Nancy Benson, Cosby Creek, Cocke County, Tennessee
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Nancy Benson lived at Cosby Creek, Cocke County, Tennessee, when recorded in 1939.
[transcripption copyrigh Michael Montgomery and Paul Reed, 2017]
[B = Nancy Benson; I = Interviewer Joseph Hall; U = Unidentified second interviewer]
B: Perlie Evans, back, no, in old times she used to card and spin and weave to clothe her children, what was that?
I2: Well how, how, how did they used to do it xx?
B: They, back in old times they made shoes.
I2: Well, how?
B: Uh calf hides, and the, the menfolks wore uh linsey britches, cotton shirts, they wove them.
I: How ...
B: Out of linsey they wove ... in the chimney.
I: How'd they cook?
B: Cookin an old-time kettle on the fireplace, they didn't have no stove xx, and they carded and spun their cotton and wove them.