But Mammy, she ain't had no notion of leavin' Mis' Sally. She put her arms' roun' her an' call her Baby, an' tell her she goin' to stay wid her long as she live. An' she did stay wid her. Me an' Mammy bof stayed Mis' Sally 'twell she died.
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| N.C. District: | No. 3 |
| Field Worker: | Esther S. Pinnix |
| Word Total: | 3199 |
| Editor: | P. G. Cross |
| Subject: | "Negro Folklore of the Piedmont". |
| Consultants: | Mrs. P. G. Cross |
| Miss Kate Jones, | |
| Descendants of Dr. Beverly Jones. |
Sources of Information:
Aunt Betty Cofer—ex-slave of Dr. Beverly Jones
NEGRO FOLK LORE OF THE PIEDMONT.
The ranks of negro ex-slaves are rapidly thinning out, but, scattered here and there among the ante-bellum families of the South, may be found a few of these picturesque old characters. Three miles north of Bethania, the second oldest settlement of the "Unitas Fratrum" in Wachovia, lies the 1500 acre Jones plantation. It has been owned for several generations by the one family, descendants of Abraham Conrad. Conrad's daughter, Julia, married a physician of note, Dr. Beverly Jones, whose family occupied the old homestead at the time of the Civil War.