"I loves to hear de Bible read too. I never did learn to read though some day I'se gwine to be wid my old frineds an if our skins here are black dey won't be no colors in Heaven. Our souls will all be white."

“They call the old Creek, who was leaving for the North, "Old Gouge" (Opoethleyohola). All our family join up with him, and there was lots of Creek Indians and slaves in the outfit when they made a break for the North. The runaways was riding ponies stolen from their masters.”

“Luwina had a little baby boy and dat de reason old Master buy me, to look after de little baby boy. He didn't have no name cause he wasn't big enough when I was with den, but he git a name later on, I reckon. We all call him "Istidji." Dat mean "little man."

"She is half Choctaw.  She 'doctored' the Indians and negroes with the herbs growing in the woods.  some of these herbs are:  Cherokee cough weed, numba weed, corn root and butterfly root."

“A Creek come to my mammy's master and bought her to bring out here, but she heard she was being sold and run off into the woods. . . . Well, my mammy ran and hid way back in that old clay pit, and it was way after dark before the master and the other man found her.”

"I hear about de slaves being free when mayve a hundred soldiers come to de house. Dey was a pretty sight settin' on dey horses, and de men had on blue uniforms wid little caps. "All de slaves is free" one of de men said, and after dat I jest told everybody, "I is a free Negro now and I ain't goin' to work for nobody!"

"I married Isom Love, a slave of Sam Love, another full-blood Indian that lived on a 'jining farm. We lived on master Frank's farm and Isom went back and forth to work fer his master and I worked ever day fer mine."

“I just played around until I was about six years old I reckon, and then they put me up at the Big House with my mammy to work. She done all the cording and spinning and weaving, and I done a whole lot of sweeping and minding the baby. The baby was only about six months old, I reckon. I used to stand by the cradle and rock it all day, and when I quit I would go to sleep right by the cradle sometimes before mammy would come and get me.”

“A owner once sold several babies to traders. Dey stopped at our plantation to stay awhile. My mammy and de other women had to take care of dem babies for two days,  and teach dem to nuss a bottle or drink from a glass. Dat was awful, dem little children crying for they mothers. Sometimes dey sold de mothers away from they husbands and children.”

“Sometimes I would try to get mean, but always I got me a whipping for it. When I was a little girl, moving around from one family to another, I done housework, ironing, peeling potatoes and helping the main cook. I went barefoot most of my life, but the master would get his shoes from the Government at Fort Gibson.”

"I remember, too, the great Inter-Tribal Council, which was held in Tahlequah in the year of 1843, under the leadership of Chief John Ross.  My mother assisted with the cooking at that gathering, while my duty was to carry water to those at the meeting, from the near –by springs.  About ten years after we arrived in the Indian Territory."

"Like I tell you, I am quarter Cherokee. My mammy was named Adeline and she belong to old master Ben Johnson. Old Master Ben bring my grandmammy out to that Sequoyah district way back when they call it Arkansas, mammy tell me, and God only know who my mammy's pa is, but mine was old Master Ben's boy, Ned Johnson."