Interview with Eliza Jane Coward Thomas

Interview with Eliza Jane Coward Thomas

Thomas, Eliza Jane, 1893-1988

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

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.

North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

English

sound

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36137

African American families -- North Carolina, Western

African Americans -- Genealogy

African Americans -- North Carolina, Western

African Americans -- North Carolina, Western -- Social life and customs

African Americans -- Religious life -- North Carolina, Western

Agriculture -- North Carolina, Western

Farm life -- North Carolina -- Jackson County

Life stories

Slaves -- North Carolina, Western

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

Thomas, Eliza Jane, 1893-1988 -- Interviews

Work