"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.