“For the most part you just didn’t go to doctors. You had to be almost dead to go to a doctor. …The remedies that our parents used that God told them about, just would save us. …We had a lot of home remedies. …God was just good to us because we didn’t have plenty of sickness. …We had one [home remedy] we used for tetanus…Back then all you did was to take that kid and beat the blood out of him a little, put a penny on that and some fat back and it will draw it right out. It will turn that meat greenish looking and you live.” |
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Emma Riggins |
Henry James |
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“Blacks in Pearl City were buried in Delray. …They had the blacks buried in one end and the whites on the other end…Coleman Funeral Home at West Palm Beach was the one that…could handle the bodies of our blacks. Now he would take the body back up to West Palm Beach. …then he would come back with the body for the funeral. You didn’t have…wakes…putting people out. …The bodies were embalmed…brought down for the funeral and then the procession went into the cemetery in Delray for burial. |
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“When I look at the community, Pearl City in the 1930s and 1940s, and I look at it today, there is a difference between the closeness of people…It has changed. Now everybody is running to support themselves…and just cannot be home with the kids to really supervise…I think that is where really the most problems come in.”
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