Oral History Interview with Velma Mynier, October 19, 1984 Page: 2

                                
Mynier
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just before the end of the Civil War or after the Civil
War.
Jenkins:      Her name?
Mynier:       Her name was Williams.   It was the Williams family, and
her name was Nora. They called her something else, but
I believe her name was Nora. She had four daughters and
one son.  They ended up with another group.    It appeared
that a large contingency of Williams's moved there from
Mississippi   to that area.  She brought her slaves with
here and bought some farm land. My grandfather left Georgia
about the same time. His father had been killed, and he
had a stepmother. And he and his brother decided they
would go to Texas. They got as far as New Orleans where
they became separated. My grandfather was 12 years old,
and his brother was 14. Grandpa stayed around there for a
long time and couldn't find his brother; so he headed out
for Texas and ended up working for Grandmother Williams
on the farm out there. This background was given to me
when I was a child. He was very distressed during that
period of time, he said, because Grandmother Williams would
have the slaves rounded up if they misbehaved, and she had
a whipping post out in her front yeard. She herself would
give them a whipping, which he disapproved of mightily.
But evidently she was a very strong person. I don't know
a lot about what happened to that part of the family,