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Interviewer	~ Mrs. Bernice Bowden
	PeraOfl interviewed	Rose 4.dway
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	.	405 W. ~U.1en, Pine Bluff, Arkansaa ~ ~






~	~ — RI was born three years ~ fore aurrender. That ~ s what my people told

me. Born in Mississippi. let ins see ~that county I come out of. ~iiith un‘ 8 where I was bred and born.

	“I know I seen the Yankeea but I didn‘t know what they was. My mama and papa and all of ‘em talked about the Wax. -

	“My papa wae a water toter in dunn‘ the War. No, he didn‘t serve the arxny-~-.ju8t Ofl the farm.

	“Mama waa the cook for her misaia In slavery t1n~s.

	“I think my folks want oft after freedom and then coete back. That wai after they had done been sot free. I ca~ remember dat all ri~kt.•

	“Î registered down here at the Welfare and I had to,~1t my licenee from

Mls8lasippi and I didn‘t remember which courthouse I got my license, ~.tt I

SOlLt letters over there till I got it up. I got all my papers now, but I

aintt never got no pension.

	*1 been through 80 much I can‘ t git much in my remembrance ‚ bttt I was here--that ain‘t no joke‘s-si it~e~ here.

	“My folks said their owners wasall right • You know theywas ‘cause they come back. I remember dit all right.

	~*I been tai‘miu‘ till I got disabled. After I married I went to fai~nin‘ • And I birthed fourteen head of chiflun by dat one man! 7ourteen head by dat one maid Stayed at home end took care of ‘em till I got ‘em up some size, too. All dead but five out of the fourteen head.