Black Gold, Volume 3, Number 2, 1977 Page: 47
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Mr. Brown also remembers cemetery cleaning
days. These were days when they would clean
off the cemetery lots. They would have "bie
days" and would brine dinner and work al I day.
The blacks would clean their side of the ceme-
tery, and the whites would clean their side.
Mr. Brown said, "The Blacks and Whites were good
friends in those days."
Mr. Brown said that pneumonia killed a lot
of people back in his day, He went on to tell
about the night he was coming from the Quarters,
and he got caught in the rain. He was so afraid
of catching pneumonia that he got under on of
he sheds at the cemetery and stayed until it quit
raining. Mr. Brown told us that often the peo-
ple didn't die of any one type of sickness but
that they Just "took sick and died."
Mr. Brown had a few memories of some of
the white people who lived in Hollands Quarters.
He remembered some Ross's Watson's and Cala-
hand's. Mr. Calahand was a preacher of the old
Macedonia Church. Mr. Brown recalls very well
Jake Watson's family.
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