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sometimes for the people in Lakeland. Oh! I like to sew and make pretty
things."

As Corneal talked I noticed that her brogue speech was that of a Nassau
native, and I ask her where she was from; she told me Key West, which explained accounted for
the matter brogue, as many Key West Negroes are emigrants from Nassau.

Corneal then said: "Don't you want to know about my family too?"
I admitted that I did and urged her to continue.

"You see, I was born in Key West, February 17, 1908. My mother, you
know her? Mary Ellen Wallace, well she's seventy years old now. Then
there is my sisters, Bloneva, Flossie, Elvita, and Mercedes, the latter
was taken into the family when she was four years old. Blovena, she works
in a dress factory in New York City. Flossie is a nurse in the Morrell
Hospital in Lakeland. Elveta is a student at Tuskegee Institute, in
Tuskegee, Alabama. And Mercedes is in the eleventh grade at the Washington
Park High School in Lakeland. I have two brothers, Leanrod, who lives in
Washington, D.C.—I don't know what he's doing there. Then there is
Elmore C. who works in the Dietitian Department at the Colored Veterans
Hospital, Tuskegee, Alabama. Now don't you think I should be proud of my
family?

"Father has been dead some time now, but all of us childrens have
looked after mother and we own our own home on Orange Street in Lakeland."

A call from the front room interrupted Corneal. William had finished
his bath and wanted me to relate his life history. Corneal followed me
into the front room, bringing her sewing along. She seated herself on a
bench in front of the dresser while William talked.

"I was born November 28, 1903 at Ocala, Florida. My parents names

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