FORM A Circumstances of Interview
NAME OF WORKER Ruby E. Wilson ADDRESS North Platte
DATE Nov. 23, 1938 SUBJECT Negro Folklore
1. Name and address of informant Mrs. Hill 800 blk on E. 9th
2. Date and time of interview Monday morning
3. Place of interview Her home
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put in touch with informant
5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you
6. Description of room, house, surroundings, etc. A dilapidated 1 room shake with big open cracks around N. door through [which?] a [particularly?] vicious wind [bles?] coldly. Compartively clean and very sparsely furnished {Begin note}{Begin handwritten}[C. 15 - 2/27/41 Neb.?]{End handwritten}{End note}
{Begin page}FORM B Personal History of Informant
NAME OF WORKER Ruby E. Wilson ADDRESS North Platte
DATE Nov. 23 1938 SUBJECT Negro Folklore
NAME AND ADDRESS OF INFORMANT Mrs. Hill 800 Blk E. 9th
1. Ancestry Negro
2. Place and date of birth Says she is [89?]
3. Family
4. Place lived in, with dates Lincoln and North Platte
5. Education, with dates
6. Occupations and accomplishments, with dates Has twice married, raised 2 daughters and a grandson
7. Special skills and interests Religious work, was African Methodist
8. Community and religious activities Inactive because of age
9. Description of informant Has been medium tall, is bent and tottery with age and rheumatism, is gray haired.
10. Other points gained in interview
NAME OF WORKER Ruby E. Wilson ADDRESS North Platte
DATE Nov. 23, 1938 SUBJECT Negro Folklore
NAME AND ADDRESS OF INFORMANT Mrs. Hill 800 Blk on E. 9th St.
Mrs. Hill says she is [79?] years old and that she just can't harly get around because of rheumatism in her legs.
She has two daughters living, Mabel Simmons of California and "Lon" Mitchell of North Platte who is a caterer and who Mrs. Hill says got to working for a "society" class of white people and started drinking like they did. Now she says she won't have anything to do with "Lon" "She can drink G men drunk {Begin handwritten},{End handwritten} " she said {Begin handwritten},{End handwritten} and she {Begin handwritten}"{End handwritten} cusses me around something awful."
There aren't any decent Negroes here to speak of Mrs. Hill stated, most of the colored people here are "sporting class." {Begin inserted text}{Begin handwritten}[Once?]{End handwritten}{End inserted text}, she said, {Begin deleted text}she{End deleted text} with the help of influencial white friends, she attempted to have a church for colored people. She had a minister come from Lincoln or some other city and she had arranged to use the Methodist church basement. She had carefully invited all the colored people in town. The minister came and was present at the appointed hour also Mrs. Hill and no one else. Finally the minister said "Well maybe they'll come this afternoon. But no one {Begin deleted text}every{End deleted text} {Begin inserted text}ever{End inserted text} came. So there was no Negro church {Begin inserted text}{Begin handwritten}[although?]{End handwritten}{End inserted text} she herself was African {Begin deleted text}.{End deleted text} ME and was baptised here in this church [Methodist?].
{Begin page}Mrs. Hill has two grand children, Dorethea Simmons, and Frank Parks of Lincoln.
She is receiving old age assistance and has received some form of assistance for many years.