COLLECTION NAME:
Mary Wheeler Collection
Record
Filename:
MW.B4.F21.205(i).jpg
Identifier:
MW.B4.F21.205(i)
Title:
Sam Barnes
Creator:
Wheeler, Mary (1892-1979)
Subject:
Roustabouts
Subject:
African American music -- Paducah (KY)
Subject:
Black history -- Paducah (KY)
Subject:
African Americans -- Paducah (KY)
Description:
Former roustabout Sam Barnes standing beside a window. Sam Barnes appears in Mary Wheeler's book Steamboatin' Days, on page 20. Mary Wheeler gives him credit for the song, She Leaves Memphis, saying it was sung on the SILVER CLOUD (Way #5110) and the CLYDE (Way #1201). Sam went on to say, "The wuz two crews o' rousters, but when we would git into a freight pile, they wuzn't no rest fo' nobody." Mary Wheeler, Steamboatin' Days,(Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1944), p 20-21. According to the 1920 US Census and a 1920 Draft Registration Card, a Sam Barnes born June 24, 1875 in Tennessee, was living at 911 Washington St. with his wife, Mary, and their son and daughter-in-law, in Paducah, KY and working as a river man on a Freight Boat as a tie carrier for Ayer & Lord Tie Co.
Publisher:
McCracken County Public Library
Date:
Circa 1935
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Image/TIFF
Language:
English
Coverage:
Lower Ohio River Valley
Rights:
Permission must be obtained from the McCracken County Public Library, Local and Family History Department
Citation:
Ancestry Library Edition. ProQuest, n.d. Web. Caron's Directory of the City of Paducah, KY. Louisville, KY: Caron Directory Company Inc., 1908-1959. Print. "Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records." Web. 2014. "Paducahky.gov." Oak Grove Cemetery. City of Paducah. Web. 2014. Way, Frederick, Jr. Way�s Packet Directory, 1848-1983. Athens, OH: Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen, 1983. Print. Way, Frederick, and Joseph W. Rutter. Way's Steam Towboat Directory. Athens: Ohio UP, 1990. Print. Wheeler, Mary. Steamboatin� Days: Folk Songs of the River Packet Era. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1944. Print. 1860-1940 U.S. Census, population schedule, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com)
