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Georgia BIOS:  Mrs. Lelia Bramblett   
   U.S. Work Projects Administration, Federal Writers' Project (Folklore
   Project, Life Histories, 1936- 39); Manuscript Division, Library of
   Congress.Copyright status not determined.
   
   0001
   
   [?] June 17, 1938
   Mrs. Lelia Bramblett
   157 Chatooga Avenue
   Athens, Georgia
   
   Hornsby
   
   When I arrived at Mrs. [DEL: Bramblett's :DEL] [Matthew's?], [she?]
   wasn't home. I rapped on the door, there was no response. I rapped
   again and a vivacious young girl of high school age made her
   appearance from an adjoining room, which at one time had served as a
   barber shop. "Are you looking for grandmother?" I told her I was. "
   Well just come in and sit down, I am sure she will be here in a
   minute. She is always gone some place doing something for somebody. My
   name is Martha Jane Brown, I am her grand daughter. "
   
   I was invited into the living room, It was nicely furnished with
   modern furniture. In a few minutes Mrs. [DEL: Bramblett :DEL] Brantley
   came in all out of breath. She is a stout person, wearing a print
   dress black shoes and gray hose. Her hair is gray, she had it plaied
   in two long braids and it wound around her head. She adjusted her
   silver rimmed glasses as she came into the room, she has a cute air
   about her, when she wants to make a statement [DEL: [?] :DEL]
   [emphatic?] she winks her right eye nods her head and says: "Thar you
   are, huh."
   
     NOTE: [??]
     
   I got up when she entered the room. She laughed and began: "Well I be
   swegar you did come didn't ye? Now just keep your chair 'taint no need
   to git up. Let me git a dip of snuff and I'll with ye. Now lady if you
   don't like my snuff you needn't bother long or me,,'cause I am going
   to dip my snuff and when I dip I got to spit if the president of the
   United States was here.
   
     NOTE: [???
     
   "So you want me to tell you my life history? Well if I told you all I
   know it would be a long one, but I don't know nothing so interesting
   to tell the truth I have been through so much and so many things have
   happened in the sixty-one year I have been here 00022I have forgot
   what I did know. Ain't you cold, if you ain't, you look like it all
   humped over thar writing. I wish I could write I can do right well at
   reading. Let me see how you spell my name, no that ain't right its
   spelled with two tt's [heap?] of folks spells it with one though.
   
   "I was born and raised out here at Princeton Factory. My mother didn't
   work in the mill after she married. She kept house, but Pa did. He
   made a dollar a day, he ran a picker machine. Do you know what a
   picker machine is, well you tear a bale of cotton up and put it in the
   picker, it chews and cut that cotton all to pieces for that room it
   went to the carding room, then to the spinners on to the weaving room
   whar it was made into cloth.
   
   "Thar won't but two of us chillun me and my brother. He didn't work in
   the mill 'til he was grown. My ma and Pa moved to Winder, Georgy after
   the Princeton Factory closed and my brother went to work there as a
   weaver. Ma and Pa didn't stay in Winder not more than a year they
   moved back here and he worked in the Southern Mill. My brother went
   away out to Ark-an-sas and was put thar when my mother died. I ain't
   never seed him since. Fer all I know he is dead. When Ma died Pa come
   to live with us. He died at my house.
   
   "The Lord I pray, I went to work when I was ten year old. I went to
   school and my blame old teacher tried to make me write with my right
   hand and I was left handed, it messed my writing up so I jes' quit
   fooling with 'em and went to work in the mill. I worked in the carding
   room and didn't made but thirty cents a day, that was con-sidered big
   money fer a kid to make in them days, 00033[DEL: [?] :DEL] and chillun
   went to work by the time they was knee high to a grasshopper. Now a
   carding machine is a great big machine you feed the cotton to and it
   comes out in a great big old lap.
   
