Ann (or Anne) Clark said that she was born in Mississippi as a slave, and had two masters in her lifetime before she was freed in Memphis, Tennessee. Ms. Clark was a remarkable woman who was never married but had two children, and lived to be 116 years old.
She was interviewed in 1937 and her story was published in "Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Texas Narratives, Volume XVI, Part 1".
Her eyesight was good enough that she could sew without glasses at age 112, but she was almost deaf near the end of her life and died of "Senility" - which would likely be diagnosed as Alzheimer's Disease in modern times.
Her story can be read here.
*NOTE:
There is no marker for Ms. Clark. The tree directly to the left of Rev. C.T. Hughes is her gravesite.
(Thank you Semper Dad for the photo and info!)
She was interviewed in 1937 and her story was published in "Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Texas Narratives, Volume XVI, Part 1".
Her eyesight was good enough that she could sew without glasses at age 112, but she was almost deaf near the end of her life and died of "Senility" - which would likely be diagnosed as Alzheimer's Disease in modern times.
Her story can be read here.
*NOTE:
There is no marker for Ms. Clark. The tree directly to the left of Rev. C.T. Hughes is her gravesite.
(Thank you Semper Dad for the photo and info!)
Ann (or Anne) Clark said that she was born in Mississippi as a slave, and had two masters in her lifetime before she was freed in Memphis, Tennessee. Ms. Clark was a remarkable woman who was never married but had two children, and lived to be 116 years old.
She was interviewed in 1937 and her story was published in "Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Texas Narratives, Volume XVI, Part 1".
Her eyesight was good enough that she could sew without glasses at age 112, but she was almost deaf near the end of her life and died of "Senility" - which would likely be diagnosed as Alzheimer's Disease in modern times.
Her story can be read here.
*NOTE:
There is no marker for Ms. Clark. The tree directly to the left of Rev. C.T. Hughes is her gravesite.
(Thank you Semper Dad for the photo and info!)
She was interviewed in 1937 and her story was published in "Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Texas Narratives, Volume XVI, Part 1".
Her eyesight was good enough that she could sew without glasses at age 112, but she was almost deaf near the end of her life and died of "Senility" - which would likely be diagnosed as Alzheimer's Disease in modern times.
Her story can be read here.
*NOTE:
There is no marker for Ms. Clark. The tree directly to the left of Rev. C.T. Hughes is her gravesite.
(Thank you Semper Dad for the photo and info!)
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