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Nancy Benson lived at Cosby Creek, Cocke County, Tennessee, when recorded in 1939

[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.