"There were so many of the household remedies that my grandmother did, and people were cured by just her recommendation, by her prescription, unwritten."
"I knew that she was a midwife, and I know I trusted her, because then everybody knew about her. Everybody in the community knew when we was growin’ up."
"...we worked with the midwives who delivered babies in the home...helped them learn more scientific information, and...also to teach this to the mothers..."
"...during those times, there was some friction between midwives and doctors, in the sense that most of the conversations they had were between women..."
"I don't know what her fee was but they would give her goods, groceries, vegetables, those kind of things, in lieu of payment and she never complained."
"...she was the known midwife here, and she delivered most of the babies, because at that time it was $25 to deliver a baby, and she delivered most..."
"And everybody coming in this clinic—I mean that was in the clinic, that was working—all white. And when I had come in, they knew I was coming but they didn't know—I don't think they knew I was Black. I could tell then that somebody was gonna have a problem and I wasn't counting on it being me. And it wasn't me.”
"And she came and even washed clothes for them, and took care of the house. She practically took over the house. That’s why she was known as Mama Janie."