   "When I was a little girl Ma and Pa moved out to White Hall , to work
   in the mill for Old man John R. White. He done the same thing at White
   Hall, he done at Princeton, he was a picker. We lived in a two-room
   log cabin. We lived in one room and cooked and ate in the other, we
   lived out there about six months. The one we lived in at Princeton was
   a nice house for that time. There was two rooms on the first floor and
   one upstairs they were large rooms, and all the houses were ceiled
   like this one of mine is.
   
   "When I was little I was crazy about brown sugar. Did you ever see
   any, We kept it by the barrel at our house, but to me it won't [high?]
   as good as Mrs. [DEL: Ridley's :DEL] Riley's who lived a little way up
   the road. I use to take my little tin cup and go to her house every
   morning for brown sugar. It was the best stuff I ever tasted. I never
   will forget one morning, well I set out with my cup to Mrs. Ridley's.
   When I got in site of her house I seed a man sitting on her porch.
   That was the funniest thing to me 'cause I had never seed a man at her
   house before 'cause she was a widow woman and 'twon't no body lived
   thar but she and her daughter Willie. When I seed that man I tucked my
   little tail and started back home, as fast as I could go. She called
   me back but I didn't pay her no mind. When I got home Ma asked me
   'what's the matter didn't you get no sugar.' "I told her the trouble
   and she said; ''taint nobody but her brother.' "I went on back and got
   my sugar.
   
   00044
   
   "Not long after that we moved back to Princeton, I sure did miss Mrs.
   [DEL: Ridley :DEL] Riley, one day I happened to go to Mrs. [DEL:
   McLerey's :DEL] McClaskey she give me a tea cake. Back in them days
   all the houses had paling fence 'round them. Mrs. [DEL: McLerey :DEL]
   McClaskey lived right back of our house. It was too much trouble to go
   all the way 'round, so I tore a paling off the back fence and every
   day I would slip through and and go to her house for my tea cakes. I
   thought she had the prettiest white table clothe I ever saw.
   
   "Mr. [DEL: Henry Lovern :DEL] [? Lawrence?] was the boss and his
   brother Mr. [DEL: Horace :DEL] Fred [DEL: Lovern :DEL] Lawrence was
   the Super (supervisor) over the carding room they were good bosses.
   They looked after the well fare of their hands, and saw to it that the
   houses were in good con-dition and fitten to live in. The size of the
   house depended on the size of the family you had. If your family was
   small you had a small one, a big family got a larger house. We rented
   the houses from the mill and when you got your pay ticket the rent was
   tuk out of your pay."
   
   She laughed and began: "I am here to tell you the boss was my
   sweetheart. I went with him 'til he married, me and his sister run
   together. The reason I didn't marry him I didn't want him. He married
   [DEL: Bekkey Dye :DEL] Bonny? Drew, if this here story I am telling
   you ever comes out in a book 'course I ain't expecting it to, but if
   [DEL: [?] :DEL] it does I sure hope [DEL: Henry :DEL] [give?] gets
   holt of it and reads it if he is living, and as fer as I know he is.
   Do you know, he fixed up his house and bought every stitch of the
   furniture before he was married. He come by my house the day before he
   married and tuk [DEL: [???????] :DEL] 00055me to see his new home. He
   told me if I would marry him that day the house would be mine. I told
   him no it won't neither. He was a heap older than I was, me and him
   jes' claimed each other as sweethearts. I use to get a heap of fun
   making the girls mad taking their beaus 'way for them.
   
   "I don't recollect nary one of my grandparents on my mammy's side. My
   grandfather worked in Princeton mill. I don't know if my grandmother
   worked or not. I heard my ma say she was an Irishwoman and come to
   this country when she was sixteen year old, they said she was a little
   bity woman. They lived in Madison County before they moved to Athens,
   my mother was a Stephens before she married. When my grandmother and
   grandfather died my mother was just a little girl. There were four
   girls and two boys, the oldest went to work in the mill and raised the
   least ones. The oldest were about grown when they come to Princeton.
   They were weavers and made fifty cents a day. They got twelve and one
   half cents a cut and they got about four cuts a day which amounted to
   fifty cents.
   
