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1. liame and address of informant Mrs. fill 800 blk an L. 9th
2. Lit. and tine of interview LOoday morning
3. anon of interview Acr home
4. Nano and adiroes of perecni if any, who put you tn tou3h with
informant
5. Name and address of person, if any, acoompanying you
6. Desoription of room, house, surroundings, etc. A dila edated I roam
shaok with big open creeks around the N. door through *lob a partieularl
vicious wind nes 00141y. Ciampartively °loan and very sparsely furnished
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Personal History of 41,f
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1. Ancestry Legro
2.. Place and data of birth ',e.ys she is Yj
3. Family
4. Plaoe lived in, v4th dates Lincoln an ilorth Platte
5. 7ducation, with dates
6. Occupations and acoompliehmerts, with dates as twice married, raised
2 daughters and a grandson
'opeoial skills an interests Relicious work, ws itfrioan l'hothodist
3. o,rrnity aud relicious activities Inactive Lecause of age
Deseription of informalt "as ben medium tall, is bent and tottery with
age and rheumatism, is gray batted.
10. Other points gained in interview
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Text of Interview (Unedited)
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Igre. Hill says she is 7 years ol nd that she just can't haAy
get around b cause of rheumatism in 11(1. legs.
She hes two daughters living, Mabel 6immone of C,lifornia and 'Lou"
Litohell of Lorth Platte leo is a caterer and who Mrs. Hill says got to
working for a "society" Glass of *Ate pfople an-. started drinking like
they did. Low she Laye she won't have anything to do with "ton" "She
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ean drink G men drunk" she said) and she cusses me around somethinc awful.*
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There aren't any decant 14groes here to speak of Mrs. Hill stated,
most of the oolored people here are "sporting class."
ne, she said, 40717 with the help of influenoial white fAends, she
attempted to heir: a church for aJored people. he had a mlninter come
from Lincoln sr some other oity and she had arranged to use the 2zethodist
church basement. She had carefully invited all the colored people in
town. Ihe minister oame and was present at the appointed hour also
14s. H 11 and no one else. Finally the riniuter said "Well =lye they'll
oam this,afternov.-4 But no one ever'- one. So there was no Negro
ohurc atho she herself was Afriean/ ME and was baptised here in hhis
church IlethoOist.
Mrs. Hill has two rand children, Dorothea. Sirsmons, awl Frank
kark of Lino() n.
ho is reooivinc eld au ae:Astexee (Ind hf‘c,; reocived some forts
of a asistanee for many ye re.