August 2006 
 
Interview  with Juanita Jones 
By Betty Brown, Lucy Hughes, and Harry Holtz 
 
 
[Tape 2] 
 
Brown:  Yes, she was Frances Craney.  What businesses – do you remember any businesses?   
 
Jones:  No. 
 
Brown:  No you don’t remember any of that, okay.  Alright. 
 
Jones:  My mother used – I think she said pluck turkeys or something like that.  Over there, in that – like you get to -- into Brownsburg it was a place right around the corner.  
 
Brown:  Okay. 
 
Jones:  Right straight across the street.  Right straight across the street where they used to – 
 
Brown:  Do chickens. 
 
Jones:  Do chickens and turkeys and things.  So many things.   
 
Hughes:  Do you remember a livery stable?  Do you remember a horse and carriage stable in Brownsburg? 
 
Jones:  Yes.  Way down across the road.  Across the road down in there.  My cousin lived down -- back down in there. 
 
Hughes:  Blacksmith down – there was a blacksmith in Brownsburg. 
 
Jones:  I don’t know what he was. 
 
Hughes:  Yeah. 
 
Brown:  What was your cousin’s name? 
 
Jones:  Rupert Harris. 
 
Brown:  Rupert Harris was your cousin?   
 
Jones:  Right. 
 
Brown:  Uh huh.  Alright. 
 
Jones:  Uh hm. Miss Ag and Miss Bert – 
 
Brown:  Yeah –  
 
Jones: Those people, they weren’t kin to me.   
 
Brown:  No.  No.  
 
Jones:  And Cleo.  They were friends, but they weren’t kin.  
 
Brown:  Okay, alright. 
 
Jones:  I don’t know too much about Brownsburg, because I didn’t pay any attention.   
 
Brown:  Well, you were young then.   
 
Jones:  I know. 
 
Brown.  Um hmm.  Alright.  I think that’s it for her, for what she did, since she left at such an early age. 
 
Holtz:  Can we take a picture of you?  Can I take a picture of you? 
 
[Tape ends] 
 
Juanita Jones Oral History – Index 
 
B 
Black school house · 4 
Borden, Jim · 5 
Borden, Ollie · 3 
Brownsburg 
Asbury Church · 7 
black school · 5 
businesses · 10 
C 
Craney, Aggie · 9 
Craney, Frances · 9 
E 
Echoes · 3 
H 
Harris, Rupert · 10 
J 
Jones, Juanita 
acquaintances · 2–3, 9 
parents · 3, 4 
residence · 1–2 
work · 6–7 
M 
Miles, Charles Gibbons · 3 
Miles, Ollie Borden · 3 
P 
Peters, Carrie · 1, 5 
Peters, Reverend · 6 
Porterfield,  Frances · 9 
R 
railroad · 9 
S 
Strother, Earl · 5