   "You know my chillun calls me old fashion 'cause I don't try to dress
   like they do and talk proper, I don't care none. I tells them I can
   make rings 'round them now when it comes to doing things. Why, do you
   know when I was a young girl they use to wear drawers and call they
   bloomers. We wore long dresses, and cotton stockings.
   
   "I can't say that the health con-ditions in mills were any different
   back then, for what they are now. Of course there won't no hospitals
   nor health clinics when the hands got sick 00066the doctors wont up on
   their profession like they are now and they went on and died like
   [DEL: Henry's :DEL] Joe's first wife. She couldn't give birth to her
   child, [DEL: and :DEL] so she died. Now that is all taken care of. She
   was sixteen year old to the day when she died, she had been married
   exactly one year. She worked in the mill before she married [DEL:
   Henry :DEL] Joe, she was a spinner.
   
   "I told you I stopped school 'cause they wanted me to write with my
   right hand. We didn't have a school house at Princeton the Methodist
   church was used as a school. Back in them days thar warn't no such
   thing as free school's. You had to pay a dollar a head for every kid
   in school that money went for the teachers salary. Miss [DEL: Jemantha
   Ward :DEL] Savannah Wood was my first teacher, Henry's father Mr.
   [DEL: Bramblett :DEL] Brantley was my next teacher, and Miss [DEL:
   Barton :DEL] Brown was the last teacher I had, she taught in a little
   one room shack. Yes, Miss. [DEL: Barton :DEL] Brown tried to make me
   write with my right hand and I was as left handed as a jack rabbit.
   Most of my teachers were women, they didn't skeer me, you let the
   school bell ring, when Old man [DEL: Bramblett :DEL] Brantley made his
   appearence I would begin to cry, I was afraid of that man as a bear.
   Than the [DEL: Stypher :DEL] Smith boys come to Princeton to put up a
   night school, they taught penmanship. I went one night they wouldn't
   let me use my left hand so I didn't go back. I ain't ashamed of my
   reading, when it comes to writing 'bout all I can do is write my name.
   
   "The company had a store. Once a week the hands went to the store and
   got their supply of rations and it was taken out of their pay ticket.
   We were paid off once every four weeks. It didn't take much to live on
   back than. Eggs were ten cents a dozen, butter ten 00077cents a pound,
   milk five cents a gallon, fat back sold for four and five cents a
   pound and chickens ten and fifteen cents a piece, flour was mighty
   cheap too. People lived at home them days Ma had her own cow, hogs,
   chickens and garden. They didn't know what conveniences were, it was
   jes' like living in the country sure 'nough. Didn't have no such thing
   as restrictions, such as how close the hog pen was to the house and
   water works were unheard of.
   
   "I am sixty-one year old and I have never been out of Georgy but once
   in my life. My daughter was living in South Ca'lina they sent me word
   to come at once she was [dying?] I hustled to see her, she lived jes'
   a few hours after I got to her house. I bought her chillun home with
   me and raised them, they are grown and married now. When I was on the
   train going to see my daughter, when - saw them 'lectric lights I
   didn't act like Aunt [Nancy?] and Uncle Josh, a reckord we use to have
   on the graphyphone. I am sorry them old things went out of style, I
   liked to play the records, I jes' despise a radio."
   
   Her daughter Virginia came to the door and announced supper was ready.
   Mrs. [DEL: Bramblett :DEL] Brantley looked at the clock: "Well [DEL: I
   :DEL] I'll be, I have been talking the blessed afternoon and you
   haven't finished yet. I know you are tired and I sure am." I asked if
   I might return early the next morning: "Sure, sure I want you to."
   When I reached her house early the next morning she was in her bed
   room, It was in perfect order. On the bed a green frog pillow, a
   [tabby?] cat was snuggled close to the pillow: "Have a chair and take
   off your hat and coat, let them dry while 00088you are talking. Let me
   see I left off yesterday where I went to see my daughter in South
   Ca'lina." She put her fingers to her mouth and made a [???] through
   her fingers into the fire.
   
