65
Alabama
	Emma only wIshes she could go back to plantation daya ~ll her trials and suffering came after she left “01e Miss,“ and went to live with her father and mother, George and Patsy Curry, who had~fourteen

children and of which Emma was the eldest. Her father who was a
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riuadroon In cast was ~ to his family, and especIally so to hei~, j~t~

~	~ade her work like a man~cuttIng timber, splitting rails, digging, :~1~ntIng and all work of the farm.

	NowD Emma is the only member of her family left~tm~ She ~:~~?.r~ied three times, having only two children, a girl and a boy, these by her last husband, Frank Chapman, now dead, and Emma has lic knowledge of her children‘s whereabouts. She gave them art edu~. ~~tIOfl so they could write to her if they wanted to. The gIrl «~9~rried and left Mobile, the boy went to Chicago, was chauffeur f~‘:~r some rich folk~ his last letter several years ago, in which iT- enclosed ~25.OO st~ted he was going on a trip to Jerusalem with 3~e of the young men of the family.




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