Cassette 1 Side 1
Media
Part of Velma Childers Interview
Identifier
1:1
Title
Cassette 1 Side 1
Type
Interview
Source
Velma Childers Interview, January 4 and 8, 1990
Rights
Description
Cassette 1
Side 1
00:09--Velma Childers was born on November 6, 1900 in Seneca, SC. Her parents were Thomas G. and Fanny Scott Gideon. They were both born sometime in the late 1800's. Her father was originally from Georgia, while her mother was from Oconee County, SC. Her grandparents on her mother's side were George and Fanny Jones Scott. They were both from Oconee County.
1:40--Her grandfather Scott was racially mixed. He was born as a result of a relationship between his mother [house slave] and her master. He was twelve years old when slavery was abolished.
6:38--As a child, Mrs. Childers cannot remember the family owning a home. Her father worked with public works, and her grandfather was a sharecropper on a "three-fourths" farm under a man named Asbury Edwards.
9:34--Mrs. Childers mentions that blacks were allowed to worship at the Old Stone Church, though blacks had to sit upstairs during services.
10:16--Whites didn't initially want blacks to worship, but they did in their own way, and would sing songs like Swing Low Sweet Chariot while working in the fields.
11:27--It seems her Grandfather Scott didn't have to work the fields. He was apparently educated by the slave master's wife.
12:36--Mrs. Childers' relatives worked as slaves under the Glen family. There were tensions between the racially mixed Mr. Scott and his natural father, so after Emancipation, he opted not to take the surname Glen.
13:44--Many of the older members of Mrs. Childers' family are buried at St. Paul's.
14:18--When funerals occurred in the black community, everyone stopped work and did what they could to help and conducted themselves very reverently.
15:35--Mrs. Childers' father was a minister, so she was also witness to many wedding ceremonies.
17:00--The Childers family in which she married into is also racially mixed.
19:45--Her grandfather was a Trustee and an early founder of the Seneca Institute.
20:48--In addition to being a minister, her father was a local farmer. Her mother did domestic work and helped local doctors with house calls.
24:50--Mrs. Childers recalls some of her siblings. Her oldest brother George had many responsibilities, as her parent's ministry often kept them from home. She had one sister who taught school in Georgia.
28:07--Some of her family migrated north; her brother George went to Georgia to work on the railroad.
31:40--Audio ends.
Side 1
00:09--Velma Childers was born on November 6, 1900 in Seneca, SC. Her parents were Thomas G. and Fanny Scott Gideon. They were both born sometime in the late 1800's. Her father was originally from Georgia, while her mother was from Oconee County, SC. Her grandparents on her mother's side were George and Fanny Jones Scott. They were both from Oconee County.
1:40--Her grandfather Scott was racially mixed. He was born as a result of a relationship between his mother [house slave] and her master. He was twelve years old when slavery was abolished.
6:38--As a child, Mrs. Childers cannot remember the family owning a home. Her father worked with public works, and her grandfather was a sharecropper on a "three-fourths" farm under a man named Asbury Edwards.
9:34--Mrs. Childers mentions that blacks were allowed to worship at the Old Stone Church, though blacks had to sit upstairs during services.
10:16--Whites didn't initially want blacks to worship, but they did in their own way, and would sing songs like Swing Low Sweet Chariot while working in the fields.
11:27--It seems her Grandfather Scott didn't have to work the fields. He was apparently educated by the slave master's wife.
12:36--Mrs. Childers' relatives worked as slaves under the Glen family. There were tensions between the racially mixed Mr. Scott and his natural father, so after Emancipation, he opted not to take the surname Glen.
13:44--Many of the older members of Mrs. Childers' family are buried at St. Paul's.
14:18--When funerals occurred in the black community, everyone stopped work and did what they could to help and conducted themselves very reverently.
15:35--Mrs. Childers' father was a minister, so she was also witness to many wedding ceremonies.
17:00--The Childers family in which she married into is also racially mixed.
19:45--Her grandfather was a Trustee and an early founder of the Seneca Institute.
20:48--In addition to being a minister, her father was a local farmer. Her mother did domestic work and helped local doctors with house calls.
24:50--Mrs. Childers recalls some of her siblings. Her oldest brother George had many responsibilities, as her parent's ministry often kept them from home. She had one sister who taught school in Georgia.
28:07--Some of her family migrated north; her brother George went to Georgia to work on the railroad.
31:40--Audio ends.