"Their music was so beautiful"
Robert Scott's descendant, Yvonne Simkins, and collateral descendant, Dr. Elizabeth Carter, talk about what they heard about the Scott musicians.
Theme: Arts, Music, and Culture
Marion Elizabeth Carter
Interview Information
19 Oct. 1998, Washington, DC
Interviewees: Yvonne Simkins, Marion Elizabeth Carter, Gloria Thornburgh
Excerpts
"Far beyond her time."
Dr. Marion Elizabeth Carter recalls the accomplishments of her grandmother (and Nancy Colbert Scott's granddaughter) Nannie Cox Jackson.
"And it was a bear"
Dr. Marion Elizabeth Carter tells the story of her great-grandmother Elizabeth Scott's adventures as a runaway slave.
Theme: Oral History Transmission
"She was frightened all the time"
Dr. Marion Elizabeth Carter continues the story of her ancestor Elizabeth Scott.
Ancestry
- Elizabeth Hemings 1735–1807
- Betty Brown 1759–post 1831
- Burwell Colbert 1783–1862
- Nancy Colbert Scott 1810–1864
- Marion Elizabeth Carter 1915–2008