Carry (Allen) Patton (1867 - aft. 1937)

Born 1867 in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States

Died after 1937 after age 70 in Arkansas, United States

Biography

Carry (Allen) Patton is a part of US Black heritage.

Carry Allen was born in 1867. Pierce Allen and Tillie Watts.

Carry Allen Patton was interviewed in Forrest City, Arkansas about 1938 about her life and her parents' experiences as enslaved people.

"I was born in Shelby County, Tennessee. My parents was Tillie Watts and Pierce Allen. He come from Louisiana reckly (directly) after the surrender. My mother come from Virginia."

"Old Master Jake [Watts] died during the War and their house was burned but [son] James lived in one of the cabins in the yard. [Son] Dock went to the War."

"We farmed all my life in Arkansas and Mississippi. I married in Mississippi and we come back here before Joe died. I live out here and in Memphis. My son is a janitor at the Sellers Brothers Store in Memphis. My daughter cooks about here in town and I keep her children."

"My father was a mighty poor hand at talking. He said he was sold in a gang shipped to Memphis from New Orleans. Master Allen bought him. He was a boy. He was a boy - I don't know how big."

"I married in Mississippi. My husband immigrated from South Carolina. He was Joe Patton."

Interview: Carry Allen Patton was interviewed in Forrest City, Arkansas by Miss Irene Robertson as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The results are made available by the Library of Congress. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ [1] Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - Carry Allen Patton - Vol. 2, Arkansas, part 5; pages 297-299, images 302-304 of 373.