   "After [DEL: Henry's :DEL] Joe's wife died he went three year before
   he ever spoke to me. I ran over him one day in the mill, we started to
   going together regular after that. We [met at his fathers] house to do
   our courting. I won't allowed [to ???]. We ran away and married. I was
   born on [the first day of February?] one minute past twelve o'clock
   1878. My ma [said I have been?] walking and talking since I was nine
   months old [and have been?] talking every since. I worked in the mill
   for six months after I married I reckon you know the rest.
   
   "When I was a little thing they [DEL: [?] :DEL] said I was never still
   five minutes. [DEL: [Saint Lovern?] :DEL] [Sid? Lawrence?] told me if
   I would sit still five minutes he would give a [DEL: nickle :DEL]
   nickel. I sat still but he never give me that [DEL: nickle :DEL]
   nickel. A long time after I had been married, he come back to visit
   his brother his brother said to me. 'Lelia do you know who this is?'
   [DEL: [?] :DEL] "I said no, who is it? 'It is [DEL: Saint Lovern :DEL]
   [Sid?Lawrence?] he said: [DEL: [?] :DEL] "Gimmy that nickel you
   promised me. He laughed and laughed, why [DEL: Lelia :DEL] [Lizzie?]
   haven't you ever forgotten that. I told him no, and I never would. I
   called him my sweetheart when I was a little girl. He was a sight
   older than me, I use to watch for him going to work, when I saw him
   coming I would hop up on the gate post he come by would kiss me and
   keep going.
   
   00099
   
   "We lived at Princeton ten years after we married three of my children
   was born there and three over here at the Southern Mill. When they
   were large enough to work all of them worked in this mill down here as
   weavers. The cloth they made was coarse white cloth, I don't know what
   it was used for, as all of it was shipped to northern market for sale.
   
   "When Princeton mill shut down, then we moved to the Southern Mill and
   have been here every since. Yes, we have been living here thirty-one
   year. When Henry went to work in this mill he done the same kind of
   work, only he made a dollar ($1.00) a day.
   
   "In my young days we use to get together on Saturday nights and have
   our little parties. The older folks danced and the younger ones jes'
   frolicked and had a fine time. Bless your life we had better be in by
   nine o'clock or our parents would be out looking for us to find out
   the reason why.
   
   "I never will forget one week end Pa and Ma went out in the country to
   spend the night. My ma had taken an orphan girl in the home to raise,
   she, [DEL: Ruth :DEL] Rose my cousin , and me decided to have a dumb
   [supper.? Did? you? ever? hear? of?] one? We done every thing
   back'ards. I don't remember jes' what [DEL: [?] :DEL] we had to eat,
   nothing but bread and [meat?] I don't believe. Anyway we didn't speak
   a word while we were having it. Its a wonder I didn't I was such a
   talker, the girls didn't like me much 'cause I would tell on them.
   About eight o'clock [??], and [DEL: Henry :DEL] Joe come in the back
   door. We had the table all ready fixed when they got there, we girls
   were sitting by the fireplace in the kitchen and hadn't spoke a word
   since we started. I don't [DEL: knoy :DEL] know why they went in the
   001010back door unless they saw a light in the kitchen. They must have
   known what [DEL: [?] :DEL] was going on 'cause they didn't say a word,
   Henry sat down in [DEL: Ruth's :DEL] Rose's chair first than changed
   and sat down in my chair. Me and Ruth set our plated on the backside
   of the table, [DEL: Emma :DEL] Edna fixed hers on the front side. She
   and [DEL: Jim :DEL] John married, he later become a Baptist preacher.
   [DEL: Henry :DEL] Joe and [DEL: Jim :DEL] John didn't say a word when
   they come in and sat down, but I did I asked them what they come fer,
   'cause we wanted to they daid, I didn't like [DEL: Henry :DEL] Joe
   then so I run them home, [DEL: Henry :DEL] Jack married [DEL: Ruth
   :DEL] Rose my first cousin she lived a year. Three year later we
   married.
   
