I found these at my university library today. Hadn't known about them till a friend mentioned them to me yesterday. There are more than 2000 accounts in all, across the southeast. They were made by WPA writers in the 1930's and answer a series of questions that were designed to get ex-slaves to detail their experiences as best they could. So those who they talked to were in their 80's, 90's, 100's, and at least one from Itawamba County who claimed to be 113 years old! The 17 volume work is entitled: The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Greenwood Press. 1972-1979. Out of the 5 volumes of Mississippi narratives, I wrote down those who were still living in the following counties: Lee/Itawamba/Monroe/Pontotoc Ex-Slave Narratives (The narratives give the county of the ex-slave's current [1930ish] residence. I did not go through and check on accounts of those who might have lived in the above mentioned counties during the war, only to move to another county after the war - this would have taken way too long!) The first number is the page numbers (and thus the length of the narrative), the second is the name of the ex-slave, the third is the county, and the fourth (if there) is the family that the ex-slave belonged to or mentions in the account. I've got the last 4 of the 5 volumes right here, so if anyone has a question about any of these save the first two, I can maybe answer them. I can't reproduce the whole things here, but maybe I can check to see if there is something that might help. 90-101 Anna Baker - Monroe 187-188 Sam Bradford - Pontotoc 412-415 Matilda Clifton - Itawamba (of the Steve Johnson family; md. a George Clifton) 592-599 Jake Dawkins - Monroe 782-792 Dora Franks - Monroe 793-800 Pet Franks - Monroe (husband of Dora) 813-814 Letha Gholson - Monroe 855-859 Nora Goodwin - Monroe 1029-1032 Wayne Holliday - Monroe 1114-1121 Turner Jacobs - Monroe (of the Dr. Amos Ward family) 1302-1308 Victoria Randle Lawson - Monroe 1875-1876 Jane Rogers - Itawamba (of the James Whitesides family) 1933-1934 Hamp Simmons - Pontotoc (of the John Simmons family) 2127-2136 Emmeline Trott - Pontotoc (of the Turner Thompson family) 2140-2143 Molly Vance - Monroe (of the Lance Whitaker family) 2175-2177 George Ward - Pontotoc (of a Ledbetter family) 2214-2221 Eugenia Weatherall - Monroe (of a Lee County Bramlett family) 2313-2321 Frank Williams - Monroe (of the Tom Williams family) 2400-2406 Clara Young - Monroe (of an Aberdeen Ewing family) Hope this helps someone! These are really interesting and if someone were able to find an ancestor among these few people mentioned here, the narrative would definitely be something they should check into more. Dave Webb