The Diary of Martha Moxley

Martha Mickens provided a solid base not only for the African American community of Cross Creek, but for Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings as well. Day in, day out, Rawlings could depend on Mickens to be present. While everyone else came and went from the Creek, Martha and her husband Will Mickens remained stationary, living on the place until their deaths in 1960 and 1964, respectively. The Mickenses possessed a wealth of knowledge about how to function in the rural South that Rawlings lacked and needed