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	“Civil War daya are vivid to ~. Trie Courthouse which was then tu the middle or the Square waa burned one night by a crazy Confederaté aoldier. The old men In the towneaved him and then put him in

the county jail to keep him from burning other houses. ~aoh family was to take food to him and they furnished bedding. The morning I wae to take his breakfast, he had ripped open his feather bed and crawled meide to get warm. The room was 80 full of feathera when I got there

that his food nearly choked him. I had carried him ham, hot biacuite and a pot of coffee.

“After the War many soldler5 cane to my mistress, Mm. Blakely,

trying to make her free me. I told them I wa~ free but I did not want to go anywhere, that I wanted to stay in the only home that I had ever known. In a way that placed me in a wrong attitude. I was pointed out ae different. $oir~timea I was threatened for not leaving but I 8tayed on. ~ “I had always been well treated by my master‘ s folks. While we lived at the old Kidd place, there was a church a tew~milee from our hone. My uncle George was coaohn~en and drove my master‘s family in great splendor in a fine barouche to church. After the war, when he went to his own place ‚ Mr. Parks ~ve him the old carriage and bought a new one for the family.

01 can remember the clays of slavery as happy ones. We always had

an abundance of food. Old A~int Martha cooked and there was always plenty prepared for all the white folks as well as the colored folks.

There was a long table at the end of the big kitchen for the colored folks. The vegetables were all prepared of an evening by Aunt Martha with someone to help her.