   "In those day hoop dresses and bustles were a mighty go. I was married
   in a dove colored dress trimmed in dove colored ribbon. I say silk we
   didn't know what a silk dress was, they were for the rich. I remember
   a girl I ran with was going to get married, we decided to borrow the
   dresses from two girls who had just married. We asked them to lend us
   their dresses, they said all right, but what are you going to do with
   them. I wouldn't tell 'em. They lend us every thing they were married
   in. Dresses, undercoats, drawers, shoes, stocking even to their hats
   and gloves. [DEL: [Nettie?] :DEL] [?] the girl getting married said it
   would bring her good luck, if I didn't tell what I borrowed 'em for.
   The next day I marched down to the Justice of Peace with her to get
   married. On the way I had a fuss with the boy I was to stand up with,
   we were all ready on the outs with each other a little bit anyhow, so
   when we got there I wouldn't stand up with him.
   
   001111
   
   "There was a right smart difference in the way things were run in the
   Southern Mull than at Princeton Factory, for one thing they had more
   to do with over here. When we first [DEL: [?] :DEL] moved to this
   place there won't a store, church and a mighty few houses on this
   hill. We had to [?] go way over on Prince Avenue to buy our rations,
   we bought enough to last two weeks. Rations won't [nigh?] as [high?]
   as they are now. Every now and than the mill would build a new house.
   I have seen them go up and now they are going down.
   
   "Way back yonder when any of the hands got sick, the bosses were
   mighty good about letting them have money and pay it back when they
   went back to work. When one of the hands died and the family won't
   able to bury them, the boss let the family have money and pay it back
   when they could."
   
   A man in work clothes stuck his head in the door: "Good morning, where
   is [DEL: [Gin?] :DEL] [?]?" "She had gone to take Naomi to [DEL: [?]
   :DEL] nusery school;" Mrs. [DEL: Bramblett :DEL] Brantley answered:
   "Look here make your self useful and make a fire in the stove it is
   most [nigh?] time for Gin to cook dinner." [He?] went in the direction
   of the kitchen there were sounds of the fire being made by the noise
   he made. In a short while [DEL: Gin :DEL] [Bessie?], Mrs. [DEL:
   Bramblett's :DEL] Brantley's daughter came in. She like her mother
   weighs near two hundred, she was wearing a print dress, black sweater
   and shoes without hose. She took off her coat shook the rain from it,
   filling her mouth with snuff asked: "Mama did you give the lady some
   of the candy I made yesterday;" "No, bring us some, it is powerful
   hard but is sure taste good." [DEL: Gin :DEL] [Bessie?] left the room
   returning with a huge piece of white sugar 001212candy in her hand,
   the size of a goose egg, and have it to me. I offered it to Mrs. [DEL:
   Bramblett :DEL] Brantley. "You break it don't want to put my hands on
   it before you, 'cause I don't know what these sores on my hands might
   be. Gin you better git to work on that dinner what are you going to
   cook, some pinto beans?" No, said [DEL: Gin :DEL] Bessie: "I bought a
   bunch of the prettiest collards at the store, you ever seen. I think I
   will cook them and some dried butter beans." She soon left the room.
   
   "Yes, we are living in a new day now, about twenty-five year ago we
   organized a club in the community called the 'Lend a Hand Club.' The
   object of it is to help them that can't help themselves. We look after
   the sick, buy coal, food clothing and buy medicine. The way we make
   our money is by having suppers, quiltings and sell the quilts. We are
   planning to have a minstrel at the Community House to night. The
   admission is ten and twenty cents a very liberty (liberal) price.
   [DEL: Jess Baxter :DEL] [Bill Belau?] is putting it on and every
   blooming time he comes here it rains. He brings his own [caat?], we
   don't have enough young folks in this community that has talent enough
   to put on a dog fight.
   
