Add to ORKGKatherine Summerous is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on August 12, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1912, Summerous describes growing up on the farm in Tate, Georgia. Her father was a farmer and foreman of a marble quarry, and her mother was a cook. Summerous recalls her father trading corn for wheat during the Great Depression. When she married, her and her husband moved to Calhoun, Georgia and picked cotton. Then, they moved to Murphy, North Carolina. Summerous discusses church customs, Christmas, and occupations of her family members