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Interviewer	~ ~ Mr.. Zilleh Crois Peel ~

Person interviewed	~ “Aunt Me1ine~      ~ Age 89
	Rome •	101 Rock8trest~ ~a~etteviUe Arkansae


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	“I was born a alave about 1848 ‚ In Hlokmon County, Tenue aaes ‚ said Aunt Adeline who lives as care taker in a house at 10]. Rock Street, Payetteville, Arkansas, which is owned by the Blakely-liudgens estate.

	Aunt Adeline has been a slave and a servant in five genera.tions at the Parks Thmily. 11er mother, Liza, with a group of five Negroes, was sold into slavery to sohn P. A. Parka, in ¶L~nnessee. about 1840.

	“Then my	‘ s master cerne to Arkansas about 1849 ‚ looking for ~ a country residence, he bought what was known as the old Kidd place on the Old Wire Road, ~whioh was one of the Stage Coa~h stops. I was about one year old when we came • We had a big house and many tirnea passengers would stay several days and wait for the next stage to oon~ by. It was then that I earned my first money. I must have been about six or seven years old. One of Mr. Parks‘ daughters was about one and a half years older than I was, We had a play house back of the f ire..~ place chimney. We didn‘ t have many toys ; maybe a doll made of a corn cob, with a dress made from scraps and a head made from a roll of scraps. We were playing church. kiss Fannie was the preacher and I was the audience. We were singing ~J‘ssus my all to Heaven is gone.‘