   "The Community House use to be the school it was first put up for the
   village, but when this side of town begun to build up the [DEL: [?]
   :DEL] chillun come over here to school. There were soon too many for
   the school and Chase Street School was built. Now it is used as a
   gathering place for the village. The girls have a glee club con-ducted
   by Miss [DEL: Lucile Crabtree :DEL] Sila Crawley.
   
   "There were so many chillun on the streets and nothing to do so I went
   to the authorities of the mill and arranged to have 001314a playground
   at the Center. Now we have a nice nusery for the smaller ones from
   nine to eleven-thirty in the morning and a playground for the older
   ones in the afternoon, they also have indoor games on bad days. This
   sponsored by the W.P.A. with capable leaders in charge.
   
   "Miss [DEL: Julian :DEL] [Johnson?], I have forgot her first name
   started the "Lend a Hand Club. She lived over here on Hiawassee, she
   went to every woman in the village. Them what wanted to join and
   attend regular was put on one list, the ones can't is put on another,
   called the honory list. The dues are ten cents a month.
   
   "Henry got tired of working the mill and decided to change [DEL: [?]
   :DEL] jobs. That was a long time before the mill shut down. He worked
   on the police force a while then he opened a barber ship right out
   here by the side of the house and did a good business. After the mill
   closed he moved it down town as there was not enough business in the
   village to keep it open. He has been down town every since.
   
   "We have been in this house for seventeen years. We bought it the day
   [DEL: Jim :DEL] Louis, my boy was sixteen. [DEL: [????] :DEL] Once I
   went to the door there stood a darkey, he said: 'Miss don't think
   anything about me standing here, but the last time I was along here,
   [DEL: [??] :DEL] where this house stands was a cotton field. I have
   picked cotton and pulled corn through her many a day long befo' [DEL:
   [?] :DEL] there was even a railroad run through this place. The only
   house standing was Mrs. [DEL: [?] :DEL] [?].
   
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   [They used to have Holiness meetings across the railroad] [tracks. One
   night I was going to meeting, a boy was standing?] on the bridge that
   crossed the railroad. He holloed at me: 'Mrs. [DEL: Bramblett :DEL]
   Brantley whar are you going?' "I said to the Holiness Meeting, he
   said: 'To get happy' "I said and stay all night, and from that we got
   to calling it "Happy Top". It was kinder a rough place too, after it
   started building up all kind of people started moving in, drinking and
   cutting up. They were kind hearted in their way, but rough as could
   be. When the mill shut down, the folks had to leave and the houses
   have rotted down. You take that apartment house on [Park?] Avenue, it
   was a nice building. Jes' one family after another lived in it they
   didn't know how to take care of it, they soon tore it to pieces. I
   think the rooms rented for twenty-five cents each.
   
   "That mill has never done no good since the war and everything has
   gone up so. During the war I made thirty-five ($35.00) a week. They
   don't pay no such salaries as that now."
   
   A girl came in, she was wearing a gay print dress, a sweater over her
   head to keep off the rain, and a pair of knee length boots completed
   her costume. She went over to the fire without an invitation, spitting
   a mouthful of snuff [?] into the fire, turning to me she asked: "What
   are you doing taking census?" "No, we are [?] in the movies, don't you
   think I will make a good actress?" The girl tried every way to find
   out what I was writing. Seeing that Mrs. [DEL: Bramblett :DEL]
   Brantley didn't want her to know I let her do the talking.
   
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   After she saw it was no use trying to find out what I was writing she
   remarked: "Well I reckon my feet are dry enough, can I use your
   phone?" "Yes, but you be sure you don't have any mud on your feet, if
   you mess up [DEL: Martha Jane's :DEL] [Mary Joe's?] room she will
   bless you out." When she left the room Mrs. [DEL: Bramblett :DEL]
   Brantley said: "Ain't it funny how folks hang around to find out your
   business. I am glad you let me do the talking.
   
