Interview with Eliza Jane Coward Thomas

Interview with Eliza Jane Coward Thomas

African American families

African Americans

African Americans -- Genealogy

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Agriculture

Autobiography

Enslaved persons

Farm life

Thomas, Eliza Jane, 1893-1988 -- Childhood and youth

Thomas, Eliza Jane, 1893-1988 -- Interviews

Eliza Jane Coward Thomas is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on May 6, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Thomas was born on Long Branch in Cullowhee in 1893. She talks about her childhood in Jackson County where she grew up living with her uncle in a tight knit community. She describes Asheville and working for E. B. Glenn, a doctor at Meriwether Hospital, watching his children, cleaning, and cooking and then working for the Frye family. Thomas had a good experience with both families and good relationships with white people in general her entire life.

Thomas, Eliza Jane, 1893-1988

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1890s; 1900s (Decade); 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s;

1986-05-06

Crittenden, Lorraine

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interviews

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36137

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36137

2019-11-22

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Cullowhee (N.C.)

Jackson County (N.C.)

Asheville (N.C.)

Buncombe County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

1:10:15 (sound recording)(duration)

37 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina