Sugar by Bernice McFadden

Author:Bernice McFadden [McFadden, Bernice]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2001-01-01T11:00:00+00:00

SHORT JUNCTION, ARKANSAS. (January 3rd, 1932) A colored woman was buried during the night in a casket furnished by the county. Wrapped in a shroud that had once been used as a tablecloth, the emaciated remains of Mrs. Ciel Brown, who died Saturday morning, were taken to a private cemetery on the edge of town and buried Sunday night. No friends assisted in preparing the body for burial and no preacher spoke over the body or to the grief-stricken sons of the deceased, who stood by silently.

Mrs. Brown died while in the confines of the Arkansas State Home for the Insane (Colored Section). She was taken ill while her son, Abel, visited with her. There she breathed her last breath.

She leaves to mourn three sons, Abel, Finis and Wylam. One daughter, Bertie Mae.

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