Cornelia Robinson Yancey Benson, a freed slave, living in Opelika, Alabama at the time of the interview. Her father and mother was George and Harriett Yancey who belonged to a Dr. Trammell near Lafayette, (probably Alabama). She had four siblings, Charlie, Willie, Albert and Ann. Her husband was Robert Benson and they had four children.
You can access the full Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration 1937 interview at this address:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/mesn.010/?sp=337
Cornelia Robinson Yancey Benson, a freed slave, living in Opelika, Alabama at the time of the interview. Her father and mother was George and Harriett Yancey who belonged to a Dr. Trammell near Lafayette, (probably Alabama). She had four siblings, Charlie, Willie, Albert and Ann. Her husband was Robert Benson and they had four children.
You can access the full Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration 1937 interview at this address:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/mesn.010/?sp=337
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