Cassette 1 Side 1
Media
Part of Clotell Brown Interview
Identifier
1:1
Title
Cassette 1 Side 1
Type
Interview
Source
Clotell Brown Interview, June 26, 1990
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Cassette 1
Side 1
00:25--Brown notes that she was born on January 14, 1890 in Pendleton, SC. Her parents were James and Lucy Hellums Scott. Mr. Scott's father is Monroe Scott; he lived to the age of 108. Mrs. Brown has several siblings and five children.
3:52--Mrs. Brown recalls a few other older family members. F. Watkins and Jim Watkins are her aunt and uncle.
4:51--Her family owned their own home when she was a child. The family worked on a farm until their father had enough money to build them a house.
6:08--Monroe Scott was the last in Mrs. Brown's family to be included in slavery. He was raised in the North Carolina Mountains and had farmland of his own after he was free.
7:23--Mrs. Brown recalls that most of her family members are buried in the Kings Chapel cemetery. The graves are marked.
9:36--Frank Brown is her husband and his mother was Mandy Brown. She and Frank had five children: Joe, Lucy, Frank, Monroe, and Isaac.
11:29--Mrs. Brown's family was farmers; her father owned his own land and her grandfather started out as a sharecropper. They grew or raised everything that they needed.
13:15--She recalls some other relatives in the Pendleton area. George, her brother-in-law lives close by; her son Joe Brown lived in Charlotte. The rest of the family moved up north.
15:45--Jobs available to blacks during the early twentieth century--Mrs. Brown explains that men were farmers, carpenters, or worked on the railroad. The black women would take care of the house, be cooks, midwives, or nurses. Ms. Brown herself was a nurse, a midwife, and picked cotton as a child for $0.35 a day.
18:31--Mrs. Brown's family shopped at Hunter's Store in Pendleton for sugar, coffee, and rice. The other things that were needed were grown or raised. Black families were allowed to buy on credit in white stores. The family made their own clothes and quilts.
24:00--Mrs. Brown's father made a table for the house. A wedding present from her mother was $5.00, two pigs, and a rooster.
26:00--Mrs. Brown does not recall any musicians in the family. The family members were craftsmen's and the ladies did needle work.
27:42--Brown recalls a tornado that went through Pendleton. While Mrs. Brown's mother was in bed with a baby the tornado blew the roof off the house.
29:39--Mrs. Brown recall the flu epidemic. Brown herself was a nurse; she wore a cloth with medicine around her neck so that she would not get sick while helping others.
32:12--Audio ends.
Side 1
00:25--Brown notes that she was born on January 14, 1890 in Pendleton, SC. Her parents were James and Lucy Hellums Scott. Mr. Scott's father is Monroe Scott; he lived to the age of 108. Mrs. Brown has several siblings and five children.
3:52--Mrs. Brown recalls a few other older family members. F. Watkins and Jim Watkins are her aunt and uncle.
4:51--Her family owned their own home when she was a child. The family worked on a farm until their father had enough money to build them a house.
6:08--Monroe Scott was the last in Mrs. Brown's family to be included in slavery. He was raised in the North Carolina Mountains and had farmland of his own after he was free.
7:23--Mrs. Brown recalls that most of her family members are buried in the Kings Chapel cemetery. The graves are marked.
9:36--Frank Brown is her husband and his mother was Mandy Brown. She and Frank had five children: Joe, Lucy, Frank, Monroe, and Isaac.
11:29--Mrs. Brown's family was farmers; her father owned his own land and her grandfather started out as a sharecropper. They grew or raised everything that they needed.
13:15--She recalls some other relatives in the Pendleton area. George, her brother-in-law lives close by; her son Joe Brown lived in Charlotte. The rest of the family moved up north.
15:45--Jobs available to blacks during the early twentieth century--Mrs. Brown explains that men were farmers, carpenters, or worked on the railroad. The black women would take care of the house, be cooks, midwives, or nurses. Ms. Brown herself was a nurse, a midwife, and picked cotton as a child for $0.35 a day.
18:31--Mrs. Brown's family shopped at Hunter's Store in Pendleton for sugar, coffee, and rice. The other things that were needed were grown or raised. Black families were allowed to buy on credit in white stores. The family made their own clothes and quilts.
24:00--Mrs. Brown's father made a table for the house. A wedding present from her mother was $5.00, two pigs, and a rooster.
26:00--Mrs. Brown does not recall any musicians in the family. The family members were craftsmen's and the ladies did needle work.
27:42--Brown recalls a tornado that went through Pendleton. While Mrs. Brown's mother was in bed with a baby the tornado blew the roof off the house.
29:39--Mrs. Brown recall the flu epidemic. Brown herself was a nurse; she wore a cloth with medicine around her neck so that she would not get sick while helping others.
32:12--Audio ends.