In this second of three interviews Emma Peoples Smith, the great granddaughter of Richard Peoples who was a prominent citizen in the Providence township of Mecklenburg County during the 19th century, gives detail about her family farm on Rea Peoples Rd [Rea Rd at the time of the interview], neighbors, tenant farmers and farm workers, her work for Southern Bell and the US Census, and her interest in family history. [All times approximate]. Black and white tenant farmers on her family land, including the Williamson and Watkins families, memories of her father, her poor health as a child and folk remedies [00:45]. Subsistence farming, crops, hogs, smoking meat, and the molasses mill on the farm [9:00]. The significance of Sardis ARP Church for social life and communicating news in the community, travelling to church by wagon, and watering the animals at a spring near the church [14:20]. Farm workers, and picking cotton [18:57]. Mature boxwoods that survived after the original Peoples home was destroyed by fire in 1930, boxwoods as a status symbol, selling the boxwoods to NC Governor Cameron Morrison and their removal to Morrowcroft. [18:57]. Subdivision of the land which had been the Peoples farm, including Five Knowles and Carson's Pond developments, memories of playing in the pond as a child, new roads in the area, changing local road names, and the location of the Peoples homeplace [21:55]. The Hemphill store that was operated by Richard Peoples and the possible derivation of the name of the store [25:24]. Family migration to other states, including Tennessee, and detail about Mrs. Smith's siblings, Rachael Jane, James McDill Jr., Mattie Perry, Richard Preston, and Margaret Louise [28:44]. Mrs. Smith's own home on Sardis Rd that she built with her husband [36:25]. Mrs. Smith's nanny, Hazeline Kirkpatrick, and her continued work helping to care for Mrs. Smith's children [38:45]. Mrs. Smith's work in accounting for Southern Bell at the Johnson Building in uptown Charlotte, and her work for the US Census Bureau [51:55]. Mrs. Smith's interest in genealogy, the Peoples family papers, and her decision to donate family papers to Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte [1:01:06].