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grandmother was Lucy Linier, who was born In Virginia and was sold. to Mr. Haynie to pay a debt. Lucy Linier was nurse for his daughter Ann and. when she married Mr. Curry, she brought Lucy with her to her new home. The Curry1~had three children, a boy and two girls, and lt was Lucy Liflier‘s daughter,Patsy~who acted as their nurse.

	The home of Rev. and. Mrs. Montgomery Curry was a two-story log house with wide open hail running the entire length of the house~.~L,
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with room~is opening off either side. The kitchen was out a,~2:~TJfrom the main house, with the dairï between the two, under a large hickory tree.

	The slave c~uarters were also built of logs, with space between for a shed room and small garden plot and a few chickens. The slave women did not go to the fields on Saturday as that was their day to clean up around their homes. They usually washed their clothes at nIght and hung them on the bushes where they ‘were left to dry in the sunshine, maybe a couple of days, as no one could or would disturb them.

	Rev. MontgomerY~was ~ Baptist preacher and had no overseer, ex—, cept Lucy Linier and her husband, Emma‘s gran~1parents, who kept a ~upervision over the slaves about 40 in number. There was no whip— ping allowed on the curry plantation, and after the death of Re~kr~~ Ourry~Mrs. ~ Curry~ (his widow) ran the plantation under the same system. The patrollers had no jurisdiction over the Curry slaves~ they were given permits by the Curry‘1~ to go end come, and Emma s~td if one of those patrollers whipped one of “oie Miss‘5slaves, she would have sure sued them.

	Er~jr~j~ laughingly said the slaves on other plantations always s9~1d the Curry slaves were “free niggers,“ as they could always get