Item
Oral History
Mrs. Ercelle Chillis
- Title
- Mrs. Ercelle Chillis
- Description
- In this interview, the 109-year-old Mrs. Ercelle Chillis of James Island, Charleston County, South Carolina shared stories about her family's history and her life. Her interview opens with the story of her birth during a horrific South Carolina hurricane. She also shared the story of how her paternal grandfather walked with his family from Alabama to Charleston in the 1870s in a bid to hire a boat that would take him and his family to Africa!
- Other story snippets included how she left James Island for New Jersey during the Great Migration and what life was like in the North -and what it was like to return to the Charleston area later in life.
- interviewee
- Mrs. Ercelle Chillis
- interviewer
- Reverend Demett Jenkins
- Date
- 27 September 2023
- Location
- Charleston, South Carolina, United States
- Format
- Video
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Mike Priester/BluVision Productions
- Original Format
- Video
- Item sets
- Centenarian Stories
Part of Mrs. Ercelle Chillis