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Evelina Morgan was interviewed in Little Rock, Arkansas about 1938 about her life and her time as an enslaved person. The typescript is stamp dated ___ 11, 1938.
"I was born in Wedgeboro, North Carolina, on the plantation of -- let me see what that man's name was. He was an old lawyer. I done forgot that old white man's name. Old Tom Ash! Senator Ash -- that's his name."
"My father's name was Alphonso Dorgens and my mother's name was Lizzie Dorgens. Both of them dead. I don't know what her name was before she married. My pa belonged to the Dorgens' and he married my ma. That is how she come to be a Dorgen. Old man Ash never did buy him. He just visited my mother. They was all in the same neighborhood. Big plantations."
"My husband's been dead about seven years. I goes to the Methodist church on Ninth and Broadway. I ain't able to do no work now. I gets a little pension, and the Lord takes care of me."
Interview: Evelina Morgan was interviewed in Little Rock, Arkansas by Samuel S. Taylor 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]
Note: No town named Wedgeboro has been located in North Carolina. Possibly it was Wadesboro, where the names of the enslavers were located.
"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDDL-T44 : 18 February 2021), Thomas S Ashe, 1860.
"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVW-8N3Q : 26 July 2019), Thomas Samuel Ashe, 1887; Burial, Wadesboro, Anson, North Carolina, United States of America, Eastview Cemetery; citing record ID 7091363, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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