   "Yes, Mam, times sure have changed terrible, back yonder from what
   they are now. Even in clothes it use to take five and ten yards of
   cloth to make a dress now you can get one out of three. The neighbors
   have changed too, everybody use to be neighborly, helping those that
   couldn't help themselves. Now they don't pay any attention whether
   they are starving, half clothed or sick. Don't mix and mingle, or swap
   jokes like they use to.
   
   "We use to have to go to church or we didn't go no whar else. When I
   was a child I use to have to sit on the front seat. When the old women
   got to shouting I had to crawl up[ on the bench to keep them off my
   toes, I never wore no shoes to church, all the little chillun went to
   church and Sunday School bare footed.
   
   "There were no such thing as free schools in my day, but I don't call
   them free now heap more chillun would be in school 'round here if they
   didn't have to pay so much for the use of their books, pencils and
   paper as well as other things they use in school now. Chillun won't
   made to go to school in my day. That is the reason I quit school and
   went to work, Do you know 001617I have picked cotton many a day cross
   that railroad where you see them houses. Rack yonder folks went to
   work in the mill by the time they was knee high to a duck, now they
   won't let 'em work 'til they are too old.
   
   "When I lived at Princeton there was an old darkie who come to my
   house every Sunday morning and cook breakfast for us. When that coffee
   got to stinking in the kitchen it made me some hungry. He called us
   his white chillun. When he left my house and went to cook dinner for
   my sister-in-law I was right behing him. The [??] other folks cook
   smells better than that you cook your self. [DEL: Virginia :DEL]
   Bessie came to the door: "Mama are you going after [DEL: Naomi :DEL]
   ?Nora or do you want me to go. Seems to me you ought to have told the
   woman everything you ever knew by this time." "I could tell her a heap
   more if I didn't have to go to school for the baby, and its
   eleven-thirty now." She got up put on a heavy black coat, and we
   started out in the rain, [DEL: [?] :DEL] for the little girl, and I on
   my way back to town. On the way she said: "You think these streets are
   bad now, but you ought to have seen them several year ago." We turned
   into Chase Street, she continued: "This street use to be a perfect
   loblolly before they paved it." We reached the Community Center: "Well
   this is where we part I sure have enjoyed your visit. Come back to see
   me and spend the day. If my story gets into print I sure do want to
   buy one of them books."
   
   [The last I saw of her she was crossing the muddy street in the
   direction of the Community House?].

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Additional Comments:

1930 Clarke Co. GA 157 Chattooga Ave. Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 10
157 Henry D. Bramlett  head m w 54 Ga Ga Ga Barber
    Leila              wife f w 51 Ga Ga Ga
    Charlie            son  m w 25 Ga GA Ga
    Virginia Nelson    dau  f w 23 Ga Ga Ga
    Roy W.           s-i-l  m w 23 Ga Ga Ga
    Leroy           gr-son  m w  4 Ga Ga Ga
    Evelyn          gr-dau  f w  3 Ga Ga Ga
    Walter          gr-son  m w  1 Ga Ga GA
    Nellie Brown       dau  f w 27 Ga Ga Ga
    Martha J.       gr-dau  f w  7 Ga Ga GA
    Weldon Allen    gr-son  m w 10 Ga Ga GA
    Elizabeth       gr-dau  f w  6 Ga Ga Ga

1920 Clarke Co. GA Athens Rackwoods? Ave ed 13 sheet 3b
480 Henry T. Bramblett head m w 43 Ga Ga Ga Weaver Cotton Mill
    Leilah             wife f w 41 Ga GA Ga weaver cotton mill
    Beulah             dau  f w 19 Ga Ga Ga
    Nellie             dau  f w 17 Ga Ga GA
    Charlie            son  m w 15 Ga Ga Ga
    Virginia           dau  f w 13 Ga Ga Ga

Ga Death Index
Henry T Bramblett Death Date: 12 Apr 1954 Age: 77 years Gender: M Residence: 
Clarke County 
County of Death: Clarke Certificate: 9961 
Lelia A Bramblett Death Date: 16 Jan 1954 Age: 76 years  Gender: F Residence: 
Clarke County 
County of Death: Clarke Certificate: 431 

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