Docia Styles, Indian Creek, Swain County, North Carolina
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Docia (Theodocia) Styles, 66 years old, was from Indian Creek, in Swain County, North Carolina. She had three or five years of formal education and was a farm widow. Her mother Rebecca Queen can also be found among the speakers in this section.
[transcripption copyrigh Michael Montgomery and Paul Reed, 2017]
[S = Docia Styles; M = Interviewer Bill Moore]
M: Missus Styles, was you borned in, in Sevier County?
S: No sir, I was borned in Jackson County.
M: How long did you live in Jackson County?
S: I was about seven years old.
M: How long you been at, have you been living on Indian Creek, Missus Styles?
S: Fifty-one year.
M: How many families lived on this creek at that time?
S: Thirty-two.
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M: Missus Styles, was you borned and raised in Swain County?
S: No sir, I was borned in Jackson County, on Fisher Creek, lived there till I was about seven year old and moved to Swain County at, at Smokemont and stayed till I was, till, eight year we stayed there and been on Indian Creek the rest of the time, fifty-one year.
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M: Just about how old are you, Missus Styles?
S: I’m sixty-six year old today.
M: How many families lived on this creek at one time?
S: Thirty-two lived here at one time since I live here.
M: How many children do you have, Missus Styles?
S: Nine, eight a-living and one dead.
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S: Missus Wiggins left here one evening, she li-, her mother lived here where I live now, and she left here one evening starting for Deep Creek to Bryson Place and got lost on the mountain and, and lay out all night, and they was some mules come by with bells on, and she said they’s company for her, thundered and lighteninged all night, and when it begin to break daylight till she could see to walk, she took her two little kids and went on in home.