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pernilts, and had plenty to eat and milk to drink. The slaves cooked their breakfastSin their own cabins, but dinner and supper was cooked in the kitchen and each came with their pan to be filled and had. their own gourds which were grown on the place to drink their milk and of which they could have full and plenty.

	.--~ During the war they cooked for the~onfederate soldiers encamped nearby and great quantities were prepare~~ Emma Was one of those delegated to carry the food to ~the camp. All ishe ever saw of the Yanke~ were two who stopped at the house and asked for something to

..	eat. Mrs. Montgomery invited them in and served the best she had. One of the men wanted to take the last mule she had and the other said “No, Mrs. Montgomery is a widow and from the appearance of her slaves she has treated them well.“

~	.. .~ Mrs. Montgomery told them that someone had stolen her saddle

.‚ horse and the soldier who had remonstrated with the other replied:

< ‘~Madam, your saddle horse will be returned in three weeks,“ and sure

~	enou~ one night about midnight they heard a horse whinny and Emma‘s

~ .	Rrancirather said “there i s old spunk, „ and there was old spunk waiting outside.
»L: ~nma said the first whipping she ever bad, was after the Burren— .‚ ~er,g1ven her by her own father when they left Alabama and went to •

live near Columbus, Miss.

~‘~5 She had always lived in the house with the “old Miss“ and her Young Miss, and when she ha~. to leave them, she cried and so did they.

	Her grandmother Lucy Lftnier nursed UMiBS Ann“; Lucy‘s daughter ?~tsy, nursed “Miss Ann‘s“ children, and was the special property of Fannie Montgomer~‘~to married a Mr. Sidney Lipscomb and whose Children Emma helped to look after, so the three generations were tht erwoven.