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 |