Lula: "To-morrow been Sundy! How old I is? Have to put a guess on 'em.
Bout fifty I guess. Flagg storm? That big one? When the storm wuz, I wuz
seven year old."
(Discuss Reb time and Flagg storm.)
Pauline: "Yes. Wind bring young Allard in to Uncle Joshuaway Stuart
field right down there where Cindy Poinsett now. Joshuaway been Cindy
Pa.
"Doctor Ward shut that mere-maid up. He been in that! When that storm
wuz, he wuzn't old. I go there now and talk bout that storm and he eye
get full o' water. Looker his Papa clothes. Got 'em all pack in trunk. I
never shee 'um court myself. Every time I shee 'um with a crowd o' man.
"Long as he have mere-maid shut up, it rain! People gone there to look
at 'em. Long as keep 'em shut up it rain. That time rain thirty days.
That just fore Flagg storm." (Looking toward creek) "Yonder Stella,
wonneh, now!"
(Uncle Ben gave each white child a little cake--then gave, from his
hand, hunks of corn bread to each colored woman.)
Conversation taken down on Uncle Ben Horry's porch where he sat
awaiting the return of Aunt Stella who had gone 'in the creek' to
'catch a mess o' fish.' Murrells Inlet, S.C. June 15, 1937.
Project 1655
Genevieve W. Chandler
Georgetown County, S.C.