Comments on: Part 3: Yvonne Bivins on the History of Rachel Knight

By: Mr. Ducksworth

Mr. Ducksworth — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:50:34 +0000

Thanks a bunch Email sent As usual Yvonne, you are so gracious with sharing information!

By: Yvonne Bivins

Yvonne Bivins — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:21:15 +0000

If you would share your email address with me through Vikki, I will send a copy to you. I copied the narrative when it was on the ancestry.com website. It has since been removed or I just can’t remember where it is located on the website.

By: renegadesouth

renegadesouth — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:21:51 +0000

Mr. Ducksworth,

That’s great to know! Martha left one of the most important contemporary accounts that I drew on for writing The Free States of Jones! Hope you locate her interviews without too much trouble. The unpublished sections are well worth the search in the unpublished WPA papers in Jackson.

Vikki

By: Mr. Ducksworth

Mr. Ducksworth — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:14:49 +0000

Thanks so much. Martha is my great great great grandmother

By: renegadesouth

renegadesouth — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 01:08:11 +0000

Mr. Duckworth,

The ex-slave narratives are online, but I read Martha Wheeler’s interview at my university college library. The published slave narrative volumes that it’s part of are carried by almost all college libraries and many public libraries. Look for: George P. Rawick, ed. The American Slave: a Composite Autobiography. Supplement, series 1, vol. 10, Mississippi Narratives, pt. 5 (Greenwood Press, 1972), pp. 2263-64.

Much of Martha’s interview was never published, but may still be read at the Mississippi State Archives in Jackson, where it is contained in the Unpublished WPA Records, Record Group #60, volume 315.

Good luck with your search.
Vikki

By: Mr. Ducksworth

Mr. Ducksworth — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:55:20 +0000

Greetings, can anyone tell me how I can obtain Martha Wheeler’s slave narratives? I have searched but to no avail. Thanks in advance.

By: Kecia

Kecia — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:56:26 +0000

Great job! Looking forward to some time in Soso this summer. I am the granddaughter of Haywood Knight, his father was Hugh Knight. Haywood moved to the gulf coast with his wife and children in 1951.

By: Dale M. Knight

Dale M. Knight — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:18:29 +0000

Hello Vincent,
My name is Dale Knight. I am the son of Udell and Gladys Rae McMillin Knight of the Soso community. Luther Knight is my father’s uncle and the brother of my grandfather, Robert “Bob” Knight. Both are the offsprings of Andy Knight. Just like you, I am fasinated with the rich history of the Knight family. As a young boy, I used to go over Uncle Luther’s house and watch him plow his mule and tend his garden. A lot of people get tight lipped when they hear that Uncle Luther and Aunt Ode were first cousins. That was the way things were. However, Yvonne has done a masterful job by researching and outing the real, complex and sometimes uncomfortable history of our families. The younger generations just want to know the truth so it can be properly passed down to future Knight relatives. Keep it coming Yvonne!

Dale Knight

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By: Yvonne Bivins

Yvonne Bivins — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:25:24 +0000

Please contact me through me personal email which is sybivins@gmail.com. I am interested in exactly your connection to Ode and Luther Knight.