Jars of food and empty bottle Photo courtesy of Zeta Phi Beta, 1999
Ms. Catherine had a big garden and canned lots of jars of food. She also used a bottle like the empty one here to make medicines from the roots of plants..
Note: More information available from Amelia Wallace Vernon, African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1993. Reprint. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1995), pp. 56-59.
Copyright Amelia Wallace Vernon. All rights reserved, 1999.