Although a freed woman for 71 years, property owner for half of them, and now revered head of a clan of self respecting, self-supporting colored citizens, she is still at heart a "Jones negro," and all the distinguished descendants of her beloved Marse Beverly and Miss Julia will be her "own folks" as long as she lives.


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N.C. District:No. 2
No. Words:340
Worker:Mary A. Hicks
Subject:Ex-Slave Story
Person Interviewed:John Coggin
Editor:Daisy Bailey Waitt

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JOHN COGGIN.