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1708 Righ 8treet, Littli Rock, Arkanaas
Age  89
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	“I been married three t1n~a and my laat nai~ waa Lucretia Alexand.r I was twelve years old when the War began. My mother died at ee~enty-.three or aeventy.4‘iv.. That ~a in Au~uat 1865..4~u~at the ninth. She wae buried August twelfth. The reaaon they kept her was they had refugeed her children off to different places to keep them from the Yankees. They couldn‘t get them bac~k. My mother and her children were heir property.

Her first master waa Tollv.r. My mother ~ n~d Agnes Tolive .~ z‘. 8he had a boy and a girl both older than I ~m. My brother come ha~ in ‘65. I never ~ot to aee my elater till. 1869.

	“My father died in 188]. and ecn~ eay he was one hundred t~lve end 8on~ say one hundred six. His neue was Beasley, John Beaaley, end he went by John Beasley till he died.

	“My mother died and left

NI got religion in 1865.

Au~Ltat.
four living chiliren. I wae the yowigeat. I was baptized aeventythre. yeara ago this
“I ain‘t ~ot nary living

tour it he vers living. They

I have four children.

	‘The first overaeer I reu~aber was nei~d Xurt Johnson. The nxt was named Mack McKenzie. The next one was nsn~d Pink Wosnack. And the next was ne~d Torn Phippe. MeanL Liked n»enness$ Mean a man ai he could bs. I‘ve asen him take them down end whip them till the blood run out of them.,
child, My oldest child would have been eixty claim my baby boy is living, ~it I don‘t Imow.