the former. He…
From the Federal Writers' Project slave narratives, 1936–1938. The interviewers wrote down their words in the 1930s, often in dialect spellings that reflect the interviewer more than the speaker.