5.	15.
	“My mother seemed to have a gift of telling tortune5. She had a ‚ ~. brasa 2~i11g about the 8ize ot a dollar with a handwoven knotted. string

that she used. I remember that she told many of the young people in the neighborhood many strange things. They would corne to her with their premonitions.

	“Yea, we were afraid of the patyroles. All colored folks were, They said that any Negroes that were caught away from their master‘s premises without a permit would be whipped by the patyroles. They used to sing a song:

‘Run nigger run, The patyroles will get you.‘

	“Yes‘m, the War 8eparated lots of families. Mr. Parks‘ son, J~ohn

C.	Parks, enlisted in Colonel L H. Brooks‘ regiment at Payetteville as third lieutenant. Mr. ~Tim Parke was killed at the Battle o~ Getys
	burg.	/

	~	WI do remember it was my mistress, Mrs. Blakely, who kept the Masonic ~ii1ding rrœn being burned. The soldiers came to set it on fire. Mrs. Blakely knew that if it burned, our home would burn as it was just across the street. Mrs. Blakely had two ~nall children who were very ill in upstairs rooms. She told the soldiers if they burned the Masonic ~ilding that her house would burn and she would be unable to save her little children. They went away.~

	While Aunt Adeline Is nearing ninety, she 18 still actives ~oe~ shopping and also tends to the many crepe myrtle bushes as wel]. as many other flowers at the Hudgens place.