Kinston, Sept. 27—Sarah Mason, living in an outskirt of this city, might have hung out a flag with seven stars on it during the unpleasantness with Germany some years ago. She failed to do it, and it is only now that white persons have discovered the champion war mother of the negro race.
“Aunt” Sarah sent seven sons to the army. She doesn’t know what regiments they served in. She is unfamiliar with any of the details of their service. They didn’t “rush off to ‘list.” They just hung around and the draft got them all.
One was wounded. The other six escaped from the fighting unhurt and sans medals of wealth. “They was just hearty eaters and middlin’ good chilluns,” said Aunt Sarah last evening in telling about them, but she was none the less proud when the bands had ceased playing and the flags had been furled and her boys came prowling in to ascertain what “mammy” had to eat.
From the front page of the Zebulon Record, Friday, Oct. 1, 1926
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