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..she dressed in white all the time.  She musta been eighty then.  She always worked the rich people and took care of their children.  She told us… at that time I knew who they were.  And um, she took care of their children and she said that one of them could take real sick and you could go downstairs where they’s havin’ a big party and tell ‘em. They won’t call a doctor and they won’t come see about their children.  She…Mrs. Cook was her name.  She’d get us around her feet and tell us stories about slaves.  Why I don’t know how old that woman was.  (Interview with Roxie Cooper Gillespie 1976)

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