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	Interviewer	Miss Irene Robertson
	Peraon interviewed	Nancy Az4erao~  ~
		Street H, West Memphis, Arkansas
	Age66





	“I was born at Sanitobia, Mississippi. Mother died when I was a child, I was three xrionths old, they said, ~hen I lost her. Father lived to be very old. My mother was E~lla Geeter and my ste~nother was b.~cy Evans. My

f‘ather‘ s name was Si Hubbard. My parents married after the War. I re~nembers Grandma Harriett Rubbard. She said shè was sold. ~ie was a cook and she raised my papa up with, white folks. Her children was sold with her. Papa was sold too at the same time. Papa fired a steam gin. They ground corn and ginned c otton.

	“I stayed with Sein al‘ s family. Shè was good to me • I had a ~rr~all bed by the fireplace. She kept me with two of her own children.. Some of the girls and boys I was raised up with live at Sanitobia now and have fine hcmes • When we would be playir~g they would take all the toys frcm me. Mise Fannie would say, ‚ Poor Nancy am ‚ t got no toys.‘ Then they would put them on the floor and we would ail play. They had a little table. We all eat at

it.	We had our own plates. We all eat out of tin plates and had tin cups.

	“They couldn‘ t keep me at hcme when papa married. I slipped oft across the pasture. There was cows and hogs in there all the time. I wasn‘t afraid of them. I would get behind Misa Fannie and hide in her dress tail when they come after me. They let me stay most or the time for about five years. Sain Hall was good to my father and Miss Fannie about raised me after fly mother died. She made me mind but she was good to me.