When asked if they had plenty to eat when they were slaves, "Aunt Annie" said:
"Lor’, yes I guess we had ’nough, but, ’tearn’t much, c’ase I ’members when we was li’l chillun we had a big wooden tray dat dey put de food in and we all set ’round dat an’ et like li’l pigs. De rations for a week was 3 lbs of meat a week, 1 peck ob meal, potatoes an’ syrup. At Christmas times de overseer called all de men an’ women in an’ gib each woman a dress, a head handkerchief, an’ tuh de men he gave a hat, knife, an’ a bottle of whiskey. De overseer also gib tuh us flour and sugar fo’ Christmas, an’ I ’members one Christmas when I was a li’l gal, a’ter de overseer gib all de women a dress dere was a short piece ob cloth lef’ an’ he gib dat tuh me." "Aunt Annie" said "dat de slaves went tuh de white folks church, an’ sot on de seats on de outside ob de church, an’ dat church was a hewed log building. Atter de white folks got thro’ preachin’, den de cullered preacher would preach. Sumtimes de cullered folks would hab church when de white folks didn’t an’ den de slaves would hab tuh get a pass from his owner, ’ca’se dere would be some mean folks what would beat de niggers ef dey didn’t hab a pass from dere owners or bosses."
"Aunt Annie" also said, "I’se neber hyeard of no hoodoo stuff ’til in late years, dey’s mo’ ob dat foolishness now dan I’se ebber hyeard of in mah life. Nowadays de hoodoos doctors, what is allus agoin’ ’round foolin’ folks out ob dey money, looks lack de dogs might ob and’ dem, dey is so turrible lookin’. I don’t believes in dem. Us folks a long time ago neber hab no money fo’ dem to git. Us had tuh make own medicine. When de babies had de colic us wud tie soot up in a rag an’ boil it, and den gib dem de water, an’ tuh ease de prickly heat us used cotton wood powdered up fine, and fo’ de yellow thrash us would boil de sheep thrash an’ gib em de tea."
"Aunt Annie" has been married twice, her first husband left her years ago, when she married Louis Stanton and had five children by him. Louis was killed in a hailstorm, April 13, 1903, and all of her children are dead. She is now being cared for by friends, and she said, "that ef I’s didn’t git a li’l he’p from de Government tuh gib dis frien’" she didn’t know what she would do as she has been totally blind for two years.