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	Interviewer	M1~s Irene Robert8on
	Person interviewed	Liddie Âiken~Theat1ey, Arkansas
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	“Lay mother was born. in sowbhwest Georgia close to the Alabama line. Her mother corne from Virginia. She was sold. with her raother and two little brother8. Her mother had. been $old and come in a wagon to southwest Georgia. They wa~ all field hands. They cleaned out new ground. They was afraid of hoop-~snakes. She said they look like a hoop rolling and. whateverthey stuck a horn or their tail in it died, They killed tress.

PrMaina said she druther ploug~i than chop. She was a big woman and they

let her plough right along by her two little brothers, Henry and Will Keller. will et so many sweet potatoes they called him ‘Tater Keller.‘ After he got grown we come out here. Folks called him ‘Pate Keller.‘ Henry died. I recollect Uncle Tate.

	“r was born close to Mobile, Alabama. Mama was named Sarah Keller, Grandma was called Marlah. B&nksTlilrnan sold‘her the first time. Bill Keller bought them all the last time. His wife was named Ada Keller. They had a great big family but I forgot what they said about them. I~ack eiern up in a persimmon tree one day and the old riian hollered at him, ‘Get out of that tree ‘fore you fall.‘ ‘Bout then the boy turned ‘loose and fell. It knocked the breath out hirn. It didn‘t kill hua. Three or four of Miss Ada‘s children died with congestive chills. Mama said the reason they had them chills they played down at the gin pond all the time. It was shady and a pretty place and they was allowed to play in the pond. Three or four of them died nearly in a heap,