*Interview with Susan Nelson*
*9 Trapman Street, Charleston, S.C.*
*Mrs. Arthur Lynah*
*Ashley Avenue, Charleston, S.C.*
--_Martha S. Pinckney, Charleston, S.C._
"FOREST", A FAITHFUL SERVANT
Susan Nelson, 9 Trapman street, about eighty years old, daughter of
Paris ("Forest") and Christina Gibbs, is a fine type of trained house
servant. Tall, slim, and erect, she carries herself with dignity, and
curtsies with grace. Her color is dark brown, her features aquiline. She
seldom smiles.
"I am the youngest of my family and they are all dead. I never had a
child. I was married in the Methodist Church, but my husband married
again. From the first I can remember, I lived in Charleston with my
mother and father. He had his freedom before the war and worked on the
Bay. When he came home from his days work he had a cot by the door where
he would lay down to rest, and all the time he used to tell me about
'those happy days', as he said. Ask Mrs. Arthur Lynah about my father;
she knows about him."