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	Interviewer	MtasIz~eie Robertson
	 Person Interviewed	Silas Abbott
	~	R,F.D.
	 ΰge?3 •	. Brinkley, Ark.


—	— ~ — — ~ — — — — ~ — ~ — ~ — — — — — — — ~ — ~ — ~..-. — — — UI was born In Chiokashaw County, Mississippi. Ely Abbott •

and Maggie Abbott was our owners . They had three girls and two boys - Eddie and Johnny. We played together till I was grown. I loved em like if they was brothera. Papa and Mos Ely went to war together In a two-horse top buggy. They both come back when they got through.
	ttThere was eight of us children and none was sold, none

give way, My parents name Peter ~ and Mahaley Abbott • My father

•nevex~ was sold but ~rny mother was sold into this Abbott family for a house girl. She cooked and washed and ironed. Not ~j, she

3t t a wet nurse ‚ but she tended to Eddie and Johnny and me
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ai]. alike. She whoop thκm when they nee4ed, and Miss Maggie whoop

me. That the way we grow‘d up. Mos Ely was tceptjo~]y good I recken. No ‘in, I never heard of him drinkin ‚ whi skey. They made cider and ‘slimnon beer every year.

	“Grandpa was a soldier in the war. He fought in a battle. I don ‘t know the bat t le • He t t hurt • He come home and told us how awful i t was.
	“My parents stayed on at Mos	‘ ~ and my un‘ s family

stayed on. He give my uncle a home and twenty acres ~ of ground and my parents same mount to run a gin. I drove two ~ niules ‚ my brother drove two and !e dx~ove two more between us and run the