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	Interviewer	— -L ~	Mipaj~yens Bo~er~.cT ~ ~ ~.

Person	Interviewed  Sell. Ande~rson~ lio11~Q~ve~ ~&Tkeflsae~

Age  ?8~




	“I was born near Decatur, Alabama and. lived there till I was fifteen years old. Cou.rae I members harin‘ em talk bout Mars Newt. I named Air my ma‘ a old mistress - Misa Selle Thśipson end Mars Newt Thompion. Pa died when I was three years old • Re was a soldier. Ma had seven child— ren. They have bigger families then than they hav now. Ma ne~ 1~mmstiine Thompson. Pa n~ Sam Adair. I can‘t tel]. you about him. I:

heard ein say his pa was a white ~n. He waa light skinned. Old folki

did&t talk much foe children 80 I don‘t know well nough to tell you bout him. Ma waa a cook and a licensed midwife in Alabama. ~e waited on both

black and white, Ma never staid at home nich. She wor~4 out. I cc~ to
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Miaaiasippi after I married and had one child. Ma and all c~. Ma wnt

to Torn McGhee ‚ s to cook after treedcm~ ~e married old aen ned I~wi~

Qiase and they worked on where he had been raiad. Hie n~e waa Lewia

Sprangle. He looked after the stock and drove the carriage. ]~ni•l

Sprengle had a store and a big farm He had three gii2s and three boys.

I was the jr house girl • Mema lived on the place and give me to ~ oau~

thsy could do bettr part by me than she could. I was six years old when
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she €i~e 1~ to em. They lernt me to sweep, knit, crochet, piece quilts.

She lernt her childrsn that,r way eciaetimss. Nias Nancy Spran~1e didn‘t treat n~ no different frcin her own girls. Mies Dora married ~. Pitt Loney