"My pappy an' his family stayed wid Marse Paul five years after de surrender den we moved to Hillsboro an' I's always lived 'roun' dese parts. I ain' never been out of North Carolina eighteen months in my life. North Carolina is good enough for me."


N.C. District:No. 2
Worker:T. Pat Matthews
No. Words:1044
Subject:JANE LASSITER
Story teller:Jane Lassiter
Editor:Geo. L. Andrews

[TR: Date stamp: AUG 6 1937]


JANE LASSITER

About 80 years old.
324 Battle Street
Raleigh, N.C.

"I am 'bout 80 years old. I am somewhere in my seventies, don't zackly know my age. I wus here when de Yankees come an' I 'member seein' dem dressed in blue. I wus a nurse at dat time not big enough to hold a baby but dey let me set by de cradle an' rock it.