Annie Page (1852)

Born 15 Mar 1852 in Union County, Arkansas, United States

Biography

Annie Page is a part of US Black heritage.

Annie Page was interviewed in Pine Bluff, Arkansas about 1937 about her life and her time as an enslaved person.

"I was born in 1852, they tell me, on the fifteenth of March. I was workin' a good while 'fore surrender. Bill Jimmerson was my old master. He was a captain in Marmaduke's army."

"My brother brought me here and left me here with a colored woman named Rachael Ross. And oh Lawd, she was hard on me. Never had to do in slavery times what I had to do then."

[Second interview] "My mother died soon after the war ended and after that I was jest knocked over the head. I went to Camblin and worked for Mrs. Peters. Then I runned away and married my first husband, Mike Samson. I been married twice and had two children but they all dead now."

Interview: Annie Page was interviewed [twice?] in Pine Bluff, Arkansas by Mrs. Bernice Bowden 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 - Annie Page - Vol. 2, Arkansas, part 5; pages 234-239, images 239-244 of 373.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDJ9-FZ4 : 31 January 2021), Anna Page in entry for Tobe Page, 1920.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMLD-Q4H : accessed 26 October 2022), Annie Page, Pine Bluff, Jefferson, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 45, sheet 14B, line 57, family 380, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 79; FHL microfilm 2,339,814.