James Earl Cockerham Research Records Volume 30: Cole, Davis, Hodges, Williams, Collings, Collins, Cook, Auberry, Hert, Hurt, Martin from the Carlos P. Surratt Genealogy Room at Surry Community College
William P. Goings family portrait: seated William P. Goings holding Dora E. Goings, front row Nancy Emmaline Goings, Emmett Monroe Goings, Sarah Alice Goings, back row Charity Davis Goings, Mart Etta Goings
photograph of Malinda Hoosier Banner Davis, Born - June 25, 1829, Mt. Airy, N. C., Died - May 14, 1936, Jackson, Michigan, slave to James Hollingsworth family, taken on her 100th birthday
Interview done as part of an oral history project for Surry County Historical Society. Interview done in Pratt's living room on Tom Jones Road near Level Cross. Pratt, who is a white woman, discusses growing up on a farm and having black families who worked with her family on their tobacco farm. Also discusses life in the rural area of Surry County, including only being able to get to Mount Airy in a wagon, not getting to school very often because she had to work, and going to church revivals. She didn't go much beyond 4th grade. Her husband was also a tobacco farmer and she discusses life as a wife and mother on a tobacco farm, including manning the barns during curing. Interview is in two parts.